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A list of websites to help preservice candidates explore the ideas around whether or not schools are failing students.
Updated on Sep 23, 13
Created on Sep 27, 11
Category: Schools & Education
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Elizabeth Sturm's List: American Public Education: A Success or Failure?
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American Public Education: Success or Failure?
Problem Based Learning:
According to recent media and government officials, American public schools are failing in their attempts to educate students. Many different stakeholders are involved, each with their own agendas of blame-placing and solutions. As future educators, entering the system currently under attack, you need to understand the major stakeholder arguments. As Lewis candidates, upholding the three College of Education Unit standards of knowledgeable, critical transformative educator; multicultural educator; and social justice advocate, you will also be change agents, working to improve education for all students. To do so, you need to not only understand the problem and arguments, but also work to create and implement possible solutions.
Tonight, you will each use the internet to discover more about the problem, arguments, and solutions. You will follow the problem solving steps listed below. Then we will come together as a class to share knowledge and ideas, creating new knowledge and understanding. Finally, if time provides, you will work in small groups to write scholarly letters to newspapers or online sources with your group perspective on what is happening and what should be done. -
Five Steps to Problem Solving
Five Steps to Problem Solving:
1. Realize that a problem exists.
• Does a problem exist and, if so, what is the problem?
2. Understand the nature of the problem.
• Who’s involved? Who is affected? Where and when does it take place? Why is it happening? How did it start?
3. Compile relevant information.
• What information do we need? What format of information? What information do we have? How do we know what is true?
4. Formulate and carry out a solution.
• What are our options? Which solution is most efficient/cheapest/has best outcomes?
5. Evaluate the solution.
• Did it work? Why/why not? Would a different solution be better? Do we need more information? -
First, visit and read these three articles
All candidates will read all three articles.
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Next, take a look around some of these sites, gather additional information
You may pick and choose which sites to explore. Numerous stakeholders are represented within this list, along with many perspectives. These sites are in no particular order.
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