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- 191: Teacher Certification
- ... the educational world as an instructor. There is no argument that all schools in every state has these basic requirements of teacher certification. However, the inconsistency lies within how the numerous institutions go about in teaching these requirements. Each post-secondary school is given the jurisdiction to choose how they are going to go about meeting these basic teacher certification requirements. For example, many states require a different amount of field ... issue of selection under standardized testing was also discussed, with respect to increasing the required SAT/ACT or GRE scores. Finally, the research groups came up with various new ideas involving the creation of professional teaching schools or tiered systems that would require a teacher to go through more training even after they received their bachelor's degree. All in all, these reform groups have come up with some very unique ...
- 192: Primary Education & Post Plowden Legacy
- ... between 'pleasurable work' and 'labour'. Workmanship, it is argued, has been replaced by unskilled labour and people now work as a means to an end seeking enjoyment through other avenues such as hobbies and recreation. Teaching methods and school ethos' in general are seen as outmoded and alien to the cultural and social influences on pupils. Therefore, there is greater responsibility on the teacher to make work seem more utilitarian and ... and invalid unless it was undertaken in preparation for forthcoming exams. However, work that may be deemed pointless or onerous by both sets of pupils (exam and non- exam) could be given validity by the teaching strategy employed. Pupils seemed to be more concerned with the status of the work and their personal relationship with the teacher, therefore the pupil reaction to any given task depended heavily on these two criteria ...
- 193: Bede the Venerable
- ... age of 25 being ordained as beacons, but Bede showed outstanding learning and holiness and was ordained at age 19 (Thompson, 11). Later in 1703 he was ordained a priest. He dedicated his life to teaching and writing and had no less than 600 monks as students. Bede rarely left the monastery and in his own words he states, "I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight" (Attwater, 57). In his lifetime, Bede wrote over 45 volumes which included textbooks, commentaries, and translations. His works included hymns, chronicles, and grammatical works, however he is best ...
- 194: The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... ingredient in the revaluation of values Nietzsche advocated. "Nothing has done more than Christianity to entrench the morality of mediocrity in human consciousness." "Christian love extols qualities of weakness; it causes guilt. Charity is just teaching hatred and revenge directed toward nobility." "Belief in God is a tool to bring submission to the individual of noble character." -- F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Hero Morality Nietzsche had an ideal world in mind ... a product of natural selection, or social Darwinism. He felt, very strongly, that any kind of moral limitations upon man would only stand in the way of The Overman. "The Will To Power," his strongest teaching, meant that The Overman should and would do anything possible to gain power, control and strength. If one showed the smallest bit of weakness or morality, he would be killed by the stronger Overman, and ...
- 195: Great Teachers, Bad Students
- ... school. "I got an F- on the final but it's only because Mr. Doe* is a crappy teacher." This a common attitude among students who fair poorly on a test. It is not bad teaching that causes a student to fail a class, it is bad learning. Laziness, foreign substance abuse, and truancy are a few characteristics of a bad learner. The word "lazy" is frequently used to describe high ... dreaded disease that only affects seniors, "Senioritis." The symptoms include lack of motivation and falling grades. Yet the seniors who have the most severe case of "Senioritis" are the same ones who complain about poor teaching. Of course all lazy students are not seniors. There are students from every grade level who do not do their homework or study. Effort must be put forth by the student in order for learning ...
- 196: Eastern Philosophy
- ... dispensed, and crime was almost eliminated. So powerful did Lu become that the ruler of a neighboring state maneuvered to secure the minister's dismissal. Confucius left his office in 496 BC, traveling about and teaching, vainly hoping that some other prince would allow him to undertake measures of reform. In 484 BC, after a failed search for an ideal ruler, he returned for the last time to Lu. He spent ... had little belief in the supernatural, he has been revered almost as a spiritual being by millions. HIS TEACHINGS/ BELIEFS He believed in Ren: the inner atitude of being humane, loving, and good. The entire teaching of Confucius was practical and ethical, rather than religious. He claimed to be a restorer of ancient morality and held that proper outward acts based on the five virtues of kindness, uprightness, decorum, wisdom, and ...
- 197: Harry Potter And Censorship
- ... characterizations of good and evil. Many school districts however do not care about good and evil characterizations. Their feeling is that if a certain idea is expressed in a book, the school is responsible for teaching it to that child. The reasons for censoring a book range from having satanic content to anti family values. The censors feel that wizardry is a threat to their children, so in fear of a ... profit with every page turned. Between the pages of Rowling's first novel in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, lies a story with brave heroes and evil villains. Instead of teaching anti-Christian and immoral values, as according to some parents, it teaches that evil sometimes lurks in the least expected places and good can hide much the same. For instance in the end of the ...
- 198: Educational Psychology
- ... they hit a ball into a designated trough (James 66). This area of psychology is used today to teach specific subjects such as foreign languages, arithmetic and mathematics, reading, writing, spelling, and the sciences. However, teaching of these subject requires a person that displays "readiness." This "readiness" is most commonly found in early ages and the older one is, the less "readiness" they have to learn (Frandsen 2). Psychology is still ... made remarkable advances in the past half century or more, though the cultural lag has delayed many of the advantages that might otherwise have accrued. With the development of television and of lesson programming for teaching machines, coupled with a public awakening, dramatic and revolutionary changes may be expected in the foreseeable future (Piaget 179+180). Works Cited Academic American Encyclopedia (A.A.E.). Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Incorporated, 1993. Frandsen, Arden ...
- 199: Cultural Diversity in Schools
- ... of control over it. Not all students learn the same. Teachers need to develop an awareness for individual characteristics as a prerequisite to developing instructional strategies that will meet the learning style of each student. Teaching to a variety of learning styles will increase the probability of student achievement, thereby leading to a greater internal locus of control and improved self-esteem (Ryan, 27-28). Some think that Cortes has the ... for change. Most teachers have been trained in educational programs that are not geared to the needs of the urban schools. They are normally familiar with the white middle-class schools. Indeed, a culture of teaching exists in America that still espouses the notion that poor children and children of color, on average, do not learn as well as middle-class and affluent white children. A typical urban school serves students ...
- 200: Women In Corporate America
- ... resented, challenged, and treated unequally. In other fields, women have always dominated. These occupations are librarians, teachers, editors, reporters, dental assistants, and nurses. For the last thirty years, women have held seventy-five percent of teaching jobs, eighty-five percent of librarian positions, and an astonishing ninety-five percent of nursing and medical assistant openings. While women are making progress in traditionally male-dominated fields, they continue to hold down the ... advances in the corporate world. Finding a female lawyer, or doctor is not an uncommon commodity nowadays. This progression was done, and continues to precede without giving ground in traditional feminine professions, such as the teaching and nursing. In a matter of time, the playing field will be leveled for both sexes. Word Count: 652
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