After reading the small article that compares both Hirsch and Sizer's theories on education, realized that both these guys are to thank for some sort of form of our education. Which even though most people would say differ, really dont.
Ok, so technically they are different Sizer says "Students should leave school as well-informed skeptics, able to ask good questions as a matter of habit" while Hirsch says "Students should be able to read and know the basic number facts by the end of the first grade" This shows us that not only do the focuses on different grade leves in school "Hirsch worries motly about elementary schools, while Sizer about high schools" but they focuse on different ways of learning, different parts that make a school good.
With this in mind though we can agree that both Sizer and Hirsch goal was just to make education better, the way THEY saw that it would be able to help us grow as students. This is something I believe they have in common, that "drive" to sorta make a difference.This shows us that though these theories arent like two peas in a pod (alike in anyway), they can be like strawberries and cherries (both rich in color and flavor) lol.
Based on my experience in S.O.F i would say Sizers theory does help us think better, use our minds and what not, its almost as i said in my last post, we have it within our reach, but we dont grab onto to it, we let it fade into the back , not realizing how helpful it can really be.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
H.W #44- Big Expectations for School
Where The Bar Ought to Be:
I thought the ideas of Ms. Kenny were great. I believe that we are always thinking of how to make schools great, how students should be taught, how they should behave that sometimes it may seem as though we forget that one of the importants parts of schools are teachers. We seem to forget that if it was not for many teachers schools just wouldnt be schools. Teachers are the basic blocks of building a school, we need them, but we also need them to emjoy what they do.
It may seem corny, as we have seen in all these movies (Freedom Writers and Dangerous Minds), the way teachers seem so into what thet do, how they put the students first and how they try and keep trying no matter how many times they fail, but lets be honest we all like that idea of someone caring, someone knowing we CAN make it , giving us tha push we need. Most teachers should be “talented and passionate” in what they do, and we need to keep that in mind in order to not only benefit the schools, but the students that attend every day.
Obama Speech:
This speech focused on us as students. The fact that we need to make that effort, we neeed to WANT this education that in the end will benefit us. We have the responsibility to do good, we should be thankful for it, appriciate it and want it.
This speech sorta took me back to does days where my momwould tell me how lucky my sister and I were to be getting an education here, how we had a great opportunity to BE someone , unlike many people in ecuador and many parts of the world. She always said its up to us though, to take advantage of what we are recieving , to not take it for granted. Its kinda funny though how it seems to everyone else how pur education is a gift. while we DO take it forgranted, we skip, we dont wanna go, sometimes we just give up and are happy with barely passing. Its important though for us to take this serious. I guess school should be our number one priority, at least we are told that. We gro up seeing that without it , we just become nothing at all.
I thought the ideas of Ms. Kenny were great. I believe that we are always thinking of how to make schools great, how students should be taught, how they should behave that sometimes it may seem as though we forget that one of the importants parts of schools are teachers. We seem to forget that if it was not for many teachers schools just wouldnt be schools. Teachers are the basic blocks of building a school, we need them, but we also need them to emjoy what they do.
It may seem corny, as we have seen in all these movies (Freedom Writers and Dangerous Minds), the way teachers seem so into what thet do, how they put the students first and how they try and keep trying no matter how many times they fail, but lets be honest we all like that idea of someone caring, someone knowing we CAN make it , giving us tha push we need. Most teachers should be “talented and passionate” in what they do, and we need to keep that in mind in order to not only benefit the schools, but the students that attend every day.
Obama Speech:
This speech focused on us as students. The fact that we need to make that effort, we neeed to WANT this education that in the end will benefit us. We have the responsibility to do good, we should be thankful for it, appriciate it and want it.
This speech sorta took me back to does days where my momwould tell me how lucky my sister and I were to be getting an education here, how we had a great opportunity to BE someone , unlike many people in ecuador and many parts of the world. She always said its up to us though, to take advantage of what we are recieving , to not take it for granted. Its kinda funny though how it seems to everyone else how pur education is a gift. while we DO take it forgranted, we skip, we dont wanna go, sometimes we just give up and are happy with barely passing. Its important though for us to take this serious. I guess school should be our number one priority, at least we are told that. We gro up seeing that without it , we just become nothing at all.
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