Globalization & Education
Trend, Issue or Challenge
Emerging
5 Connections
Issues and Trends
ISSUE: Money/Funding
Influence Rank: 3
Lack of up to date technology
Outdated books
Teachers spending their own money for classroom supplies.
Students aren't privy to the necessary skills they need for the latest jobs in the workforce. Lack of money/funding plays a part in keeping students from being able to compete with their peers on a higher level.
ISSUE: Socio-Economic Status
Influence Rank: 4
Minimum wage
Cost of living
Inability to pay for college
SES causes a hindrance to students who academically can should further their education to on the next level. However, they may have to settle for going directly into the workforce.
TREND: Social Media/Technology
Influence Rank: 5
Skype
FaceTime
YouTube
All of these networks gives students a way to communicate with millions across the world. It gives them an avenue to take a small idea and market it into a larger idea.
Challenges
Emerging Markets and Standardized Testing
Emerging Markets
- Influence Rank: 2
- Skill Requirements
- Technology is an ever-changing aspect in the world. With many jobs requiring certain skills levels, students need to be able to perform the skills necessary to compete in these particular markets. The markets are going to looking for candidates who can comprehensively and skillfully complete a job in a timely manner. Due to the focus on standardized testing and how much of it should be done students are not receiving the skills for these jobs.
Standardized Testing
- Influence Rank: 1
- Teachers teaching to the test
- The challenge is getting students to be productive citizen when they enter the workforce, however, standardized testing is causing a negative affect on how students fair with other countries. I think students are over tested and teachers are being overloaded with so many standards instead of being able to teach the material that is going to be most beneficial to the students.
Sources
PBS. (2008). Where We Stand, Globalization: America’s Schools in the 21stCentury. RetrievedJune 7, 2013, from: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wherewestand/reports/globalization/video-report/7/
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/111016/chapters/Globalization-and-Education.aspx
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