...Teacher unions have been intact for a long time, adapting to our ever-changing society and recently have caused a problem within the education profession. Unions were established to protect workers and to let them collectively bargain for wages, working conditions and benefits. In today’s society the teacher unions give teachers many benefits and protect them very well from being removed from their job once they receive tenure. A debate has risen concerning if teacher unions are harmful to public education and is discussed by many people in the education profession, parents and even students. An article written by Grace Chen, “Are Teacher Unions a Help or Hindrance to Public Education?” considers both sides of the debate and how they affect education reforms. Chen states how teacher unions have had a long history that has led to high teaching standards, ensurance of student achievement and rooting out corruption in the education profession. Chen brings up in her article that unions have a strong influence and teachers that are apart of these unions are more effective teachers than those who are not. This is the main benefit for students and parents dealing with public teachers in unions and as Chen continues she seems to believe there is more problems than benefits. Teacher unions make it extremely difficult to fire or dispose of unfit or harmful teachers in today’s society. Unions protect teachers so much that receive tenure it becomes almost impossible to fire them sometimes...
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...Introduction Research Background Teachers are educators that teach us what we must learn. They are one of the most inspiring people not only in school but also within our nation. They help us to achieve our goals and dreams in life, and the ones who shape every person’s character. We consider them as our second parents who guide and lead us to the right path. And it truly proves that all educators are such a magnificent person. According to Benito (2000), the best hope for education lies with the teacher; his education is of primary importance. She explained that the quality of education the teacher has to transmit to his students largely depends on the quality of his education. The teacher’s best teaching device is herself (Adams, 1994). It follows then that in order to be an effective communication of knowledge; the teacher should have sufficient background of the subject matter that he/she teaches. In Teaching, Every educator must master his/her lesson plan. And everything that a teacher will teach to his student must be based on her own learning and experiences. Every teacher has their own way of providing knowledge to their students. They have their techniques in teaching for the student to better understand everything about their lesson. There are so many factors that affect students’ performance, and it includes the way of how the teachers communicate to their students (Cuevas, 1991). Longman (1996), emphasized that the instructor’s behaviour affects the student’s performance...
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...people actually know the information and are smart, but they are just bad tests takers or maybe they just are not good with a test, which does not mean they should be put in remedial classes or be denied admission to the university they want to go to because of that. Standardized test are...
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...How can we close the Achievement Gap? When we are thinking about our school system it isn’t difficult to think about different gaps, which we should reach. Gaps that we should break down to get a stronger education system, with better qualified teachers, which can lead our students to a grounded education. In the education system you can find negative stereotypes, which make the way for success for students even more difficult. Stereotypes can effect students in their personal goals but also make them feel less valued. Also, bad teachers in the school system aren’t making things better, which get protected from unions, but on the other hand teachers have no freedom. To find a way out of this dilemma between negative effected students and unsatisfied teachers who lose all kind of motivation, we should encourage students and teachers in their work away from unions, so that we can to attend our achievement gaps as soon as possible. Stereotypes are everywhere in our society, also in our schools. Although stereotypes can help students to do better in certain materials, stereotypes affect students and perpetuate and exacerbate gaps. Students who are in a negatively stereotyped group often underperform because of the pressure and worry they get in qualifying exams and aptitude tests in math, and these intensifies worries. According to Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, the author of “ Framed!” “Notions about innate ability don’t just hinder the performance of negative stereotyped...
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... Garcia, Alvin Baluyut, Carl Janson Lagac, Ma. Jeremay Arjen T. Emalay, Gabrianne B. Molinyawe, Shaira Enriquez, Edward D. Rabanal, Joan Marie Enriquez, Jazzmin O Uy, Joachim Rey B. January 2014 Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Behavior is one of the most important aspects for all students to be not just good on their academic performance but also for other people’s perception to them like their teachers, administrators and also their principal. Different students have different behaviors based on their experience, status and their vision in life. Because of these aspects, student behavior can be affected whether positively or negatively. Academic performance will surely be affected because of different factors revolving around the student. As an effect, students with good behavior and good study habits will certainly excel on their academic performance while students with poor behavior and poor study habits might likely fail on their academic performance status. However, good behavior will not always lead to a good academic performance. It is cited on the research that even students with good behavior tend to have poor academic performance. Thus, proposes that such behavior must directly be linked to the improvement of students’...
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...greatest, they have that largest number of reported cases of bullying Bullying today is a threat to children and tenagers 83% girls 79% boys, 35% suffers from cyber bullying, six out of 10 teenagers witness bullying in schools once a day this leads to a 75% of school shootings incidents, this have been linked to bullying and harassment Bullying has serious side effects, students who are target of this experience extreme stress that can lead to symptoms of physical illness and a diminished ability to learn also depression which can lead to death In the 21 century we were introduced to the to great technological advances including...
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...Pessimistic” Comparison and Contrast Do you know how can being optimistic or pessimistic can affect your life? When people are being optimistic, it means that they are looking toward the bright side of the world, seeing thing in positive ways. On the other side, a pessimistic person is a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy (optimist, n.d.). Being optimistic or pessimistic can affect us more than we think. It can affect our life in relationship, our health and our work. Being optimistic or pessimistic can affect person’s relationship. When optimists are facing an extremely serious problem, they will not really be in a deep depression for so long. Being optimistic makes people feel calm and comfortable because they are not trying to put all the bad emotions into their head. This will make them a cheerful, hopeful and assured person, which these characters tend to make them fill with happiness and certainly, everyone likes it. Since emotion is contagious, these people can influence other people to have positive emotion as well. According to Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist at the University College London, when we talk to someone we often mirror our interlocutor’s behavior by mimic their gesture or coping the word that they use. She said “It seems that it's absolutely true that 'laugh and the whole world laughs with you’ ”. That is the reason why people like to be with an optimist. They can feel and absorb the cheerfulness, hopefulness and...
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...There are some terms that need to be defined in order readers can understand what I am talking about when I mention them later on in the paper. “Good Feedback” and “Bad Feedback” are some of them. When I state “good feedback” I refer to a gentle, complex, and creative response to a paper that helps you create a better writing, provided by a caring and helpful teacher. When I state “bad feedback” I refer to a harsh and non-productive response that only drags you down making you feel that your work isn’t good enough and will never be. My purpose is to encourage teachers to give away a productive and helpful feedback in order to secure the writing development of the student as well as making sure he knows his paper is much...
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...Title: Effects of Study Habits to the Academic Performance of the students of The National Teachers College 1st year Block 4 BSEd Problem:What are the Effects of Study Habits to the Academic Performance of the students of The National Teachers College 1st year Block 4 BSEd? Hypothesis: Ha: There is Significant difference in the Effects of Study Habits to the Academic Performance of the students of The National Teachers College 1st year Block 4 BSEd. Ho: There is no Significant difference in the Effects of Study Habits to the Academic Performance of the students of The National Teachers College 1st year Block 4 BSEd. INTRODUCTION As you know education plays one of the most important roles in the life of every person because it opens huge possibilities to reach success in life. In fact when you study in college you can get acquainted with a lot of people who can become useful in the future. Studying is very important for your life, If you want to achieve something more. Study habits are the ways that you study, the habits that you have formed during school years. Study habit can be good ones or bad ones. Good study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading textbook, and listening in class. Bad study habits include skipping class, not doing they work, playing games instead of studying. You can do the good study habit. It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday...
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...parents. The film interviewed five students had been negatively affected by the public school system. Because of low quality teachers, these children and their parents were unwilling being taught by their current school, they rather entering charter school lotteries and private school. The film “Waiting for superman” refer to that no savior actually exist, no one can help them. This film let me know about the negative ways of American public school system. Before I thought all the public schools are basically the same. I attended a traditional public state school, the performances and the quality of teachers of my high school are not that bad compared to those schools in the film, so I never confronted a bad teacher and never thought about this issue. After watching this film, I have learned that bad teacher is huge issue of the public school system, those bad teacher in school do not really care about student’s education, they just thinking about their pension. Students can not cross the district to attend other local school, so these children have to end up go to charter school. I can feel the desperateness and helpless from these children and their parents, especially the final lotteries scene, no one will help them if did Yuan 2 not get picked, they just can move back to previous life and look forward. Consequently, the ineffective public schools affect many talented students end up discourage, and disagreed in dropout. I wish the government would really focus on this issue...
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...THE STUDY HABITS OF GEODETIC ENGINEERING STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHEASTERN PIHLIPPINES A Research Paper Presented to: The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department University of Southeastern Philippines Bo. Obrero, Davao City In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the subject English “Writing Across the Discipline” Submitted to: Ms. Maribess Alconcel Ms. Loirene Intong Submitted by: Keanu James Tamesis Ginaly Maguliman Christianne Ido March 2016 Chapter 1 Introduction Learning is very important. As human beings we are expected to learn to be able to cope with the new generation. Study habits are the ways that you study-the habits that you have formed during your school years. Study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading your textbook, listening in class, and working...
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...The self-fulfilling prophecy generally means that how other people view you can have an effect on what you think about yourself. There are several causes of the self-fulfilling prophecy, which leads to two main effects on the British education system. There are many causes accounting for the self-fulfilling prophecy. Teachers’ labeling on students can be one reason for self-fulfilling prophecy. This means that if teachers label students into bright and slow due to their academic performance, students will be treated into different ways. Family background also may cause self-fulfilling prophecy. This is because some teachers seem to take into account things like dress, behavior and ways of speaking. So if students who are come from middle-class family can share same values and norms with teacher, they are more likely be seen as bright. However, if student come from working-class family and their standards of values are different with teachers’, they will be victims of self-fulfilling prophecy. The self-fulfilling prophecy can have bad influence on both academic development and mental health. Such labels and bias can affect student’s view about themselves.so the may act in accordance with the label and bias attached. For those who are viewed as high achievement, teacher will pay more attention to them in class and believe them can success in future and so these students can become more confident and work hard to keep up high expectations, so it is easy for the to achieve academic...
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...Class 27 October 2012 Banning Books Portraying Violence How much can a book that portrays violence affect a high school student? It can affect a student in many ways. In fact, it has more impact when a student reads a book that portrays violence than violent video games or movies. Rebecca Dawkins’s essay “Why Banning Books Isn’t Always Bad” discusses how many “concerned group of parents regularly pressure school boards to keep controversial classics out of the classroom” because of the violence and immoral values they portray for underage students. Books like “Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (about three young women who abuse drugs to escape the pressures of show business); The Godfather by Mario Puzo (about the Italian-American mafia); and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (about two real-life mass murderers)” are what should be kept out of high schools because those types of books for students who are exposed to the everyday dangers of drugs, gangs, and violence in schools make it seem okay in these books. Dawkins goes further on explaining how many high school teachers, including herself, agree with parents in the sense that these books are not age appropriate to be taught in a high school classroom especially in a setting where all of these issues are present everyday. I totally agree with Rebecca Dawkins that high school students would not relate to most characters in controversial books, teachers have no time to teach long controversial books, and books such as...
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...Table: 2 Teachers view’s about salary related factors Items Agree%Total%Uncertain Disagree%Total%Salaries and benefits are performing a main role in teacher’s satisfaction. SA A SDA DA52 35 87 4 8 1 9Low salary of teachers is creating hurdle fortheir intent to stay in teaching profession.0 59 59 34 6 1 7Poor pay becomes the cause of mentaldissatisfaction for teachers.0 57 57 29 2 12 14Teaching job enables to provide asatisfactory standard of living.7 37 44 13 36 7 43Total 61.75 20 73 The above table indicates the teacher’s views about salary related factors, which affects their performance. Majority of teachers (87%) views that salary and benefits are performing a main role in teacher’s satisfaction.Some (59%) teachers’ viewed that low salary creates hurdles for their intent to stay in teaching profession. 57%teachers says that poor pay is becoming the cause of mental dissatisfaction. Whereas some (44%) opines thatteaching job enables to provide a satisfactory standard of living. Table No: 3 Teacher’s views about workload related factors Statement Agree%Total%Uncertain Disagree%Total%Teachers in schools are expected to dodifficult amount of record keeping andclerical work.SA A SDADA29 48 77 10 10 3 13The extra co-curricular work loaddecreases the morale of female teachers.31 47 78 12 7 3 10Over crowded classes increase stress forfemale teaches.43 49 92 5 2 1 3Total 247 27 26 This table presents the views of teachers about workload related factors which affect their...
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...easily. Now computer is one of the best machines made by man, which can solve any problem and process any information in a second. Due to the development in computers technology, Internet has also become a part of it. Therefore, Social media like Facebook and Twitter has become a big part of our modern life. It can run in computers and any other devices like mobile, tablets so everybody can easily access it. Social media like Facebook is commonly used media to communicate and share information in social life, although it makes our life much easier it can be detrimental to high school students due to the chances of addiction, waste of time and other bad influence. Ivala and Gachago (20112).Writes in the article Social media for student engagement which suggest for the implementation of Facebook and blogs in ways that is likely to have a positive impact on student. Somehow from social media like Facebook high school student can learn new things in new and interesting way. Dixon and Brain (august, 2012). Says that social media is the creation and exchange of user generated content, student and teachers can share original content, enhancing the education conversation occurring through the school community. (Barefoot et al., 2009) describe the use of media tools to communicate with friend, family and teachers anywhere any time and they can get required information. Due to the no geographical boundary high school student can make friends anywhere in world and learn new culture and...
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