School Resources

Lack of School Resources

http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2011/10/13/01metlife.h05.html

This article " Teachers: Schools Lack of Resources for Diverse-Need Students" explains how there was a survey given out to the students and faculty. It turned out that both student and teacher were portraying through the survey, that they weren't giving out the best they could with there lack of funding. The results had been shocking to the schools since this has been a cycle that was happening for a excessive amount of time. What had been found was the teachers were pleased when people came to to assess what their problems were in the classroom; it made the teachers feel like what they were doing in the classroom wasn't good enough for these assessors. The survey found that, among students with diverse learning needs and low-income students, had been told by a teacher or other adult that they have a learning problem or disability were the least likely to say their needs are being well-served by their schools. This effected students that made them give out less effort and not use the resources that were available for them.
Materials matter within a classroom by how it helps children learn new material. How is a student supposed to learn if for example there isn't a textbook available for them to learn by? The process of learning is to read it, write it, and repeat it; this is how new material sticks into our minds so that we memorize it efficiently. This is why students are given homework, so that they can keep being reminded of what is going on in the classroom. Especially at a young age it crucial to understand what is going on; such as adding and subtracting or even the ABC's. These skills are the basics of what we do in a everyday basis and what we will need to know to further education.With having materials in the classrooms it gives students the opportunity to learn more efficiently and fully understand what is happening to master the material.
When a child that does not have the advantage of having resources they feel upset/disappointed and cause them to give less effort. When a child is trying to learn and becomes older they will observe what a student should really have in a classroom and notice how they don't  have the same ability. Maybe as a young student starting out in the system, such as K-2 grade, won't understand since they are younger and new at being in a classroom; but as they get older they start to understand the reality of what is happening in the school. Just like in the book Salvage Inequalities, the drop out rate in the poor city schools are close to half or slightly more. In addition, students at the rich parts of town have a 1% drop out rate; the reason is by how these students have the funds and resources to actually get what the students need. With students having everything available, it gives them encouragement to thrive in their work and do the best they can. Students having the lack of materials does effect their work and they should be given all what they need to have the best education.
The schools that have this type of trouble with lack of materials, should have fundraisers on their own in there communities to raise money for the schools. The schools would be able to set up everything themselves and would use what they have to make money; they could do car washes, carnivals, or even a sport event with the students. If the school was able to set this up, they would earn money and not have to give anything back to the state. In addition, this will give some sense of community within the town, and bring all of the parents together to realize what is happening in their children's schools. These events may not fix a heater system or the rotting ceilings, but it will give children the advantage to get color pencils, paper, new books and materials for a lab experiment. These little components would matter at first, with more events and people to help out the school will get more money for renovations or plumbing to be fixed. If a poor school needed money to help students with materials they should set up a fundraiser to raise money for the school.

Inequality

The schools are unequal by how they are unable to provide heathly nutrition for their students. To have this quality in a school is important because it keeps students healthy to stay in school to get a well education. Jonathan Kozol writes, "This time the entire system is affected, since the meals distributed to every students in the city are prepared in the two school that have been flooded,"(29). This means that while there was a flood of sewage in the schools cafeteria, the workers still made food in those conditions; there had been some of this sewage in the food that was made and it took days for it to be shut down. The first day it was known there should have been no food distributed since students could get sick instantly from its contamination. When students become sick, of course they are going to stay home, miss days of school, and run behind in class. If this were to happen in the richer parts of town, the school would have more money to fund the problem and fix it instantly. With more money that the richer schools receive they would get more tasteful food that would never have any feces to make the children sick. For all students to have good nutrition in their schools is important so they can stay in school and get a better education like the more wealthy students.

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With having students explore their passions it gives them a better education on that subject. When finding a passion it gives more motivation to actually learn more about that passion. When a person is in a learning environment and learns about something they want to give more effort into learning. A student would want to get a better understanding of what their passion consist of to get a deeper view of what it could be. In addition, a lot of students wonder what they are learning why the material is important for them to know or how it will ever relate to their life. Some students feel that what they learn in the classroom is only to sit there to learn and pass a class to get a passing grade then move on. This could be an example for many subjects such as math; why would we have to master what is the square root of a triangle. As a student would think, why is this important for my future? So if they get to explore more of what interest or passion they have, it will get their attention and help relate to their lives. If students know that what they are learning is valuable it will let them focus and want to learn. Having a lack of passion is what is now happening in our classrooms; not every student may like the same subject, but if majority of students are relating to something that gets them excited and mre focused it will make students to get a better education.

If the student community observes that other students are finding there passions it will give them personal motivation to find theirs. To have this effect, it will make students more open to new ideas of what they themselves would be interested in and connect to other students that have a same passion. This will make a cycle to make students want to find what they are interested in and have a positive effect to want to try new passions. Not only will it make a postive cycle but help students that don't know what they want have guidence to view a good influence. There are many students that come to college that are clueless to what they want to do with their careers. There is nothing wrong with that, but with having the atmoshpere of trying new things and pushing to do passions will make those students want to contribute and eventually find a passion that will realte to other students. Having students find their passions will put a postive influence on the student body to want to also find their own.

Not only does finding passions help students but they also help teachers within education. With students knowing what their passions are it will help the teacher connect with students to have material that they can relate to. The way a teacher could purse this plan is to early in the semester write down what all the students like to do or what makes them happy to determine what their passions could be. This could help both student and teacher by how it gives clear communication of what they want to learn about or at least what teachers could add in their lessons to make the students interested. Communication is important within the classroom because without it, student can become insecure to approach a teacher when they need help or guidence to further learn the lesson. With a teacher knowing what their students passions/interests are, it will help them teach materials the students will be interested in.With having students explore their passions it gives them a better education on that subject. When finding a passion it gives more motivation to actually learn more about that passion. When a person is in a learning environment and learns about something they want to give more effort into learning. A student would want to get a better understanding of what their passion consist of to get a deeper view of what it could be. In addition, a lot of students wonder what they are learning why the material is important for them to know or how it will ever relate to their life. Some students feel that what they learn in the classroom is only to sit there to learn and pass a class to get a passing grade then move on. This could be an example for many subjects such as math; why would we have to master what is the square root of a triangle. As a student would think, why is this important for my future? So if they get to explore more of what interest or passion they have, it will get their attention and help relate to their lives. If students know that what they are learning is valuable it will let them focus and want to learn. Having a lack of passion is what is now happening in our classrooms; not every student may like the same subject, but if majority of students are relating to something that gets them excited and mre focused it will make students to get a better education.

If the student community observes that other students are finding there passions it will give them personal motivation to find theirs. To have this effect, it will make students more open to new ideas of what they themselves would be interested in and connect to other students that have a same passion. This will make a cycle to make students want to find what they are interested in and have a positive effect to want to try new passions. Not only will it make a postive cycle but help students that don't know what they want have guidence to view a good influence. There are many students that come to college that are clueless to what they want to do with their careers. There is nothing wrong with that, but with having the atmoshpere of trying new things and pushing to do passions will make those students want to contribute and eventually find a passion that will realte to other students. Having students find their passions will put a postive influence on the student body to want to also find their own.

Not only does finding passions help students but they also help teachers within education. With students knowing what their passions are it will help the teacher connect with students to have material that they can relate to. The way a teacher could purse this plan is to early in the semester write down what all the students like to do or what makes them happy to determine what their passions could be. This could help both student and teacher by how it gives clear communication of what they want to learn about or at least what teachers could add in their lessons to make the students interested. Communication is important within the classroom because without it, student can become insecure to approach a teacher when they need help or guidence to further learn the lesson. With a teacher knowing what their students passions/interests are, it will help them teach materials the students will be interested in.

Ken Robinson's speech



 



One part of Ken Robinson's speech that stood out the most to me was about that student who was a fireman. Ken explains how there was a person who came up to him at a book signing and Ken asked him some questions about his career; the man replied that he has been a fireman most of life. The man explains that he had a teacher would made him feel horrible about how he wanted to purse this profession and should become a doctor or professional of some kind; then recently saved his life in a accident. I feel teachers should never discourge their students for something that they want to purse long term or short term. This stood out to me because as a student if were passionate about something for our future, we want that support and guidence to know that we are making the correct choice for ourself. When students come to college or the "real world" it's scary to be clueless for what is going to happen. It's amazing when we have support from audlts that have gone through it before so we can learn their mistakes and take it into consideration. Without this support a student could feel lost and go through a path that will never have that passion for their futures.

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How Parents Can Effect Children's Dreams

When your a child, you want to be a variety of careers; such as a doctor, dancer, or even a pop singer. You get the support of these dreams from your parents your whole life; they just pat you on the back and encourage you to do what ever your heart follows. As soon as you turn 18 or even graduate from high school, it's a whole different sitution; your parents want you to become something you don't want or pressure you to get a job as soon as possible. For example, if your parents were both doctors, they would of course expect you to just become a doctor just like them and push you to go in that field. When parents do that to there children they push them to become something that they aren't passionate about and will regret for their whole lives. Even though they may be trying to just watch out and want the best for their child, its only pushing us to become confused and push us into a path that will not make us happy.

But what if we don't have that kind of support? What if parents just didn't give us any type of support where would your generation be? In the article “Parents Who Don't Parent” the author states, “However, students with poor academic skills who also suffer from a lack of parental involvement or support have virtually no chance of graduating from high school”(Kristof). If we didn't have any type of support it would be hard for students to pick what's going to be best for themselfs. Without a parent or higher authority say,” It's ok to follow that path... your doing a great job,” they only next step to take is to just give up. If we just give up my generation won't become anything and we will just be working a minimum wage job; which will not let us get far in life. If we don't have any support from your parents we are just set up to feel as though we are failing; but we shouldn't give up and keep pushing to become sucessful with any kind of support.

With seeing these two different sides of support it's important to have a balance of support from parents; this way we with have the courage to explore and become what will make us happy in the long term.

How Parents Can Effect Children's Dreams

When your a child, you want to be a variety of careers; such as a doctor, dancer, or even a pop singer. You get the support of these dreams from your parents your whole life; they just pat you on the back and encourage you to do what ever your heart follows. As soon as you turn 18 or even graduate from high school, it's a whole different sitution; your parents want you to become something you don't want or pressure you to get a job as soon as possible. For example, if your parents were both doctors, they would of course expect you to just become a doctor just like them and push you to go in that field. When parents do that to there children they push them to become something that they aren't passionate about and will regret for their whole lives. Even though they may be trying to just watch out and want the best for their child, its only pushing us to become confused and push us into a path that will not make us happy.

But what if we don't have that kind of support? What if parents just didn't give us any type of support where would your generation be? In the article “Parents Who Don't Parent” the author states, “However, students with poor academic skills who also suffer from a lack of parental involvement or support have virtually no chance of graduating from high school”(Kristof). If we didn't have any type of support it would be hard for students to pick what's going to be best for themselfs. Without a parent or higher authority say,” It's ok to follow that path... your doing a great job,” they only next step to take is to just give up. If we just give up my generation won't become anything and we will just be working a minimum wage job; which will not let us get far in life. If we don't have any support from your parents we are just set up to feel as though we are failing; but we shouldn't give up and keep pushing to become sucessful with any kind of support.

With seeing these two different sides of support it's important to have a balance of support from parents; this way we with have the courage to explore and become what will make us happy in the long term.