Home-School Connection

the post has three assignments

1:The Home-School Connection

Essay will need to analyze a specific issue of interest to student in relation to race, class, culture, ethnicity, language, and/or nationality as this issue affects the connections between families and their students with schools and their teachers. Essay should include 3 references that provide and 2 other scholarly sources researched independently. Student should not focus on problems in building home-school connections, but essays should also include an examination of curriculum and instruction that provide positive academic and social experiences for youth.

What role does schools, family, and community play in gender, race, or class issues on a particular issue? Pick one topic to write about:

• Explore a particular ethnic group and research what barriers and success this particular group faces in education
• Cultural mismatch between students and teachers
• Language – ESL education
• Dual Immersion programs
• Using Ebonics in schools
• Special Education issues
• Standardized Testing
• Cultural assimilation and “acting white”/camouflaging intelligence
• Fitting in at school (sexual orientation, class differences, etc.).
• Issues of gender at home that may affect girls or boys’ behavior and academic success at school
• Peer pressure at school or in the neighborhood
• Issues of violence in schools and in neighborhoods
• Tracking in schools
• Health issues such as nutrition at home and at school (hunger, obesity, etc.)
• Is school curriculum relevant to students’ lives/multicultural education
• Children of immigrant parents face issues such as language brokering, parents unable to participate in parent/teacher meetings due to language barriers or work, and not being able to give them tangible, practical advice on how to navigate the college going system
• Physical decay of schools and communities
• Issues that principals and administration face in dealing with some of the above concerns
• How the “cool pose” culture clashes with school culture
• Learning service requirements or senior projects in high schools
• Teaching empathy in schools through volunteer work, animals, and/or plants
• Use of school uniforms to prevent gang affiliation clothing items or classism, etc.
2: The risks and rewards

Order Description

Read the material at the sites listed in the Week 4 Lessons folder to help guide you assess the risks and rewards related to the solution(s) to the management problem you are exploring. Complete a 2-4 page paper discussing the risks and rewards to your client as they relate to the management problem are exploring during this course.

https://www.managerwise.com/article.phtml?id=405

https://www.managerwise.com/article.phtml?id=136

https://www.managerwise.com/article.phtml?id=1

https://www.maxwideman.com/pmglossary/PMG_R05.htm#Risk%20and%20Contingency%20Management

3:Construction Productivity

Order Description

1. Provide a description of the purpose and results of the paper
2. Identify one strength and one weakness of the paper

Streamlining the Construction Productivity Improvement
Process with the Proposed Role of a Construction
Productivity Improvement Officer
Upul Ranasinghe1; Janaka Ruwanpura, M.ASCE2; and Xin Liu3

Construction Productivity