Writning Assignment
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
Introduction to the Problem
In America increasingly students are graduating from high school than ever before. According to the Insider (2019), last yeast about 85% of the country's graduating class walked across the stage and receive their high school. As the graduating rate increase nationwide, we as a country are also witnessing a surge in schools’ enrollment around the country. This generally a positive development for our country's educational system but it does provide some consequence, in particular, is overcrowded classrooms and a shortage of educators. In a report from Learning Policy Institute, the educator shortage crisis is present, and it will get worst and the educator occupation is at its lowest point in 20years (Floyd, 2019). Overcrowding in schools has become major fretfulness in our educational system that most states are compelled to take legislative action to limit the number of students per classroom.
In 2002, the state of Florida citizens approved an amendment to the Florida Constitution Titled Chapter 2003-391, Laws of Florida. Which implemented the amendment by requiring the number of students in each classroom to be reduced by at least two students per year beginning in the 2003-04 school year, until the maximum number of students per classroom did not exceed the requirements in law (Class Size, n.d.). To get a better understanding of the crisis at hand that our educational system is facing a survey will be conducted collecting data from educators, students, and education administrators. This study will aid educators, students, and education administration to increase performance in an overcrowded classroom across the nation with the use of innovative technology. The data collected from this survey can aid educators, students and administrators improve their performance in an overcrowded classroom environment. This study will attempt to address the performance of educators, students, and decision making of education administration of overcrowded classroom schools with the use of technology; were as studies before had only address reducing overcrowded classroom sizes. Previous studies were focused on reducing the size of overcrowded and not focus on the performance of educators and students in the classroom. The data collected from this study will provide educators, students, and administrators dealing with overcrowded classrooms and improve performance and decision making. This study will attempt to improve educators, students’ performance, and administrator’s decision making in an overcrowded education environment.
Background, Context and Theoretical Framework of the Study
Overcapacity is one of the most noteworthy matters confronting educators and students in America today. This issue is a blend of growth in population, a lack of educators, and a reduction in financing which has caused class sizes to ascend. The ideal class sizes should be topped at 15 to 20 students in a perfect educational environment (Hachem, 2019). Unfortunately, countless classrooms are normally exceedingly surpassing the 20-student mark, and even in certain circumstances, schools surpass more than 30 students in one class. It is presently a typical thing to have overcrowding classrooms in schools. In any case, this issue isn't probably going to be resolved soon, so educators and school administration must think of plans and answers to minimize the negative effect of overcrowded classrooms in schools across America. In the words of Benjamin Franklin “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” History has shown us the exchange of past knowledge, abilities, and ethical values of cultures from age to age has aide individuals in providing positive contributions to one’s self, society, and help guide others to develop their potentialities. It is the communication of stored knowledge and the value of society. The prominence of education made the foundation of the school essential; a school is an environment dedicated to learning; it serves as a focal point where all forms of education are provided. It is an environment that produces educated women and men.
Considering the significance of the school environment, the condition of schools in America especially public schools in low-income areas. As the population increase in America, it has resulted in an increase in the population of school enrollment in children and adolescents. Most governments funded schools are overcrowded and accordingly exist with natural and classroom issues like performance, learning curve, commotions, and fighting among students. Because of these issues, this research materialized utilizing a qualitative study to analyze the impact of overcrowding classrooms and the impact it has on the performance of educators, students, and administrators. It is anticipated that this study will provide a deeper look into the condition of public schools and the deteriorating level of education that being provided to students.
Statement of the Problem
It is not known how and to what degree the negative impact and an overcrowded classroom can have on the productivity of educators, administrators, and the self-confidence of students be exaggerated in overcrowded classrooms. Trying to keep students focus can be a difficult task when the students to educator ratio start to increase, and when a classroom has reached its capacity, the educator’s role turns from educator to crowd control and becomes a stressful environment for all parties. With larger classroom sizes, students may not feel a sense of easy to ask questions or seek additional assistance, so quieter or less confident students are at risk of staying under the radar. Educators are confronted with the tasks that surface in overcrowded classrooms as they are accountable for educating and students in a learning environment. Educator's concerns are being addressed as they left to deal with oversize classrooms and all the issues that come with it.
According to Lanny and Hall (2010) educating to educator relation ties directly to the quality of education. These issues greatly impact an educator’s quality of education and diminish the learning experience in an overcrowded classroom. Educators can become very frustrated when dealing with issues that prevent them from providing quality education in a learning environment. In any learning environment, you have diversity and students with different needs. Students learn at different rates and students may need individual assistance because of learning barriers. Prior studies indicated issues related to overcrowded classrooms. This study focuses on the performance of educators, students, and administrators in an overcrowded learning environment.
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of overcapacity classrooms in America and the performance of educators, students, and administrators. How can the productive of educators, administrators, and the self-confidence of students be exaggerated in overcrowded classrooms? How students are effective to grow mentally and socially in an overcapacity classroom? And the correlation between educator and student performance in an overcapacity classroom? Questions such as these stimulate the cause of this study. This study will be a survey based. Therefore, the data collected will be organized and presented in charts and percentages. For this reason, a geometric approach will be utilized to conclude. Essentially few key aspects will be targeted in this study specifically, decrease in educators’ performance, the learning environment, decrease in student performance, and the mental growth of both student and educator will be evaluated through the aid of interviews, survey s. This study will bare how and to what degree overcrowded classrooms can impact students’ academic success and how educators can effectively control the learning environment. Overcrowding a classroom can have a direct a serious impact on learning. Educators prefer to educate in smaller classroom sizes because they are less stressful and easier to handle. This study will provide data that can be useful to educators, students, administrators, and even the government to consider the issue and act on the issue to improve the education system in America.
Research Questions or Hypotheses
Qualitative Studies
This research will attempt to answer the following questions:
1. What are the difficulties administrators, teachers, and students face in over-crowded classrooms in teaching-learning performance?
2. What are the solutions to the complications' administrators, teachers, and students face due to overcrowded classrooms on teacher and student's dealings in the teaching and learning process?
3. What is the influence of overcrowded classrooms have on teacher and students’ interactions in teaching and learning performance?
Rationale for the Proposed Study
The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of overcapacity classrooms in America and the performance of educators, students, and administrators. With the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB, 2002), providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education. A quality learning environment that provides educational support for some student’s crowd isn’t necessarily the greatest answer for entire student crowds. I want to study the performance of educators, students, and decision making of administrators who deal with the difficulties of classroom sizes daily; who see firsthand how classroom sizes can affect the quality of education in a learning environment. By linking educators, students, and administrator decision to an overcapacity learning environment, this study may offer firm data indicating a necessity for change in our educational policy to address the delivery of quality of education in a learning environment for all students present and future students.
Relevance of the Study
As an educator myself and as an individual seeking a leadership degree to utilized in the education system, I believe this study will aid educators, students, and administrators in producing positive results in an overcrowded classroom circumstance. In an article written by a reporter of The New Times (2011), crowded schools deliver various adverse impacts that influence students' and educator's performance. The higher the number of students in a classroom, the lower the results. With such a large number of students pressed into a single class, an educator probably won't have the option to provide quality education to students who need extra help. As a result, this will lead to a negative impact on the performance of both educators and students in the classroom. Which can stem from students being clumped together and misbehaving in the classroom behind the educator back, thus affecting other students learning experience?
Significance of the Study
This study examines the performance of educators, students, and administrators in an overcrowded learning environment. The data generated from this study will enable educational leaders to think about offering workshops, support structures, and training that prepare educators with the necessary skillset to overcome the challenges of an overcrowded classroom. This study furthermore provides educational leaders with information that can aid them to develop new strategies and reallocate capital to assist educators to manage overcrowded classrooms. The allocated capital can be utilized to aid schools to hire more educators and provide better resources to the students. This study also produces data for education policymakers to take into consideration of overcrowded classrooms when developing of educational policy that is not intended or modified for overcrowded classrooms. As research, I have noticed that numerous researches have been conducted on overcrowded classrooms but none of these researches have given ample focus on the performance educators, students, and administrators.
Nature of the Study
This study will embrace the qualitative method. A qualitative approach contains composed information in the form of verbal or written. This study method is chosen to gain insight into the performance of educators, students, and the decision making of administrators in an overcrowded classroom environment. This method will allow all participants to fully express their concerns and produce valuable data which is why the study is a performance using a qualitative approach.
This study is guided by a qualitative approach that methodical inquiry into the social atmosphere in a natural setting. These type settings can be included, but are not regulated to professional experiences, how individuals and/or groups act, how institutes operate, how interactions lead to better performances. In a qualitative approach, the researcher is the primary instrument of data collection. As the researcher, I will examine all events that occur concerning all subject’s performance in an overcapacity classroom in a learning environment.
This research will be conducted in the form of a survey study. A survey is a questionnaire or a sequence of questions that are directed to selected individuals who respond to the questionnaire that would provide insight into the context of the issue as well as exemplifying the key point of this study. The survey study is being used because of numerous individuals in learning institutions. Therefore, the survey study is a design fit for this study since it will be investigating and defining the performance of educators, students, and administrators in an overcapacity learning environment. This allows any individual insight into all parties affected by an overcrowded learning environment.
The Definition of Terms
There are a number of terms that are important to this study. As such, the following terms are operationally defined:
Administrators. Is a person who ensures that an organization operates efficiently. Their specific duties depend on the type of company, organization, or entity where they work. Above all, administrators need to be highly organized and have excellent communication skills (MBN, 2019).
Classroom. a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business (n.d.)
Classroom Management. refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to ensure that their classroom runs smoothly, without disruptive behavior from students. (Mulvahill, 2018).
Educator. An educator stands shoulder to shoulder with the learner and shares a vision of what can be or how to make the past better. Exploration of facts can lead to deep questioning that instills marvel and astonishment. This can assist the learner in journeying through the joys and frustrations of trying out something new. The educator is there to support, encourage, and lend a guiding hand to what can be, at times, the "painful" experience of learning deeply (Schmidt, 2019).
Overcrowded Classroom. The number of students exceeds the optimum level such that it causes hindrance in the teaching-learning process (Akech, 2016).
Performance. The accomplishment of a given task measured against preset known standards of accuracy, completeness, cost, and speed. In a contract, performance is deemed to be the fulfillment of an obligation, releasing the performer from all liabilities under the contract (n.d.).
Assumptions, Limitations, and Delimitations
Assumptions
The following assumptions will be present in this Study:
1. Overcrowded classrooms can be harmful to educators and student's performance.
2. The use of innovative technology will positively impact educators' and students' performance in an overcrowded classroom at the K-12 level.
3. This Study will aid leaders to make better decisions at the administration level in the educational system.
Limitations
The following limitations will be present in this Study:
1. The sample size and sampling method used will make it difficult to generalize the results of the whole population of administration, educators, and students via surveys.
2. The acceptance of the survey by administrators, educators, and students.
3. Determining the data collected from the survey is accurate.
Delimitations
The following delimitations will be present in this Study:
1. The survey for this Study will only be done in the United States
2. The survey can only be completed by an educational administrator, educators, or student at the K-12 level.
Chapter 1 Summary
The chapter presented a summary and background to educator familiarities with overcrowded classrooms. The trials such as discipline, management, lack of space, emotional and psychological issues, and increased workload faced by educators in overcrowded classrooms were identified, and the problem's statement was outlined. Educators have had negative experiences with crowded classrooms that caused them to abandon the education profession and become deeply affected by this situation. The importance of this Study was also outlined. This chapter will present the rationale for the Study as well as the objectives and critical questions guiding the research. The research design and methodology were also presented. The next chapter will review literature about educators, students and administration experiences with overcrowded classrooms.
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