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EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 1 Effective Teachers
EDU 372 Entire Course
Effective Teachers. This week students have
learned how theories, laws, principles governing
competent teachers, and beliefs are related.
Using information from our reading assignment
this week and reflections on your own personal
experiences a. Describe two characteristics
that competent (perhaps even outstanding)
teachers possess and how they relate to student
learning. b. Provide an example that illustrates
how teacher beliefs impact student learning.
EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 1 Effective Teachers EDU 372
Week 1 DQ 2 Educational Psychology EDU 372 Week 2
DQ 1 Intelligence EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 2
Intellectual Exceptionality EDU 372 Week 2
Applied Questions EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 1
Reinforcement and Conditioning EDU 372 Week 3 DQ
2 Reciprocal Teaching EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 3 DEAL
Problem-Solving
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EDU 372 Week 2 Applied Questions
EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational Psychology
Educational Psychology. In addition to the many
tasks required of teachers, they must understand
educational psychology as it relates to student
gender and the various developmental stages (from
childhood to adolescence). Address the
following What is the significance of student
gender in educational psychology? How does gender
impact your instruction and the learning
environment? Why is understanding psychosocial
stages in childhood and adolescence important?
Applied Questions. Respond to at least three of
the questions listed below. Your response must be
in proper APA format and include evidence from
the text and at least one other scholarly
resource to support your answers. Your response
should be no more than five pages in length (not
including title and reference pages). List some
of the educational implications of the views of
intelligence advanced by Cattell, Sternberg, and
Gardner?
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EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 2 Intellectual Exceptionality
EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Intelligence
Intellectual Exceptionality. Legislation mandates
that, wherever possible, children with
exceptionalities be educated in mainstream
education classrooms with other students. As a
result, a teachers role and responsibilities
have become increasingly complex. List some of
the common characteristics of gifted students,
and specific ways in which a teacher could
accommodate the needs of a student who is gifted
in the mainstream education classroom.
Intelligence. There are many ways to measure the
intelligence of a person. One well known method
is the I.Q. testing. Take the I.Q. Test available
at the I.Q. Test Labs website (http//www.intellig
encetest.com/). Using your experience with this
test and the information from our reading
assignment this week respond to the following Do
you agree with the results of your own I.Q. test?
Why or why not?
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EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 2 Reciprocal Teaching
EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 1 Reinforcement and Conditioning
Reciprocal Teaching. Watch the video Watch
Learn Text Comprehension (http//www.youtube.com
/watch?) and discuss how the students assume
responsibility for helping one another learn.
Explain how strategies used in reciprocal
teaching can increase reading comprehension. How
does reciprocal teaching accommodate diverse
learners?
Reinforcement and Conditioning. Reflect on your
own educational experience and relate examples of
classical and operant conditioning that were
implemented in the classroom. Describe the
experience and the outcome of its use. Give an
example of negative reinforcement and punishment
that you observed or were a party to. Did it
impact learning in the classroom?
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EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 1 Memory
EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 3 DEAL Problem-Solving
Memory. How does understanding how memory works
impact instructional strategies? Give an example
of how sensory memory can be used in the
classroom. Provide examples of instruction that
require to the use of short-term and long-term
memory. How can you aid memorization during
instruction? What works best for you when
required to commit facts to memory?
IDEAL Problem-Solving. In place of a written
assignment this week, you will generate a problem
that can be used to illustrate the IDEAL
problem-solving strategy. Your problem must be
aligned to learning outcome created by you. Post
your learning outcome along with your problem in
your discussion post by Friday, Day 4. Then,
review several of your classmates problems and
choose one to solve using the five steps in the
IDEAL problem-solving strategy. Identify each
step in the process and post your solution by
Sunday, Day 6.
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EDU 372 Week 4 Journal
EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 2 Preferred Learning Style
Preferred Learning Style. What is your preferred
learning style? How would you outline the
educational approaches most compatible with it?
Can the traditional classroom environment
accommodate all your needs? Describe the ideal
learning environment for you and explain how it
will increase your motivation and ability to
learn. What obstacles would hinder the creation
of your ideal learning environment?
EDU 372 Week 4 Journal (Ash)
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EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 2 To Test or Not to Test
EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 1 Corporal Punishment Debate
To Test or Not to Test?. That is the question. In
todays educational culture, high stakes testing
has caused many to question whether assessment is
a necessary element of instruction. Does testing
matter? Are assessment and measurement a valid
tool for teaching and learning? Is there a better
way to evaluate student needs? Can a teacher
design effective instruction without assessing
students beforehand? Why or why not? How will you
diagnose your students needs in order to create
effective instruction?
Corporal Punishment Debate. Effective teachers
tend to use a variety of classroom management
strategies to meet the developmental and learning
needs of their students. Some states are still
using corporal punishment as a form of
behaviormanagement. Watch the CBS Report,
Corporal Punishment in Schools
(http//www.youtube.com/watch?) and respond to
the following questions Do you feel corporal
punishment is an appropriate means of behavior
management in schools? Why or why not?
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EDU 372 Week 5 Final Paper
FINAL PAPER For this Research Project, students
will identify a topic, find at least five
articles from scholarly sources on that topic,
prepare an annotated bibliography including these
articles and information about them, and
summarize the research and the implications
relevant to the chosen topic. Students
will 1.Self-select an educational psychology
topic of interest.
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