For our Community Cooperative Project my group and I worked with What Now America (WNA)- a youth resource center Saturday program in West Oakland. Here's the video we prepared for our presentation
For more information about WNA: http://www.whatnowamerica.org/
Please provide feedback for the Assessment Team Teach in the comments section of this post.
When we conducted our SOA we agreed to incorporate feedback to assist as part of the evaluation process.
Below is a list of possible questions, however if you feel something is missing please feel free to add on. This is a continuous process and we would greatly appreciate if you can answer at least ONE of the following questions on the class blog for every group that presents following their presentations.
Potential Questions: What part resonated most with you from the presentation?
What did you find most interesting?
Were any particular portions applicable to your own life?
Inspired by our discussion about funding for education, I wanted to share some information and an alternative perspective about U.S. spending.
For 2010, the Recommended Discretionary Spending budget for the United States allotted 57% for the Military (Dept. of Defense, War, and Veterans Affairs) compared to only 4% on education.
It is often difficult to imagine large sums of money. For example, how much is1.98 million, the amount of money the U.S. spent per minute on the military in 2009 (www.oneminuteforpeace.org)?
Or, 720 million, the amount of money spent by the U.S. per day on the Iraq War (www. afsc.org)?
This very brief video provides some perspective on what just one day of funding dedicated to the Iraq war could do if it were spent alternatively.
Finally, one of my favorite quotes about education: "Education is a mirror held against the face of a people. Nations may put on blustering shows of strength to conceal public weakness, erect grand facades to conceal shabby backyards, and profess peace while secretly arming for conquest, but how they take care of their children tells unerringly who they are" (Comparative Methods in Education, New York: Hold, Rinehart & Windston, 1964, page 5)
These are just a few thoughts I had about funding and they certainly only provide my perspective on the issue. I would be interested in hearing your perspective or any thoughts you have on educational funding in the comments section of this post.
More Information: These are just a few places for more information about U.S. spending. However, if you know of, or find, other websites that you have found helpful, please feel welcome to share them.
For more information about the monetary cost of the U.S. war in Iraq and Afganistan, go here: costofwar.com For more information on the Discretionary Budget, what it is, how it works, past, present, and proposed spending for 2011, check out these links: useconomy.about.com nationalpriorities.org
Please provide feedback for the Language, Culture, & Immigration Team Teach in the comments section of this post.
When we conducted our SOA we agreed to incorporate feedback to assist as part of the evaluation process.
Below is a list of possible questions, however if you feel something is missing please feel free to add on. This is a continuous process and we would greatly appreciate if you can answer at least ONE of the following questions on the class blog for every group that presents following their presentations.
Potential Questions: What part resonated most with you from the presentation?
What did you find most interesting?
Were any particular portions applicable to your own life?
Please provide feedback for the Funding in the comments section of this post.
When we conducted our SOA we agreed to incorporate feedback to assist as part of the evaluation process.
Below is a list of possible questions, however if you feel something is missing please feel free to add on. This is a continuous process and we would greatly appreciate if you can answer at least ONE of the following questions on the class blog for every group that presents following their presentations.
Potential Questions: What part resonated most with you from the presentation?
What did you find most interesting?
Were any particular portions applicable to your own life?
If anyone is interested in sharing thoughts, ideas, and feedback about our team teaching process as a whole, please share them in the comments section of this post. This is not the post for individual team teaching feedback :)
Some Questions To Think About:
How do you feel the team teaching process is going so far? What have you enjoyed? If you could do it over again, would you change anything?
I mentioned in class that if you are having difficulty getting ahold of an educator or maybe finding an educator that you're really excited about interviewing that I would be providing a list-- and here it is! Email me or let me know in the comment section if you would like the contact info for any of these fantastic educators. I'll be adding more to this list as I get more replies back from educators willing to be interviewed.
Chris Warner Taught 5th grade at a small private school in San Francisco for 5 years and has just recently graduated from Stanford's Learning, Design, & Technology program
Joey Wilson 2007 Teach For America Phoenix Corps - Forensic Science & 9th grade General Science. Joey is currently working here at Cal and also at UCSF.
Jenyth Utchen Has taught high school English in the public school system for a while now, and made me fall in love with literature again my senior year of high school
Sam McCabe Just finished his first year with Teach for America Oakland Corps for 9th grade Biology. Over the summer Sam is working with a Science textbook company.
Chef Craven Teaches Culinary at a public high school in San Francisco, she also has a blog where you can find out more (http://heatofthekitchen.blogspot.com/)
Education 190 is a course designed to promote rigorous inquiry into the current issues facing the education system. In order to fully engage each member of the class, we replace the traditional Teacher-Student model with a democratically structured system conducive to critical dialogue and equal voices. This open space allows students to play an active role in their learning, engage critically with academic texts and their peers, and apply this knowledge through community outreach projects.
