Proposal

Jessica

February 1, 2012

Education is the first topic I would choose for many reasons.   The first reason is I have a lot of personal experience with education from going to school.  I can see myself writing an essay on the struggles I had in school and what made it difficult when I came to college.   I am also majoring in Early Childhood Education and I would like to learn more about it because I don’t know everything and it is interesting to learn about.  The few questions I ask myself is why do teachers in Early Childhood teach math differently now?  How do they teach it to all different grades and is there any other subjects they teach differently now?  I have also observed at the daycare on campus and at Children’s Workshop and St. Elizabeth’s Manor.  Therefore, I have places I can go back to and observe.  I also have an aunt that teaches fifth grade and a close friend that teaches first grade and are willing to help me in any way they can to get the information I need to complete these assignments.  I can observe on the different ways teachers teach and the environment the children are in and how this affects the students.  It is interesting to know that every teacher has a different way of teaching and it makes me wonder which way will be most helpful to the students as they move on in life.  I would also like to learn about what homeschool is like and what factors can affect the child in this kind of environment.  One argumentative topic I would defiantly write about is the lack of support in schools for kids with disabilities.  This is a strong topic for me because I went through this in school and I felt like when I did have support from teachers that I wasn’t getting the help I needed because they didn’t know how to help me in those areas I struggled in.  For example I had trouble with grammar in my writing.  The teachers would just fix the grammar for me and didn’t tell me why that’s not right and how to fix it.  How do I learn from that?  It would also be interesting to learn about the dropout rates.  What is causing students to drop out?  Are the schools doing anything to decrease the dropout rate?   The second topic I would choose is family and relationships and the third topic is food.