EDUC 10
Introduction to Educational Issues and Scholarship
Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to broad landscape of public education in U.S. Intended for those interested in educational research, policy, or teaching in both formal and informal educational contexts. Readings highlight work of educational researchers from UCLA's Department of Education, especially ways their scholarship intersects with policy and practice. Students work in groups to identify real-life problem affecting public education in Los Angeles. Study of this problem from multiple perspectives. Conceptualization of socially-just solution. Letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Fall 2019 - This was the first education class I took and I would definitely take it again. I enjoyed the class' structure and appreciated how much help I received from my TA. Every week, we completed a reading guide and posted a reflection on our discussion board. The reading guides were basically there to make sure you did the reading. If we didn't have the guides, I probably would not do the readings. The reflections were a great addition to the class because you could read how other people in your class felt about certain questions/ideas. There were two "Big Ideas" essays and I thought they were relatively easy, as I received a ton of feedback from my TA. GO TO OFFICE HOURS! We also had to attend a public talk (about education) before the quarter ended and wrote about it. As for our last assignment, it was a policy analysis group project. It was simpler than I thought it would be because my group worked well together. We basically just assigned each other a page to do and completed it pretty fast.
Fall 2019 - This was the first education class I took and I would definitely take it again. I enjoyed the class' structure and appreciated how much help I received from my TA. Every week, we completed a reading guide and posted a reflection on our discussion board. The reading guides were basically there to make sure you did the reading. If we didn't have the guides, I probably would not do the readings. The reflections were a great addition to the class because you could read how other people in your class felt about certain questions/ideas. There were two "Big Ideas" essays and I thought they were relatively easy, as I received a ton of feedback from my TA. GO TO OFFICE HOURS! We also had to attend a public talk (about education) before the quarter ended and wrote about it. As for our last assignment, it was a policy analysis group project. It was simpler than I thought it would be because my group worked well together. We basically just assigned each other a page to do and completed it pretty fast.
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