This article is about organizing schools where both academics and social skills are taught. Schools need to purse physical, moral, social, emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic aims to reach the whole child. We need to make classrooms genuinely happy places for students to be. Schools are established to serve both individuals and the larger society. Schools should be concerned with the totally development of children who will become thoughtful citizens who can make wise civic choices. Although reading and math are important, we need to promote competence in these subjects while also promoting our other aims. Students can develop reading, writing, speaking, and mathematical skills as they plan and stage dramatic performances, designs classrooms murals, compose a school pare, and participate in establishing classroom rules. Studies have shown that wealthier students are enjoying a rich and varied curriculum and many opportunities to engage in arts, whereas many of our less wealthy students spend their school day bent over worksheets in an effort to boost standardized test scores. Students must begin to practice participation in our schools. Children in schools should be provided with character education programs. There is a need for programs that develop character traits and find themselves. Teachers need to work as a team to be sure that they stretch their subjects to meet the needs and interests of the whole child.
I certainly agree with this article. I believe children should learn how to survive in the real world, and school is the best place where children can learn these attributes. I personally spend ten minutes of every class period talking to my students about things that will face in the real world. We spend so much time focusing on standardized test we forget that our students have issues that they must face. We as teachers must provide moments in the classroom where they’re able to learn different methods/ solutions to these problems.
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