Malala Yousafzai Essay

At fourteen years of age, most people aren’t concerned with national political affairs or the concern that other people’s lives are placed in their hands. However, Malala Yousafzai cannot be described as a typical fourteen years old. As a young girl growing up in Pakistan she always had a passion for learning, and began speaking out for the need for education at a young age. In Particular, she spoke about the right for women’s education. She started by writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service detailing her fear that rising tension in Pakistan would force her to leave school and how many girls were left without a means of education (The Malala np). As her words and messages traveled further, there grew a rising and violent opposition against her. The Taliban was unsettled by the voice of change she presented and began to make threats to her and her family. However, it was not enough to deter her. With the support of her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala charged forward with her campaign, and “in 2011, she received Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize.” Not long after this achievement, Malala was attacked by a member of the …show more content…
The approach a teacher takes, however, can vary widely. Pedagogy is the theory and practice of education that deals with methods to effective teaching. “Every teacher develops his or her own way of teaching that may use a prefered pedagogy”(Effective np). Although, the most effective teaching styles are often a blend of different types of approaches. This means incorporating teaching by lectures with discovery learning, hands on examples, discussion, and debate. Because not all students learn and process information in the same way mixing different approaches also has the benefit of appealing to multiple learning styles. Still there is no one right way to teach and any method can be effective if used correctly (Effective