I have been always captivated in education. Education has always been most influential and important aspect of my life. My perspective of education has changed significantly, ever since I started my first internship during my senior year of high school. I was introduced to an organization called Teach for America, which I had no idea of what this particular organization does, what they visualize, I practically did not anything about the organization. Teach for America has successfully recognized children who are living in poverty are not receiving the quality education they deserve in comparison to high income area schools that are receiving a good education. This organization is frankly committed to making sure that every child has an …show more content…
They help with problem solving and they ensure that every student can attain an excellent, along the way, regardless of their upbringing. Teach for America is making a dramatic change. They have significantly changed the injustice equity of education. I began to develop an interest in Teach for America when I found out that they value quality education for anyone, regardless. This is a good thing for me because as a young man from a low-income community I am able to have access to higher education and be a part of Teach for America’s movement. Teach for America recruits excellent teachers from prestigious schools to teach for two years in underprivileged urban and rural public schools to ensure students attain an excellent education. Teach for America has inspired me to become a better person and to have hope for the future. Since Teach for America existed I know that there are teachers and people who do not only care, but show commitment to social justice to teach successfully in high-need schools to ensure students like myself have a good education to be successful in …show more content…
Ideally, I propose a detailed analysis in my paper how Teach for America has made major progress with student success and the poverty rate has decreased with the help of Teach for America. I plan to present the use of factual and statistical information that I glean from my internship, high school, and sources that I would like to potentially implement into my research paper. I would to be able use the research I gathered so far to support my claim I make towards Teach for America throughout my paper. I hope to show in my paper that the statistics and facts are credible and it support my overall research paper. I think my particular topic can be categorized as a serious and extremely current issue so it is obvious that my topic is also unique because it is affecting America children in low-income communities currently , and has been significantly change ever since Teach for America has been an establishment. I plan to utilize multiple books and sources from the internet, but I have not come to a complete decision on what sources I would like to incorporate into my paper. However, I have been searching for possibly sources that I can use for my research paper. My research has helped me to become enlightened about the lack of education children in poor areas are receiving that I can freely
But I have to wonder, it seems that every-other president and every-other governor refers to himself or herself as the education president or education governor, yet they fail to deliver the necessary funding to maintain a high level of education for all of his or her constituents’ children. Why is it that class and culture is the determining factor for who receives a quality education, this social injustice must be remedied? My Awakening Much like Mike, I have had some amazing academic mentors that were not afraid to get down in the trenches with me and ask what I was trying to say. I had Ms. Lewis my freshman year of high school, she would sit down with me and rip apart my paper and rework it as necessary. During my senior year of high school, I had the privilege of taking a U.W. English class, that was a seminar format where the instructor would frequently conference with us, and he gave me the tools to continue my education.
Especially in regard to educating children in poverty so they will not fall behind. Helping adults to understand how to help these children is vitally important because those in poverty have different needs and require a different means of motivation, “if poor people were exactly the same cognitively, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally as those from the middle class, then the exact same teaching provided to both middle-class students and students from poverty would bring the exact same results (Jensen).”
These programs as well as the many after-school and enrichment programs offer some desperately needed assistance. Although this is a good beginning, a lot more needs to be done before real improvement is made. The educational systems in America have many faults, but if more people become aware, things can only improve. I believe that we can change things, and with time maybe equal education for everyone won’t be just a far away dream.
...r problems that are facing the United States. This organization is also the best organization to give resources to when you are thinking of giving money to an organization based on education because it benefits not only itself but also a multitude of different organizations that are all pushing for a common goal. It also does things for kids that government owned schools simply could not do. For further information on the United Way and to find ways in which you can help log on to Unitedway.org.
Teachers help us expand and open our mind by giving us skills throughout students’ early life to help students when they are older. By learning information from teachers, students become better people, in a couple of ways. Besides inquiring knowledge from their teachers, students learn to work with one another, open their mind to other peoples’ thoughts and ideas, respect one another, and learn different techniques for life’s issues.
We want decent education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our and our role in the present day society.
I wanted to start making a difference in kids as soon as I had the chance. I started to take Early Childhood Education classes at my school. This course was rigorous and so important, due to the fact we ran a preschool of 20 four and five-year old’s. Their education was in our hands; we were that building block for their first insight on school. I feel in love with writing lesson plans and being hand in hand with other teachers and the students became a part of my life that I never wanted to go away. I interned at an elementary school just to get more involved and learn more about collaborating. I started taking a Teaching as a Profession class, so I could not only know today’s education but become familiar with the history of education, how to accommodate your classroom for students with special needs, and the issues in todays education. I completed this class and took the state mandated test to complete the pathway and get a cord at graduation. I came in on Sundays to work and study with my teacher for this test and it all paid off when I passed the test with the highest score out of the nine people who took the test. While this was all happening I was inducted into National Beta Club for my grades and averages in my classes, which mostly included advanced courses. I then completed the Early
Social justice is at the core of my desire to become an elementary teacher and attend the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education. More specifically, my main, overarching goal for graduate study is to learn the theory and practical skills necessary to create a system of equal opportunity for learning in my own classroom. I recognize the powerful role a teacher may play in a student’s life and am therefore driven to learning how I, a white middle class woman, can most effectively teach and create relationships with students that are unlike myself.
Education is the backbone of most nations. Proper teaching to students ensure things such as better technology, better fund distributions, running operations like businesses, military training, and the government. Sadly, our nation is very low on the ladder when it comes to education. Students First has pointed out that most children are reading below their grade level, are respectively the 20th and 27th best nation when it comes to Math and Science, and there is no signifigant change. Americans are however getting an education, though lower than against other nations America still are able to make a living with their lives. There is much needed improvement, but at least Americans are not completely ignorant. Citizens can make a living with their lives and though not as intelligent as someone from Korea or Japan there is no way to dispute that our education system is doing
There is no more critical role in our current society than that of a teacher’s. Teachers help shape the minds of the future. Tomorrow's engineers, scientists, politicians, and educators are all greatly influenced by today's instructors. Without teachers society would not be anywhere near where it is now, and only a select few would have access to learning. Sadly however important teachers are in human civilization, they are still drastically understated, unrecognized and under paid.
Many people on this earth grow up saying they would like to make a difference in this world. However, half of those people do not feel like putting in the work in order to do so. As an elementary education major, making a difference is one of the main goals. There are many benefits of becoming a teacher, and students benefit as well. In order to have many students successfully graduate from one grade to the next a teacher should be willing to put in as much work that is needed. Elementary school is where children are set up for the rest of their education. It is important to understand how to go into this career field, becoming a teacher has its own benefits, and the children are able to benefit from teachers.
14.5% of Public School Principals agreed that lack of parent involvement was a serious issue. The only other issue public school principals found more prevalent than lack of parent involvement was poverty. 14.9% said that poverty was a serious issue in their school. I have a theory that most of the parents struggling to involve themselves in education of their children are struggling with poverty. There is some evidence to back this up. Childtrends found that students above the poverty line consistently had more involved parents than of student living at or below the poverty line. 45% of children above the poverty line had a parent volunteer at the school while only 27% of those below the poverty line could say the
As we reminisce and reflect back either on our childhood or academic career, we tend to have that one teacher who was memorable to us in some way - for their sense of humor, their stellar personality, or perhaps having that charisma and charm no other teacher had to make a difficult subject and it 's concepts fun to learn. While knowledge is power, I firmly believe that it is rather the exchange and distribution of knowledge that is power. When one can educate the masses there is no doubt that together we can accomplish great things. Becoming a teacher would mean the opportunity to be able to witness the shaping and molding of the minds of the future generations and the satisfaction knowing that you have helped your students set themselves onto the right path and provide guidance towards the creation of a better tomorrow. Choosing to become a teacher will allow me not only to educate my students, but also educate myself to be a better teacher throughout my career. I believe it is a function of human nature to want to change the world for the better. In adulthood, I have learned that the improvement of the welfare of the world must begin with
I believe that all children should experience an undying, blooming love for learning throughout the entirety of their public education regardless of financial, geographical, social, or intellectual circumstances. Public education reform is important to me because I am an advocate for possibility. Every student has the potential to achieve his or her dreams of succeeding; perhaps we, as adults, need to use our voices to recover those that our children have lost in their fight against today’s failing public education
In serving as teachers with advise about a society that they know and are very much a part of, they apply a much needed force to society giving them the power to link their cultural ideals with the modern ideals of the Western world.