Month: March 2021

Original introduction:

Every school district in the United States goes by different rules and regulations. but one thing they all have in common is they meet five days a week and their job is to educate and teach students from the ages of seven years old in kindergarten to 18-year-olds in their senior year of high school. The difference is that schools teach you to try and learn how to be taught, while other schools are teaching you for their schools’ reputation. With all these different teaching styles in different ways of teaching which one could possibly work best? Do students do better being taught to or do students do better when the end goal is not about what they learned or how they learned, but the school’s reputation? While reading through Jeffrey Scheuers article “Critical Thinking and the Liberal Arts” he states that all schools in the country should find a way to adapt liberal arts into their curriculum. Also, another article written by Sanford Ungar named “7 Major misconceptions about the Liberal Arts”, he explains how he like Scheuer, believes that liberal arts play a huge part of a student’s success. 

Revised introduction: Every school district in the United States goes by different rules and regulations. However, one thing they all have in common is that they meet five days a week and the teachers job is to educate and teach students from the ages of seven years old in kindergarten, to 18-year-olds in their senior year of high school. The difference is that some schools teach you to learn how to be taught, while other schools are teaching you for their schools’ reputation. With all these different teaching styles which one could possibly work best? Do students do better when being taught to or do students do better when the end goal is not about what they learned or how they learned, but the school’s reputation and how the students that go to that school place on testing? While reading through Jeffrey Scheuers article “Critical Thinking and the Liberal Arts” he states that all schools in the country should find a way to adapt liberal arts into their curriculum. Another article written by Sanford Ungar named “7 Major misconceptions about the Liberal Arts”, he explains how he like Scheuer, believes that liberal arts play a huge part of a student’s success. Throughout my paper I will be talking about my experiences in classes throughout my years of school and comparing it to how Scheuer, Ungar and the UNE core handbook speak on their view of liberal arts in a schooling system. 

In my first draft of my introduction I had a strong intro into my essay but I failed to have a thesis statement to close my introduction paragraph. I added a thesis to my last sentence of my introduction, also with fixing grammatical mistakes and then took out a few sentences and added new ones.

1. My preferred conception of the liberal arts is what Scheuer calls the integrated curriculum. Integrated curriculum, I feet like it was easier to apply skills from one class to other things. “Critical thinking is a key part of that shared epistemology, a set of skills that apply across the liberal arts curriculum.” In his text he talks about how liberal arts is good a creating a platform where you can take all of your skills in your classes and apply them to each other. for example if your an accounting major you most likley going to only take classes for that major at a regular college. if you come to a school like UNE where it is a liber arts school you are taking classes that have to o with all majors and all types of thinking and problem solving. I also believe that English is a big part in liberal arts because in every job you need to know how to read and write. “At its best, this comprehensive vision recognizes both the value and the limitations of such categories, along with the consequent need for interdisciplinary learning.”
2. Integrated curriculum I felt like it was easier to apply skills from one class to other things “Critical thinking is a key part of that shared epistemology, a set of skills that apply across the liberal arts curriculum.” made things easier to learn and to understand things from different angles. The view on the core handbook made things seem more valuable to learn about along with Scheuer’s views on intregated thinking . “At its best, this comprehensive vision recognizes both the value and the limitations of such categories, along with the consequent need for interdisciplinary learning.”