History of Girls’ Education
By Kiley Feight
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Learning Targets
Explain what education was like for girls in early America.
Identify turning points towards accessibility to a higher education.
Identify women’s impact on society since receiving an education.
This lesson will dive into the history of Girls' Education, covering content regarding girls' education in Early America, the developments towards women recieving higher education and how women have impacted society using their education. There will be a short google forms quiz at the end to review the content covered! As seen below, women have been a part of education for a long time as students and educators, but how have women risen to the education system and roles that they have today?
(Facing History & Ourselves)
Reflection and Conclusion:
Women receiving a fair education was a huge step for America and its education system. As teachers, it's important we understand the path it took to get this educational equality, and that we teach this to our female students. Knowing that the access to education that they have today wasn't always their right can encourage them to work hard and also understand the hardships of women today. To me, this is especially important as motivation toward becoming a teacher, and inspires me to encourage my students who have disadvantages within their education to fight for the best education out there. If women didn't play such a large role in America's education system many of us would not be studying to become teachers today, and for that I hope to encourage my own female students like I have been by my own female teachers to fight for what I deserve and live to my fullest potential.
References
Carlton, G. (2023, March 21). The history of women and higher education. BestColleges.https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2021/03/21/history-women-higher-education/
Durst, A. (2010). Women educators in the Progressive Era: The women behind Dewey’s Laboratory School. Palgrave Macmillan.
Facing History & Ourselves. (2022. Teaching in the light of women's history. Facing History & Ourselves. https://www.facinghistory.org/ideas-week/teaching-light-womens-history
Kariofyllis, A. (2021, October 20). Women's opportunities for education along the Battle Road. National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/articles/womens-opportunities-for-education.htm
Miller, J. C. (2008). Never a fight of woman against man: What textbooks don’t say about women’s suffrage. The History Teacher, 42(1), 33-38.
Solomon, B. M. (1985). In the company of educated women: A history of women and higher education. Yale University Press.
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How I used AI
How I used AI
I used AI to review my citations for me! It is not perfect and made many mistakes in the past when helping me create citations so I adapted to instead use ChatGPT to go over my work to ensure it looked correct. I also utilized Canva, and while I did not directly utilize their AI resources I cannot be confident that AI did not play a part in the creation of images that I implemented to my work. Throughout creating my lesson ChatGPT assisted me in brainstorming what topics about women's educational history to cover and helped me search for credible sources to implement. AI was a handy tool to use for my citations and assisted me in keeping my lesson attractive, interesting and credible.
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