Friday, March 28, 2014

Blog 7: Aiming for Excellence in Education


Summary

This article is about the fourth International Summit of the Teaching Profession, which is one of the most significant education events in the world because the people that attend have great influence and power in making changes for education. This year their motto is “Excellence, equality, and inclusiveness- high quality education for all.” They will be honoring New Zealand-where it will be held and other countries education systems that place in the worlds top 20 school systems. The Summit will be discussing how to strengthen the teaching profession to increase student achievement to help them all achieve success later in life. The programs that were created and implemented last year have shown an increase in the number of students who can now have life and educational choices that they wouldn’t have had before. This is about publicly acknowledging the contribution teachers have in lifting overall student achievement and creating a place that makes a better education possible.

Analysis

This article looks at rewarding those countries that have put in the effort to improve the quality of education and who have made progress. It also makes the point that though the teachers play a big part it is not the teacher’s responsibility alone. The more that families and communities, no matter the background or the circumstances, engage with their children’s learning, the higher the chances are that they will receive a successful education. This idea is universal. The world needs to expect more from the students but also from the school systems making it unacceptable to not receive a quality education. This article also looks at inequality. It states that education is the most sustainable way to combat inequality. Why wouldn’t you want to increase education to help create more equal and fair environments in this world? The question that the Summit is asking this year is how do we achieve excellence and equity across our national education systems for all students and what are the steps that we can take to make this goal a reality? We can see that the programs are working and that progress is being made in the countries that are being recognized. The next step is putting these programs on a global scale.

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