Jasmine Santos Mrs. Shafer IU English 19 December 2011 Community Service as a Graduation Requirement A wise person once said‚ “If you light a lamp for someone else‚ it will also brighten your path.” This particular quote has helped me realize that not enough teenagers are helping their community become a more desirable place to live. Implementing community service into the senior project outline as a requirement would ultimately benefit the students and the community. Not only will the students
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Graduation Requirements: Learning from the Past Over the past few decades‚ the way students learn has taken a drastic turn for the worse. Students memorize what they need to know‚ take the test‚ and then forget. Is this really going to help them in the long run? Students should be learning the material so that they can use it in the future. Back in Pythagoras’ time‚ there were no graduation requirements. Pythagoreans learned on their own time. They wanted to learn and apply as much as they could
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“I’ve blamed myself enough for all the mistakes I’ve done during college.” And funny how I said that as though I’m already done with college. To tell you upfront‚ I’m still in college (that should be obvious) but most of my batch-mates are graduating (or have graduated) already. I really thought college was going to be an easy peasy affair. But NO! Hell no. At first it was a delightful experience – everything’s new and seems alright. It actually felt like you’re just in high school. Taking breaks
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High School Credits and Graduation Requirements “In 1997‚ Chicago raised its graduation standards to well above what Illinois then requires‚ asking all students to complete all of the courses necessary for entry to competitive state universities”(1). Many people believed that this may cause many students to drop out‚ but in reality‚ the graduation rates improved. Now‚ we are currently facing a nationwide dilemma. Many high schools are cutting graduation requirements and taking away classes
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Why Standardized Testing Should Not Be A Graduation Requirement Standardized testing has been apart of American education since the mid1800s. U.S. students have slipped in performance from 18th in the world in math in 2000 to 31st place in 2009. Failure in the education system have been blamed on rising poverty levels‚ teacher quality‚ and increasingly on the pervasive use of standardized testing. Standardized testing should not be a graduation requirement because testing has not improved student achievement
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Connor Lizotte Kelly Colby ENG1051 – L06 10/31/2014 “Learning in College” Learning is continuous process of getting new and polishing on the information that we already know. There are different places and areas from which we get to learn from. Learning could be got from the classroom environment through listening to instructors and reading books. Ones physical and social environment is also crucial means of learning. As Malcom X said‚‚ “I’ve never been one for inaction. Everything I’ve ever
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Through the Integration of Service Learning Projects Keri Shedden Graduate School of Education‚ Brooklyn College‚ Bedford Avenue‚ Brooklyn‚ New York December 10‚ 2011 Abstract: This study will focus on the problem of decreasing student motivation towards the life sciences within the urban school district. Student engagement and motivation will be promoted through the integration of service learning projects into the curriculum. The success of the community service component of the course
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SERVICE LEARNING We had our Service Learning at Barangay Onyx in the city of Manila. We were required to have 8 hours in doing our Service Learning. In this service learning I’ve learned a lot‚ experience new things‚ and realize that I can do things that I didn’t think that I can do it. The clean-up drive’s mission is to clean the neighborhood or the whole barangay. One of our objectives is that the community (barangay) will have a clean place to live in because technically that is the main purpose
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discredited as it clearly has its merit as an education system. This system is with out its f Part A Service learning is a technique of teaching that syndicates classroom instruction with significant community service. It is a credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity that meets acknowledged community needs and reflects on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content‚ a broader appreciation of the
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Analysis Paper For the service learning project in this class we participated in a health fair serving the underprivileged population. We completed this project with the ‚ who graciously allowed us to participate in one of their weekly food drive events. At the beginning of the class‚ we were assigned to groups. The project leader from the class was Michael. In my assigned group there were three students: Julie‚ Christina and myself. We chose blood pressure and blood glucose for our topic. Christina
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