English 1A Homework: Responsive Insight on Topic Sentence :)

Eva Tovar

Instructor Monique Williams

English 1A

September 25, 2013

“Poor funding in public schools have a substantial effect on its students.” -…

            Low funding towards public education hunts down the achievement of the students. As consequence of high impotence to acquire the resources and assistance schools need, children are the primary victims and bear the cost for these consequences. With such lack of funding schools are unable to gather enough teachers for suitable classrooms for students. Students lack the essential materials such as air-conditioning, acceptable boards, fine chairs and desks and countless other resources for their ability to grasp into educational knowledge. From personal experience: During my sophomore year of high school I attended one of the lowest funded public schools in Hayward, CA. We never had quite a good staff service on campus. During that period I really looked forward on applying for university and covering the required, I knew it was never too early for taking such a huge step, however, the counselor to which I was assigned to, would be scarcely available to anyone. I know time is priceless and irreplaceable, yet all I would really ask for were a couple of minutes, just a couple to discuss my future, but which never got to happen. This has been by far the most upsetting experience I have ever been through. For this lack of services due to low funding I blew a year of education which eventually led me to exclusion for enrolling to a university. On account of these shortage of finances that led to shortage of resources and poor service many of my schoolmates became emotionally drained on their education and most of them gave up. The surrounding and elements within an environment creates strike within its guests, indeed. “The poorest rural schools I’ve visited feel, simply, bleak.” (91) said Jonathan Kozol, in Savage Inequalities, although, he’s not the only individual in this world coping with these overwhelming sentiments. Many schools in California might not be in such bad conditions alike the ones mentioned from East St. Louis school, however many do lack the financial aid to keep their atmospheres at the best for the students. I am friends with a couple of students from Oakland schools, in California, and many of them don’t have the required services to keep up with a good performance. I am often told that the schools, to which they attend to, don’t offer tutoring or that their teachers are not willing to offer extra help because of their barely pleasant income or even worse that the books they are provided with are incomplete with ripped off pages. All of these only create hopelessness within themselves reason why they are not being well supported and don’t believe they are capable of passing the subject, although this is sad to hear what makes it even more depressing, is the fact that they aren’t even being given the chance to try. In consequence to such low funding, hopelessness is what makes an ambiance feel bleak. Schools should receive a sufficient amount of funding to provide the essential and create a substantial effect on its students, a substantial beneficial effect within the apprentices.

English 1A Homework: Rule of the Three Part III

English 1A Homework: Rule of the Three Part III

Although educational campuses rely upon corrections these services scarcely have hold for safety assistance. School campuses have the necessity to be far placed from hazardous areas and events. Morosely the states have no concern for the safety of these children or the parents’ well-being. Violence has only been increasing since the 1990’s and the efficacy from corrections decreasing because of the low funds budgeted by the state. As factors of very low safety support, high chances are there will only be a productivity of greater misfortune. Unfortunately here the victims are those with low income, those who can’t sending their kids to a private a school, those who send their kids to public schools and most important of all the defenseless students. If the government does not provide the necessities for safe school it will only increase chaos and endanger the lives of innocent students and guiltless staff members. As parents and caregivers of individuals, who are not to blame, everyone must withstand and command for assurance armor.

Educational program cuts have been expanding alike the bubonic plague. Elective classes, educational trips and sports are the most inspiring and most amusing programs and leisure activities that absorb students’ presence. Because of the small amount of funds schools receive from the states, school districts seem to find no other choice but to force the schools to cut several of their programs. The aftermath to these cuts will eventually lead to more and more students to stop attending to schools and will, in the course of a time, dropout. Students need motivation in order to keep up with their duties. Without motivation apprentices feel like prisoners in school; lose their interest in getting educated. This does not only affect the students on moving towards a better future additionally it affects the teachers’ income, the educational system, the district and so on the cycle continues. However much the others’ loss parents care mostly for their children and whether they’re getting a great education. If no demand for increase of funds for educative programs is taken upon such cuts will continue and elective courses, bright futures and inspiration along with passion will vanish away.

Services and resources are fundamental for the education of the children except the amount of funds budgeted to schools cannot afford the satisfying services and resources desired for these establishments. The food provided within the schools only causes harm to the health of the students whom are the individuals that consume out of this food daily, it decreases brain volume and their capability to perform in a prosperous way. Other than food concerns school busses are being drove and transporting students without seatbelts. These may be seemed as little details yet the consequences to these disagreeable features are of high risk. Without the presence of seatbelts in school busses chances are no survivors in the case of an accident. Many parents wouldn’t want to paint such thoughts of their children, yet again, let’s face it, facts are facts. Indeed, it is the responsibility for the school district to provide fine assistance, though until nobody decides to speak up for the safety of their own children then these services will eventually endure unchanging and busses will continue to cruise children on their unprotected seats.

Christopher Phillips

English 1A Homework: Small Summary Response

Teacher-student relationships impact both the student and the teacher. A teacher's well-being and stress are factors from the relationship created within his or her students. A relationship between a teacher and a student bring out emotional involvement from the teacher. Teacher emotions are portrayed on the student academic and school engagement and studies show to be effective. The most mentally and emotionally affected individual here without the access to this educational relationship is the teacher. Although teacher-student relationship contributes mostly in accord with the teacher’s well-being certainly, it can certainly be hazardous towards the teacher depending on the mental emotional responses. Warm teacher-student relationships accord to positive feeling on favor of the teacher. On the other hand, negative feeling about the student can only drive the relationship to worsen and create an even more disobedient student and a more stressed out teacher with a poor well-being level. Studies have also found the same results in relationship of parents and their children. Teacher-student relationships gives helps teachers avoid bad behavior from the students as he or she gets to know the student better with an often practice relationship it can perceive the behavior and view the feelings  of that particular student. Teacher-student relationship does not only affect the professional life of and instructor but it also affects his personal life. Back to my point, why emotions are so important in the educational field, because alike everyone else every teacher and student have emotions, feelings, affections whatever one might call it, are so important on the human daily life and with emotions included within these group of individuals one can evaluate a situation in which emotions have to be brought up upon to play their role or whether they are not needed at all. Without any doubt, education is always a situation in which emotions are required to cooperate for well-being.

Teacher Wellbeing: The Importance of Teacher–Student

Relationships

Jantine L. Spilt & Helma M. Y. Koomen & Jochem T. Thijs

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Published online: 12 July 2011

# The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com

English 1A Homework: Response to TED Talk Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution

Most individuals find it difficult when trying to figure out what is that they want out of life for their future and try to define their answers by find it difficult when trying to figure out what is that they want out of life for their future and try to define their answers by rushing things out the door. Lots of us tend to find ourselves confused in such situations and it can be stressing how long it could take when we are unaware of passions or talents. In the past couple of months I’ve meet several people, from teenagers to sixty year elders, some that have had already decided what they wanted to major on and others who had no idea of what they are getting involved into. As I got to know more and more people I’ve realized that “the human flourishing is not a mechanical process [but rather] is an organic process” as Ken Robinson mentions. For a couple of us it takes more than time to officially state what we want or what we may be good at, our minds and emotions are constantly changing as we grow up and experience new things. Experience is required in life in order to find our talents it takes little steps in order to find what truly motivates and sparkles our souls our passions. Parents, teachers, and other society members tend to have high expectations from the young coming generations. We are often expected to take huge steps in educational matters, from being a recently graduated high school student to suddenly becoming a doctor, but no. There should be a stop sign to the pressure that’s being brought upon us from others’ anticipations. We all need time to become fully developed and be able to flourish our passions what really screams inside of us, we need time to define our souls, the organic process requires time it is the human development.

Homework

Eva Tovar

Monique Williams

English 1A

September 2, 2013

Teachers’ Involvement and their Emotions

Throughout history emotions have been a huge influence in all individuals within society. “Feelings are contagious, good or bad.” (7). The SDT (Self-determination theory of motivation), which is applied in “educational psychology to study motivation and wellbeing”, has shown “academic motivation and achievement from students that find satisfaction of the three basic needs through emotional involvement…from teachers…” (462). Emotions portrayed by the teachers will always have impact on the students and will be of high influence towards the students’ academic performance. Often such emotions that outpour from the teacher’s mood, behavior or person will be applied on the student’s manner of conducting and reflected upon others, “disobedient student behavior, for instance, is more likely to be appraised as challenging and threatening when the teacher has internalized negative feelings about the relationship with the student and holds unfavorable schema’s of the relationship with the student.” (467). Although sometimes it’s not the occasion, not all students will cast back the same affection it is common seeing the same emotion bouncing back and forward within an educational relationship. Yet, teachers are only humans and have their ups and downs in life like any other individual out in society trying to cope with one another and life events. We humans try our best to not mix up our professional with our personal lives and try even harder to keep our emotions kept in place; however we tend to fail over and over again. As professional as it may get, teachers should bring from but yet again leave at home their emotions. When it comes to education negative emotions such as stress it can only bring conflicts within the teacher-student relationship, on the contrary when it comes to emotional discharges, or similar to, of passion for enlightenment during class lectures it can bring about the best from the students and teacher. The educational system should consider only hiring teachers with high objectives, teachers that will willingly pass on the knowledge on to others, teachers that will gratefully spend extra time with the students if necessary, yet best of all, it should consider hiring individuals that will share the joy of learning seeing that emotion is transmittable. A teacher’s satisfactory condition will always be the student’s wellbeing. Teacher-student relationships are of major importance and acquaintance for better success during development for knowledge. Indeed, instructors are responsible for teaching the students however that does not intend for the instructor to become fully responsible for absorption of knowledge into other individual’s capability. Students have the accountability to conduct the willingness to learn role. In addition to the students’ responsibilities they should be expected to bring out their best encouragement skills to induce the instructor with engagement and passion. In order for the instructors to feel inspired, not to just give lessons but rather teach, there must be an academic categorized affiliation because “According to the self-determination theory of motivation, warm teacher–student relationships contribute to teachers’ self-determined or autonomous motivation, which is primarily characterized by positive feelings” (467). Meaning that as an outcome of one contribution another act of benefaction will result, and so on the cycle will continue. Seldom do we ask ourselves whether society is approaching for education as we should. Often we complain on failure of our education yet we do not clarify who is to blame for such lack of success. We wonder whether to blame the teachers, the students, or the educational system for not hiring high quality instructors when in fact we should come up with a solution. We should all take culprit for such flop because education should be of high importance to everyone not just certain individuals. We should keep our passionate emotions to learn alive so we can keep our teachers alive and not blame the educational system for our own responsibilities.

Spilt, Jantine, Koomen, Helma and Thijs, Jochem. Teacher Wellbeing: The Importance of Teacher-Student Relationships. Educational Psychology Review. Dec2011, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p457-477. 21p. 1 Diagram.

Skye Ontiveros. The Passion Project.