Archive for November, 2008
Accountability
Accountability for everyone is the answer. It is a must for teachers to teach all of their curriculum. Also, students have got to be held accountable. Promoting students with failing grades is wrong.
I met a teacher on a plane from Canada. She looped with her students from first, to second, to third grade. This would give the teacher the time to teach all.
The way it is now, many students leave first grade and many objectives haven’t been learned because they haven’t been taught. I like the idea of Looping.
Ann Barnes
This post was submitted by Ann Barnes.
Actual Educator for Secretary of Education
Dear President-Elect Obama,
Please appoint a Secretary of Education who has actual experience as a K-12 educator!
This post was submitted by Gail Ritchie.
School funding
Congratulations on your win. I feel that you will do a lot for our country and you will help get it back on track. Your campaign was all about change and I come with advice on school funding. Hopefully, with you in office as our president you know having children of your own having government funding towards our schools is important, especially in the inner cities where they aren’t receiving as much funding as other schools. I hope you as our president will balance out the money so every student and every child will get the same opportunities and educational tools other students across the world [Read more...]
Less Focus on Testing
As a practicing teacher,I have learned several things that can negatively effect a students education. I feel that testing is important in order to see what the student DOES know instead of testing the student to see what they haven\’t learned and what the teacher hasn\’t focused enough on. I feel that more teaching could be done if there was less pressure on teachers. When NCLB was first developing, I thought it was a great idea to include into education, little I know of the negative effects that it has put on education.
NCLB gives teachers a specific amount to teach students and limits [Read more...]
Educational Advice for the President
When looking at the education system in this country I have many unanswered questions. I hope with a new president that many of my questions and concerns will be answered. As a future teacher I look closely to how this will affect my future and the future of my students. I know that some things are difficult for teachers. One being how education is tested; how student’s tests scores affects teacher’s jobs. When teaching you must follow strict standard and all those standard need to be met. I feel when teachers are being looked at on how their students perform that the quality of teaching [Read more...]
Special Education Policies
Relook at regulations for special education. Students are losing time on task as we have their teachers spend more time:
1. at team meetings for annuals and reevaluation
2. time on special education testing
3. time for ESEA yearly testing
4. State wide testing
5. local testing
These students are in need of specialized instruction but are denied time on task as teachers have to be out of the classroom in order to meet theses requirements along with time for grading and doing special ed progress reports.
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Educational Advice for Our Future President
When I think about what is wrong with the education system in this country, I think about No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This piece of government legislation was signed into law January 8, 2002 and holds the purpose of providing “all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education.” Basically, this means that the federal government wants to ensure that all children get the appropriate education and that disadvantaged students do not fall through the cracks in the system. This sounds all well and good, but in practice this act is going to fail miserably. As well intentioned as NCLB is, it needs to be [Read more...]
Teachers involved in Policy and Eliminate Tenure
Education is essential for the progression of society. Right now in the US, we have shown that we care about the importance or our education system by implementing a plan called No Child Left Behind. While this plan had good intentions, it has not seemed to have the effect people would have hoped. One of the reasons behind this is that the policy was made by many people who were not teachers. One thing that I suggest for President Obama is to include teachers in the policy making for schools. Teachers are the people who the policies directly affect, so why not have them help [Read more...]
Change is what we need, change is what we should have
Changing on how the United States focuses their education policy on is in need of change, first what I would like to witness with the president-elect Obama and the oncoming years regarding public education would have to be less pressure on teachers with standardized tests. To start it off with NCLB and how it affects every teacher and the school as a whole, it would be nice to have some say from teachers in it and not just politicians. Look at how it affected so many schools who did not achieve the goals that this law put in. And the way to repay these schools that do not meet the [Read more...]
Competition May Be Harmful to Our Students…
As my college career comes to an end, I am beginning to wonder if my decision of becoming an educator was such a good one. I have come to believe that a school is a place of collaboration with a focus on creating an environment where all students can achieve and succeed. I want so badly to be a part of this, but I am afraid that by implementing performance based pay to the teachers, everything positive in the schools across the country will change. My advice to the future president would be to reconsider allowing performance based pay in education. I agree with those individuals [Read more...]
