Authenticity in Education |
where value is held
CurrentPublic schools and the current education system support the quantitative assessment of students through unnecessary grading and percentages in order to unfairly judge students' abilities.
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AuthenticPushing an education further to utilize the qualities found in an authentic education will eliminate the quantitative assessments to further the quality of information and the ways in which it is absorbed.
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Current Values
The current education system in America values the quantitative evaluation of students through testing and assessing. Pressure on the quantitative factors of a public school education have crowded "out the art, music, and drama that cultivate a love of learning and that draw out children's unique skills." Thus leaving the public schools with a rigid, boring learning experience.
There is a focus and emphasis on college and career readiness, rather than on true understanding of topics. School and education are meant to help prepare students for their careers and life after school, when in reality the education systems are less worried about the knowledge actually acquired than the quantitative assessments. |
Public school systems put student’s on a fast track to graduation rather than a steady path to finding intellectual fulfillment.
Authentic Values
An authentic education simply means driving student’s will to learn further through the use of relevant information that can be applied to real world situations and learned through experience or hands on work. It will draw parallels between what is being taught and it’s use in life beyond school.
Finding student’s unique, individual skills and expanding upon those talents gives purpose to education, something current education systems seem to be unsuccessful at. Authentic education plans allow those skills to be nurtured in a supportive, healthy environment.
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Authentic learning will focus on the quality of education, making connections, furthering higher level thinking and the depth of knowledge.
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An authentic education can be applied to any type of education system, be it public schools , private schools, charter schools, or homeschooling. Should the authentic education model be made more readily available it will broaden the education of the masses.
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