...EDUCATION ESSAY My purpose for seeking a Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership is to expand my knowledge of theory and research methods as it pertains to education. I especially want to fine-tune my research skills as I feel that the importance of gaining research skills is imperative to becoming a lifelong learner and developing intellectual self-actualization as I prepare myself for a career in Education. I realize the importance of gaining credibility among my future colleagues and people that I will be serving in the field. My view of Education is that of a reformist. I have a particular interest in the improvement of homeless individuals, single mothers and women of color. Because of my own experience with both homelessness and single motherhood, I know the feeling of helplessness as you are sinking deeper and deeper in desperation that you feel that you will never recover from it. I have seen how generations of these people have become prisoners by being illiterate and /or insufficiently educated around our city with little or no hope of getting free from their bondage. Although I have struggled hard to get myself out of this situation I refuse to forget. I have strove to make a difference wherever I can. As volunteer at Christian Assistance Ministry I witnessed the overworked conditions that the social workers and volunteers faced. Worn from these conditions these dedicated workers had no respite from their daily work of feeding, clothing and providing funds for...
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...The debate on whether essays benefit our education or not has been an ongoing battle between teacher and student. But what side of the story is the most accurate? On one hand, teachers suggest that writing essays enhances understanding of writing and in many ways can set students up for life. On the other hand, students say that essays are troubling, and in conjunction with other school work, can cause mental issues. It is assumed that teachers are correct on the topic, but can the issue the students have brought to hand be ignored? Do essays create too much stress for students to handle? According to an article "Understanding depression" under the "causes of depression" sub-title, depression can be caused by stress. However, this stress is built up over several issues going on at an extended period of time. On the contrary, if essays were eliminated from the equation, students would be relieved of a lot of stress and pressure which could be the difference between a mental health issue and sanity. Essays are used all throughout life and do indeed help in life situations. When applying for a job an essay structure is almost a necessity for a successful application. Employers want people who can write properly and have well structured sentences and large pieces of writing. Essay writing also helps with spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and helps people to make their writing look more professional. In doing this, essays create opportunities for other walks of life...
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...Education: A crisis not to be ignored Introduction South Africa, a country riddled with political turmoil faces many problems but one that has become persistently relevant over recent years is our struggling education system. Education is a crucial part of society and is a key factor in taking a country’s inexperienced youth and aiding them in becoming experienced working class citizens. When a country faces an education crisis the youth of the country lose out on this crucial stage of development and face being unprepared for the challenges they may face. Often youth in this situation battle to find employment after school. The education system woes are hardened by the fact that a large portion of the government budget goes towards building and developing this sector, whilst this seems to reflect a positive outlook for education there is a shocking conclusion. South Africa puts more money towards its education system in comparison to other developing nations, as...
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...Alphie Kohn Philosophy on Teaching I am many things. A woman, wife, mother, daughter, volunteer, sister, and teacher are my primary roles. Each of these roles is fulfilling and co-exists to define how I live my life. My life is intertwined in the lives of many others. Each has an effect on me as I also affect their lives. Teaching is a discipline of knowledge acquired both through formal education and through life experiences. The sum of these parts continues to alter and refine my teaching style. My roles outside of teaching enhance my personal knowledge which I bring to my professional life. These life experiences expose me to many cultures and attitudes about life. My spiritual self allows me to maintain my inner core of who I am in relation to others. These encounters help me to see my role as a teacher through a unique lens grounded in caring. Caring defines my life, and enhances my professional role as a teacher. I continue to study to expand my empirical knowledge about teacher. I can only enhance my practice by continuing to learn from all aspects of life as it relates to Kohn’s model. Intentional learning through classes and reading are parts of how I learn. I also learn from remaining open to the unique expressions of others in their lives. My role as a teacher allows me to learn from my students in a reciprocal role. My teaching role extends to all students, rather or not they are enrolled in the courses which I teach. I listen intently to the...
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...Is Not Education As I look back on my years spent in grade school and high school, I remember each as being vastly different from the other. I remember how they both shaped my life; how they changed my outlook on life itself. As I reflect on my time spent in middle school, I remember being excited to go to school. I was excited to see all my friends and to learn about new things together. I remember being in awe of the way the teachers helped us to learn how they shaped their curriculum to give us the best learning experience possible. Whatever subject or theme we were learning about it was all tied in with one another. For example, if we were learning about French we read French literature in English class, learned about the French Revolution in history class, and created art stylized after the French in art class. The whole concept of learning this way was exciting to me. I wanted to learn everything I could about whatever subject they were teaching; waiting in anticipation for the next theme. Most of all I remember the classrooms; the brightly colored hues of the posters hung on the wall, my pens and pencils lined uniform like miniature soldiers in my desk, and the scratch of chalk scraping gently against the green chalkboard, I even remember the click of the...
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...Introduction and Outline This essay’s purpose is to highlight how school curriculum is altered in order to include a student with additional learning needs. Every student is unique and for that reason a teacher must differentiate the curriculum to suit the needs of student with a specific learning difficulty. Dyslexia is the learning difficulty which will be examined theoretically and methodically in this essay. This essay will examine the different learning theories of how to engage a child with dyslexia in the classroom. In addition, this essay will investigate Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development and Vygotsky’s Social Constructivism. Inclusion and Dyslexia The term “inclusion” implies that the needs of all students should be met within mainstream school (Reid, 2013, p13). The Centre for Students on Inclusive Education (CSIE) suggests that developing inclusive provision will take time as ‘inclusion’ is not about what you do, it’s how about you do it. Furthermore, the CSIE states “time spent outside out the classroom for individual or group on a part-time time basis is not segregation” (Thomas and Vaughan, 2004, P137 cited in Reid, P13)....
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...Argumentative Essay Hey Guys, today I will explain why every single human being should have the same individual rights rather they have education or not. Do you want to live in a world where people are suppressed by their way of life and having less right by who lives differently? Well I don't think so, I think that even though some people don't afford to go to school or go to college they should not have less rights than who can. I think that this is by far a violation of human rights and the declaration of independence and is a form of abuse to the people. Clearly in our minds we people instantly think that every human being should be able to be equal, well most people don't take that seriously. People...
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...Awareness and adoption of Robotics Education among school students 1Dr.S.Selvabaskar, 2R.Ramya Priya 1Associate professor, School of management, SASTRA University. 2Student, IIndyear MBA, SASTRA University, Thirumalaisamudram, Tanjavur, Tamilnadu, India Abstract Android Robo is a multi-disciplinary Robotics programme that has been specially tailored to teach young school students, the basics of Robotics. Basics of Robotics include Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic and Programming which encourage students to make connections across all these disciplines. The aim of this study was to find out the awareness and adoption of Robotics among school students. A questionnaire with variables enquiring about the profile, awareness about Robotics, interest to learn about Robotics in their curriculum and capacity to handle Robotics as a subject was administered to 150 respondents. Convenience sampling method was used to...
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...Imprisonment comes with many problems, from “transitional issues for inmates post-release” (Contardo, 2008) to financial impacts due to the rising costs of incarceration. For years prison workers and other professionals have been trying to find a way to reduce these effects. One of the ways they have found is through an education system within the prison. Many see giving those in prison a chance to partake in a form of education as a way to negate ‘prisonization’. Prisonization, according to Harer (1994) as quoted in Contardo (2008) is the “process by which prisoners become alienated from prison rules, staff, and the larger society”. A large contributor to the process of prisonization is Gesham Sykes theory of deprivation. During his study he found...
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...Introductory Essay Though I have always found History to be a compelling subject, I do not feel that I know the subject terribly well as a whole. I possess a basic understanding of the timeline of large events that have occurred throughout American history, but many of the details of these events have never been taught to me, or those that have been taught to me have been summarized. I am sure that many of the dates and details of the numerous events in American history have been skimmed over in my education. Public education rarely creates much interest in this subject, especially given that only so much material can be taught in a single school year. My knowledge is likely fragmented at best, depending on what subjects my teachers went over...
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...1 Elementary Education COM/150 8 November 2009 2 Elementary Education School year 2007-2008, there were approximately 22,434 out of 450,000 students dropped out of high school a 5% dropout rate in the state of North Carolina (North Carolina Board of Education 2009). This rate was entirely too high and we as parents, teachers, educators, and a community need to work to combat this unacceptable rate. We have to start early to stress the importance of education to our children and go the extra mile(s) to assist them and instill in them that they can succeed no matter the odds. Education starts at elementary level; if it is not fostered at that level then graduating from high school is almost an impossible goal to attain. Lake Rim Elementary school is in Fayetteville, NC and was established in March 2000, the school has a student count of 661 students (North Carolina K-12 website 2009). Lake Rim elementary has met the annual adequate yearly progress from 2001-2005, from 2005-2007 they did not meet annual yearly progress but met attendance target (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). In 2007-2008 the school met high growth and attendance target. Teacher to student ratio is 1:14 (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009) and the state of North Carolina is 1:15 (North Carolina K-12 website 2009) and there are 98 students in kindergarten at Lake Rim Elementary School (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). The...
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...So today how should education be? In the Muslim world and the western world. I think the first thing which needs re-institutionalization is individualized education. Every human being is different; education should take this into account. The university is not a factory. Even when we say mass education human beings is not a mass. They are not ….. or not a boot. Every human being is different and the education system must take this into account. In the non-western world, universities should not make their goal simply transmitting and marketing ideas produced in the west. They should teach how to think and how to produce ideas. Instead of serving as institutions of sustainable intellectual dependency they should serve and function as institutions...
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...all this has changed since academic institutions have more courses to select and the students have access to career guidance, technical education in agriculture and natural sciences; health, technology, human and public services, mechanical trades, construction trades, new visions options and pre-vocational programs. Not long ago teachers would choose how to tutor their students, they would use same ways that they were taught or they consider best. Today there’s a huge change since there’re more guidelines that teachers must follow. For example if we ask all the English teachers at one middle school we will get the same response of what they are teaching their students at a particular grade. Today students have a definite curriculum they need to learn which limited the teachers’ opportunity to teach their own method or add what they perceive to be important to the students education in the curriculum. Changes in teaching models and activities in the education system In today’s learning,...
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...College Education “College graduates with a bachelor’s degree typically earn 66 percent more than those with only a high school diploma; and are far less likely to face unemployment” (U.S. Department of Education 1). Think of it this way: A big family with a mother and father. The father has a college degree and is earning as much money as he can for his big family, while the mother struggles to find a job with only a high school diploma. The father’s income is barely enough for the family to live off of from month to month, and it puts great strains on the family. College education is worth the cost. A person’s mindset can vary depending on the resources they’ve had. Many people will argue that high school and parents should have already prepared a person for life on their own. Parents should be teaching their children how to spend their money wisely and give them advice, but not pressure them into taking actions. The cost of college is worth it because it will better a person’s...
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...I. Introduction a. Audience Hook: Is online education more effective than traditional in class education? Studies for the Department of Education show that online learners perform better than students in traditional classrooms. (Http://readwrite.com/2009/09/06/online_education_more_effective_traditional_learning) b. Thesis statement: Researchers suggest that individuals perform better online due to the flexibility of setting your school and work schedule, the cost of online education, and the flexibility in completing assignments. c. Main points: i. Flexibility of setting your school and work schedule accordingly ii. The cost of online education iii. The ease of posting assignments II. Students who attend school online have the ability to set their study schedule accordingly to their own personal needs. (Http://www.onlineeducation.com/resources/Online-VS-Traditional.php) a. Attending school online is an excellent choice for individuals who juggle a full time or part-time job and a family at the same time. i. Students are able to set their schedule and the number of hours they can devote to school per week. With computer and internet availability they can set their own hours. ii. Students develop a study routine, and do not have to deal with the stress of having to work and attend a classroom at the same time. (Http://oedb.org/library/distance-vs-local/10-advantages-to-taking-online-classes). Not only can...
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