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Today, we will be speaking with Joseph Klunder. Joseph Klunder has founded the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge. Joseph Klunder will discuss this program and its implications for domestic and global education standards.
What is the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge?
The Joseph Klunder Education Challenge gets everyone the basics of education.
Essentially, students go from basic spoken English to the essentials of primary and secondary education: (1) language arts, (2) mathematics, (3) science, (4) humanities, and social studies.
At this point, the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge focuses more on curating existing websites and data while eventually creating proprietary programs, mostly handed out free of charge.
Why Would Someone Do the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge, When Millions of Schools Exist?
Very few teachers can answer and demonstrate, "What is the point of this activity?"
Indeed, organizing lesson plans is one of the most time-consuming but vital roles of any classroom teacher. By listing and organizing such activities, perhaps much of the preparation can be cut down into something more manageable for teachers worldwide. Every single teacher I ever spoke with has limited time, much more have scarce resources.
Worldwide What is the Most Pressing Need in Education Today?
Surprisingly enough, the numbers show the unmet need is a basic level of spoken English. While over a billion people speak English fluently, nearly seven billion have zero or near-zero English proficiency.
Between pedagogy and politics, there rages fierce debates over the best way to teach the elementary levels of English.
The Joseph Klunder Education Challenge supports Siegfried Engelmann's Direct Instruction Spoken English. Some organizations, such as the Queen's English in India, can offer this course for less than $1 US Dollar per student if schools purchase in large enough numbers and duration.
At more proficient levels, there is controversy over how to teach English, especially communicative English. Certain master teachers, such as Jim Scrivener, have created excellent guidebooks such as Learning Teaching and courses such as CELTA.
At the college level, individual universities have their way of teaching critical reading, writing, and thinking. Common websites such as Purdue's OWL lab plot the course. Renowned universities such as Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Iowa are examples of world-renowned English language and literature programs.
Hopefully, the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge can inspire students to take one more step toward their goal of English mastery.
If Someone Has Improved Communicative English, How Can They Get Started on Formal Education?
After World War 2, the US developed the GED education program so the general population could get a high school education quickly, which would be accepted by almost all universities. Today, the GED and HiSet are common high school equivalency tests that can prepare students for the basics needed for a high school education. Both tests are similar in design: language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, all done in English.
Once Someone Has Done a GED or HiSet, What Next?
Research has consistently shown a high school education is mandatory for any world citizen to pursue higher education or the workforce.
While most people would naturally think a college education is the better option, the data gives mixed results.
Research centers such as Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce conduct excellent evidence-based studies, explaining data in layman's terms.
Essentially, it is known that (a) the prestige of a school and (b) STEM majors have a higher lifetime return on investment than lesser-known schools in liberal arts majors.
However, there lie many shades of gray. Two-year certificates in engineering, nursing, allied health, and metallurgy can get employed faster and pay more per hour than a traditional four-year liberal arts degree. Conversely, degrees in technical fields are more needed and higher paying in the short and middle term; however, when the given company or industry hits hard times, such degrees' adaptability remains less certain. Answering "Path A" is clearly better than "Path B" becomes more difficult, especially for a general population.
So, In These Labor Economic Movements, How Can Someone Find The Right Path For Them?
This ambiguity is where mentorship comes in.
I founded the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge because I cared about students everywhere. I wanted to help them chart the path from preschool through graduate school. So far, the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge has added value to 100% of people.
I encourage anyone to contact me. https://www.wen-education.com/forum is a great place to contact me and get answers to questions, often with resources and links.
Any Interesting Work Fields That Many People Do Not Know About?
Career and Technical Education and Middle Skills Jobs are hot topics.
CTE Education is the successor to vocational education. Older American adults remember this as classes such as mechanics, welding, or other degrees that taught basic job skills. Since then, CTE has had a drastically increased budget and has classified almost every interest category into these jobs.
There is even a survey for Americans to find out which cluster they might be interested in.
The US Department of Labor even classified these middle-skill job clusters into job categories with extensive data.
Why Is This Field So Interesting?
People in the USA and most of the world most often start into low-skilled jobs. Without the right mix of education, training, and experience, most people begin at jobs with inherently low-paid, boring, and even miserable tasks.
Eventually, the fortunate few can use education to move into coveted fields like being a doctor, lawyer, or other prestigious work. Likewise, many use their work experience to go from being a clerk to a manager, low-level politician to a high-level, or other ways to move up the ranks.
However, middle-skills pathways can often help high school students get jobs in fields that are above the dreaded minimum wage. Young or adults can get into fields that do not require a doctor's ten years of education and training or a lawyer's three years of law school or clerking.
Psychologically, this mixture of education, training, and work can also be satisfying. Education often improves critical thinking skills, giving metaphysics for why the world works the way it does. But, spending day-after-day reading, writing, and doing abstract math problems can seem monotonous and irrelevant to daily life. Job training or military training provides needed declarative knowledge and "how to" procedural competency. However, such environments can be intense; skill development can seem boring without context. People often find work experience most rewarding, as they are paid a full wage, experience variety, and are with others. Unfortunately, sometimes job experience alone does not improve performance; additionally, long work hours mean little time for further education and training.
Middle-skills programs seem to provide a mix of these three things. Classroom time gives some theoretical education, although it is not the sole focus. There is copious training for a specific job (e.g., welding, nursing, engineering technicians). With the right mentorship and recruitment, a person can find and keep a job that pays a living wage.
This life challenge is what the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge is: helping people find a good fit in school, work, and life. Hopefully, the entire process is combined into a streamlined entity.
Everyone Seems to Have So Much Career Advice; How Do We Know If It is Good Advice?
Many of my family members served in the military. Some basic sayings seem true, such as "actions speak louder than words" and "lead by example."
I have enrolled in a Master's in Career and Technical Education. Hopefully, I will become a certified counselor who can help at the high school, young adult, and older adult levels. I welcome working with former incarcerated, disabled, and other populations worldwide.
To Summarize All Of This, What Is the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge?
Essentially, the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge wants people to prioritize their education and training goals to become more functional workers and members of society. In practice, this means much less television and social media, with much more hard work and sacrifice to reach the next goal.
No person should ever need to take this path alone. They should have lots of support along the way. Curiosity and persistence will be the driving force, "cannot do" is replaced with "not yet."
Hopefully, the Joseph Klunder Education Challenge can help people into a better life.
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