Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Brainstorming Session

1. Collecting visuals: What kind of visuals will I have and how will I collect them?
- Pictures of the teachers I will be writing about, with permission from them of course.
- pictures of schools, the city, neighborhoods, and empty classrooms
- create charts about teachers - their salary, hobbies, gender, education

2. What are the existing visuals?
- articles about specific schools
- awards, recognition of teachers
- personal pictures that teachers have taken of classroom, home life, etc.

3. My subject: What kind of person do I want to research?
-  fairly new inner-city school teacher
- tenured, experienced inner-city school teacher
- principal, friends of teacher

4. Story: What do I want to say about these people?
- teachers'  lives and how they are affected by their chosen career
- Scary situation in classrooms
- rewards of teacher disadvantaged students


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