Education Across the Nations

The education from the United States of American to China varies greatly in the resources provided to them.  Some other countries are so far behind in their education systems that they are no longer able to compete with the US, Europe, and other countries in education. The quality of education also varies from high quality private schools to the lower of most public schools. There are also varying degrees of education throughout the world. Education is always evolving and changing, constantly being corrected and add to, and the past 50 years has seen a huge jump in education.

Some of these jumps are things like standards based grading from the original grading system. Standards based grading is one based on the outcome-based education or performance-based education philosophy. Some of the other jumps can come from teacher who found either faster ways to teach something. Pedagogists; and specifically a women by the name of Lisa Nielson, that have found that finding time for teachers to meet and learn together is often very difficult, but a resourceful school team can utilize creative ideas that have worked well in other schools. Lisa and other pedagogists have said that” It is important to put these structures in place early in the year”. Teachers inviting teachers to determine how their shared preps can be used for any study group they can imagine is also a good way. Organize some regular large group activities for children.  Some schools have a weekly K-2 sing-along run by the music teacher on Friday mornings, allowing K-2 teachers to meet in a weekly study group. And at those same schools, on Friday afternoons, an activity for the upper grades could be planned.  Other schools organize large group gym activities, like Olympics or Field Days, run by the gym teachers and educational assistants.

With these jumps and bounds in education it has left some other countries far behind in their education and are no longer able to compete with the US, Europe, and other countries in education, thus harming the world as whole.

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Works Cited

Nielson, Lisa. "Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator." Web log post. Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator. N.p., 1 Sept. 2013. Web. 10 Sept. 2013.

Wikipedia. "Standards-based Assessment." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 08 July 2013. Web. 10 Sept. 2013.