Chapter 7

Chapter 7 is based on Educational Philosophy. There are many branches of philosophy. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that examines questions of how we come to know what we know. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that considers what we know. Asiology is a branch of philosophy that considers values amd ethics, issues now promnent in America education. Logic is a branch that examines the processes of deriving valid conclusions from basic principles. The book says that developing a personal philosophy increases your professionalism by providing a concrete frame of reference for both action and reflection. Philosophy plays a big role in education and I agree it is important for us future educators to learn and recognize.

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 is an interesting one to me. It talks about education in its hisorical roots. Going through a timeline as the chapter goes through all the way to the modern period. The Colonial Period (1606-1775) there was different in different colonies, but mainly rrelion and schools were closley linked together. The Early National Period (1775-1820) the constitution is starting to shape education. The Common Movement: the rise of state support for public education (1820-1865) was a historic attempt to make education available to all children in the United States. Many important events happend during this period. The Modern Era, began after World War II and continues to present. It is characterized by an increased national emphasis on education, which is now viewed as the key to both individual success and the progress of the nation.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 goes along with chapter 4 in the diversity aspect. But the diviersity is different; development, ability, and exceptionalities are important factors to include when talking about diversity in the classroom. Children all develop in different ways. Development in the chapter is defined as the physical, intellectual, moral, emotional, and social changes that occur in student as a result of maturation and experience. Ability for students sometimes puts the students in groupings. There is difference in intellegence, learning styles, metacognition, disabilities, and giftedness. All these different facors are important to look at and study for those who want to be a good teacher. Every child is different and we need to recognize how each student can learn and benefit the best. In this chapter there are different ways to deal and work with all the different diversities in the classroom.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 is about student diversity. Student diversiy is an important topic when it comes to schools and education. There is cultural diversity, language diversity, and gender even is a aspect in the classroom. Multicultral education is a term that describes a variety of stragities schools use to accomodate cultural differences in teaching and learning. Multicultural education will evolove according to the book, as educators discover what works and what works and what doesn't. There are alot of students who do not speak english very well or at all. There are programs in school such as ELL and ESL to help accomodate these students in the English speaking schools. Gender seems to have an effect in some classrooms. Gender bias has become a problem when forces in schools and the larger society limit the growth and acedemic potential of either boys or girls, as appeared to be most cases. This suprises me.

Chapter 3

Chaper 3 is about changes and influences on American society and how it affects our students. the chapter talks about socioeconomic factors in a students life. The different statuses. Also about the changes students go through as they get older and mature and the issues that could come along with that such as crime and violence. There is sucha thing as at-risk students who are most likely to drop out. One objective I am passionate about is bullying. The book states that bullying is a more subtle form of school violence. It is recieving increased attention, as educators are realizing its damaging effects on students and its possible links to suicide and school shootings. It is a big problem that is going on in schools and I think that every teacher should make it a point to work with thier students on bullying in the classroom. I personally have already witnessed a great amount of bullying in my feild experience classroom. The teacher has to now send any student straight to the offic if there is any notion of bullying going on. This has been an issue for a long time and will continue to be an issue but we as future teachers can slow it down and hopefully it will be prevented all togther.

China Debutes at Top of International Education Rankings

Shanghi ranks number one in reading, math, and science, far outspacing their American peers.
"The 2009 PISA data demonstrate the rise in the quality of education in Asia among the top performers were Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Korea," said Tony Jackson, Vice President of Education at the Asia Society. "Aligning education goals to economic development, Asian nations have scoured the world for models of effective education systems, and implemented them consistently through deliberate policies and long-term investments. Any definition of a world-class education must include knowledge of Asia and the language and cultural skills to deal with Asia. It's a two-way street: America must now learn from and with Asia and the world." I agree that America should start paying more attention to what they are doing in Asia so that our children have the best education that they can get. China has obviously been doing a good job with educucating their children. Anything that they can do and succeed with we should try. Education is an important thing exspecially at a young age. These systems could help the children of America.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/china-debuts-top-international-education-rankings/story?id=12336108

For Teachers: Many ways to cheat on tests

There was a teacher assitant in 2008 helped her Olando fourth graders on the state achievment test. She supposably erased wrong answers and whispered corrections while she was helping non-native English speakers with difficult words. They say she even snapped her fingers in a code students understood to mean they should correct an answer. The assistant teacher told the students they would fail the fourth grade if they told anyone including their parents. At least one of the students told their parents and the school began to investigate. According to academic studies teachers cheat sometimes and so do principles. The concequences can be darastic. They say cheating can cost school districts thousands of dollars for makeup tests, set back the careers of gifted teachers and create confusion for schools and parents over a child's academic progress. I had no idea that this was an issue going on in America. I myself will never have a problem with that because I believe that a children will learn bad traits dishonesty as one. They are taking measure to ensure the truthfullness of how the tests are being taken now. I hope this situation gets resloved.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-10-1Aschooltesting10_CV_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

India pioneers volunteer-led assessment of educational standards

In India enrolment rates are now running at about 95%, and a new tax has been introduced to pay for primary education. Out of the 200 children in India, 195 million are now in school. But they are saying fewer that 100 million are actaully learning to read and do basic math out of the 195 million. The kids are in school but it is not doing much good. They are putting out a Aser Programme, which is a program that puts information in the hands of citizens and helps engage the whole commuity in educational issues. There has been a number of spin-off benefits from this. It broadens engagement in education through its 25,000 volunteers; it helps engage parents, many of whom are illiterate, in the educational process so that they can be more confident about monitoring what their children are learning, and whether the teacher is really doing their job. I think that the education of any child is very important and I am glad that they are doing something to make their knowledge grow. I hope that these programs will work and the percentage of children actually learning someting from school grows.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/mar/15/education-goals-assessment-india-school

Classrom and Playground, all rolled into one

The Long Island Chilrdens Muesum has many different fun playground learning equipment such as giant bubbles, and musical instuments. There are as many as 225,000 people who visit the 18 year old museum just this year alone. They are mixing learning and fun, they say a neat trick that the best of the musuems pull seemingly without effort. The nation has 250, with another 80 more of those museums in the nation. Only a handful have closed and there are many expanding. A great key to these muesums in expeirence, and these museums have alot of engageing experimental things for the children to play and learn from. After a day at these museums the kids leave with a happy note and graowth in their education. I think that these museums are a great idea and way for kids to learn. Everyone learns more when they are enjoying themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/arts/design/classroom-and-playground-all-rolled-into-one.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=education

Australia: long history of international higher education

Australia has had a long history of higher education. Austarlia is one of the worlds top study desitnations for international students. There was a bunch of violent attacks against Indian students in 2009 which made this success in Australia damper. These attacks made the number of international students coming significantly dropped. Now Australia has been encouraging a global outlook across a range of activities boader. The aim is to also nutrure global citizens, something that international students can play a significant part in. I think that this is a good idea for Australia to put the numbers up with the international students. I myself would love to get education in Australia in an international program.

 http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110305121304874

Listening to America (video in class)

I reallyed liked the video that we watched in class and I learned alot about how different schools can be from eachother even in the same city. The video about 2 boys put in the catagory of exceptional and gifted children, and they both have huge differences in thier backgrounds. One child named Lonnie goes to a school called South Fordham in the inner city of Chigago. And the other boy was James who went to Riverdale in a suberban city in the Chicago. Riverdale is a special school cause its atmospher is a good one. It has teachers trained in thier areas and good training helps teachers do a better job. James even has a community center for kids to go after school. Lonnie's school is different. The teachers are not as well trained and alltogtehr didnt have faith in the kids. The principle has to walk corner to corner to make sure kids are going to school and there is no trouble. After school Lonnie onlyy has a few unsafe places to go, and arcade or basket-ball in a nearby school court. This video really opened my eyes to the differences in schools and how things need to change so every child is getting the same education.

First Day at Field Experience

On my first day of field experience I was really excited to see what it was going to be like. I am going to a 3rd grade classroom. I was worried because I was supose to be helping with math, but the teacher did that in the morning and I was assigned to go there in the afternoon. So I was not sure if sheeven needed me for anything. Turns out she did! I walked in and right was introduced and we went to the library. Mrs. Auer has 32 kids in he class so things we really crazy. So we decide that every Tuesday when it is time for library I will take hakf the kids for half the time and read over Scholasic Kids News and then after 15 min we would switch kids. This helped the teacher alot with managing them when it comes to the end of the day and I seem very useful. The kids were fun and great as well. It is kind of cool having kids call me Ms. Daniels.