Abstract
The learner has done this assignment on the three different educational organizations such as PK-12, Higher Education, and Adult Education organizations. The learner has done the affective issues such as current, relevant, local and national and globalization of three different organizations such as PK-12, Higher Education, and Adult Education organizations. The learner has evaluated the statistical data of the students of those organizations. The learner has demonstrated the different legislation and policies of the organizations. The learner has demonstrated the data collection method. The learner has approached the consequences about the facilitators and providers. The learner has provided the existing issues like an inexperienced teacher and high cost for the education courses. The learner has also discussed the bad impact of the issues on the education system of the organizations. The learner has compared two empirical articles based on those issues. . The learner has demonstrated two different theoretical viewpoints regarding this matter. Lastly, the learner has provided the recommendation based on the reframing the educational system and increase the resources of the education system. The learner has provided the recommendation for Removing the political, economic influences on the education system and cultural and social influences on the planning and learning.
Introduction:
In this assignment, the learner is going to developing the relation between three different organization such as PK-12, Higher Education, and Adult Education organization. As stated by Crampton (2008), PK-12 educational organizations offer the high-quality preparation for the students who want to be a teacher. As opined by Alouf, & Bentley (2008), the higher educational organizations offer various learning courses to the fellows who are interested in being faculty, researcher and PhD. The adult educational organizations are considered as a college or universities, which offer the students to be more professional and prepare the students for their careers.
In this assignment, the learner has planned to discuss different issues of three different educational organizations such as PK-12, higher education organization and adult education organization. After that, the learner has planned to critically evaluate the statistical trend, laws, and policies. On task III, the learner has planned to develop the solution for different issues of the three different organizations such as cultural, social, political and economic issues. The learner has planned to form a presentation based on those issues, solution and strength of this assignment and weakness of this assignment.
Issues of PK-12, higher education, and adult education organizations:
Issues of PK-12 educational organization:
Diversity is one of the main issues for the educational organization. Sometimes the students have faced the discrimination due to the presence of the local students and abroad students. Sometimes the course durations were longer than the normal times due to the presence of the disable students. Sometimes the class tests are dismissed due to the sudden festivals and the duration of the courses become longer.
As stated by Drago-Severson (2009), the PK-12 educational organization offers more than 30 language training for the students. However, this is not possible for a single learner to learn more than one extra language in the learning course period. Apart from that, there is a skill gap between the different cultural people after finishing the course. The students pay a high amount of admission fees for this PK-12 professional learning skills.
Issues in higher education:
Higher education services have emerged over the last few years as the major economic sector for the growth of a country. However, the globalization resulted in significant changes in knowledge economy and it faces different issues to continue their operations in the present times that are:
The main issue is related to cost, recently the tuition fees for the higher education has increased due to reduced state tax support for the public organization. Another issue is related to the higher education is recruiting the local workforce due to lack of a knowledgeable person in the local market (Goe & Coggshall, 2007). This issue increases the conflict in culture. After the globalization the world economy is gaining strength and employment is increasing. In this situation student, recruitment is the big concern because of the improved economic activity and the political perspectives. Accreditation is becoming one of the most concerned issues for the higher education because the present system is becoming too difficult.
Issues in adult education organization:
There are different issues which are faced by the adult education organization, among them the most crucial issue is decreasing the number of students. It is difficult to get enough participants for the higher education because in most of the time courses provided by adult education organization requires high tuition fees. Another issue is related to the adult education organization is related to the lack of support of the government which increases the tuition fees (Kosnik, Beck & Samaras, 2008). The local issues faced by the adult education organization are issues related to cultural diversity. The adult education organization hires student from a different demographic region which creates issues related to cultural diversity. Other local issues faced by the adult education organization lack of the teaching staff, to teach high-level course to the student highly knowledgeable person is required. However, it is seen that it is very hard to recruit the proper teaching staff.
Statistical trend:
In the year 2008, there was an increment in the statistical trend of 11.7% in PK-12, 26.3% Higher education and 15.8% adult education organization with an overall increase of 9.6% Wells (2008). There was a record registration of over 29.9 million which saw the highest registration since 2002. Between 2008 and 2011, the numbers of 17-21 year old increased by 14%, the number of PK-12 increased by 16.8% while the registration of adult education organization increased by 7.2%. As stated by Kosnik, Beck & Samaras (2008), there is an expected increase in the adult education organization in the year 2023 by 20% keeping into mind the advancement of technologies and the urgency among the people to get educated. The relation between the PK-12, adult education organization and higher education would help to impart high-quality education and also increase the registration by 11.3% in the upcoming two years span.
Laws, policies of PK-12, higher education, and adult education organizations
There was 12 key PK-12 education rules and regulation enacted into law by the legislature. There were other policies that were passed which included higher education and adult education organizations. The policies included the inclusion of the perspective from the state wide education and corresponding and support educations on the new laws. The new policies that were implemented included age specification of the teaching staffs in order to minimize the issues coherent to it. There were rules relating to the discrimination which had increased by 15.9% since 2002 (Kozma, 2008). The present policies regarding the education system need to address the issues regarding the workforce management as the quality education requires skilled and knowledgeable workforce. The knowledgeable and skilled workforces are hard to find and moreover these workforces require high cost as these include higher taxes.
Empirical research
The collaboration between the PK-12, adult education organization and higher education would help the students to acquire knowledge and skills, also, provide them enriching experience in order to produce an incredible end result. While partnering with the faculty of different departments would help to meet the needs of the PK-12 students. Accreditation is becoming one of the most concerned issues for the higher education because the present system is becoming too difficult (Abrego & Pankake, 2010). It is difficult to get enough participants for the higher education because in most of the time courses provided by adult education organization requires high tuition fees.
Impending consequences for society and learners if the challenges are not met
A collaborative relation between the PK-12, higher education, and adult education organization require high in-depth knowledge and skills for an effective outcome (Bogard, Traylor, & Takanishi, 2008). As the need of education increases employment also increases and therefore, having a positive impact on the economy. The PK-12 program provides a great opportunity to influence the relation between the higher education and adult education organizations. Education is the backbone for the progress of the society, therefore, a favorable relation between these education organizations would help to develop the society as a whole. High-quality education would help to prepare knowledgeable and educated leader who would, in turn, help to educate the others people of the society (Drago-Severson, 2007). The courses of the education systems are getting shortened thus leading to unnecessary exclusion of the important aspects.
Existing policies and programs that address the issues
Diversity has been an issue for the educational organizations for the past ten years. A stricter policy on the diversity would help the education system to impart quality education. Festivals have been another significant issue that leads to rupture in the flow of education which can be addressed by stricter policies and regulations (Hegler, 2013). This issue mainly occurs in the Indian sub-continent. The policies are implemented to addresses the issues which cause hindrance in education. The policies include anti-discrimination rules and regulation which would prevent any discrimination in the education organization whether imparting higher education, adult education or PK-12 to the students. Availability of the educated and experiences workforce has been one of the major issues for the education organizations. An inexperienced workforce would not impart quality education to the students thus affecting the society and the economy (Lemoine, Woodard, & Richardson, 2014). The existing polices mainly stress on maintain equality among the students so as to reduce the discrimination issues.
Education system are getting costlier and therefore, becoming inconvenient for the middle class and small income group people to acquire education. According to Lemoine, Woodard, & Richardson (2014), in order to receive better and good quality education it is important for the students to take admissions in the better education organization. Polices regarding these issues include subsidy for the educational organizations that would help to lower the cost and thus decreasing the cost of education. Certain decrease in the tax for the education organization would also help to further decrease the cost of education. The standard of education is also increasing thus leading to additional stress on the students. In order to cope with these issues of increasing standards the existing policies aim to diversify the education systems into various sub heads making it easier for the student to adjust accordingly.
Comparison between two empirical articles based on issues
As stated by Lemoine, Woodard, & Richardson (2014), diversity issues have followed increasing trend in the society and therefore, leading to decrease in the quality of education and distrust among the students. Presently, as the government is withdrawing subsidy from the educational sector the institutes are liable to increase the fees of education. This issue is addressed by the Lemoine, Woodard, & Richardson, (2014), in the article. The author states that as the universities are left with no choice other than raising the fees. They should go for another way out. Because the increased fees are in turn de-motivating the students. They are losing focus from the studies looking for higher paid internships in order to pay the tuition fees. The author suggested the universities should start a slightly discriminating pricing strategy that will charge less to the high scoring students and high to the less scoring ones. However, the difference will not be much. Now in order to enjoy the low price the students will definitely study well and focus on the study.
Another issue that has been addressed by Hughes (2013) is that the students are not getting the appropriate understanding of the lessons. Sometimes the lessons are beyond their level of understanding. To solve this author suggested reviewing the student’s ability to read and write and also their intake capacity. This will help the institute to set the standard of the lessons more effectively. A collaborative relation between the PK-12, higher education, and adult education organizations would help to solve the issues as most of the issues of the educational systems are interrelated and there solving these issues at once would have a greater favorable impact on the society.
Demonstration of two different theoretical viewpoints from scholarly literature
According to Limburg & Clark (2008), adults need less education and more guidance. The main aim of the government is to overcome the challenges that are leading to hindrance in the education system. The policies and rules and regulations of the governments help to overcome the issues for a short term basis but these policies and regulation do not help completely remove the issues and challenges. Imparting education to the student is necessary and it is equally important that the education organizations employ educated and skilled workforce necessary to meet the basic objectives. The policies presently aim to reduce the cost for the education organization but fail to provide help to the workforce.
As stated by Bogard, Traylor, & Takanishi (2008), education helps to not only educate the individual but also educate the entire society. Discrimination is a crime from the viewpoint of the government and thus, the anti-discrimination policy helps to remove discrimination from the educational institutions. Discrimination has an adverse effect on the student’s personality leading to an adverse effect on the society. Discrimination also leads to hampering the image of the education organization. The policies stress more on a short-term basis rather than long term basis. Solving the educational issues for a short period of time cannot solve the purpose of the educational organization. According to Bogard, Traylor, & Takanishi (2008), a permanent solution to the issues of the educational organization would help the not only produce great leader but also impart quality education. A collaborative relation between the PK-12, higher education, and adult education organizations would help to solve the issues as most of the issues of the educational systems are interrelated (Murphy, 2008).
Recommendation for the issues:
Reframe the educational system:
It has been noticed that three different educational organization followed traditional educational structure for constructing the course duration and module segmentation. However, the management has to reframe the educational structure. It has been observed that the educational cost of those courses is high and the poor students can not avail the facility for those professional learning courses. Therefore, the organizations have to reframe the course fees structure and include some reservation seats for the poor students or other backward class. The organizations have to arrange the camps, practical teaching classes for the PK-12 students, industrial training for the adult education students and real research for PhD students.
Increase the resources of the education system:
Three types of organizations have to enable the computers for every student and the computers must have the sufficient data backups with internet facilities. The organizations have to start the e-learning process for the outbound students. The educational organization must have at least one branch on the rural areas. The teachers or the educational staffs have to influence the students for the government jobs or for some innovative ideas. The higher educational organizations have to link the agriculture along with the agriculture and other engineering firms so that the students can gather the practical knowledge.
Recommendation for issues:
Remove the political, economic influences on the education system:
The three different type’s education organization such as PK-12, Higher Education, and Adult Education organization have to approach the government about some help. The organizations have assigned a high experience director to manage the course module according to the time. The organizations have to approach the government to contribute in their services. The organizations have to approach or the public contribution which helps the organization to provide the poor education. The organizations have to approach the government for permit them for using the government school buildings in the rural areas. The organizations have to approach the government for providing the tax benefits for the organizations so that the management will decrease the course fee.
Cultural and social influences on the planning and learning:
The educational organization must design the appropriate designed the educational system and there would be no cultural deviation. The organizations have to introduce the standardization of curriculum activity and licensing for the professional learners. The organizations have to consider the heal insurance policies of the students. The PK-12 students have to serve in the government schools which allow them to gather the practical knowledge. The higher education organizations have to provide the practical training to their students. The adult educational students have to assign as an apprentice in a research institute to gather the throw knowledge.
Summary:
The learner has done this assignment on the three different educational organizations such as PK-12, Higher Education and Adult Education organizations. The learner has assess the affective issues such as current, relevant, local, and national and globalization of three different organizations. The learner has presented the statistical data of the students who admitted in those organizations. The learner has also discussed the different laws and policies of the organizations. The learner has analysed the data collection method and scholarly journals of the empirical research. The learner has approached the consequences about the facilitators and providers. The learner has provided the existing issues like inexperienced teacher and high cost for the education courses. The learner has also discussed the bad impact of the issues on the education system of the organizations. The learner has compared two empirical articles based on those issues. The learner has demonstrated two different theoretical viewpoints regarding this matter. Lastly the learner has provided the recommendation based on the integrated and collaborative, utilizing resources and expertise from multiple organizations. The learner has provided the recommendation for cultural, social, political, and economic influences on planning, learning, instruction. The attained decisions will help in facilitating the students in building own career prospects. The organizations such as the PK-12 can adopt the suggestions for the purpose of delivering quality education to the students, thereby, attaining the chances of being in own dreamt position.
The learner has done this assignment on the three different educational organizations such as PK-12, Higher Education, and Adult Education organizations. The learner has assessed the affective issues such as current, relevant, local, and national and globalization of three different organizations. The learner has presented the statistical data of the students who admitted in those organizations. The learner has also discussed the different laws and policies of the organizations. The learner has analyzed the data collection method and scholarly journals of the empirical research. The learner has approached the consequences about the facilitators and providers. The learner has provided the existing issues like an inexperienced teacher and high cost for the education courses. The learner has also discussed the bad impact of the issues on the education system of the organizations. The learner has compared two empirical articles based on those issues. The learner has provided the recommendation for cultural, social, political, and economic influences on planning, learning, instruction. The attained decisions will help in facilitating the students in building own career prospects. The organizations such as the PK-12 can adopt the suggestions for the purpose of delivering quality education to the students, thereby, attaining the chances of being in own dream position.
Reference list
Books
Alouf, J. L., & Bentley, M. L. (2008). Assessing the Impact of Inquiry-Based Science Teaching in Professional Development Activities, PK-12.
Crampton, F. E. (2008). Changes to funding formula for pk–12 and/or higher education.
Drago-Severson, E. (2009). Helping teachers learn: Principal leadership for adult growth and development. Corwin Press.
Goe, L., & Coggshall, J. (2007). The Teacher Preparation Teacher Practices Student Outcomes Relationship in Special Education: Missing Links and New Connections. TQ Research & Policy Brief. National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.
Kosnik, C. M., Beck, C., & Samaras, A. P. (Eds.). (2008).Making a difference in teacher education through self-study: Studies of personal, professional and program renewal (Vol. 2). Springer Science & Business Media.
Kozma, R. B. (2008). Technology, innovation, and educational change: a global perspective: a report of the Second Information Technology in Education Study, Module 2. ISTE (Interntl Soc Tech Educ.
Wells, J. G. (2008, November). STEM education: The potential of technology education. In 95th Mississippi Valley Technology Teacher Education Conference, St. Louis, MO (Vol. 41).
Journals
Abrego Jr, J., & Pankake, A. (2010). “PK-12 Virtual Schools: The Challenges and Roles of School Leaders”. Educational considerations, 37(2), 7-13.
Bogard, K., Traylor, F., & Takanishi, R. (2008). “Teacher education and PK outcomes: Are we asking the right questions?” Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 23(1), 1-6.
Drago-Severson, E. (2007). “Helping teachers learn: Principals as professional development leaders”. The Teachers College Record, 109(1), 70-125.
Hegler, K. L. (2008). “Evaluating the Use of Teacher Work Samples To Describe Teacher Candidate Competence and PK-12 Learning” 21(4), 25-36.
Hughes, J. E. (2013). “Descriptive indicators of future teachers' technology integration in the PK-12 classroom: Trends from a laptop-infused teacher education program”. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 48(4), 491-516.
Lemoine, P. A., Woodard, H. C., & Richardson, M. D. (2014). “Return on Investment: Are Green Schools Worth the Cost?”. Marketing the Green School: Form, Function, and the Future: Form, Function, and the Future, 302-306.
Limburg, F., & Clark, C. (2008). “Diversity initiatives in higher education: Teaching multicultural education online”. Multicultural Education, 13(3), 49-49.
Murphy, J. (2008). “Turnaround Insights from the Organizational Sciences: A Review of the Empirical Evidence and the Development of a Staged Model of Recovery with Potential Implications for the PK–12 Education Sector”. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 7(4), 331-357.
Pugach, M. C., & Blanton, L. P. (2009). “A framework for conducting research on collaborative teacher education”. Teaching and Teacher Education, 25(4), 575-582.
