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• EDU 304 Entire Course (Ash)

• EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 1 Becoming a Teacher (Ash)

• EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 1 Becoming a Teacher
• EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 2 Challenges and Rewards for
  the Reflective Practitioner
• EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 1 The Pendulum of Educational
  Reform
• EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 2 Types of Assessment
• EDU 304 Week 2 My Personal Teaching Philosophy
• EDU 304 Week 3 DQ 1 The Gift of Diversity
• EDU 304 Week 3 DQ 2 Aligning Instruction with
  Federal Legislation

• Becoming a Teacher. View the video Becoming a
  Teacher Voices and Advice from the Field
  (http//login.cengagebrain.com/cb/). This video
  showcases several teachers, some new to the field
  and some who have been teaching for years. Pay
  special attention to their ideas about what is
  needed to be a successful teacher.

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• EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 2 Challenges

• EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 1

• Challenges and Rewards for the Reflective
  Practitioner. The Teaching Stories shared in
  Chapter 2 reveal the demands of the teaching
  profession and the need for reflection. Respond
  to the following questions
• 1.Explain what it means to be a reflective
  practitioner. Whose teaching story in this
  chapter did you most relate to? Why

• DQ 1 The Pendulum of Educational Reform. Your
  text states To understand the ways American
  public schooling has shifted over the last
  century, imagine the swings of a pendulum (Koch,
  62). Please reflect on how the pendulum is
  continually in motion by thinking and responding
  to the following questions

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• EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 2 Types of Assessment (Ash)

• EDU 304 Week 2 My Personal Teaching Philosophy
  (Ash)

• Types of Assessment. Assessment is the process of
  collecting information to find out what students
  are learning. View the video Performance
  Assessment Student Presentations in a High
  School English Class (http//login.cengagebrain.co
  m/cb/). Please define the following concepts in
  relation to assessment

• My Personal Teaching Philosophy. Write a 2-3 page
  paper describing your personal teaching
  philosophy at this point. Are you an
  essentialist? A progressive? A social
  reconstructionist? A mix of several types? How
  and why? How do the learning theories presented
  in Chapter 4 influence your philosophy?

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• EDU 304 Week 3 DQ 1 The Gift of Diversity (Ash)

• EDU 304 Week 3 DQ 2 Aligning Instruction

• The Gift of Diversity. Your text states The
  most important theme of this chapter is that
  differences among students are a gift to welcome
  in your classroom, not a barrier to overcome
  (Koch, 2012). Identify and briefly describe 5
  types of diversity presented in Chapter 5 of your
  text. Which areas of student diversity pose the
  most challenges for you as a future teacher

• Aligning Instruction with Federal Legislation.
  View the video Foundations Aligning Instruction
  with Federal Legislation (http//login.cengagebrai
  n.com/cb/). This video presents a roundtable
  discussion in which teachers, specialists and an
  intern reflect on how the legislation for IDEA

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• EDU 304 Week 3 The Inclusion Classroom (Ash)

• EDU 304 Week 4 DQ 1 Teaching the Standards with
  Technology (Ash)

• The Inclusion Classroom. Write a 2-3 page paper
  describing the concept of Inclusion as discussed
  in Chapter 6 of your text and in your own words
•  Define inclusion
•  Describe the advantages and disadvantages of
  this educational approach

• Teaching the Standards with Technology. Read The
  Power of Technology article by Lee L. Jenkins.
  Based upon your reading of this article and your
  reading of Chapter 7 in the text, please respond
  to the following questions
• What role does technology play in regard to
  academic standards?

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• EDU 304 Week 4 DQ 2 The Teachers Role in a Global
  Classroom (Ash)

• EDU 304 Week 5 DQ 1 Classroom Communities Ash)

• The Teachers Role in a Global Classroom. View
  the video Diversity Teaching in a Multiethnic
  Classroom (http//login.cengagebrain.com/cb/).
  This video gives an opportunity to view second
  graders from diverse ethnic backgrounds
  collaborating on a special project. Based upon
  your viewing of this video and your reading of
  Chapter 8 in the text, please respond to the
  following questions

• Classroom Communities and Academic Success. We
  know from recent studies that children who feel a
  sense of identity within a group are the most
  well-adjusted and successful in school. The
  opportunity to participate as a contributing
  member of a community helps children to become
  successful learners, problem solvers, and
  decision makers.

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• EDU 304 Week 5 DQ 2 High-Stakes Testing (Ash)

• EDU 304 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash)

• High-Stakes Testing. Read the article Why Has
  High-Stakes Testing so Easily Slipped Into
  Contemporary American Life? by Nichols and
  Berliner. Based upon your reading of this article
  and information in your text, do you agree with
  the issues presented in this article? Why or why
  not? Give specific examples to support your
  opinions

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• Final Paper
• For the final paper, you will demonstrate an
  understanding of the complex set of issues that
  must be considered as you embark on your
  professional preparation to become a classroom
  teacher. In addition to the requirements of
  skills and knowledge

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