ED 302 Foundations

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ED 302 Foundations by Mind Map: ED 302 Foundations

1. 2. Teacher quality is trying recruit top notch teachers to your school and effective school movement states that there are characteristics that can be applied to make good schools.

2. Question 2. Knowledge and attitudes- this teaches that the higher a students social class may be then the farther they will go and the better they will do in education. 2. De facto segregation- which says that students still segregate themselves based on what makes them feel comfortable and that racial integration benefits the minorities more than the majority. 3. Student peer groups and alienation- which says that a student body is split up between rebellious students, nerds, cool students and athletes. 4. Employment- more education results in better job opportunities and what school you attend could have an impact on a job you get. However, school does not properly prepare you for a work environment. 5. Gender bias- schools are still using gender inequality but it is leveling.

3. Question 1. 1. Functional poses that society is best when a consensus rules. Education creates the moral unity for social cohesion and harmony. Conflict is a breakdown of shred values. 2. Conflict poses that influential groups impose their will on subordinate groups. 3. Interactional poses that society develops as a result of interactions between students and teachers.

4. Sociological Perspectives

5. Philosophy of Education

5.1. Goal of Education The goal of education is educate young minds and make a better society. Kids should be better educated in order to prepare them for the life after school. It is up to education to lay the foundation to what the society and culture of what our country will be in the future.

5.2. Role of Teacher The role of a teacher can feature many different levels. A teacher is first and foremost a source of knowledge, to the students a teacher is the one that has every answer to a question they may have. A teacher almost must be a strong role model. The kind of attitude and the persona that a teacher presents has a profound effect on students, whether you see it or not. Finally, a teacher must be a facilitator of learning and developmental growth. It is up to the teacher to development a child as a student. What a student learns, how the learn and the habits of education that they pick up directly fall on a teacher’s developing skills.

5.3. Methods of Instruction Methods of instruction in a classroom are important to helping a student grow and develop. Every student learns in a different way, so having multiple methods is the best way to educate. Methods such as projects, both short and long term, and hands on opportunities such as experiments are ways to get students involved and to get them to think outside the box. Lecturing may be the least productive of methods of teaching, but it is still a vital part of education. It is also important to have individual work, to get students to learn to figure things out on their own. Field trips are also an important method, as some students learn better by seeing and interacting with something than they do reading and hearing about it in a classroom.

5.4. Curriculum Each school should follow a basic guideline of curriculum. At the top of curriculum should be the four core subjects of math, science, history and English. Everything a student is taught should be built on these subjects. Then you throw in other subjects that can helps kids gauge their interest of what they might like to do after school. Physical education and fine arts should also be taught. Then, what I think could be the most important curriculum taught is life skills and character ed. Knowing how to read, write and do math is ultra-important, but it is equally important that a student learn to grow as a person and to know how to go after life when school is over.

6. Schools as Organizations

6.1. US Senators Luther Strange and Richard Shelby. State Superintendent- Ed Richardson. Hartselle superintendent- Dee Dee Jones.

6.2. Sumative evaluations are like pen and paper tests, projects or anything hands on. Anything that can be given a grade. Informative evaluation- evaluation based on all your work overall. Forming en educated opinion about a student.

6.3. John Goodlad says that teachers must have a major part in reform. Reality is hard to ignore. Everyday life is a struggle for survival.

7. Equality of Opportunity

7.1. Question 1. Class Schools represent the middle and upper class. Parental income is directly related to educational achievement and test performance Race Race has a direct impact on how much educational attainment a person achieves. Minorities do not receive the same educational opportunities as white Americans. Gender In the last twenty years significant gains have been made to equalize gender educational and professional attainment. Disparities still exist in education and job salaries.

7.1.1. Question 2. The Coleman Study 1982 Private school students outperform public school students. Differences in schools do make a difference. The difference is in how much more demanding private schools are of their students.

8. Educational Reform

8.1. Question 1. School Choice- is the question that asks whether students should be allowed to pick the school they go to. charter schools are public schools that are free of many of the relegations of public schools.

9. Laws that affected

10. Question 1. The Humanistic curriculum theory is a theory that puts emphasis on student choices. In this theory, students are encouraged to make daily choices and work on making life choices

11. Question 1. The four purposes of education1. Intellectual- which is teaching kids the basic knowledge that they need to know in the four core subjects of math, science, history and language arts. 2. Political- to teach kids the basic rights that they will have as citizens and to teach American way of life. 3. Social- to teach kids ho to function in society 4. Economic- preparing kids for life after school and whatever occupation they may choose.

12. Politics of Education

12.1. Question 2. 1. Role of the school- for this I am choosing the conservative perspective. I think the role of the school of the school should be to teach the the basic things that every student should learn but also teach them cultural values and how to operate in society. 2. definition of unequal performance for this one I am going with the liberal view. The liberal view empowers individuals and it teaches them that not every student does well in the same areas. 3. definition of education problems- the radical perspective works best here. A radical view believes that education empowers a hierarchy and inequality.

13. History of U.S. Education

13.1. Question 1. When of the reforms that I think had one of the most profound effects on education today is brown v. Topeka board of education, which of course was a law passed that deemed segregated schools to be unconstitutional. This country has preached that all men are created equal since it was born, but we've been fighting an uphill battle with inequality since day 1. In post World War II this country was stronger than ever, but there was still division. This law and ultimately the Civil rights act helped move us closer together, sadly today were seeing similar problems rise up again, but there is no doubt that this was a huge reform for education.

13.2. laws that affected education 1. Civil Rights act 1963 2. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 3. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

13.3. Lee vs. Maples board of education 1971-72

13.4. Question 2. One of the historical viewpoints of education is that it was there because there were some things that family, church and community couldn't teach you. Without school there was no way you could be a functioning member of society capable of making a difference in the democracy.

14. Curriculum & Pedagogy

14.1. Question 2. The two dominant traditions of teaching are mimetic and transformative. Mimetic is conservative and says that there is a basic core of knowledge to be learned by all. Transformative says that students needs should be the main focus of the curriculum

15. Educational Inequality

15.1. Question 1. Genetic differences states that differences and factors in education are based on genetics. Cultural deprivation theory states education factors come from a child's culture.

15.2. Question 2. School financing shows that differences between school funding factor into education. effective school research states that differences in school resources does not factor into academic achievement.between school takes a look at teh community while within school takes a lokk at the school.

16. Limits and Promises of Education Chapter 1

16.1. The achievement gap 1. Elementary secondary education act 1965 2. Tried to erase discrepancies in opportunities. 3. NCLB re-established these efforts in 2001 4. Because of testing, teaching gaps have widened 5. Causes are due to funding, environment, teacher quality

16.1.1. Crisis in Urban Education 1. Demographic trends 2. Social stratification 3. Socioeconomic/ academic achievement 4. Inequalities in school systems 5. school choice is an issue

16.2. Decline in literacy 1. basic skills of fundamentals 2. teaching to the test 3. pass them on due to age and no place to go 4. schools become over crowded 5. raising academic standards (for whom)

16.2.1. Assessment issues What have we measured? How do we use our data? What does the curriculum look like?