Explain a critical problem and a possible solution in education. (Sample problem areas: Administration, funding, policy, standards, technology, teacher preparation, student achievement, urban education, motivation, school violence, assessment, 21st Century skills, subject area curriculum, tablet technology, social networking, international education, middle school and secondary education, etc.)

Critical problem and a possible solution

Explain a critical problem and a possible solution in education.

Describe the specific theories, assumptions, or “schools of thought” that the characters in the film have.

Dances with Wolves (1990). Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is assigned to the Western frontier on his own request after an act of bravery. He finds himself at an abandoned outpost. At first he maintains strict order using the methods and practices taught to him by the military, but as the film progresses, he makes friends with a nearby Native American tribe, and his perceptions of the military, the frontier, and Native Americans change dramatically.
Working Girl (1988). Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) works as a secretary for a large firm involved in acquiring media corporations such as radio and television. When her boss has a skiing accident, Tess gets a chance to use her own ideas and research, ideas that she has been keeping within herself for years – ideas that are arguably better, and more insightful into mass media practices, than her boss’s ideas were.
Schindler’s List (1993). In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. He initially was motivated by profit, but as the war progressed he began to sympathize with his Jewish workers and attempted to save them. He was credited with saving over 1000 Jews from extermination. (Based on a true story.)
Gran Torino (2008). Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), a recently widowed Korean War veteran alienated from his family and angry at the world. Walt’s young neighbor, an Asian American, is pressured into stealing Walt’s prized 1972 Ford Gran Torino by his cousin for his initiation into a gang. Walt thwarts the theft and subsequently develops a relationship with the boy and his family.
In your initial post, answer the following questions:

Describe the specific theories, assumptions, or “schools of thought” that the characters in the film have. How do their schools of thought differ?
How do the main characters change over the course of a film? How do their goals or desires change? Do they see themselves differently by the end of the film?
Which reflective theory from the course best illustrates the process the main characters go through during the film? How so?
Would you say that the main characters evolved or grew after learning something that was new, or a new approach, a new theory, or a new understanding of their place in the world?

Is this a proposal for a new chess program, or an improvement of an existing program?

Institution paper

The Institution Paper is based on the curriculum theory of Ralph Tyler (The Tyler Rationale), which states that three sources must be addressed by curricula. Those sources are content, developmental needs of learners, and societal concerns. Here are the questions your Institution Paper final draft must answer to earn some or all of the 450 points possible:

1) Is this a proposal for a new chess program, or an improvement of an existing program? Does the proposal detail the institution (name, location, mission), the learners (ages, developmental needs, cognitive abilities), and the chess resources (books, software, Web sites, and other chess content) that will be involved? Does your Institution Paper show how the chess program will meet the needs of the learners, the institution, and the community?Addressing the questions listed here, in

1) Will earn 40% of your Institution Paper final draft grade

2) Does the Institution Paper use the readings from this course and also resources that students investigated in Discussions to support its points? You must use Discussions C, D, E, F, G, H, and J in your Institution Paper. Be sure to incorporate the edits Dr. Root gave you on each of those Discussions into the versions of those Discussions that you include in Institution Paper

Citing course texts and other resources, as explored in those Discussions, to support your Institution Paper’s arguments will earn 40% of your Institution Paper final draft grade

3) Is APA Style used? When request APA Style, I am only referring to
in-text citation (author, date) or (author, date, p. #), or the equivalent citation for other sources such as films or Internet sites, and
Your Reference List

How is each level important to a student’s academic and/or social-emotional development?

View the websites below and respond to the questions.

Piaget and Vygotsky

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Bronfenbrenner%27s-Ecological-Systems-Theory-Paquette-Ryan/b23a4e916f3d815a2624f2289575cdf5c493a0c6?p2df

After reviewing the above links for Piaget and Vygotsky

Compare and/or contrast this theory with Piaget’s Theory or Vygotsky’s View of Cognitive Development.

After reviewing the BbET link, respond to the following questions:

Which of the five levels of BbET do you consider to be most important? Why?

How is each level important to a student’s academic and/or social-emotional development?

In which of the five systems do you think teachers and individuals working with students have the most control? Why?

In which of the five systems do teachers and individuals working with students have the least control? Why?

How do recent trends in state subsidies and college prices affect your understanding and interpretation of this paper?

Referee report

5 pages long, with 1.5 spacing and one-inch margins

Referee report: Winston, Gordon. “Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education.” Journal of Economic Perspectives

1. The importance/motivation/background of the issue: the economic realities of higher education. How knowing the economics behind higher education will help us in framing proper policies, and in assessing the impact of various trends in financing, enrollment

2. The conclusions of the paper, and its contribution. What do we learn from reading the paper, in particular about the nature of a highly selective university.

3. How do recent trends in state subsidies and college prices affect your understanding and interpretation of this paper?

4. (Brief) How do what we have learned of the for-profit sector influence your reading of Winston? In particular, does it surprise you that there are so few for-profits among four-year colleges?

5. How does your understanding of these peer effects – based on your reading of the assigned chapter and the class discussion – help you in critically analyzing what Winston is saying?

6. How do you think online learning might complicate the picture?

How can you be a culturally responsive educator in your own classroom?What is a way you can be an antiracist educator?

Respond to the following:

How can you be a culturally responsive educator in your own classroom?what is a way you can be an antiracist educator? (feel free to pull from other sources to really explore and answer this question)

You notice a child (who you know happens to be from a low SES background) is being bullied. How would you handle this problem? Likewise, if you are actively working in a school, does your school have any resources (mental health or financial aid) that you could offer to assist this student?

Give an example of self-efficacy in your own classroom and an example of self-regulation in your own classroom.