1. Topic #2B: Foundations of Education
-Schools of Today
Education Today: Realities Confronting Today’s Schools

2. Education Today: Realities Confronting
Today’s Schools
What is the purpose of schooling today?

4. Teaching is all about the
STUDENT

6. 3Rs x 7Cs = 21st Century Learning

9. “’At risk’ students are those who leave school
before or after graduation with little
possibility of continuing learning”
***Roland Barth
What puts a student “at risk”?

10. 2 Tweets
(in only 141 characters)
• Gender (p. 147)
• Racism (p. 144)
• Sexual Orientation (p. 149)
• Family Stress (p. 151)
• Substance Abuse (p. 152)
• Violence and Crime (p. 152)
• Teen Pregnancy (p. 154)
• Suicide (p. 154)
• High School Drop Outs
(online)
• Cyberbullying (online)
To help and support
those students who
are potentially “at
risk” in our schools,
As a teacher, I
will……..
#EDUC250D
One Fact about this
category of “at risk”
students…..
One Solution to help
this category of “at
risk” students…..

11. Teacher Thoughts:
What is the purpose of education today?
“Instead of ‘at risk’ kids,
how about ‘at promise’ kids”
***Harold Brathwaite