Educators should find out what students want included in the curriculum and then offer it to them.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
American students spend most of their childhood and adolescence in the school system, and many dreed every minute of it. Children tend to count down the days until summer vacation and become morose when the time comes to go back to school. Education is, nonetheless, a critical part of the lives of developing individuals and what is covered during these formative years is of the utmost importance. This prompt suggests that children should have more authority over the information that makes it into their curriculum, and although this argument has some merit, I have to disagree for two main reasons.
There is no denying that there is a correlation between how well students do in school and their interest level in what they are studying. For instance, it is common for a master’s level GPA to be higher than an Undergraduate GPA, simply because the master’s student is studying something they are interested in and not hindered by the pre-requisites that undergraduate students are forced to take. If we deem test scores and GPA to be a quality judgment of performance, then it is clear that interest plays a role in success. We don’t just see this in higher level education, however, there are also examples found throughout elementary through high school settings as well. For instance, many American high schools have specific elective courses that student’s can select to take. This gives the student the authority to select classes that interest them and avoid classes that they do not care for. These classes are oftentimes where student’s find their career interests for their future.
Interest in education is simply not enough however, and we must consider the pragmatic issue with allowing student’s to dictate an educator’s curriculum. It is simply not realistic for teachers to change their lession plans or class discussion based soley off of the student’s interest. For example, if we pressure a teacher to change their circumulum each year, it will constantly be turbulent in the classroom and the tried-and-true tactics that teacher may have once relied on will now become obsolete. In addition to this, we must also consider the fact that something that may be totally captivating to one student may be the most mundane topic to another. This brings up the question of which student’s interest will be explored, and which will be tossed to the side? It is widely accepted that a teachers’ job does not end when student’s leave school. There is constant pressure to grade faster, prepare farther in advance, and keep up with the standards of the school. Adding another responsibility for educations would be cruel and would simply not benefit our students.
Additionally, it is imperative to consider the fact that student’s may not be the best judge of curriculum. Perhaps, in a history class, student’s may only want to study the peacefull and success portions of American’s past, and thus leaving these student’s unaware of the horrors of Civil War or the chaos that was The Holocaust. Educators go to school to learn how and what to teach their students. These people are the experts - not the typical 12 year old adolescent boy you find in a middle school class. If student’s are not learning the skills and lessons that we have been teaching in the past, it also changes the structure of all further education in their future. What standards would we hold student’s accountable to, if all students are learning different material. For example, what would be the appropriate measure to judge if a student is struggling or in need of assistance? Not holding student’s to the same expectations is simply not practical.
The issue of education and what we are teacher our nations use is a complicated thing. On one hand, we want our students to be interested and successful in what they are doing. On the other hand, however, we do not want to make educators lives more difficult or not student’s accountable for the same information. In the end, we must weigh structure over interest in this circumstance.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 492, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'boy' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'boys'.
Suggestion: boys
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, nonetheless, so, then, thus, well, for example, for instance, in addition, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3463.0 2235.4752809 155% => OK
No of words: 676.0 442.535393258 153% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12278106509 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.09901951359 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05408712822 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 316.0 215.323595506 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467455621302 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1063.8 704.065955056 151% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 6.24550561798 272% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.9526074517 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.709677419 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8064516129 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.74193548387 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166146705433 0.243740707755 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.049741399472 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0280875026296 0.0758088955206 37% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0970952566197 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.018893250391 0.0667264976115 28% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 100.480337079 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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