วันอังคารที่ 18 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2556

Diversity in Education and Curriculum Concepts-Book Review



Are you interested in a future in teaching, education administration, or becoming a social worker or school psychologist, then there is a book, which I'd like to recommend that your read, and then I'd like to give you a more than fair assessment of this work.

"Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society," by Donna m. Gollnick & Chinn, Philip c. Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall Company a, Upper Saddle River, NJ, (2006), pp. 404, ISBN: 0-13-119719-3.

This book was quite interesting to me, and its first publishing was in 1983 and it has been upgraded and republished every few years since. I felt as if the book was very hard to use because it has the Preface prior to the table of contents, which makes navigating very tough. The preface is quite good and explains how the book is formatted.

Once into the book, it is very easy to follow along, even the most blithering idiot could use this book and understand it, constantly.perhaps, that is their target reader; at least this is the impression I got, and speaking of impression, I believe this book is trying to brainwash the education student "who has an impressionable mind, this is my opinion based on reading it.

Indeed, as the a's for a think tank online I was really worried that such books are indeed being used to train and teach new teachers and college professionals, and students who will go into the educational profession as administrators, professors, psychologists, etc. There are chapters on social classes, races, was taking.homosexuality, diversity, gender, religion, and age. There are sub-chapters such as; Hate Groups

Racial Identification

Bullying

Self Esteem

Sexual Harassment

Anyway, you get the idea of what this wonderful book is all about, unfortunately after reading through it all, I decided I really didnt have room on my many book shelves on for it. And I chose not to donate it to a Thrift Store, and I failed to put it into the recycle bin-it has gone straight into the trash. But, I think this is a great book for a neo-liberal-socialist. And I recommend that you read this book so you can understand how all this political correctness has permeated in our society and how it started in academia.

This book also had everything reiterated and duplicated on a CD ROM with videos, and roll-playing on each chapter. I suppose this is for those in academia who cannot read well, and yet, might still be teaching our children and kids. Look, anyone who is serious about teaching needs to understand how it all works, and what it's all about, even if you disagree with every single aspect of it. This is why I read the book, and duly discharged to where I believe it belongs. Please consider this.

Lance Winslow is a retired Co-founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it's hard work to write 21.200 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/




วันเสาร์ที่ 8 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2556

What Should Be Taught to Forth Graders-A Book Review



It is amazing the on-going debate on how to make sure our kids learn to read, and have the education they need. If they hit the junior high without a good working knowledge, it can spell disaster to their integration into teen-hood and their academic years in high school. Luckily, there are resources to insure our students are on the right track prior to this.

So, let's start in the fourth grade. In fact, let me recommend a very good book to you on this very topic, one which I actually own in my own library. The book is;

"What Your 4 TH Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Fourth-Grade Education" (part of The Core Knowledge Series), Edited by E.D. Hirsh Jr., published by Delta Trade Paperbacks, a division of Dell and by Bantam Double Day Books, (1992), pp. 395, ISBN: 0-385-31260-1.

The editor is well-known in education circles and previously wrote "Cultural Literacy" which has been widely used. This book is so very easy to use and starts out with a section; "How to Use This Book-for Parents and Teachers. This completely helps for anyone who is a Homeschooling Parent, or any new teacher at the fourth grade level. I read through the entire book and felt right at home and even learned some interesting things myself, probably re-learned it from back in the fourth grade.

Okay so, what sorts of topics are in this book anyway, well, I am certainly glad you asked me. This book has chapters on Poetry, Short Stories, Language and Speech in the first section. In the second section are Rather Geography, History.

The third section is about Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Sketching, Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, and Digital Arts. The Fourth section is about Mathematics-addition, subtraction, division, linear, charts, shapes, Roman numerals, multiplication, decimals, fractions, and points on a grid.

The fifth section is all about natural sciences, life sciences, earth sciences, continental drift, volcanoes, earthquakes, forests, and the ocean. If you have this book and are teaching a fourth grade level student you will never be lost. But constantly.perhaps more importantly your student won't be either, and you will be giving them the knowledge they need to move forward. It's truly amazing how we've fallen down in the USA with our education.

It is truly books like this which guarantee our next generation's progress and education-and we are only as good as our educational system and teaching work in 20-years the prior. Please consider all this.

Lance Winslow is a retired Co-founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it's hard work to write 21.200 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/