Proposals

 My first proposal talks about how to improve education during the pandemia. The second proposal is about ways of improving the school canteen. In a proposal you persuade the readers to help you change something, and if that isn't changed, the problem will remain the same. By writing the proposals I learnt that you have to make clear whats your thoughts and what do you want to focus on. When i read my classmates proposal I noticed that we all have different thoughts on a same subject. 

Something to take into account when writing a proposal is writing the ideas that you have in mind in order to be more organised. Also you should always make sure that the paragraphs are balanced and have the same length. 

Proposal 1

How to improve education during the pandemic

Students and teachers nowadays know that virtual classes might be annoying and that sometimes we do not take advantage of them. In order to solve this problem I propose having few presencial classes in order to explain the themes, also having a schedule taking into account need and comfortness of the students and teachers and finally make more use of online resources in virtual classes

Mixed classes

Online classes are problematic since some students may not have access to the internet, what's more, explaining a new theme through virtual classes could be really confusing and that's a problem for students as they will not be able to finish their activities. That’s why I propose having some short presencial classes in order to explain the theory, so that students can understand their activities, leaving online classes free for asking doubts, advising students of activities or correcting homework.

Structured schedule for virtual classes

In addition to virtual classes being confusing, they are also not very well planned, because sometimes students don’t have time to eat their lunch or have their breakfast, which is a problem since students will lose energy and wouldn’t be able to concentrate. So as to solve this, I propose making a survey to agree when to interrupt the classes and how much time this breaktime should last.

Take advantage of online resources

Furthermore, we can take advantage of virtual classes by making use of online resources such as presentations, mind maps, kahoot and other applications that could make the classes more interesting, also this could help teachers gain the attention of the students which sometimes may be hard.

As we saw virtual classes are very hard to be used, and if we do not take into account the ideas that I proposed, education could be affected as online classes aren’t as effective as presencial classes.

Proposal 2

 This proposal has the objective of recommending improvements for the college canteen, in order to have more students eating in the establishment. 

Food variety

 Nowadays there are a lot of people who are going vegan because of different reasons, such as a healthier lifestyle, or even religious thoughts. Moreover the canteen should provide food that is suitable for students that may have health issues, for instance celiac disease, diabetes or hypertension. What's more, eating every day the same food it's not that good for health and also students get bored at some point.

Shorter queues

 Waiting so long when you are hungry it’s a big problem, as you get really mad when this happens, that’s why adding another cashier might be a great improvement in order to have less waiting time and so that all students receive their food as fast as possible, which will lead to more customers.

Cleaning staff

 Finally having more employees that would perform the task of keeping the canteen clean will result in students that eat in the establishment feel comfortable, as no one wants to eat surrounded by trash or bad smell. I do not think that this is very necessary because everyone has to throw away their trash and that way there will not be much garbage.

I would recommend having a variation of food, as it is very important to think about everyone, and this would allow students to choose whatever they want to eat and not have trouble at the moment of lunch.