Post Prompts ED253 SP19

WebPost Prompt: School to Prison Pipeline 

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Mallett’s (2016) The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Critical Review of the Punitive Paradigm and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, address the following prompt:

  1. Which factor discussed do you think contributed the most to the school to prison pipeline?
  2. Did your school adopt the zero-tolerance policy? If not, do you think the policy would have made you feel safer?

Assignment Due 25 April and BlogPost Discussion concerning Mallett, C. (2016). The School-to-Prison Pipeline | LCI, LCII, LCIII

Resources

WebPost Prompt: Unauthorized immigrant students in the United States

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Sulkowski, M. L. (2017). Unauthorized immigrant students in the United States: The current state of affairs and the role of public education and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, address the following prompt  (Choose I):

  1. How do current trends in United States immigration laws align with historical trends? Compare and contrast using any of the information from the website mentioned earlier in the presentation.
  2. What are your feelings and insights on the trauma regarding immigration in relation to academic success? How can we assist our students as administrators and teachers?
  3. Using terminology from the learning experience, discuss what you now know about FAPE, DACA, and/or ICE. (See text for further explanations and examples of these terms.)

Assignment Due 16 April | LCI, LCII, LCIV Unauthorized immigrant students in the US

Sulkowski, M. L. (2017). Unauthorized immigrant students in the United States: The current state of affairs and the role of public education. Children & Youth Services Review, 77, 62–68.

WebPost Prompt: Resegregation as curriculum

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Rosiek and Kinslow (2016) Resegregation as curriculum and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, address the following prompt:

  1. After viewing your demographics from your own high school, do you think that segregation is making a comeback in American schools today?
  2. After learning about the Brown v. Board of Education and the Green v. County School Board Supreme Court Case, what is the difference between the two and what was their impact on American schools?

Assignment Due Tuesday 9 April BlogPost Resegregation| LCI, LCIII, LCIV

LCI Learning Experiences Resources on Resegregation as curriculum. 

Rosiek, J. and Kathy Kinslow, K. (2016). Resegregation as curriculum: the meaning of the new segregation in U.S. public schools. Chapter 1 Resegregation in Riverton and the Nation. pp. 1-18. New York: Routledge.

BlogPost School Choice: the story of an idea

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Diane Ravitch’s (2010) chapter, Choice: the story of an idea and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, address the following prompt:

  • Do you believe school choice is fundamentally against the “democratic vision of public education”?  If so, how? If not, why?
  • How can charter schools have detrimental effects on public schools? (Think: who are the majority of charter students?)
  • Look at how Shanker first envisioned charter schools to be. How did they go from teacher-run, experimental schools to cooperate run businesses?
Assignment Due Tuesday 2 April BlogPost Discussion concerning Ravitch, D. (2010) The Death and Life | LCII, LCIII, LCIV

Ravitch, D. (2010) The Death and Life of the Great American School System. Chapter 7 Choice: the story of an idea. pp. 113-148. New York: Basic Books.

WebPost Prompt: The Progressive Era

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Fraser’s (2014) chapter about the Progressive Era and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, address the following prompt:

  1. In your opinion, which Progressive Era figure had the greatest impact on the education system of today?
  2. What do you think was the most defining characteristic of the Progressive Era?
  3. Do you believe that the Administrative Leaders should come from a background in business experience or come from teachers with experience in a classroom?

(~500 thoughtful words)

Assignment Due Tuesday 26 March | LCI, LCII, LCIII

Fraser, J. (2014). Chapter 8: The Progressive Era, 1890-1950. The School in the United States. New York: Routledge. pp. 204-241.

Resources

BlogPost Gender Identity

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Meyer, E. (2007) What Straight Teachers Need to Know about Queer Theory and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, address the following prompt:

  1. Think about the current issues in today’s society regarding the LGBTQ+ community, and then discuss what we are able to do as future teachers to make sure everyone feels included in the classroom.  
  2. Using the definitions from the article (seen in this Powerpoint) and the ones you created in class, compare and contrast them.

(~500 thoughtful words)

Assignments Due 19 March: and BlogPost Discussion concerning Meyer, E. (2007).  “But I’m Not Gay.”| LCI, LCII, LCIV

Meyer, E. (2007).  “But I’m Not Gay”: What Straight Teachers Need to Know about Queer Theory. In N. Rodriguez & W. Pinar (Eds.), Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education. (pp. 15-32). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

BlogPost Paulo Freire & Schooling as Liberation (LCI)

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Freire, P. (2013/1972). The banking concept of education and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, address the following prompt:

According to Freire, compare and contrast the banking method of education and problem posing (liberation) method of education. Discuss, with examples, how each method affects students inside classrooms today.

(~500 thoughtful words)

Assignment Due in class Tuesday 12 March (LCs I, III, IV)

Freire, P. (2013/1972). The banking concept of education. In A. S. Canestrari & B. A. Marlowe (Eds.), Education foundations: An anthology of critical readings (3rd ed., pp. 103-115). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

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Post Prompt Testing and Accountability

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Koretz, D. (2017). The testing charade: pretending to make schools better and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, discuss the following questions:

  • How does test prep methods corrupt the idea of good teaching? Can you distinguish one from the other? If so, how? If not, why?
  • How do you think test prep methods have been relevant in your educational development. As a future educator that was constantly exposed to test prep methods, what steps can you take to avoid teaching to the test?
  • What is the point of testing? What are the benefits or disadvantages? How can we evaluate student success without tests?

~ 500 amazing words!

Assignment due in class on Tuesday 26 February

Post Prompt Church & State and the Hidden Curriculum 

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Cheuk & Quinn (2018). Dismantling the Wall between Church and State: The Case of Public Education &  Bigelow (2008) Introduction: A People’s History, A People’s Pedagogy, and with references to the text and to the work we did in class, discuss the following questions:

  1. Do you think a wall still exists between church and state? Why or why not?
  2. What do you think can be done to increase the diversity of historical perspectives in the classroom?

~ 500 amazing words!

Assignment due in class on Tuesday 19 February

Post Prompt Deculturalization & the Failure of the Common School

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Joel Spring’s (2018) chapter, “Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal,” and with references to the text and the work we did in class, discuss the following questions:

1. What is the meaning of race?
2. What freedoms do we need to give our students, culturally and in general?
3. Why is multiculturalism relevant to the common school movement?
4. What struck you about the video Can School Integration Make a Comeback?
 No more that 500 words!

Assignment due in class on Tuesday 12 February

Post Prompt The Common School

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Fraser, J. (2014). Chapter 3: The Common School Movement, 1820-1860, with references to the text and the work we did in class discuss the following questions:

  1. What did you find most interesting about this reading?
  2. What is your thought on Horace Mann’s thought on the “common school”.
  3. In Catharine Beecher’s section what interested you the most?

Fraser, J. (2014). Chapter 3: The Common School Movement, 1820-1860. The School in the United States. New York: Routledge. pp. 40-73.

Link to the Google Slides

No more that 500 word!

Assignment due in class on Tuesday 5 February

Post Prompt Maxine Greene

Based on your reading and our shared analysis of Wide-awakeness and the moral life, with references to the text and the work we did in class answer one or two of the following questions:

  • Why is Greene writing to teachers?
  • How are we to educate our students?
  • What is the meaning of education?
  • What Maxine Greene means by being awake?
  • What Maxine Greene means by the moral life?

No more that 500 word!

Assignment due in class on Tuesday 29 January

WebPost1: CLASS SURVEY 

When you have completed your first blog post, please publish it to the Internet and send the address of your weblog to me in an email message.  Use the email address you expect me to use to communicate with you this semester.

Personal information

  1. What name do you prefer to be called? Do you have preferred pronouns?
  2. Hometown and photograph of you (inserted in your blog so we can connect you with your name).
  3. Grade level and subject(s) that you want to teach.
  4. What are you into; what makes you special? Share a few “unique” aspects about yourself that would help our classroom community get to know you a bit more. Are you on an athletic team? Sing in the choir?  Are you trying out for a play? Painting? What are you planning on doing this semester in your life that is noteworthy?
  5. I want to know what matters most to you.  To this end, please share with the class an essay that is essential to your interests. (Include the reference/link to the essay [chapter, article, website] and a few sentences about its significance to you).
  6. Which course-approved service activity did you enroll in through CSSA’s registration website?  To enroll follow these links:

Learning Style and more: 

7. Being as specific as you can, what must be in place for you to feel comfortable taking intellectual and creative risks in a college classroom?

Education Past and Present

8. Please discuss what are, for you, some significant issues or concerns facing the field of education right now.

About Dr. Shutkin:

9. Write down a question or two that you would like to ask me about myself or the class.

Thank you and all good things,

Dr. Shutkin