...ld students be allowed to grade their teachers? Teachers and students both are the main part of the school. School doesn’t work the either ways. Teachers make us study and improve, while we implement it. Teachers grade us on our basic skills as well as the way we study and improve. But what if the teacher is not capable enough to do so? We should get a chance to grade them too. Almost all schools doesn’t encourage this kind of grading, or maybe none does. According to me this type of grading should be taken into account. Teachers should be graded on their teaching skill, behaviour in class and the interaction level with the students. What if the teacher is very strict and over rules the children or a single child? The child has to remain quiet and keep on facing it, as he doesn’t have any right to oppose him or make him realise, that what he/she is doing is wrong. The grading of the teachers would help the school to understand the children’s problem. If the teacher is not making the students study up to the mark, they have no options other than implementing by self. This kind of problems arise in all the schools but no schools try to solve it or make a better way. If all the schools would help the students this way, the students would love learning as well as will like to interact with the teachers. All the grades given to the teachers should be taken into account and should be checked by the higher authorities. If this happen then all schools would have students who would...
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...According to Mary Sherry’s “In Praise of the “F” Word”, the school system in the USA is failing. This article was intended to target teachers and the educational school system within the United States. It was really sad to read that children do not try to excel in their studies and subsequently suffer as adults. At first it looked like that author was talking about the “F” word in profanity terms, but after you began to read the article, you realized that “F” stands for failure. The essay also makes points about education nowadays. Failure is a strong word. If I am told that I am going to fail something, I will strive to do better in the fear of not passing and succeeding. The author finds out that most of the students taking her classes did not feel like they learned the necessary things in school. The students feel as if they were just passed along from grade to grade, so the teacher did not have to deal with them taking the class over again. I think that the author makes a valid point in saying that in today’s society, failure is regarded as “dreadful word”. Failure should have some credibility given to it, considering that many people have gotten to the top through their ability to fail and stand up stronger. When an individual does not fall, he or she does not appreciate the strength they had to have in order to get to where they are. I also think that the author did not direct her essay in everyone in society, just to those people it applied to...
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...with the Grading System? In “From Degrading to De-grading” by Alfie Kohn, he introduces the idea that the traditional grading system is detrimental to how kids learn. In his article, Kohn gives many different reasons of how the grading system negatively impacts students. Kohn believes that the grading system encourages students to care more about their grades than what they are actually learning. Students get caught up thinking “is this going to be on a test” instead of thinking “how can this be applied in the real world.” Kohn also believes that students will choose easier assignments over harder ones, if given the choice, keeping their grade in mind. This causes students to not challenge themselves, or think as deeply as they could. Kohn’s article is effective because he provides many reasons to switch from the traditional grading system, he cites many studies that support his ideas, and he gives ways of how we can make the transition from grade oriented education to learning oriented education. Many Reasons His three main reasons for switching from the traditional grading system are that grades tend to reduce students’ interest in learning, grades tend to reduce students’ preferences for challenging tasks, and grades tend to reduce the quality of students’ thinking. As if these three reasons are not enough, Kohn gives six more reasons: grades are not reliable, grades distort the curriculum, grades waste a lot of time, grades encourage cheating, grades spoil teachers’ relationships...
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...three social class; low class, middle class, and high class. The three types of social classes would be low class, middle class, and high class. Unfortunately in our society the higher the class the easier it is to get education. That is because schools in richer neighborhoods tend to have a better education even though it is the same system. Not to forget they have the opportunity to go to private schools where the system is definitely better. Private schools care more about students; they make sure they do well and give them extra opportunity’s to improve themselves. These private schools are getting paid by the parents to provide their children with the better education. Schools in lower class areas have a bad reputation such as not caring about their students’ performance. That is the reason why the class average tends to be lower than middle or higher class students. The students’ performance does not only depend on the education system or the schools, but parents are also a big part in a child’s life. For instance even if the school was not good the parents should emphasize on the youngsters’ education. They must help them with their homework, as well as seeing their needs for schools such as getting them...
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...Draft School for Children When I went to school in France, I didn’t like it because of the teachers, the area and how we learned. In “School is Bad for Children,” the author John Holt criticizes formal education in general, in the world and in the U.S. educational system. He describes how children feel when they go to school. Holt describes firstly what happened to the students when they go to school, and what they want to do. Then, he takes the case of the teachers, and describes them. After that, Holt analyzes that when the students are in school, they are not feeling well because they can’t communicate and speak to each other; they are not social. At the end, he gives his own opinion to conclude the article, and make suggestions. In my opinion, I totally agree with John Holt that school doesn’t make better the students, and that we have to change it. The Jail For students who go to school, it is be out of the world, out of the society; school is like a jail. Holt describes, “In fact, he learns how to live without paying attention to anything going on around him.” This sentence shows that we are totally out of the world; nowadays, the world is a society, it is important to don’t be individual and just care about you, but in school, you have to be like that; individual and don’t help each other. For me, this is the truth. I take the example of my experiences in French schools, students can not even speak to each other, the teachers are very indifferent about the students...
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...learned about educating those with mental disabilities and began to apply it to mainstream students. She opened her own small school where she implemented these strategies and it evolved into the Montessori education system used in many private schools. While these strategies aren’t used as often in public schools, there are teachers that apply them within their classrooms whether they mean to or not. Key words: Maria Montessori, private education, Montessori education system Maria Montessori worked very hard to gain her education and helped shape the face of many private education programs seen today. After learning how to work with mentally disabled children, Maria decided to use what she had discovered and apply it to teaching mainstream students. Her ideas evolved into the Montessori education system and are seen in many private schools today. Maria was born on August 31, 1870 to well-educated parents. Her father, Alessandro Montessori, was an official of the Ministry of Finance and her mother was the great-niece of the Italian geologist and paleontologist Antonio Stoppani. Because of her father’s work, her family moved around a little when she was young, but stayed in Rome after moving there in 1875. Maria started public school in Rome at the age of 6 where she didn’t get the best grades, but was recognized for good behavior in 1st grade. At the age of 13, she started secondary school and began to get much better grades. She graduated secondary school at the...
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...emphasis on annual testing, annual academic progress, report cards, and teacher qualifications” (No Child Left Behind Act). Schools that miss the Adequate Yearly Progress, “which was based in large part on the percentage of students at or above grade level (Lauen and Gaddis) are classified as “in need of improvement.” These schools must develop a two-year improvement plan. Students must pass yearly tests that judge student’s improvement over the year. Students test scores dictate whether or not a school meets the required standards. According to the No Child Left Behind Act, schools were held accountable for levels of...
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...Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools. As a previous high school immigrant when I first arrived in United States, I have experience numerous difficulties in school that I would never forget. In addition, I believe immigrant students of secondary school can face major difficulties in learning English and succeeding in school. Since these students do not have a lot of time than elementary students to learn English, and they have to pass several test that require English skill such as the ACT and SAT. Above all, most secondary school texts and materials require a sufficient English reading ability to understand, which will even make learning experience becoming even tougher for high school immigrant. Before going into detail, lets take a look at the statistics of the United States’ immigration in the past few decades. According to U.S Bureau of the Census 1997a statistic, over a million immigrants, legal and illegal, entering the United States each year. And since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which eliminated national origin quotas. Europe is no longer the main sources of newcomers to the United States but instead of Asia and Latin America. The largest groups come from Mexico, China, Cuba, and Vietnam. In the fall of 1997, 9 million (about one in five) elementary and secondary school students had a foreign born parents. With over 90% of recent immigrants coming from non English speaking countries, schools are increasingly receiving students who do not speak...
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...which involves “learning by doing... within a specified social context” (in nursing it is the clinical area). It also involves much more complex learning such as learning of concepts, problem solving, decision making, rule learning, critical thinking. The nursing educators and institutions have an ethical obligation to ensure admission criteria and academic standards that are reasonable and fare, yet effective indicators of students’ success. When an educational institution issues a diploma to one of its students, it is, in effect certifying the society that the student possesses all the knowledge and skills that are required in his chosen discipline. To remain competitive and accountable, it is imperative for nursing programmes to have efficient and reliable admission criteria. Quantitative data and research- base facts are essential for the development, revision and modification of the admission criteria to guide nursing educators to identify and select those students who will successfully complete the nursing programme. It also helps in minimizing the wastage of human and material resources that occur due to student failure and attrition (Dr. Romana Idrees, 2008). Furthermore, the students are exposed to a wide variety of clinical settings—including hospitals, outpatient, community clinics, treatment centers, and long-term care facilities—as well as patient populations diverse in age, gender, health status, socioeconomic background, and geographic distribution...
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...their school systems. There positives and negatives in both systems also. I like the way we run our school in the U.S. but there defiantly needs to be some improvements and we learn some things that what China does and we don’t do. Japan Has consistently created an educational system that continues to move past America and dead in student educational achievement. Here are some of they differences that the U.S. and China have. School strategies should be created that match school and student need. The “one” size fits all” approach does not work. Today, students would find school more interesting and inspiring with the more useful of visual aids such as DVD’s movies, field trips, internships, on the job experience and training. Class assignments could encourage use of cell phones, Ipads, current tech equipment that todays students enjoy. Not all students are “book learners.” Grade students on what they creatively bring to a class not just label them by a test grade. . The positive parts about the U.S is that we give our kids a social life. That’s a big part of growing up and learning a lot of things about life. I wouldn’t be the person that I am today if it wasn’t for my social life. China send their kids to school ten hours a day unlike us which is six hours. That’s a really long day in normal society and I don’t understand how those kids go to school for ten hours but look where they are. There the smartest kids in the world right now. The positive thing about schools is...
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...“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” This is a quote by Winnie the Pooh shared with me by my after school tutor. English was not my first language and I was struggling with subjects, but I didn’t ask anyone for help because I didn’t care about how I was doing in school and I wasn’t planning my future. To me life was just about going to school and obeying rules. I saw life as stupid and pointless. My parents really didn’t know whether or not I was doing well in school because they didn’t speak any English along with that the grading system was different from what they were used to back in Mexico. My sister enrolled me into an afterschool tutoring program where her kids attended as well. At the...
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...Dumbing Down Our Students Back in the day, school was a place to learn. It was a place to get smart. Now it has turned into a psychological headquarters. It is like America is saying, “Who cares, as long as our students feel good about themselves.” Schools have stopped teaching important facts. Some teachers do not feel their students need to know what was taught back in the day. According to Charles J. Sykes, “In a 1990 survey of college seniors, 42 percent couldn’t name the dates of the War Between the States within half a century” ( Sykes, 4). Why don’t our teachers care anymore about teaching about important events or even science? Many of them have said it is because they just are not useful facts. I would have to disagree. I believe that you should know the background of this country you live in. I think students need to be taught about our founding fathers. I fear for our future generations. The school systems are dumbing our students down and they are too worried about how the students are feeling than what they are learning. So the question we are all asking teachers along with the school system is, “Why are we allowing students to be dumbed down?” How are we going to elect a president in the future who never had a background in math, science, or most importantly, history? Our future generation does not know what we were taught when we were in school. Some public schools have even removed certain subjects because they are not necessary or the school cannot afford them...
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...U.S. culture is already more than enough for a teenager to bear. Despites those barriers I needed to overcome, I was thrilled with happiness when given an opportunity to go to school in the State. I just finished fifth grade and was in the first month of my sixth grade when my family was forced to leave my home country, Myanmar. Even when learning in my first language, I always have to work hard to get good grades. The unfair education system - neglect the poor and care for rich students only has further restricted my learning. Back in my country, rich students always know questions ahead of the test date by paying a lot of money to the teachers. Even torpid students who barely study are top in school because their parents were wealthy while smart and hard working students always end up in the middle half simply because they are poor. After taking tests, students receive nothing but a report card with their grades. Even if we think...
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...Compensation for Grades Coming home with stickers used to be satisfactory enough for children to do well in school; but now-a-days a pocket full of money seems to be the only reward. Inner city schools that have low- test scores use money as a way to boost test scores in order to receive the necessary funding. Paying for grades is manipulative, and contradicts the traditional method of learning, and also the resources the school systems are using come from the government and the resources are not there to pay the children. Therefore student should not be paid to their grades. Kids know they are being manipulated and lose interest in learning as soon as the rewards are withdrawn (Unknown). If students are only going to school for the money, they will eventually lose interest and find other ways to get the money. If teachers were doing their job well money would not be needed to motivate the children. There are workshops and other other that are offered to the teachers to keep the kids interested. If the methods that have been proven to work in other school around the state why would it not work in the inner city schools as well. Although teachers have notices a change in attitudes is the change for the better (Next). Parents are also manipulating the children for the benefit of the money. Parents who didn’t care if their student was coming home with a C are suddenly very interested when their children come home with a hundred dollars (Does). Children who live in poverty would...
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...STUDYING LONG HOURS IN THE GRADES OF EMILIAN NURSING STUDENTS A Thesis Proposal Presented To The Faculty of School of Nursing & Midwifery In partial Fulfilment of the Requirement of the subject Nursing Research By: Alegria, Mark Jhenar E Kingking, Christopher Sherpa, Lakpa Dolma Table Of Contents Chapter Page 1. The Problem And Its Background Introduction Background Theoretical Framework Conceptual Framework Statement of Problem Null Hypothesis Significance of study Scope and Limitation Definition of Terms 2. Review of Related Literature and Studies Synthesis 3. Research Methodology Research Design Population and Sampling Research Instrument Data gathering Procedure Statistical Treatment of data Bibliography Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Nursing is a profession within the healthcare sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life (Wikipedia, 2012). The American Nurses Association (ANA) states nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families...
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