Rhetorical Analysis of Mike Rose Emotional, ethical, and logical appeals are all methods used in writing to perused you one way or another on various topics. Mike Rose used all of these techniques in this essay, to show how student who are pushed aside, distracted, or fall behind and fail. In this essay Rose describes that students who have teachers who are unprepared, or incompetent majorly contribute to student failure. He is trying to show that many children have potential that is overlooked or sometimes even ignored, by authority.
Holly Hassel and Jessica Lourey are English professors at their respective universities. In the second paragraph of the essay they posed a question that shapes this essay: “How do we teach our students to be accountable for their educational choices and performances? To answer their hypothesis, they took a survey of one thousand and ninety-five students total. The surveyed included questions about the meaning of each letter grade, perceptions of teacher/ student relationships and how many hours should be spent studying per three credit hour class. Ninety-three percent of students rated themselves responsible, thirty-nine percent of students had missed three or more days of class at the tenth week of the semester.
Would you be happy if you had received an A in your class? Do you feel that you truly learned enough to deserve that perfect A? Students who are in either high school or college are forgetting the true meaning of having knowledge and being able to learn. People think that how well they perform in the classroom will justify how well the teacher teaches their students but necessary that might not always be that way. In Brent Staples piece, “Why Colleges Shower their Students with A’s”, he argues that there must be an end to the grade Inflation and continues by examining for a possible solution by using language techniques to emphasize the main point.
Speaker: The speaker of the article is Marc Sternberg, a former principal and the current director for the K-12 education for the Walter Family Foundation. He is a credible source because he has worked in the education system before and has turned a school with a 34% graduation rate to an 86% graduation rate due to him hiring exceptional teachers. Occasion: Marc Sternberg is addressing this topic because of the mayor’s recent decision to employ bad teachers. This is revealed in the beginning of the article. He is frustrated because he is a former principal and knows the effect of an exceptional teacher on the students.
Video Response 3 Addressing a student’s needs plays a vital part in the student’s academic success. Understanding one’s needs requires that a teacher take the steps to understanding the child’s personality traits, interests, abilities, disabilities, and so forth. Students are more likely to grasp the interest of learning a specific subject if they feel that the teacher is kind and understanding, just as Trisha and Brittany’s teachers is. Brittany’s mother mentions that a significant change is notable in Brittany’s self-esteem and grades (Kirk, Gallagher, & Coleman, 2015). Trisha certainly associates her good grades to her relationship with her science teacher and identifies her teacher as helpful (Kirk, Gallagher, & Coleman, 2015).
It has been viewed from a holistic assessment point of view that emphasizes the evaluation of students' labor and processes. Grading contracts are utilized in the holistically assessing of work, assigning grades, outlining requirements to make certain grades, and in the enhancement of student motivation to undertake personal responsibilities for their assigned tasks while at the same time fostering democratic social engagement in the classroom. Students are included in curriculum development as well as assessment practices. According to Klotz and Reardon, contract grading is a form of assessment that draws away the concept of teachers as determinants of qualities of student writing and shifts the focus to the reward of student labor and promotion of student engagement in the writing process. In their article, grading agreements may favor neurotypical, normative students if they fail to recognize that one's ability to work does not always match their willingness to do so due to factors such as disability, class, and alternative personified and social orientation that converge with racial formation (Klotz and Reardon 109).
In many places and schools, there are issues with education and how the system operates. Tracking and ability grouping is the practice of putting students in different classes or groups based on their level of knowledge and their ability to learn. This is an incredibly toxic way to teach students and does more harm than good. In Mike Rose’s essay titled "I Just Wanna Be Average," he addresses many different societal issues and emphasizes the need for solutions. One of the biggest issues has to do with education and schools tracking students' progress from the moment they step into kindergarten.
In addition to this, tracking can affect students’ self-esteem and perception of themselves based on what track they are in or how their peers and the adults in their life perceive them based on what track they are in. Secondly, a huge difference in the quality of education a student receives comes from what track they are in. As told by Molly Schwabe, her young daughter was placed in the lowest reading group in her class and learned and did far less than her classmates in higher reading groups. While her daughter was only learning vowel sounds, other groups were reading stories (Schwabe, M. (1997). “The Pigs: When Tracking Takes Its Toll”.
These tracks are relabeled as “remedial”, “special”, “advanced”, and “gifted/talented”. In Tracking in the School focus subtly mention that lower track perpetuates the endless cycle of disparity in education and income. Tracking was originally used to reduce the achievement gap between minorities and majority by bring them up to their standard grade level and enhancing the skills of higher tracks students. Disruptive and low socio-economic students fall short in this track based on the ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’. The level of tracks affects the influence and expectation of teachers and the outcome of the student’s success.
A recent study released by Pearson that questioned over 400,000 students in grades 6-12 shows that only “48% of students think their teachers care about them…and only 45% of students think teachers care if they are absent from school” (Hare, 2015). This shocking statistic demonstrates what American students think about their teachers. Most students are under the impression that their teachers don’t care about them. When teachers don’t care about their students and allow them to fail, many students with unrealized potential give up on education. Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average” describes his journey through high school on the vocational track after the results of his “tests got confused with those of another student named Rose” (Rose, 1989, p. 2).
Although the common belief is that certain aspects of school are important for an ideal education for all students, the main problems that need to be rectified as soon as possible include the lettered grading system and test scores as the main measure of achievement as well as a lack of disciplined and motivated in teachers who do their jobs correctly in order for their students to reach their full potential and excel in life. Out of all the issues with American education today, one of the most overvalued yet problematic for students is the grades and scores that represent their classroom proficiency and content knowledge. It is true that today, in the United States, the easiest and seemingly most reliable way to track student performance and rank schools by quality of education is by simply marking students based on their scores on assignments and assessments done in school or on standardized exams designed to measure mastery of content, and by comparing and analyzing the
Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection explain that organism’s trait favored by their environment are more likely to survive and successfully pass down their gene. There are varieties in a population of organisms. Some heritable traits are passed down to the next generation. Individuals with the traits that are favored by their environment are better adapted to survive and reproduce. More organisms are produced than the environment can hold.
The principle of confidentiality means not passing on personal information about the families, children or colleagues that staff work with. It also means a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information. Confidentiality means not sharing information about people without their knowledge and agreement, and ensuring that written and electronic information cannot be accessed or read by people who have no reason to see it. Confidentiality is important because: -The person who does not keep information confidential, cannot be trusted.
The diversity of student backgrounds, abilities and learning styles makes each person unique in the way he or she reacts to information. The intersection of diverse student backgrounds and active learning needs a comfortable, positive environment in which to take root. Dr. King continues by explaining, “Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” From back then to today’s society, kids are failing because they lack those morals that they need to succeed.
Schools are the second place after home where students’ behavior and future educational success are shaped. At schools there are many elements or factors that can influence the teaching and learning process that may take place. Rasyid (2012) stated that there are four perennial truths that make the teaching and learning process possible to take place in the classroom. If one of these is not available, there will be no teaching and learning process, though the learning process itself may still take place, they are: (1) Teacher, (2) Students, (3) Material and (4) Context of time and place. All of them are related to one another.
