...Regina Slaughter U05a1 Brief Writing/Explaining English1000 Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students? By: Eric Boese It is true that technology and educational resources have dramatically improved over the years. In the article “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students?” Eric Boese believed that standardized test use for students in the school systems are being used for the wrong reasons. Boese argues that the students are not being taught the knowledge and skills to help them merge properly out into society, but instead being drilled on how to pass the state’s test. The standardized tests scores represent the school as a whole and do not help identify the needs of the students individually. The pressure that is placed on the teachers to drill the students on material that is on the test and how to take it, eliminate time from what the students should be learning at their grade level, says Boese. He also believes a solution can be reached, but the source of the problem has to be located first such as finding a level of testing that will challenge the students, but not overwhelm them. In response to Eric Boese essay “Standardized Tests: Shouldn’t We Be Helping Our Students?” I was not aware of the stress the students go through about test that they take once or twice a year. I have to agree with him on the test not really helping the students individually because at the beginning of the year my daughter took the test and scored below average...
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...(intro)There have been multiple great and informational books that have been banned from schools. For example of Mice and Men was banned 48 times.Communities, and Parents decide to ban these types because they’re either inappropriate or they just don’t like the books. I feel like communities, and Parents shouldn’t be able to or have a right to ban these books. (argument and explain your side)Communities, and parents will want to ban these types of books if they have swear words in them, involve sexual content, and contain violence. Some parents don’t want their children to be reading these books so they try and get a group of people together so that they can ban the book. In my opinion a community, or parents within the community shouldn’t...
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...group chose pictures that gave interest for the class. We did meet once to at least get some ideas to make the class interested of each topic from the chapter. A lot of pictures did draw attention to me that I didn’t even know about. We did keep contact of our time during the presentation, just so we can be one track. The activity was fun to watch the student did participated, to get a reward of candy. We try to be well talkative too few of the students in the class or at least see that they were paying attention. Overall, we did do the presentation that brought something more with meaning in each of our sections from the chapter. What went wrong during the presentation? Time management wasn’t well accurate during the presentation, and really not that pretty to see. We did do things at the last minute by posting a few more pictures for the power point. The meetings we have had were only an hour long and we never manage to meet continuously or rehearsed our presentation. Mainly, in our group felt like individuals not as a group, we never brought the unity of helping, organizing, and being a team. During the presentation, we went to over the topic of our sections. We didn’t use a lot of pictures from the book or any info about the sub-titles. Seeing, it now didn’t make sense from our group, we knew it was confusing to the students. Speaking in front of the class was freighting from a few of us and all we did is read from our notes. Mainly, during the power point presentation was...
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...gives key and pointers on how students can achieve college success. It gives student tips on how thinking skills and work habits contribute to student achievement. Students and teachers can optimize success by focusing on critical thinking, note taking and attendance. Haag, S (2005). Helping Students Take Personal Responsibility for Learning. Retrieved on 08/15/2012 from http://www.iched.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=iched&item_id=student_responsibilit y This article gives insight on how students can go about reaching goals that they have set successfully. It gives tips on how students can figure out what helps them learn. Some suggestions are the learning environment like being alone, outside or even a quiet place. Other suggestions are learning the modalities that may help them remember what is being studied. Lastly, it talks about how to develop proper study skills. Hersch , R and Schneider, C.G. (2005) Fostering Personal and Social Responsibility on College and University Campuses. Liberal Education, Summer/Fall 2005 Vol 9 Issue 3 p 6-13, 8p This article talks about what students face while attending college. Peer pressures that faces students. It also reveals how relevant open minded and taking ownership for your coursework will in the end having a greater impact on student success. I came to the conclusion that the resources I used are very reliable and valid when it comes to personal responsibilities for student success. It shows different...
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...Analyzing a Major Issue Bullying Bullying is a major issue in your country today. Many people think to themselves what does bullying really mean. “Bullying is an unwanted aggressive behavior among school age children that involves a real perceived power imbalanced”. (Stop Bullying) Bullying happens all over our country and happens in many different places. Here are some examples of Bullying teasing, name calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, and threating to cause harm. As you can see bullying has many different forms. Bullying does not have to be right in front of a person. People could be spreading rumors, bad-mouthing a person and that still considered bullying. Now a day with the technology children and teens are being bullied by the phone, texting, emailing and video recordings. Bullying does not only have to take place in our schools. It takes place with sport groups, youth groups and yes it does take place with our adults in the work place. Yes its true bullying does happen among adults also in the work force. It seems weird and wrong because we are all adults and should know better but it’s true it happens. Bullying is also taking place with our seniors in their groups, nursing homes and senior living facility’s. Being bullied has many effects on children and teens. Some might become depressed and think that they aren’t loved, which will also play a toll on them always feeling sad. Anxiety could also become a problem with a child or teen because they won’t...
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...the core curriculum taught in college prepares college students for the real world. They wonder if the main courses such as English or Science really help students develop the communicating and critical thinking skills needed to get a good job in today’s society. Another argument is the belief that only certain people should go to college, while others believe that everybody should go to college. Two prime examples of these opinions are the opinions of Sanford Ungar and Charles Murray. Ungar believes that everyone should go to college and receive some form of liberal arts degree, while Charles Murray believes that only students in to 90 percentile should go to college. Both men agree that a liberal arts degree is a great thing, but their opinions on when it should be taught and who it should be taught too are very different. While Murray’s points are somewhat accurate I believe that Ungar’s ideas are more persuasive because he recommends that everybody gets a liberal arts degree helping increase the amount of people with the critical thinking and communication skills businesses are looking for. Sanford Ungar wrote the essay 7 Major Misperceptions About the Liberal Arts. In this essay Ungar describes the benefits of getting a liberal arts degree. In misperception 2, Ungar states how even though people believe the notion of “who wants to hire someone with an irrelevant degree?” most businesses actually prefer students to have liberal arts degrees. The businesses want this because...
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...route. It is easy for the many people across the nation to agree with having free college, but the idea is to achieve their goal toward there degree. The many situations that will become an issue for the country is having enough funds for each community college, ensuring that each student enroll will have all cost covered and being able to take in the many applicants that are wanting to enroll in the community college route. In my case, I believe this...
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...Student Loans; Bad Debt Bad debt is borrowing money to pay for something that diminishes or drops in value over time. Student loans are one of the main reasons that place millions of Americans in financial debt and possibly financial crisis every year. Current student loans have grown by 91% in the last 10 years creating an oversupply of college educated student in the labor market. The government wanted to offer Americans accessibility to a higher education, offering loans at a fixed rate that with time went up affecting negatively college graduated students. This idea was sold as the “American Dream”, where people thought success was linked to going to college or university to later on have a white-collar job. According to economist Dusty...
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...of EXSS 1000 students that should be considered when designing a physical activity intervention would be recognizing that the students are just beginning college. Most students enrolled in EXSS 1000 are incoming freshmen that are just moving to college and are probably not yet settled into their new lifestyle. EXSS 1000 students also probably do not have a full understanding that exercise has long-term benefits for health and is not just a method to help avoid the “freshmen-fifteen.” When designing a physical activity intervention for a client, it is always important to consider their current level of physical fitness. The students of these exercise classes will have various levels of physical fitness, but overall, everyone should be healthy enough to participate in some type of exercise program. Because we are in North Carolina, a state that has one of the highest obesity rates in the US, the students of these classes may be less fit than normal fit averages. In turn, not only do we need to look at the specific fitness levels of the students but also at the general perception of exercise that a college student would hold. The clients need to be able to see how easily they can increase their physical activity. The more apparent it is made to them that they can add physical activity into their daily routines, the more likely they are to adopt a more active lifestyle. We are all faced with unforeseen barriers that may inhibit our ability to accomplish our goals. These...
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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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...Critical Thinking Questions Med100 AM In our med100 class we are learning so much about the body and how it works. I really have enjoyed it as it is broken down into precise chapters helping us go through each part of the body thoroughly and making it so I can retain things so much better. At the end of each chapter we had a class discussion on our critical thinking helping the things that we are learning sink in better. She could have gotten a sitter and gone to the library. Getting help through other students and though the support of her family. The information was right there all she had to do was read it. There were suffixes and prefixes to learn even better. With this chapter and critical thinking it was quite obvious that the teacher should have split them up and made certain that everyone had washed their hands thus eliminating the problem. Bloodborn, foodborn¸and airborn. Hepititus A and food pooisening. They should not pass on the disease to help protect one another. It isn’t appropriate for the Dr to make the decision for her while she was highly medicated he should have waited for her to come to. No she shouldn’t be held responsible the facility should be held in complete responsibility for all cost associated with the surgery. Nor really as I would still have to have the power of attorney for her. He was doing it incorrectly they told him every single time how to do it properly. He should have been doing stretching...
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...technology, we all have experienced new things that have come through this technology. Particularly, it has become more common among young people. Although the innovation of the new technology has brought a significant change in our life style, it also caused for the rise of cyber- bulling. We all have passed through the traditional bulling type. However, this kind of bulling is not as serious as cyber- bulling. Cyber -bulling is a current burning issue that has to be solved. Currently, school children are victimized the most through cyber-bulling. Adams, Caralee, an instructor, says “…Approximately 20 percent of students admitted having been cyber bullied” (Para. 5). According to Caralee, all this happens on school children. Lane, Darcy argues “Schools should talk to students about the harms associated with using technology as a social weapon against their peers” (15). According to Darcy, School teachers have to work together with parents to prevent children from cyber- bulling. On the other hand, some other scholars believe that parents have the responsibility to prevent their kids from cyber-bulling harassment. Adams Caralee says, “Just as parents wouldn't let their kids run around an amusement park, they shouldn't let kids surf online unsupervised” (Para. 18). However, schools are the main centers to prevent school children from cyber-bulling by teaching and giving advice, by making school rules and by working with parents. Teaching and giving advice to their students about...
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...counselor laughed at the idea of me going to college. Although said experiences were heart wrecking at the time, I am thankful I experienced them because I learned three of the most valuable lessons: resilience, perseverance, and determination, all which are required for me to become an attorney and help uplift my community. My learning experience began in July 2008 when my mom and I arrived at our destination, the Tijuana International Airport. My mom told me that “we are going on vacation.” After waiting for about 20 minutes my uncle showed up. He and my mom had a 10-minute conversation then my mom said, “I need to go to the restroom.” My mom told me to stay with my uncle. However, my uncle began walking and so I began to follow. We left the airport “because we needed to go to another terminal.” After a 15-minute drive, I saw a sign that said “U.S.A.” and I asked my uncle what was happening and he said,...
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...In humanities class we read different articles about different kind of youth issues. Today in our world people want to kill them self because of bullying. Kids who are bullied have a hard time standing up for themselves. They think the kid who bullies them is more powerful than they are. In the book “The true diary of a part time Indian” Junior faces bullying because of how he look and the way he is. Today over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. Teens skip school everyday because of bullying,1 in 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying. Kids or Teens these days think its okay to bully other people. Kids all around the world kill them self because people make front of how they look or how they act. Bullying happens a lot in my community. Girls and boy think its fine to do what they want to other people and it will be okay because the kids they bullying wont speak up. Kids who get bullied don’t speak up instead of speaking up they decide to end they life by killing them self. Teens these days start to fill like there ain't no hope for them left. Some kids cant speak up and say what is going on in school or out of school because it sometimes make things worse bully's...
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...The social, economical, and political problems, that our world face can only be solved and alleviated through education and training system. Yet, unaffordable college fees is the main hurdle for students to receive higher education. The cost of college tuition has increased by 1,122 percent since 1978. If education is the most fundamental...
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