LA 460: The Role Of Education In Public Schools

As a student myself, the more beneficial courses were the ones my elected courses. The best courses have a professor that structured the syllabus and class around discussions and outside activities and opportunities. Someone who grew up knowing the power of education and the power behind outreach especially with the local community. As a new professor, my course would be title as LA 460: The Power of Educational Outreach with a writing flag because I believe that there is a challenge and creativity in students’ reflections on paper. Authoritative figure as myself find a sense of complete when we witness a shift or transformation in the mindset of our students.

This liberal arts course will be open to all student on campus, but there are a set number reserved for liberal arts students. This will allow student from different

disciplines even within the same college to interact with one another.

This gives the students an opportunity to expand their networks and connections on campus. Through this course, we will investigate different types of education system in developed and developing worlds. As a class, we will deconstruct some of these policies and at the end, create a rough draft of a universal education as a personal research of mine. Along with analyzing and discovering the socioeconomic disparities in the education systems, we will take numerous trips throughout Austin. We will actually go to different type of schools: magnet, charter, private, and public local schools if feasible. During these visit, the teacher and I will communicate about finding ways to get these kids interactive a put themselves in the shoes of teachers especially those who young students live in the projects or low-income areas. Along with story time and tutoring, we will even have students shadow the office and

disciplinary procedures. I think it would definitely give some teachers in these school some breather time and help when all they are doing is shaping the minds of our future leaders whether or not our society perceives this. Of course this would be during the week, so I would take a pole in advance as well as put a description of certain times that’s and days that I ask they receive permission from their other professors to miss class. This is one of the option of doing a course like this and then for two weeks we will travel overseas and view the schools at there. This is a comparative analysis course and I believe that having a hands on curriculum is important.

This course might be seen as excessive, but is important for students to understand the power in education. By reflecting of their experiences, they can use these methods and policies to help out their community in their career aspirations. This would allow students who never experience or interact different socioeconomics in terms of schools in Texas because some are more privilege. By having the oversee experience, everyone would be on the same level playing field: humility.