Cultural Values In Education

Introduction

Education in the United States, many people are trying to figure out how to fix the educational system. The key to reaching higher achievement is a strong cultural value that is conducive to understanding the value of education. Family support is a big influence to cultural values and education. Community the culmination of culture, family and local environment variables that works towards a common goal. Understanding these aspects will help school administrators in developing a diverse educational program that would guide students to reach their maximum potential in school. There were three mini documentaries that one could see how all these factors helped students excel in school. Watching “An Education in Equality” will demonstrate

Culture sets beliefs and priorities for a groups outlook on life. Communities is a body of people who shares specific values and try to do things that benefits others in it. In “A Military Education” Queens largest Junior ROTC program has a 99% graduation rate and the students in the program has the highest average GPA in the school. The ROTC program has set a culture where members of the group were expecting themselves to perform at a high level. One would see in the video, there were many people who believed that this program would fail has later seen these students and instructors associated with the program was always teaching (The ROTC instructors) and learning mode. The culture that this program had exhibit had brought in many students where the program has over 500 members who later go on to college or join the military. In another video “An Education” a family moves to Russia and has their children go to a Russian school. The school was totally foreign to them. They learned about the Russian culture in education and even though they had a hard time in the beginning they assimilated into the culture which is a very stringent culture and exceled beyond what they had originally expected. The schools in Russian focused on the children and each teacher looked to the kids as if they were their own. Building a specific culture to aid in learning was demonstrated

Community incorporates family, culture and other underlining factors that impacts education systems. A good community syncs the all values, influence the direction of other people in the community and invest time and money to meet these goals. In “An Education Starts at Home” and “A Military Education” one would see how creating a community instilled importance of education and learning. In “An Education Starts at Home” the teachers went to each new student’s home to learn more about the students to understand how their local community and family culture affects each student’s individually. In “A Military Education” one would see how the JROTC created a community that many students wanted to be a part of, this community taught the student skills in leadership self-accountability and be inspired to become leaders. Community fuses all factors that reinforces a strong educational system. Teachers learning about where a student comes from how their local community is setup. Understanding how their pupil’s community is set up will help school administrators set up a school community that enhances their curriculum. In Queens JROTC program the students became a community inside the school, the community they created had led them to a 99% graduation rate and the highest average GPA in the