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From balancing your course load to forging relationships with classmates to extracurricular involvement, these are the tried and true methods to nail your career as a student.
Sean Castle | Teaching Strategies That Have Been Proven Successful
With school districts’ increased dedication to raising academic standards and abolishing social promotion, tremendous pressure has been placed on teachers and students to lift standardized test scores. While this could appear admirable from afar, its practical and real-life implications don’t seem to be often as glowing. In fact, the push toward higher standards often results in tracking, ability grouping, and grade retention-all of which have inherent problems. Tracking, grouping, and retention are widely practiced within the us and in many other countries, and that they are founded on both theory and research. Tracking, most frequently practiced in secondary schools, groups students into courses or sequences of courses of varied levels of difficulty suited to their levels of achievement. Ability grouping, most frequently practiced in primary schools, assigns students within classrooms to homogeneous groups of like ability. Grade retention requires students who haven’t attained achievement standards to repeat one or more grades. All three practices are supported the assumption that children of like abilities or levels of feat can learn together more efficiently than can heterogeneous students. Other theories and research suggest that these practices is also inefficient and unwise. Some argue, for instance, that students retained in grade may suffer declining self-concept which can deter their progress in order that they’re less likely to catch up with grade level standards. this can be due, in part, to the actual fact that, by itself, grade retention doesn’t address the causes of educational failure. Others counter that, to the contrary, such students would eventually fall further behind and drop out whether or not they were retained. To “socially promote” ill-prepared students would depreciate the worth of the highschool diplomas of these who meet rigorous standards. Similarly, some argue that it’s more efficient to show subjects like mathematics when students share similar abilities. as an example, it’d seem difficult for consumer mathematics and calculus to be learned efficiently in one group. Still, it’s going to be argued that faster learning students may like helping slower-learning students. Schools may additionally provide more classroom time and intensified instructional services to at-risk students for remediation or to forestall them from falling behind within the first place.
By Sean Castle5 years ago in Education
Schools Should Collaborate With After-School Programs
Youth thrive and achieve in programs that foster caring child/adult relationships. These programs allow youth to form bonds with adults they grow to trust and staff who encourage them to succeed. When staff have long-term relationships with after-school program participants, they are able to identify changes in the child’s behavior that signal a need for intervention.
By Megan Wilson5 years ago in Education
Better Prepared For College Or Work
The U.S. has a terrific opportunity to bring dynamic public schools to its neediest children, but it just might blow it. Called charter schools elsewhere, community schools are independent public schools of choice. That's not an oxymoron. They are new kinds of public schools, freed from most bureaucratic hassles, open to any child who chooses to attend and held to account for their results. We've visited dozens around the nation as a part of a new project. Most of those we've seen are terrific. They come in all flavors: progressive institutions with lots of hands-on learning, back-to-basics schools with stern discipline and old-fashioned curriculum, schools for at-risk kids, even a virtual charter school that operates in cyberspace. The intent was to make our students work harder, take more classes, and naturally the students would be better prepared for college or work.
By Megan Wilson5 years ago in Education
The Consequences of Following the Crowd, an Essay
When we hear the word “consequences,” we tend to think “negative.” According to Dictionary.com, however, the definition of consequence is “the effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier.” This definition illustrates that consequences can be both positive and negative. This holds true with following the crowd – you might lose your sense of self, you might believe dangerously false information, you might even be pulled into a mob intent on killing or otherwise harming others. However, you also have a higher likelihood of getting that amazing job or getting into exclusive clubs. You might even be mistaken as having traits that society deems “positive,” just because you hang around people who have those traits. It’s all about nuance and having the responsibility and common sense to determine which consequences are positive…and which are negative.
By Catherine Carter5 years ago in Education
How Note-Taking Solidifies Learning Outcomes
College is a fresh new chapter in your life. You’ve moved into your dorm, received your schedule and packed your backpack. You are mentally ready for your first day, but have you taken all the steps that will prepare you to succeed?
By Ginger Abbot5 years ago in Education
Big and Bigger Changes
Winter in Idaho is a different kind of cold than I was used to, dry, white and windy. Settling into my uncle's house was anything but pleasant. My dad and I shared a room and my bed was kept under his during the day. He had a storage unit for his things and I only had a backpack, my 2 parakeets and my shiny new guitar .
By Jordann Lee Myhre5 years ago in Education
A Complete Rethinking Of The Very Concept Of Education
Never before has American education been in as precarious a situation as it seems to be at present. For over ten years now we have seen many governors' summits, and a host of commissions, committees, panels, unions, boards and business executives trying to warn citizens that American schools have become dysfunctional and are in dire need of repairs. And for over ten years the results of student performance have worsened despite the billions being spent to stop the downward trend. Perhaps the time has come to stop and try to examine the problem rationally. It is not the first time that American education has reached a threshold at which only radical solutions seem to be called for. This time, however, reformers are calling for a systemic reform, a complete rethinking of the very concept of education. As politicians, educators, academicians, psychologists, sociologists, and CEOs entered the fray, the well-intentioned movement became murky and increasingly chaotic. It soon became clear that the reformers truly intended a clean sweep of what education had meant to Americans.
By Megan Wilson5 years ago in Education
