Monday, February 8, 2016
LDH Flat World and Education Ch. 8: Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality
This article proved to be interesting as well as explain a great approach to a wide spread issue. Education needs to be of good quality for every student. Chapter 8 spends the first couple of pages describing the problem and what successful schools have done in order to make a change. Reading about how smaller and personalized teaching creates success interested me upon reflecting how I learn best. Also, allowing students to encounter real world issues proves to show that this learned behavior goes beyond the classroom and is a great skill for them to have. All in all, smaller schools with smaller classrooms will effectively help students. In order to achieve this, there are difficulties educators are facing daily. It is hard to acquire inspiring teachers and try to fund these schools. If these problems were able to be turned around, education would vastly change. We need more teachers who are passionate, unprecedented, and ready to move forward into a new environment for students. I believe this can happen because the studies tell the truth in relation to how successful it has been so far. Students will face a challenge if they are encouraged by their teachers to do so and I can only hope to bring this mindset to my classroom one day.
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I also can relate to what this article is talking about with the small class size and personalization of education. I have always gone to small schools, and although it may seem like everyone knows your business, the personal attention is motivating and helpful in the long run. This article shows so many instances where personal relationships and interaction with students through advising and teaching greatly increases their hopes for the future despite their circumstances. It is so important that as teachers we give students the support they need when they experience hardships as well as assisting them in striving for their hopes and dreams.
ReplyDeleteThis theme of personalization is an important one! Schools where students are known well...
ReplyDeleteFrom your post, Cassidy: "It is hard to acquire inspiring teachers and try to fund these schools." Why do you think this is?
ReplyDeleteI do think it is hard to acquire inspiring teachers in every institution. I believe that it is beginning to change as I am surrounded by other students with a similar passion for teaching but I do feel like programs such as Teach for America discourage young professionals from wanting to continue the pathway. I feel that finding funding for these schools is difficult because the issue at hand is not discussed enough in the media. Politics is always a way education becomes into discussion however, there needs to be a bigger call to action from leaders in our country. Sadly, I do not know how to make that happen but I hope to see change!
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