"School " "What does the future hold"

"School " "What does the future hold"

Posted 7/9/2009 1:02 PM CDT on shreveporttimes.com

I give much regard to those who are Teachers. I wish I had the credentials to be one, but I don't. Yet that does not stop me from thinking about the condition and the process within Schools and the need to provide teachers what they need. to be better in what they aspire to do.

We need a love within teaching and a passion within students for learning, to be the passion which drives.......

" School "

FIRST AND FOREMOST-
WHEN TEACHERS ARE SELECTED, IF YOU TRUST THEIR ABILITY TO HIRE THEM,
THEN TRUST THEM TO TEACH.

GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO IMPROVE HOW THEY APPROACH THEIR PROCESS OF TEACHING.

• Provide TEACHER'S Assistants - It's the simplest thing to do in the world, We have countless college Junior and Senior level students, who can be given college credits to be assigned to schools for 1-2 semesters, they get real world experience in how educational processes are engaged, and they learn by doing. but it affords, the teacher, the help needed to interact with students. This delusion that a teacher can just present the information, and the kid will grasp it .. Does not work, and many students are left behind in the process. some kids need interaction.
• We as a system - handicap the youth, with the current process- it has continually shown to not meet the measure of improved learning, and yet.. the continual beating a dead horse mentality of how it is approached, is not only pathetic, but it is evident the system itself is not learning.
• More young people drop out from pure boredom, from classrooms void of interactivity and lack of sufficient assistance within engaging their minds.
• It's not even logical to put a teacher in a class of 30, and expect that within 1 hr, they can effectively teach. Even on jobs with adults, Union leads, are given a set amount of people and when it exceeds that number, they have to designate an additional lead. How can we be so callous with the most important job there is, which is teaching, to not afford these people who have educated themselves with efforts to become a teacher, and then handicap them with unreal expectations, to follow a pressure cooker script process.
• Teacher themselves have personal goals, they want to see results from their efforts, they are not interested in being baby sitters reading a unsatisfying story. they became teachers so they could teach and delight in their students learning.

Stop and look at the number of people, who have abandoned teaching, not because they did not love to teach, they have a passion for it, yet, they simply could not function to the level they desired, when our system is simple and fundamentally broken. and then confine them to processes that are non productive, and does not function to inspire and motivate nor give them mental and functional room to actually engage teaching.

Simple Logic - Kids have questions, kids need understanding, and they need interaction.

Force feeding as if shoveling script down their throats, simply does not work, information needs to be chewed and its needs digesting,

The matter is not simply teaching them to remember "stuff" - but teaching them how to think, and how to use their ability to reason and rationalize. They want to know how information relates within life, how does it function to connect the dots in living.

Our system fails because it does not stress, the emphasis on learning how to think. The result of this failure shows in our society, people today stress out when it is time to think. and we go forth not understanding the value within learning how to think. Learning values and principles, improves the character of the human being, it opens up their minds to want to investigate, and the thirst to learn more is then charged up within the minds of the human being.

Our education system is leaving our young people battered

For the simply lack of change
in how we staff and provide for assistance within the classrooms
Compounded
by
The lack of some Parents to take an active role in their child's education.

This becomes the result of their condition

Unable to embrace the challenges of today's world
with
Parents who claim they can't understand,
when
they know they'd never taken a stand,
to
give their own child
a
helping hand

We have a summer -- which is leading us unto a new school year. Shall we bring new methods, and new ideas, or will we plod along the course of yesterday and hope it engages the future of tomorrows. Shall we ignore change, and loose awareness unto what changes, and continue to seek to rebuild yesterday, while today, leads us into tomorrows. and time simply finds us.. lagging behind, as the world move ahead.

Computers are now with us for many years,

yet it has not become the making of the digital boards, as being a counterpart, with the chalk boards in the classrooms, nor has the interactivity of the web base sharing of information become a mainstay, as the students desktop. And we languish in a process of yesterday, and wonder why the children of today, have become to fall to the 25th status of modern day educational equation among world nations.

We stake claim to be the greatest country, and yet. we see and we know, our processes are of yesterday, denying us a passport into tomorrow.

Parents buying young people gadgets for games, and gadgets for talking but so many have no idea what a computer can provide, they have the latest tennis shoes, but no computer with access to educational investigations. they have a monthly cell phone bill, but no money to buy a book, or a table to write or draw. the latest CD on sale on the corner, yet a tattered uniform, with no hair bow, or clean socks to be found.

The poorest neighborhoods, with the most expensive marketing hooks, people caught like fish, with a rubber lure, yet, children, unlearned and parents void of the importance of gaining an education for their child. Some children have never ventured beyond the confines of their neighborhood, to know there is a vast world which remains unknown to them. Parents making choices to be unaware of their own child's lack of educational involvement, Parents with refrigerator with cold beer, but there is not a bookshelf in the house, nor a tablet on a table. Countless dollars spent on the weekend party, but not a dime for a educational tool, and the children cannot even find a pencil within the house. The future of such children are sold away into the madhouse circus of the ghetto antic's, and parents unaware why their little Johnny can't read, and their little Sarah can't count - wondering how many more days she has to go without a proper dinner or a bath before bed.

Mommies and Daddies out on a hustle- playing the street game

and ..............


so goes the Future.... consumed without character, chasing images of caricature

The Circus of Life
Consume
The Child