Education is a Recipe

Recipe's require planning, much like an education.  You have to first think if you have the right ingredients.  You then go shopping for the missing ingredients.  Once you have everything together you follow a set of instructions to get the perfect result.

Education requires the same type of planning, you must determine if your child is ready to start school, then once they are in school until the time they graduate they follow a curriculum much like a recipe, this leads to, hopefully, the perfect end result of an educational success, a student who did well and graduated.  Now, of course, some recipes don't turn out as planned, the oven could have been a few degrees too cool, or an ingredient could have accidentally been left out, but it still can be fixed.  The end result for these recipes can have different outcomes, BUT, the most sought after outcome, the most important, is success of the students learning, achieving an education, making that dish juicy, delicious, and right on time for your guests arrival.
 Throughout the process of receiving an education, some recipes may go through bumps.  Your muffins may deflate and your toast may get burnt.  Some recipes cannot recover from this, much like some students.  They may act out, have bad behavior, skip one too many classes and this is definitely a sad event, but with great teachers, and a great environment, they can be helped and maybe even saved to become the most scrumptious meal anyone has ever had! 

 

I have learned many things in this class.  The two most important I feel is the issues facing racism and cultural diversity in classrooms.  These two I feel work hand in hand and I feel that it is still a problem even in today's melting pot America, and that it does need to be handled in schools.  Cultural diversity is something that is growing everyday, and every child will be exposed to culturally different kids more and more.

I also liked learning about curriculum.  It is something you always hear about as a student, but it is never something you know a lot about.  As a teacher it is so important to know what it is, how it works, and how it is applied.  Curriculum, I feel, is the base of the "recipe" for education.

http://www.foodservices.uwaterloo.ca/foodbuzz/modules/pdfs/HowToFollowRecipe_osu.pdf

http://www.salemstate.edu/webct (this is what I used to look over past assignments and information)