Education Essay 2 Possible Topics Academic achievement gap between rich and poor Effects of discrimination upon academic development Assessment - grading fairness, grading methods, testing, formative vs summative assessment, alternative assessment, portfolio assessment, cheating issues, or other “​Attribution style​” Bilingual Education- dual language, transitional bilingual, maintenance bilingual, and immersion programs, speech community model of bilingualism, or other Bullying Low income versus high income schools/curriculum and socio-economic status Child Obesity Collaborative learning College gender gap Confidence-self-efficacy Credit for life experience/valuing street smarts Critical thinking and creativity versus memorization and rule following Disproportionate achievement and the resource gap Educational reform​ ​- knowledge versus mental skills, memorization versus critical thought Educational Rights for Girls/Women Effective methods of teaching (project based learning, problem based learning, active versus traditional lecture and drill/teacher as authority vs facilitator) Effective technology use in schools Empowering minority students Engaging African-American men in academia/preventing drop out Engaging Latino-young men in academic/preventing drop out Engaging girls in Science/Women in STEM careers “Flipped Instruction” Method Graphic novels for teaching and learning Habits of effective learners Helping kids learn to read/Engaging kids in reading “Learned helplessness” Learning and affective factors (happiness, confidence, anxiety, or motivation) Literacy- how children learn to read, adult literacy “​Locus of Control​” Mindset research Motivation​- intrinsic, extrinsic, integrative Multicultural curriculum/Ethnic studies Parent involvement “​Performance Orientation​” Plagiarism Reaching struggling boys Recognizing different types of intelligence School Funding School Lunches Self-regulation and metacognition in learning Strategy use- language learning strategies -cognitive, metacognitive strategies Student Resilience The digital divide The Impact of Teacher/School Expectations upon students Learning communities Essay 2: Education Essay Background Readings: Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass Prologue to I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (check audio file to listen!) Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff • Blue Color Brilliance by Mike Rose Assignment: Analyze a significant issue in education and propose a specific solution. Thesis statement: Your thesis introduces the issue, its significance, and your proposed solution. Evidence: Use at least one quote from the essays you have read for class, as well as two or more quotes or paraphrases from your Library research. Since this is not a personal essay, using "I," except for the use of anecdotes, is not appropriate Consider these Questions: 1. Why is this issue significant? 2. What are different aspects of the issue? 3. What are some of the challenges this issue creates? Who does it impact? 4. What factors contribute to or cause the issue? 5. What possible solutions are being proposed? 6. What resources might be involved in the solution? 7. What are some of the limitations of these solutions? Requirements: MLA compliance. See below and check off when done: 2-4 pages 12 point font 1 inch margins on all sides. Left margin justified Full name, class, professor, assignment, and date in left hand corner Page number in right hand corner Title Centered, unbolded, first letter of each content word capped Double space entire essay (No space between paragraphs) Indent five spaces for paragraph Works Cited list and in-text citations correctly formatted
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