For years we have developed educational ideas. We being administrators, politicians, parents, and teachers, we don’t ask the clients the students. Then it is no wonder education has not changed in 200 years.
http://blog.scs.sk.ca/tado/2009/10/time-to-quit-assuming.html
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(6)Darren Cannell
Saskatoon CanadaLevine (2006) posits that “the challenge facing education schools is not to do a better job at what they are already doing, but to do a fundamentally different job” (p.105).
Darren Cannell
Saskatoon CanadaEvery few years in American education a new slogan is coined as the Next Big Thing. Total quality management, shared decision-making, and outcomes-based education all once marched across the educational landscape, grabbing headlines, filling copy—yet they left little improvement in pupil learning in their trail (ΒΆ 1).
Darren Cannell
Saskatoon CanadaThe educational system’s lack of change has resulted in a dropout rate of 9.4% in 2005. In America, 60 % percent of minorities do not complete grade twelve (Jukes, 2008). Only 28% of grade 12 high school students believe the school work is meaningful. A mere 21% believe their courses are interesting and only 39% believe that school work will have any bearing on their success in later life (Wirt et al., 2002).
Darren Cannell
Saskatoon CanadaFor hundreds of years the model used produced a percentage of students that ventured lockstep through the system until they graduated from the post-secondary school. These students were deemed successful. The unsuccessful students who fell out of step were trained by the system to take their place on the factory floors (Van Duzer, 2006).
Hti3k
Seattle WaIt’s time to hit the history books. Lets take a look at what worked in education in the past and bring it back. At the elementary level children now go to school (I’m talking about the United States) with the knowledge that their teachers have no real power over them. They behave anyway they want and the administrators and teachers are powerless to do anything about it. I went to a High School in a very bad part of town (Jimmy Carters Busing Program, Seattle Washington) There I watched as child after child were pushed through a system barely able to read or write their name. What we need is to give the power back to the teachers so that most of the kids an get through school with a real education… As for those that don’t want to be there….. don’t be there, but let them come back when they are ready to get that education. As for special needs kids… YES, this is an area we could possibly throw some more money at.
Darren Cannell
Saskatoon CanadaEducate those that want to be educated…works for me.
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