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School culture and climate are crucial for individuals with little else supporting them during the at-risk adolescent years. Students at risk of school failure include those living in poverty or attending high-poverty schools, those with stressful family circumstances, and those who feel they do not fit in with peers or experience a mismatch between their needs and the school environment (Wisner, 2013). In addition, those students who show the need for more instructional time with a teacher, those with excessive absences or tardiness, and those who are not engaged in school are also at risk of school failure (Wisner, 2013). Teaching students how to meditate offers them a unique secular practice that
promotes looking within, enhances self-awareness, clarifies thoughts and feelings, and effectively manages stress. It is these cognitive, behavioral, self-control, and social benefits of meditation that can be used to target the personal risk factors interfering with school success for at-risk students (Wisner, 2013). In fact, overall, students rated the perceived school climate benefits of meditation as most important regarding their school functioning and rated student engagement third in importance. Thus, students are telling us that school climate is important to them and is a crucial factor contributing to school functioning (Wisner, 2013).
Mental illness in the classroom has become an issue that is important for teachers, not just parents, to look out for. According to Cinda Johnson, “Studies indicate that 1 in 5 adolescents have some sort of serious emotional, behavioral, or mental health problem”(Johnson). When adolescents spend half of their days in school, it is important that their teachers take the time to notice unusual signs their students may be showing them. Teachers have the opportunity and the influence to help students work toward a better future. In Graziano’s article, however, the teacher’s influence was spun the wrong way and led to mistreatment of the six-year-old boy and his learning disability. Johnson explains, “Effective teachers are “responsive to students’ problems and…emphasize reciprocity and the value of their students’ perspectives and feelings”(Johnson). The issue of disability in the classroom coincides with the issue of teacher and student trust in the classroom. In both articles there...
As American’s we place a high level of importance on attending school and receiving a certain level of education. Across the world, the recommendations for attending school vastly differ based on the culture of the society. In America, we require our children to attend school until they are almost of legal age, push high school graduates to attend college and we constantly emphasize structured learning. Many children in today’s world lack many skills that would allow them to “teach” themselves outside of school leading to an increased interest in televisions, computers, and phones. Technology has taken away society’s attention away from independent learning such as reading, writing, and outside experiences. John Taylor Gatto’s emotional voice in his writing “Against School” has allowed me reveal my psychological voice regarding the educational system.
The United States educational system faces a major challenge in addressing the disenfranchisement of youth due to poverty and racism in the schools. The U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 found that “currently about one-quarter of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are living in poverty in the U.S. compared to less than 10% of Asian Americans or Whites.” (Hughes et al. 2010, p. 2) Hughes, Newkirk & Stenhjem (2010) identified the stressors children living in poverty faced caused young adolescents to suffer mental and physical health issues which resulted in anxiety, hypertension, fear and depression. Lack of health care, neighborhood crime levels, joblessness, prejudice, and inadequate housing are among the many reasons multi-cultural youth from high poverty backgrounds become disenfranchised from the American school system. Race, racism, and poverty combine to create a triple jeopardy which severely impacts the fulfillment of the need of young adolescents to experience a sense of belonging and cultural competence. Lack of supportive environments both in school, society, work, and family life often prevent students from developing the cultural competence minority students must develop in order to become fully successful. For the purposes of this essay key issues were identified regarding the disenfranchisement of Native American youth, such as systemic prejudice and cultural bias within the school system which resulted in loss of connectedness of Navajo youth to school, teachers, and family. Galliher, Jones, & Dahl (2010) identified cultural connectedness as being the key component necessary in order to reengage the Native American student within the educational environment.
Meditation is an age-old practice that has renewed itself in many different cultures and times. Despite its age, however, there remains a mystery and some ambiguity as to what it is, or even how one performs it. The practice and tradition of meditation dates back thousands of years having appeared in many eastern traditions. Meditation’s ancient roots cloud its origins from being attributed to a sole inventor or religion, though Bon, Hindu, Shinto, Dao, and later, Buddhism are responsible for its development. Its practice has permeated almost all major world religions, but under different names. It has become a practice without borders, influencing millions with its tranquil and healing effects.
White, L. S. (2012). Reducing stress in school-age girls through mindful yoga. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 26(1), doi: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2011.01.002
In American public schools children are sitting still, listening to a teacher, for seven or more hours a day. Students are often denied the ability to go to the bathroom, move around, or even speak openly in their classrooms. Spending long days “without any freedoms is psychologically damaging to many students” (Gray). As “children are required to be in school, where their freedom is greatly restricted,” they begin to resent learning because they associate it with being uncomfortable and discouraged (Gray). In a Montessori classroom, the focus is more on students working independently with guidance as needed, rather than as a group being instructed. Students work for “long interrupted periods of time” (Israelson). During these periods, students may move around at their leisure and work how they want in any activity they choose. Many “Montessori programs can have large classes” with multiple age groups in one class (Israelson). Montessori schools can have “children from as many as three grades in one class” (Israelson). This class structure benefits the students because the younger children can learn from the older children, and the older children have a chance to be role models or leaders, and often help younger students understand what the teacher wants them to learn
Climate, weather, and meteorology are 3 words that seem to be the same but in reality differ significantly. Two of these concepts pertain to the atmosphere but differ in what time and place they are studied in, and the last one is studying these concepts.
Byrnes, D. (2001). Life skills in solitude and silence in the school. Education, 83(104), 96-99.
Haroutunian-Gordon, Sophie, and Elizabeth Meadows. School: Studies in Education. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Print.
Even though, most of these middle school students enjoy coming to school every day and learning new things, school is also one of the major causes of stress in their lives. The stress of school is added on to the stress that exists from their parents, siblings, and relationships with their friends. Even though the students feel stressed about both school and their lives outside of school, many believe that their parents would describe them as smart, hardworking, kind, quiet, creative, and energetic. These middle school students were more than willing to offer suggestions for future middle school teachers such as being prepared for class, educate the students, manage the classroom effectively, have a sense of humor, and give opportunities for brain breaks after long periods of
Peck, H. L., Kehle, T. J., Bray, M. A., & Theodore, L. A. (2005). Yoga as an intervention for children with attention problems. School Psychology Review, 34(3), 415-424.
The underperformance of many students at the primary level of the education system in Jamaica has caused the schools to be placed under the microscope and there has been an intense focus on academic performance of students and the success of primary schools in general. Tied to this underperformance are many problems that are hindering the teaching and learning process, but little focus is placed on the learning environment and therefore the school climate as a critical factor is faded in the background. School climate is the learning environment created through the interaction of human relationship, physical setting and psychological atmosphere, (Perkins, 2006). A favourable school climate forms the structure within which teachers, students, parents and principals function cooperatively and constructively.
Schools are institutions that lay the foundation of a child's development. They play a key role in developing children into responsible citizens and maximizing an individual’s potential. A school is where young talent is recognized and nurtured. Every country has its own particular characteristics regarding the school curriculum, teaching profession, and overall education system. However, in the global education race, the United States is extremely falling behind; countries that were once behind now meet or exceed U.S. education standards. The failure in our education system is characterized by low test scores, minimal parental involvement, and high dropout rates.
Climate Change is any substantial change in climate that lasts for an extended period of time. One contributor to current climate change is global warming, which is an increase in Earth’s average temperature. Plants and animal species throughout the world are being affected by rising temperatures. Many plants are flowering earlier now than they once did; animals, such as the yellowbellied marmot, are emerging from hibernation earlier; and many bird and butterfly species are migrating north and breeding earlier in the spring than they did a few decades ago, all because of slight changes in temperature cues. (Shuster)
According to the Canada’s Action on Climate Change, Climate change is a long-term shift in weather conditions identified by changes in temperature, precipitation, winds, and other indicators. Climate change can involve both changes in average conditions and changes in variability, including, for example, extreme events. Climate change is one of the biggest crisis in the earth. It will cause a huge damage to the eco-system and human. We are the victims of the climate change. However, we are the one who cause the climate change.