Difficult to Understand Just How Term Paper

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Respect must be shown for cultural differences and different belief systems and children should be encouraged to share their culture and values with others.

This belief can be operationalized by "show and tell "exercises in which children share something about their family and culture and by "International Night" in which children bring dishes of their country

Children are lazy; they need to be pushed to learn.

Learning takes place in a safe, supportive, and stimulating environment. This belief is operationalized by maintaining a classroom environment in which students show respect and tolerance for others, evaluating curriculum in term of how well it helps students learn, and the use of incentives, as opposed to discipline, to assure good behavior and academic excellence.

The teachers lectures; the student learns

Learning is the construction of knowledge and the making of meaningful connections through active participation. In real life, people learn more by doing something as opposed to reading or hearing someone talk about it. This belief can be operationalized by drawing parallels between concepts being taught and real-life situations and by including in the curriculum projects that require the active participation of the student

Students need to go to school on a 9 to 5 basis in order to learn

The "school day" will fade. With the advances of technology, educatio nis already ceasing to be seen asplace-bound, 9-to-5 activity. Asynchronous, online learning has made education a 24/7 activity that can be conductedfrom any location with an Internet connectio n.

Teachers teach subjects that they are schooled in; they do not need any profesional experience.

Proven abilityas a professional in the field should be valued as much as the teacher'srecord of academic preparation.
Like the institutions they serve, teachers will ultimately be evaluated on thesuccess rate of the students they teach.

A hat it takes to get there.

This belief can be operationalized by encouraging partnerships with local business. Business partnerships can mean anything from offering students internships, job shadowing by teachers and students, guest speakers from industry, workplace visits, and so on.. What is most important is that students are learning about the career paths open to them and w

Conclusion

In the old paradigm of education, education was modeled after the factory system which has sprung up with the advent of the Industrial Age in the late eighteenth century. The elementary and secondary school learning experience, is centralized, standardized, based on a 9-5 routine, and not nuturing the creativity and criting thinking abilties of the students involved.

The Information Age requires people who can act both on their own and in teams, can think critically and quickly, can learn new things, and can solve problems as they arise.The old learning paradigm developed in the Industrial Age does not fit the needs of today's world. A new rubic, emphazing individual choice, interactivity, group learning, and creative problem solving as opposed to rote learning, needs to be developed in order to meet the needs of tomorrow's world.

List of References

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Comenius, John. Great Didactic of Comenius. New York: Kessinger Publishing 1992

Senge, P., Cambron-McCabe, N. Lucas, T., Smith, B., Dutton, J. And Kleiner, a. Schools That Learn. A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education. New York: Doubleday/Currency. 2000......

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