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Education

As you enter: Mark a tally mark on the board to indicate if you agree or a disagree with the following statement: “My high school education was high quality.”. Education. Today: Guest Speaker-El Camino Counseling Services 3 theories on AIDS/HIV Your experiences and 3 theories on education

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Education

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  1. As you enter: Mark a tally mark on the board to indicate if you agree or a disagree with the following statement: “My high school education was high quality.” Education • Today: • Guest Speaker-El Camino Counseling Services • 3 theories on AIDS/HIV • Your experiences and 3 theories on education • Solutions

  2. In-class activities • Reviewed but not graded • Go towards participation points • Underlined statements = good point • Must be COMPLETE to earn credit • Must be legible

  3. 3 theories on HIV

  4. Your experiences Prepare to share your expertise: • CHOICE A: Functions of Schooling. • CHOICE B: Problems in education • CHOICE C: Racial inequality • CHOICE D International Perspective on Schooling. • CHOICE E: Self-fulfilling prophecy in Education • CHOICE F: Solutions Walk to your team 1. Introduce yourselves and write down their name 2. Ask them what they wrote about 3. After speaking with them write down 1-2 things that stood out to you 4. Thank them and speak with the next person

  5. Team 7 McCrea Chaytn Hookey Scott Uyama Akihito Vasquez Cynthia Bailey Jennifer Team 8 Baskerville Sterling Lopez Katya Dewitz Robert Plascencia Eduardo Santos Kenny Team 9 Vittoria Maria Kim Daniel Welker Donald Alarcon Evelina Ayala Wilfredo Team 4 McHugh Shane Terrell Jashin Pool Edwin Kim Ye Won Gerdes Lucy Team 5 Rodriguez Jacqueline Choi Hilary Garduno Jessica Guzman Ashley Martinez Bianca Team 6 Fitts Devaughn Rodriguez Daisy Baca Yennifer Corado Roy Livingston Cassandra Team 1 Ramirez Marlen Beal Ian Guerrero Sergio Perez Jocelyn Rodriguez Evelyn La Scala Patrick Team 2 Gomez Jessenia Wade Lamont Gabra Angy Khan Seem Obusan Stephanie Santos Alyssa Team 3 Quintana Stephanie Carranza Sara Galvan Verenice Mejia Ayala Jennifer Dixon Ladawn Team 10 Turner Chantina Muralles Elizabeth De Leon Shally Infante Mayte Kim Matthew

  6. Your experiences Prepare to share your expertise: • CHOICE A: Functions of Schooling. • CHOICE B: Problems in education • CHOICE C: Racial inequality • CHOICE D International Perspective on Schooling. • CHOICE E: Self-fulfilling prophecy in Education • CHOICE F: Solutions Walk to your team 1. Introduce yourselves and write down their name 2. Ask them what they wrote about 3. After speaking with them write down 1-2 things that stood out to you 4. Thank them and speak with the next person

  7. Functionalist View Role of education is to • Socialize members of society • Instruct-Train for occupations • Sort society into groups/statues (graduate, honors, student, college-bound) • Supervising

  8. Conflict View Education is a mechanism that produces and reproduces inequality in society View: Trading Schools, Inequality in education

  9. Problems in education Think about your high school experience “My high school education was high quality.” • Low academic achievement • School dropouts • Crime and violence • Inadequate facilitates • Low quality teachers Which of these have you experienced? Was it a quality education? Do you feel you had access to the resources you needed?

  10. Who is Jonathan Kozol? • Educational Sociologist • Author of: Savage Inequalities The Shame of The Nation Letters To A Young Teacher Illiterate America • Kozol has founded and is running a non-profit called Education Action

  11. Symbolic Interactionst View Focuses on what arises from the interaction process during the schooling experience (specifically teacher student interaction) Labeling Self-fulfilling prophecy “Spurters”

  12. High School Profile Thomas Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles • The state average graduation rate for 2009-2010 was 83.3% • The graduation rate at Thomas Jefferson High School was 54%.

  13. What is being done? • Charter Schools • Head Start • Career Technical Education / School to Work Programs • Privatization of schools

  14. What are Charter Schools? • Public schools • State funded but free of some rules and regulations in exchange for accountability (producing certain results) which are set forth in each school's charter. • Some charter schools provide a curriculum that specializes in a certain field (arts, mathematics, college prep etc.) • Some charter schools are founded by teachers, or activists who feel restricted by traditional public schools Pros and Cons

  15. What is Head Start? • Private, non-profit early childhood intervention organization • Provide education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. • Aim to prepare low-income children for school by providing language and academic skills other children may learn at home from their parents

  16. What is Career Technical Education ? Am education design focused on hands-on career-focused instruction. Requires: 1) restructuring of secondary education 2) extensive involvement of businesses in preparation of youth for the work force

  17. Elements of the program • School-to-work initiatives do not reflect a single model, but rather certain conditions. • participation of local employers • on-the job experience • result in certification of skills

  18. Characteristics of most successful programs • Provide students with a strong foundation of career information • Help students develop an awareness of their own interests, goals, and abilities. • Integration of academic and vocational learning • Students who participate are more likely to attend college

  19. Obstacles • Attitude is a major barrier to the success • Parents not used to it • Some teachers may not like time and effort required to learn and incorporate new ways of teaching • Parents and teachers may fear the curriculum would not have a strong enough academic basis

  20. Privatization of schools Record numbers of Americans going or returning to college One of the fastest growing—and most controversial—sectors of the higher-education industry is for-profit colleges and universities.

  21. Other proposed solutions • Home schooling

  22. Other proposed solutions • Back to Basics

  23. Other proposed solutions • Parent Education

  24. Other proposed solutions • Busing and/or vouchers

  25. Other proposed solutions • Merit pay for teachers

  26. Other proposed solutions • Character education

  27. Think critically about the solutions • Charter Schools • Head Start • Career Technical Education • Privatization of schools • Home schooling • Back to basics • Parent education • Busing and/or Vouchers • Merit-pay for teachers • Character education • Which makes the most sense? Most needed? • Which makes the least sense?

  28. Taylor Mali, Poet & Teacher Def Poetry Jam HBO

  29. Next week: Make sure you turned in your paper Drugs Read CH 3 Vote on website about which drug you are most interested in learning about

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