Summary-chapter 2
Chapter two talks about how school needs to
change to fit every student. In this 21st century, no single
teaching and learning approach can serve the needs of every student. The
authors discussed that more and more students and parents are becoming
dissatisfied with the inflexibility of schools. Also, schools will be
customized to meet the specific needs of each community. In this chapter, the
authors talk about the real issue that schools will face. They state “The most
important issue facing schools today is not how to incorporate the fantastic
new technology we have discussed.” and “No, the most important issue facing
schools today is the reluctance of those in control of education to let go of
what they are used to, whatever their role in the system.” As we can see, “Let
go” is the words that telling schools to do in this 21st century.
I think the point of the chapter is good,
but I think there are still a lot of challenges schools will have to deal with
in different places such as common core and standard test. From where I am
from-Taiwan, I know that schools are still stay in the same system as 20th
century; I can see that it is really hard for them to change. I agree that
every students are unique, school needs to satisfy everyone of them but schools
cannot give each teacher just one student, that’s outrageous. I think school
can eventually change to what we are expecting they are for this 21st
century, it just needs time and money to fulfill.
Do you know why the schools in Taiwan are remaining in the 20th century format? Is it budget issues, reluctance of the community, not wanting to include technology into education, something else? I know in America a large part is the reluctance of the administration and community to change and more away from their comfort zone into an unknown way of teaching.
ReplyDeleteI thinl those issues you mentioned are all the problems bacl in my country. Budget is always the one bothers our education system. Also, I think because our curriculum is actually contain too many stuffs, so that's why teachers litetally have no time to use technology, the only thing they concern is how to let their students pass the exams.
DeleteI agree with you that changing a school system would be difficult to do so. I think that it is important to recognize these changes and how they could improve our schools, however actually doing them is a whole other story. As a nation, we must be more realistic of what is possible to change versus what is not in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. There are a lot of realistic things we need to consider when we are going to change school system.
DeleteI am just curious- what is the graduation rate of students in Taiwan? Do most of them go on to seek higher education? Do they have vocational schools? If students in Taiwan are succeeding with the old model, perhaps it is more of a societal/cultural problem we have in the United States that is negatively impacting our schools.
ReplyDeleteWell I think our graduation rate is like over 95% or so, basically everybody can graduate on time and seek the higher education. But higher education is not what we think that they are all good, some students just think that they need to have a college degree so I go to college, actually they didn't learn anyhting.
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