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EDU 304 Entire Course (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES
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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 EDU 304 Week
3 The Inclusion Classroom
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304 Week 1 DQ 1 Becoming a Teacher Education -
General Education 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. How do
these teachers deal with diversity, student
learning and educational reform? Respond to the
following questions 1.List the various qualities
the teachers mention as essential. How many of
them overlap with the attributes listed
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Week 1 DQ 2 Challenges and Rewards for the
Reflective Practitioner Education - General
Education 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?
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EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 1 The Pendulum of Educational
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Pendulum of Educational Reform Education -
General Education 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
Which period of educational reform do you believe
us to be in today and why?
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EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 2 Types of Assessment (Ash)
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DU 304 Week 2 DQ 2 Types of Assessment Education
- General Education 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.com/cb/). Please
define the following concepts in relation to
assessment Embedded assessments? Authentic
(performance) assessments
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Philosophy Education - General Education 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? How do
these learning theories provide for meeting the
diverse needs of your students?
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EDU 304 Week 3 DQ 1 The Gift of Diversity (Ash)
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DU 304 Week 3 DQ 1 The Gift of Diversity Education
- General Education 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? How will you meet those
challenges and welcome those differences in your
classroom?
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Aligning Instruction with Federal
Legislation Education - General
Education Aligning Instruction with Federal
Legislation. View the video Foundations Aligning
Instruction with Federal Legislation
(http//login.cengagebrain.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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General Education 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
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Teaching the Standards with Technology Education
- General Education 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? How does technology
promote meeting the needs of all students? Give
specific examples.
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EDU 304 Week 4 DQ 2 The Teachers Role in a
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Teachers Role in a Global Classroom Education -
General Education 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 In what ways does
this American classroom feel like a global
classroom?
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Classroom Communities and Academic
Success Education - General Education 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. Chapter 9 of your text discusses
characteristics of a classroom community.
Summarize these characteristics and explain why
they promote academic success for students.
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Testing Education - General Education 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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Week 5 Final Paper Education - General
Education 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, your own
pedagogy is essential to your future endeavors.
In this paper you will examine and discuss a
variety of issues and trends in education and
consider those issues in relation to your own
pedagogy
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