School Success And Training The Next Teachers For America Analysis

Tamara Abdel-Rahman
Professor Irvine
English 101 Section 253
March 5, 2015
Repairing Education for Students and Teachers Education starts as early as the age of three and continues to the university level. Many school systems throughout America and the rest of the world compete and are often rated best to worst. In Finland’s School Success and Training the next Teachers for America, both try to reform the education system, reach their target audience and use strategies to improve education, however in a contrasting manner. As schools are being rated, the school boards tent to change and accommodate to improve their ratings. Both in Finland’s School Success and Training the next Teachers for America are trying to reform their education system.
In Finland’s School Success, the author is trying to reach to the school board and inform them of the positive effects for changing the method of teaching across the U.S. The author quotes Pasi Sahlberg “Real winners do not compete” (Partanen 972). America is known for its competitiveness, so they want they want the prize and they give their all while competing, but they don’t give their all in training. Whereas the Finnish succeed from their attitude and determination, they train well, they play well. Therefore, the ratings increase of decrease. In addition, in Training the next Teachers for America, the audience is also the school board. They need the school board’s agreement for the proposals because that’s where the affect will be put into place. The results of reforming the education of teachers will be, in the school and the outcome of every student. Not only is the school board the concerning audience in the Megan Hopkins’ proposal but also the Teach for America corps. She is initiating this proposal to them because of her personal experience. Hopkins learning outcome was not as expected and she is trying to reach out to them so the TFA can be more aware of their alumni. Both of these works are trying to reform education and reach their audiences, but they use strategies to benefit school
In both Finland’s School Success and Training the next Teachers for America use identical and diverse strategies. In Finland’s School Success, all schools are public so if America would only offer schools that are publicly funded, then tuition payment wouldn’t be necessary and the least of people’s concern. In Partanen’s writing she quote Sahlberg: “And there are no private schools in Finland” (971). To clarify Sahlberg’s words she wrote: “This means that every person in Finland attends public school” (Partanen 971). If everyone on in the U.S. attended public school, it would also put an end to people thinking private is better than public. Likewise, in Training the next Teachers for America, funding could be used for implementing a new proposal, and reduce the demands for new teachers. It’s better to have less teachers with better education than more teachers with a poor education. As Hopkins writes in her proposal: “Instead of devoting funding to recruitment and to expanding the corps at the current rate, Teach for America could use this funding to implement the preparation model proposed” (897). Even though they have identical strategies they also have diverse. In Finland’s School Success, Finland gives less homework and standardized test and more creative play. Partanen wrote two statements regarding this, one: “Finland’s success is especially intriguing because Finnish