Category: Cram Session
Maybe a trivia-lesson to increase your general knowledge? What are your suggestions for a subject which does not yet exist but you would want it to exist? A subject which every school worldwide should teach? Come on, le't be creative!!
I think that would depend on the education level. If your talking elementary/grammer school, then you could have ettiquete class or something. If your talking middle school or upper grades, I think everyone should have to take international studies courses where they teach you about traditions and less generally know facts about different countries.
money management. How many kids leave school and go off to college or university and have not a clue how to manage money, and they get themselves into serious debt before they have any idea what they've got into. I think in school kids should learn about mortgages, bills, bank accounts, that you have to earn money and that it doesn't just fall into your lap, and also they should be taught the consequences of getting into serious debt.
Wow, I agree with both of you. The international course idea sounds great to me!!
how to spot the bullshit teachers insist on force feeding . you.
That's a good one.
When I went to uni I learned everything I'd been told in school was a deliberate tissue of lies!
how about a course in common curtisy? I like sugar baby's suggestion. The one problem withthat one, is they are learning how to mismanage and misuse money at home. When parents keep giving them money instead of attention, there isn't a class that will fix that.
Carla
I agree, some things they teach us are totally unnecesary. That's why I wanted to have some suggestions about how to make school better.
Its taught is some schools but I think every school should have a sign language program.
Yeah but I think it should be on a voluntary basis. I honestly doubt that every student would like to learn sign language. But I agree, for those who want to, it should be taught.
I think it should be required.
the reality though is that you could teach sign language to every student and some peope may never use it their entire lives. and then what would be the point. I do think though that children should be taught parenting skills, I also think that children should go through a period where they are made to be parents to a baby (not a real one of course), but one of those interactive ones that cries ... etc, maybe that would do something for the teenage pregnancy culture we have these days. Maybe if young girls realized just how hard it is to have a baby they would be a bit more careful who they slept with and about taking precautions.
when I was at school we did such a project. we did it with bags of flower though - we actually ended up dressing them up to look like baby dolls, were all divided up into pairs (parents), and had to take care of these babies for three weeks. had to take them everywhere, look after them, if we weren't able to we had to find babysitters to look after them, and if we broke the rules we were fined. I had no intention of having a baby before the project commenced, but after it was over I was sure i didn't want one.
The next year we had some fun with the class who were doing the project and kidnapped one of the "babies" and demanded a randsome.
Exactly. See, I definitely think it's a good idea, but I don't really think it should be required, because not everyone uses it and not everyone wants to lose it. Don't get me wrong, but there are other languages which are a bit more important because many people speak them.
I think that current affairs should be taught to teenagers, it's important to know what's going on in the world and from an unbiast fashion, rather than from a certain person's standing point.
America's dominance and why we are the best country in the world, and how everything we do is right. I mean if anyone disagrees with Bush I will personally come to there house and bad bad things will happen...
Wow. Yes, this might make the hatred of other countries even bigger, and the envy. Well done. Ha ha. I agree with Tazz though - this is a good idea.
practicle sex education! that certainly would have made my school days more worth while! hehehe.
Bush is a twat! So come on then blindguy... I challenge you to 'come round my house and make bad things happen! But in answer to the initial post: lessons in overcoming ignorance and in promoting open-mindedness. There are too many racist, sexist, arrogant, selfish, individuals out there who are so closed minded and prejudice. It wouldn't hurt to start employing techniques to make people less judgemental of others and how they live, so that we can all live together more harmoniously!
Uh, Bush is an idiot. Only a third of what he says makes sence.
right on. I agree with Heather, I think a sign language course would be helpful. I mean with blind people, it's not like we need everyone to know braille, but as far as the deaf community, I have no way of communicating with them unless they read lips and speak, but it would be easier if I could sign and read finger spelling. I think it's important for people to be able to communicate, plus if there were two people in the American school system who didn't speak the same verbal language, sign language would be an option.
Um, to the last post, knowing sign language won't help you communicate with some one from another country. Yeesh. There's a reason that it's called ASL, American Sign Language. Just as Braille is not universal, neither is sign language. Now, come on now, you should know better than that. I mean, after all, how many silly sighted people have come up to you all and asked if Braille was English. For some strange reason sighties tend to think that it's arabic, or chinese or some foreign language. Where my mother works there is a deaf woman who uses ASL, a man from India, who was deaf came in one day, he could read and write in Hindi and in English, but he couldn't sign in ASL. As for a subject that should be manditory? Grammar. Seeing as they no longer feel it neccessary to teach such things in standard English class, or to hold the students to an expectation to use proper grammar, a class devoted purely to it would not be wasted. I also agree with the idea of a culture appreciation class to bring other political, cultural, religous and philosophical points of view to the attention of teen agers.
How about a class in inductive and deductive logic, and the scientific method. This could all be taught in one class, and it could be called "independent thinking 101."
That would be cool. I know I would need more practice on that, as I do seem to have trouble with the college work, (which of course is most of it), that requires critical thinking to write papers. Actually there was a class at my college, and I think it may have been in other local ones, called Modes of Inquiry in Fields of Study. The class itself seemed like a lot of what we were learning should be obvious, but we did have to use that knowledge to write each of our own research papers on anything of interest to us. This included doing our own research, periodically bringing in a notebook or container of our found sources, and of course noting where we got it from. Of course the instructor and other students could help by suggesting sources, but we had to do the work. *smile* It was hard, but I think it would be good to have classes available like that for children and teens so that we would be used to thinking like that.
I also think schools should bring back the home economics classes, at least to high schools, and it could be for all students of course. I think this would help students sort of know what to expect when they move out. It may or may not teach responsibility, but at least they would know what kinds of things they'd need to do and deal with when living in their own house or apartment.
I like a lot of these ideas! I definitely think brining back Home Economics or Domestic Science classes would be a good idea, with an optional element of microwave cookery (it doesn't have to be lazy!) for those who want to take it.
I'm also thinking that we could develop a subject that brings together cultural, religious and political appreciations, as well as disability awareness (which could include a short sign language module) in a sort of diversity awareness programme, starting from an early age when children's minds are supposed to be most open to it.
Yeah, I think the diversity awareness class would be a good one to have as well.
I like the International studies idea! There are a lot of other good ones too. I think there should be a drugs education class so that people become more aware of drugs and the dangers associated with them.
They do have something like that actually. The DARE program. It stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, and it's where an officer comes in the class regularly to teach about drug abuse. But I agree, if they don't have that program anymore or in certain places, they should bring it back/start it in the places they don't have it. It's a good program I think. *smile*
Hey, I like all your ideas. The money management class, diversity awareness class, and the drugs class would really help out a lot especially the parenting class and the home economics class. If I was to create a class I want to apply the class in three levels not only on lectures and test taking, but also to applying the subject to the workplace as well as to the real world. The diversity awareness class would definetely make a great subject. We already have that one in college, but I think schools nationwide should implement this class because like the last posters said, it gives the students awareness in the political, religeous, and cultural beliefs of oher countries. I think this class must be required cause it will improve the way people communicate with other cultures. This class will help them out in the long run.
I think all kids should learn military drill and ceremony.
Elementary school
1 Theoretical Grammar and spelling studies
2 The basis of people and common philosophical terms like conformity and individualism
middle school and high school
1 It’s taught at some schools, and I think this should be required and at every school
Philosophy
2 How to get along with people without being fake. How to be honest, sincere, and kind.
3 How to reach out and not just hover with your friends
4 common philosophy and society layouts, the big groups
nonconformist
conformists
individualists
Capitalism
Collectivism
5 The basis of theory and how concepts and precepts are prepared.
6 society and how to live an individualistic life.
7 blindness awareness, and how a cane is not for hitting people. (I don’t know if anyone else is asked to hit people for others just because you have a cane. God, it’s annoying.)
8 How to think, rationalize, stop fan gushing, and stop fantasizing
9 Knowing yourself, what you want to do, knowing how to make decisions, set boundaries , and what enough is.