Readings week 10 – 15

Week 10: Women, Gender issues
Due Date
VIDEO:  Watch the video on gender bias and upload your summary by Tuesday.

Implicit Gender Bias

Tues. 11/10
Reading:

Group 1

Friday 11/13
Week 11: Rhetoric, language, and social justice
Due Date
Video: Watch this video and upload answers to questions below by Tuesday:   School Discipline or Counseling?

1) what is the” Diversion Program”?

2) what policy did this program replace?

3) Who started the diversion program and WHY?

4) how many less arrests were there after diversion program started?

Tues. 11/17
Reading:

Everyone read & summarizes pp.1-22 of  Handbook on restorative justice 

Sunday 11/20
Week 12: Global Education
Due Date
Video: Watch this video and upload the answer to questions below by Tuesday.

Global Comparison of Educational System

1. what helps students improve the most?

2. How is it a myth that the US spends too much on education?

3. How is it a myth that US teachers work too little and get too much money?

4. What are the top 3 solution to fix US low performance compared to other countries?

Tues., 11/24
Reading:

Everyone reads and summarizes this short article. Pisa_Report_On_Education. Which country has the best education system and why?

Monday 11/30
Week 13: Learning and Retention: How the brain remembers
Date Due
Video: Watch this video and upload your summary by Tuesday.

HOW_We_Remember

Tues 12/1
Reading:

Read chapter 12 in the book on “Learning Styles” Chapter 12 Memory and upload one-page summary.

Friday 12/4
Week 14: Semester Review and Personal Discourse
Date Due
Everyone reads How we connect to and to learn from others through language choices we make. Upload your summary of this open-source article: teacher-discourses-and-identities/ Tues 12/8
Week 15:  Final Test
Date Due
Go to Assignments on Blackboard to take Midterm Test by end of day Friday. It is a timed test you can only take once so study the review sheet, lectures, and your homework before you start the test. Tues 12/15