Character
Education
Parents want nothing more than for their
children to grow up into well-mannered individuals and give the proper respect
to other people. Which is why character education is an important part in their
studies, because success in life does not always rely on academics.
Character education can greatly help students
with their academic subjects as well. Diligence and a sense of responsibility
are some of the main core values taught in character education. With these
students will learn how to focus on their studies, and more importantly they
will have the drive that will make them want to do well in their academic
subjects.
Research done on the
subject found out that schools that employ character education have fewer
incidences of disciplinary referrals, suspensions, and truancy. The positive
environment that it bought to schools also increased attendance and has also
brought about a significant improvement in academic performance of the
students.
EQAO (Education Quality Accountability
Office) assesses how well Ontario’s public education system is developing students’
reading, writing and math skills. EQAO provides reliable and useful information
that is used to help improve student achievement and ensure the accountability
of school boards. Each year the assessment captures the
performance of students at one point in time each year and this past week released
its results.
For several years now,
administrators and teachers review previous year's scores, look at where
improvements need to be made and figure out how they are going to do that in
the upcoming school year. To appreciate the distinctive
character of a school, we should look at the contextual information to
understand the features and characteristics of the community it serves.
So many in education, say
that standardized tests are not valued, yet so much is still measured by these
numbers, both students and teachers. Accountability is important in
education, yet there is so much more to a story to a person than a letter or
grade and that education needs to put emphasis on measuring the characteristics
of the school.
