How Sociology Will Impact My Future

Work

 

Teaching:

• Helping me to better understand the differences my students come to school with

• Providing me with the resources to be able to make the most informed decisions regarding how to help struggle students with multiple disadvantages succeed and reach their potential

• Push me to keep creating inquiry based, student centered lessons when the requirements and bureaucracy of teaching is out of control. At the end of the day it is my responsibility to mold and shape the students in my classroom from 8am to 3pm every day, and it is my responsibility that they receive the best education

• Make me believe in the enormous capabilities of my students, even when other might be pushing me to treat them like babies

 

 

Education Policy Reform:

• Understand how the education policy decisions that are made not only affect the current student I am teaching yet also affect their parents and their future children

• Education can be the outlet to closing the social class gaps, through ensuring equal opportunities and resources to all school age children, or it can work to continue to perpetuate the social and class gaps of our society

• Analyze research reports to discover the missing holes in reliability, validity, research methods, sample size, and other methodological and statistical factors

• Conduct consulting projects, qualitative and quantitative research, and statistical analysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marketable Skills Acquired from Double Major in Sociology and Public Policy, as well as Teaching Certificate in Elementary and Special Education

 

 

Sociology:

• SPSS                                     

• Excel

• Qualitative Research

• Quantitaive Research

• Statistical Analysis

• Sociological Theory

• Sociology of Education

• Sociology of Inequalities

• Sociology: Kids and Contention

• Research Methods - Surveys, Interviews, Content Analysis

 

Education:

• Manage a classroom

• Create lessons and units that meet Common Core Standards

• Adapt NYS Modules to meet diverse learning and pacing needs

• Collaborate with administration, colleagues, and special educators

• Assess students – track and utilize data to make appropriate teaching shifts

• Create and manage IEP’s

• Teach Elementary Mathematics, Science, ELA

• Teach Special Education

• Co-Teach

 

Public Policy:

• Write policy briefs

• Analyze social policies and their effects

• Analyze specific policy issues and their impact on society

 

General:

• Spanish

• Russian

• Office Management Skills

• HWS Leadership Certificate - Leadership Theory - Public Speaking