A Paradigm for Our Schools
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These countries have different morals and understanding of life than we, but these things are not taught in their schools. They are taught where they ought to be.
There are rules and regulations in the various countries that some in our country would like to adopt here, but that is why we are not known as a third world country. We have that thing called freedom and rights that those countries dont have.
Some of the courts have told us to take God out of the school, the pledge, and out of our state governments. Our forefathers gave to us this method of understanding our history, and we must understand that our forefathers mostly believed in God, also that the very reason many people came to our lands in the beginning is to have freedom of religion and not freedom from religion.
This is just one way the courts are trying to change our lives.
This book will explore many reasons why teachers are unable to get the job done and why students arent in the top ten of the worlds knowledge pool.
We need to think on these things before it is too late!
Lewis L. Whitmer
Born in a small community and raised in Eastern Arizona, the author gained a great insight into the world of education. In his early life there were good teachers and poor ones. At an early age he decided to become an educator and try to make a difference in the educational world. He gained an AA degree at Eastern Arizona College, a BA at Arizona State University, and his MEd at University of Arizona. He has attended other colleges, attempting to gain a broad perspective on the educational scene. He has taught in different schools in different states and also taught adult education at the prisons in California. He has seen teachers who failed and who succeeded and kept track of the progress of each. Being a very successful teacher, he has gained the respect of teachers, administrators, parents, students, and many other people in the educational field. Problems have arisen when the various administrations have created unacceptable guidelines where educational prowess was ignored and political correctness became king. This has only happened two times, and both times he has made out OK with the other involved people—peers, parents, students, and other administrators. The author worked for the California State Prison System for about fifteen years. He taught classes of English as a Second Language, Adult Basic Education I, II, and III, and GED preparation. He was a teacher for five years and then a supervisor of academic supervision for a number of years. He also acted for more than eighteen months as supervisor of correctional educational programs within the prison systems at Vacaville, San Quentin, Ironwood State Prison, and Chuckawalla Valley State Prison. He had a total of eighteen years in the various prison systems of California, Arizona, and New Mexico. The author would like to see everyone interested in their own education and the education of their children and be strong in their own right. Help themselves, their peers, and their children to gain a perspective on education as well as assisting their children in gaining that same perspective and understanding of the necessity of learning for successful lives. There is power in education as well as understanding and self-gratification. The most important part of the prisons is to teach the inmates to be good citizens and to help others within the system and after release. There are too many men’s lives being wasted because they wanted what others had and didn’t want to work for it. It is very important that each of us look at the situation of our lives and consider if we are guilty of any infraction of the law before we condemn another. Lewis L. Whitmer
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A Paradigm for Our Schools - Lewis L. Whitmer
© Copyright 2013 LEWIS L. WHITMER.
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Contents
About The Author
Foreword
1 Scenario For A Progressive School
2 Expectations
3 General Education Problems Of Today
4 Brief History Of Education
5 Responsibilities And Actions For The Children’s Sake
6 Politics Vs. The School Systems
7 Discipline And Its Involvement In The Education Process
8 Discovering And Using The Various Learning Processes
9 Mentally Challenged
10 Things That Need To Be Changed
Epilogue
Afterword
About the Author
Born in a small community and raised in Eastern Arizona, the author gained a great insight into the world of education. In his early life, there were good teachers and poor ones. At an early age, he decided to become an educator and try to make a difference in the educational world.
He gained an AA degree from the Eastern Arizona College, a BA at the Arizona State University, and an MEd at the University of Arizona. He has attended other colleges, attempting to gain a broad perspective on the educational scene. He has taught in different schools in different states and also taught adult education at the prisons in California. He has seen teachers who fail and who succeed and kept track of the progress of each.
Being a very successful teacher, he has gained the respect of teachers, administrators, parents, students, and many other people in the educational field. Problems have arisen when the various administrations have created unacceptable guidelines where educational prowess was ignored and where political correctness became king. This has only happened two times, and both times, he has made out OK with the other involved people: vis., the peers, the parents, the students, and the other administrators.
The author worked for the California State Prison System for about fifteen years. He taught classes of English as a Second Language, Adult Basic Education 1, 2, and 3, and GED preparation. He was a teacher for five years and then a supervisor of academic supervision for a number of years. He also acted for more than eighteen months as a supervisor of correctional education programs within the prison systems at Vacaville, at San Quentin, at the Ironwood State Prison, and at the Chuckawalla Valley State Prison. He had a total of eighteen years in the various prison systems of California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
The author would like to see everyone interested in their own education and the education of their children and to be strong in their own right—to help themselves, their peers, and their children to gain a perspective on education as well as to assist their children in gaining that same perspective and understanding of the necessity of learning for successful lives.
There is power in education as well as understanding and self-gratification.
The most important part of the prisons is to teach the inmates to be good citizens and to teach them to help others within the system and after release. There are too many men’s lives being wasted because they wanted what others had and didn’t want to work for it. It is very important that each of us look at the situation of our lives and consider if we are guilty of any infraction of the law before we condemn another.
Foreword
A PARADIGM FOR OUR SCHOOLS
Working within the schools, one will sometimes get caught up in the long-term way of teaching. We realize that education has been taught for many thousands of years. However, we also realize, with all our modern equipment, there could be better ways of reaching the students. It is very important that teachers love to teach and to see others learn. A teacher cannot get jealous if he/she discovers a very intelligent student; rather, that teacher should feel very blessed. It is essential we help every student if they are at the top of the ladder or on the bottom rung. We sometimes think that a child will never learn, and then someone came up with the words late bloomers. Other times, the child may have a temporary block to learning and will bloom even later.
We have created a paradigm for our schools—a way to think outside of the box that will give each child the same chance to learn as much as possible for that child. A paradigm is defined as an answer or a model, generally referring to presenting a different way of looking at a specific method of doing things, or a list of all the inflectional forms of a word taken as an illustrative example of the conjugation of declension to which it belongs. I will use the first definition for this purpose.
When we take things out of the box, we must look at the parameters it now covers and assure ourselves the important items remain. In the event we strip too much from the original, the exercise will be completely useless, and unless we take from the given program, those things that are counterproductive and our process will also become unnecessary and ludicrous.
Please read the entire book so the many things listed will make sense. If you agree with some of these things, then the process is working.
Chapter 1
SCENARIO FOR A PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL
Children are always the only future the human race has; teach them well.
There is more than one way things could be changed to make schools more effective. This is one way. It can happen in a local school district, in county schools, and in state schools, and even with federal interference. It can be used in a pilot program or however desired. It will not interfere with the lessons, but it will only make them more productive.
I do not claim to have all the answers; however, being raised in the fifties, I was taught if you attempt to destroy something, you’d better have a way or two to fix it. Following is one way a school can change and be changed for the betterment of education and maintain and gain the help and appreciation of the parents as well as the teachers, students, and society.
All the people who help to educate the children are preparing the children to run the world. The education they receive will determine what part they will play in running their points of leadership everywhere.
Each parent should make at least two all-day visits to the school where their children are attending in the first six grades for each child. We know the parents are interested in their children’s progress and in the grades above the sixth grade; they can be a little more passive. It is necessary that parents show they are interested in what goes on in the schools even when their child will attend later in the upper grades, in middle school, and in high school. This will be especially true when they enter college and graduate school.
Anytime a person is given control over a group, regardless of the age, that person