1. The audience of my subject will be parents, teachers, the community, and anyone who is involved in the school board system. My website will target concerns parents want to know about their children’s future, what their learning in the school system,and how their being taught. Teachers are included in my audience mainly becuase it’s their profession and whatever happens within a school system starts and ends with teachers. The community will also be the audience, people that don’t even have kids always want to know what’s going in their school systems mainly because of taxes. Depending on the age group of students they should be a minor part in the audience because majority of what happens is based on the student outcomes. The students introduce the way of how students want to learn,teaching style, etc.
2. 2)Teachers and parents background play the most significant role in my topic. Teachers background in education play the most important role in getting students to be productive and parents play the role of being involved in students schooling supporting and influencing them. I believe the amount of background information and explanations I include varies.
3.I believe knowing the majority percentage of your childs outcome is beneficial. Whatever type of school system or teaching techniques better your child for a more successful chance at having a career will draw in parents and interest them. I’m not really leaning towards a particular type of teaching. Both I believe are great ways of teaching so I don’t know where my audience will choose to go but I expect them to agree in some way with the result I provide from information and studies.
4.The gist of the conversation sources have been providing are the pros and cons of experiential learning. We have been taught by the same standardized teaching techniques there isn’t much information bashing the basic way of teaching besides the complexity and difficulty of how students struggle learning that way. Experiential learning is a newer approach and hasn’t been studied too much, many have a thought of how it seems to be but there isn’t much research of actual students compared between the two and their outcome. (theroritical opinionate not too many facts)
5.People now-a-days don’t seem to care about the future and what’s seems to be the most beneficial at the time so they do what they feel is best depending on circumstances. I think the best way to grab most people’s attention is through money. Show them how the children’s education one day will affect them whether its taxes and etc. At a time like this many people are out for themselves and it’s hard to get anyone’s attention if it doesn’t have to do with money.
6. The main viewpoint is the pros and cons of experiential learning.
Is it worth it, we’ve been in this system for a while why should we change now? I went through it, you went through it. Before you ever leap into something you always have to know at least where you can benefit from it and there’s always a downfall to something way down the road. I once agreed with experiential learning till I began my service learning and there are a few things that I believe will come to hunt us. Structural things like spelling, grammar, fundamentals that mean the most. Hands on experience is great and we haven’t found any research about it but I believe experiential learning has a bigger downfall then the normal traditional way of teaching.
Jerrell:
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing a lot of good thinking here. Some notes:
1. “The audience of my subject will be parents, teachers, the community, and anyone who is involved in the school board system.”—I’d work to narrow this down a bit: if you try to address everyone, you’ll reach noone. Who is likely to be most interested in the results of your research, and your conclusions? Whoever’s most interested should be the group you should write towards.
2. “I believe the amount of background information and explanations I include varies.”—I’m not sure what you mean by this statement? It’s possible that your audience is poorly defined, so it’s difficult for you to actually address the background information you’ll need to include?
5. “At a time like this many people are out for themselves and it’s hard to get anyone’s attention if it doesn’t have to do with money.”—I’m not sure if I entirely agree with this, but in order to focus your argument, addressing economic issues could be an extremely productive way to go.
6. “I once agreed with experiential learning till I began my service learning and there are a few things that I believe will come to hunt us.”—I notice that you consistently refer to the same experiences (the teacher typing for her student) to inform your argument. Be careful not to over-generalize based off one example. Have you perhaps talked about your concerns with an administrator/teacher at your school, to see what their take on it is? I’d strongly suggest considering alternative points of view before making up your own mind.