One of the most important tools in the profession of education has always been technology. Technology allows the student to comprehend the subject matter at hand easier. Not only is technology beneficiary to the student, but it is also a great help to the teacher. Using certain tools can make a clas...

I will never forget my first experience with "academic dishonesty." It was my junior year of high school and my chemistry teacher was not too adequate, to say the least. He gave his lectures in inhuman speeds and still expected us to understand every pearl of wisdom that came out of his mouth! God f...

Living in a society where technology is virtually unavoidable, it is inevitable that tasks that have been done in the past will need to be altered in order to accommodate the fast-paced, technologically enhanced world that we live in. Our every day tasks have changed in one way or another due to te...

There are many fatal and nonfatal crimes in our school's today. We have got to put an end to all this unnecessary violence. School violence effects the way students perform in school, hurts many students, so we have to show the solution to stop the violence and teach the awareness of viole...

Americans have become not only ignorant about their own country and its political affairs but also have been blind to the impact of five factors that contribute to this ignorance. The influence of family, the media, education, popular culture, and one's own environment are the five sources that have...

Progress is natural. Yet somehow modern nations still retain kings; middle- America still demands science books without Darwin, and southern white children still eye black children suspiciously. These beliefs, formed under primitive technological and political circumstances, continue to this day b...

Lets Play Monopoly; Go Straight to Jail As readers of the English language, we often find ourselves analyzing the texts of professional writers. Many a thought can always be had after reading any text, but essays especially. While reading Croissant's essay Can This Campus Be Bought? Comme...

Five Design Styles Schools were originally set up to handle a society in which it was imbedded in a society of farms and factories (Reinventing Schools). Today only about twenty percent of employed population now works in these areas (RS). Schools not only have to deal with career changes in o...

On Classrooms, With and Without ComputersClifford Stoll's essay about computers replacing teachers and hands on experiences as a means for education is filled with his passion for experiencing nature with all of the senses we humans were born with. He writes of feeling the gooshiness of an octopus,...

Introduction The concept of accountability as applied to college students is one that has provoked arguments among a wide variety of populations. Educators, parents, mental health counselors, media "analysts," law enforcement specialists, and fellow college students have voiced their opinions ran...

While I was driving in the car a few months ago, my mother and I were talking about the various stereotypes of students, which lead into a discussion of gender inequity. Who is better-males or females? That is something that many people are still arguing throughout the world today. My mother stat...

Attending Norman State High School for one week as a student teacher has exposed me to some of the issues and requirements of teachers within schools. Norman State High School is now seventeen years old, having being opened in 1980, and has a current enrolment of eight hundred and fifty students fr...

"Deschooling Society"Institutionalization in education was a fundamental concern for Ivan Illich. The arguments of the Illich in "Deschooling Society" seem rather obviously naive to many people yet in my opinion they are based on some quite profound arguments about knowledge and learning. One of t...

Community College Students Create A Self-Image In Their LifeSwimming with the current is much easier than swimming against the current. If people are not able to follow the trend, they will not belong to this time anymore. "Most of the time each of us is a member of a group, sometimes a member of ...

Race Relations in Schools and the Effects On Educational Value"Meanwhile, back at school, I feared my grades would suffer horribly because I couldn't concentrate. Every moment of every day was filled with awful surprises that began early each morning. I hoped and prayed I wouldn't get ejected befo...

Have you ever had a knack for kids? Have you ever wanted to teach? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then teacher may be right for you. According to Webster, a teaching is "one that teaches; especially: one whose occupation is to instruct." However if takes a lot of time and care...

As the times change, so must an educator's style of teaching. Computer technology can play a large role in this change. There are many reasons and ways schools can introduce this technology into their curriculum. There will be three of these reasons and ways discussed in the following pages.In to...

The Advantages of Home EducationUp until the 1850's most children in America were educated at home, so home schooling is not necessarily new. However the past twenty-five years have seen a revival in home schooling, and now between two and three million children in the United States are learning at ...

Guided Reading Tompkins defined guided reading as a literacy activity where teachers support children's reading and writing during guided literacy activities, but unlike modeling or sharing the children actually do the reading. (Tompkins, pg. 18). Students meet with the teacher to read a book on the...

Bilingual Education: Not The Wisest ChoiceBilingual Education has been a much-debated topic for the past few years. Some believe that bilingual education is used as a helpful tactic to learn how to grasp the English language faster. Others believe that bilingual education does not help people lear...

Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation Within the Classroom Classrooms where students understand the purpose of their work and have a sense of attachment and responsibility to their own, along with their classmates' learning, will have that warm feeling of belonging. Learning occurs best when students ar...