Courses advance in the new millennium

By AMY CAZEL
Features Editor

By 2009 the courses at Ben L. Smith will be variations on the current offerings. Students will be able to take classes either at Smith, with a very small number per class, or from their homes on individual laptops. Also, students will have a much more sophisticated level of class work. There will be such a variety courses that students will be able to take specific courses towards their majors in college. Students will not declare their major , however ,until their sophomore year. This way students can take a varied course load as freshmen and then from that experience they will be able to start on their way towards college courses.

With the diversified world that these students will be living in, new skills will be a must. Some of these courses will range from sign language and Braille to space travel preparation. As students decide on their majors they will be able to take courses to better prepare them for college studies. These will be a requirement for college application. With this experience, college graduates will be better trained and the United States workers’ abilities will exceed all other countries. These excellent graduates also will have a wide range of opportunities such as over- seas jobs.

The classroom situation will also drastically change for the better. Students will not be prohibited from eating or drinking in class. As long as the quality of the students work stays up to par then these privileges will remain applicable to them. Students who break these rules will be the only ones punished.

Another new advance in school classroom arrangement will be because of better prepared teachers. Now anyone with a degree can apply to be a teacher, and specifically in North Carolina almost all who apply get these jobs. With the increase in pay that has been promised to students who are becoming teachers now, the teaching profession will be a desired one. This will cause a great increase in people desiring to be teachers. There actually could be a waiting list to be a teacher. You then will see better performance out of teachers and students will learn more. An increase in pay will benefit the United States as a whole by developing more intelligent future.

Few desire to be teachers now. Therefore, considerable numbers of today’s teachers are very poor at what they do. This results in low-performing students. As enthusiastic teachers, better classrooms and a wide variety of courses come into the school system, Smith will see its students learn more and better than ever before. Furthermore, the varied courses that will be offered will better prepare are students for college-level work. College will no longer be thought of as a place only for certain students, but a place reachable for all students. Today only about 20 percent of adults today have a college degree.


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