Section 1: Schools and Classrooms
- Images of schools
- Classroom environments
- School issues
- Education reform
Schools & Classrooms
Topics
- What are schools like?
- What do we think schools are like?
Activities
- Video views of schools and classrooms
- Initial discussion of student portfolios and weblogs
- See “Education Web Logs” on Tech & Learning
Assignments
- Introduction to Current Events and Sample
- Current Events is an ongoing weekly assignment. Each week, 2–3 students:
- Communicate with each other to select a current article relevant to K-12 education and come up with three guiding questions for online discussion.
- Email the article link and three questions to the teaching assistant.
- Lead a discussion that incorporates their own thoughts and those raised online.
- Current Events is an ongoing weekly assignment. Each week, 2–3 students:
Readings
- [Learn] = Chapter 1: Learning: From Speculation to Science.
- Dalton, Mary M. The Hollywood Curriculum. Peter Lang Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 9780820468211.
Topics
- Education reform: Waiting for Superman wrap up
- Some links in response to Waiting for Superman:
- Strauss, Valerie. “What ‘Superman’ Got Wrong, Point by Point,” The Washington Post, September 27, 2010.
- Ravitch, Diane. “The Myth of Charter Schools.” The New York Review of Books, November 11, 2010.
- Rhoten, Diane. “We Are Not Waiting for Superman. We Are Empowering Superheroes.” Startl.org. September 24, 2010.
Activities
- How does reform address (or fail to address) the problems in education?
- Learning Environments Jigsaw (PDF)
- What are the major problems in education? Brainstorming
- Result of brainstorm: list of major problems (PDF)
Readings
- “No Child Left Behind,” Education Week, August 4, 2011.
- Jennings, Jack, and Diane Stark Rentner. “Ten Big Effects of the No Child Left Behind Act on Public Schools.” Center on Education Policy, November 1, 2006.
- No Child Left Behind: Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Weiss, Joanne. “Education’s ‘Race to the Top’ Begins,” Education Week, September 13, 2010.
- Robelen, Erik W. “Race to Top Winner Embed STEM Projects in Plans,” Education Week, September 9, 2010.
- Race to the Top Official Site
- Elmore, Richard. School Reform from the Inside Out: Policy, Practice, and Performance. Harvard Education Pub Group, 2004. ISBN: 9781891792502.
- Cuban, Larry. Frogs into Princes: Writings on School Reform. Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College, 2008. ISBN: 9780807748596.
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