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EDUC 926: Pre-Class Assignment

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Rebecca Simpson
EDUC 926-Issues and Influences in Education
Pre-Class Assignment
September 2017

Colegio Decroly Americano Mission Statement:
“Our mission is to provide students with a challenging academic program in English and in Spanish while fostering skills, values, attitudes, and habits of mind that will prepare them to become thoughtful, creative, productive, and engaged members of both a local and global community.”

Colegio Decroly Americano Vision:
“To be an international school with a U.S. curriculum that combines academic excellence with a strong sense of discipline, values, and wellness, while inspiring in students a lifelong love of learning. Furthermore, to become an educational community that fosters a democratic culture …show more content…

Without the support of the teaching faculty, administration, support staff, the board of directors, and the families of the students, a single teacher would not be able to foster the “skills, values, attitudes, and habits of mind” mentioned in the mission statement that each child who graduates from our school needs to have. The community around a single teacher (such as myself) is necessary to grow not only professionally, but personally as …show more content…

I believe that this could obstruct the mission statement because becoming “engaged members of both a local and global community” means that you should be aware that not all people are alike. There are many people within our world, country, and even community who look, think, learn and act differently than we do. If we are to teach students that people should be judged by their character rather than appearance, they need to be exposed to these people while they are at school.

Lack of diversity
The majority of our student base are from the same social class, culture, ethnicity, and family structures. There are only a handful of students who have come from different backgrounds who may speak a different language or come from a different culture. In order for our students to become “engaged members of both a local and global community”, they should be exposed to more people from these varying cultures rather than just reading about them in books and seeing them in the media.

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