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Educational Transformation: The Answer for Educational Reform
Educational Transformation: The Answer for Educational Reform. Education is not about turning people into robots zombies—seating students in straight rows—telling them what to think, instead of teaching them how to think. Williams, R. (2016), “Education is about producing people that will think creatively, innovatively, critically and independently with the ability to connect” Williams [video file]. Bell, D. (2016) conducted a study explaining that education needs to be transformed to provide opportunities for students with different talents such as, creativity, innovation, and agricultural skills, for economic benefits and a sustainable future. For years schools have been making …show more content…

The investigation brought awareness to four areas of conflicts under the education reform (i) political dimension (ii) the church vs. the state issue (iii) cultural differences and (iv) scarce resources Eyken, Goulden, & Crossley, (1992). The findings of the investigation concluded that the education reform lacks success for improvement in students’ performance. Belize was not the only country to implement education reform with the intention of improving its education system; however, Taiwan Ministry of Education also borrowed policies and strategies from another country without considering their local context. Taiwan`s major conflict that arise during the process of the education reform is the complicated curriculum and the out of control teacher education. Lin, Wang, Li, & Chang, (2014, …show more content…

, 2010 p.2) the highlight from the debate is that teacher education program and school districts are to be held accountable for graduates, teacher education must go under a radical change to meet the changing needs of students, policy reform is not working it confuses each other in the education system, teacher education needs to shape the way the recruit and select teachers, only teachers with a social justice ideology should teach, Screen how teachers are selected to teach, the teacher education needs to be honest in examining and understanding their strengths, weaknesses, constraint and potential in for them to move forward (Hill et al. , 2010 p.3). As a result, the debate findings recommends “that programs adds some qualitative data to the selection process and engaged in aggressive community recruiting to ensure more diverse teaching force.” (Hill et al. , 2010 p.10). Another finding is to make induction programs a school-wide effort and cater a mere strategic matching process for mentors and new teachers.” (Hill et al. , 2010 p.10). On the other hand (Valli & Rennert, 2002 p.7) conducted a discussion search titled “New standards and assessments? Curriculum transformation in teacher education.” The article does not support the above information. Teachers focus on teaching more

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