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ASHFORD EDU 639 Entire Course For more course
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Socio-Historical Context of Multicultural
Education. Describe the socio-historical and
contemporary contexts for multicultural and
bilingual education in your school district. How
have decisions such as Brown vs. the Board of
Education, the 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court
against voluntary de-segregation or the policies
ofNo Child Left Behind /Race to the Top impacted
the way multicultural education has evolved and
been interpreted in your district. Who is
silenced or forgotten in your school curriculum
as a result of these decisions or policies?
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EDU 639 Week 1 Assignment Diary Entry of a
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Assignment Diary Entry of a Diverse
Student Business - General Business Diary Entry
of a Diverse Student. Consider the demographic of
your local school and identify one student from a
background that would be most different from your
own. Imagine the first day of school from this
students perspective as you are introduced to
the class as his or her new teacher. This is a
creative writing piece where you are expected to
step outside your own world view and into the
shoes of the other in your classroom. You may
need to research a bit about the culture of the
student whose perspective you will be writing
from and ask friends or colleagues to help you
better understand your typical body language and
how that does or might translate to the classroom
and teaching style. Use the following guiding
questions to help guide you in writing this 1-2
page paper
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EDU 639 Week 1 DQ 1 The Socio-Historical Context
of Multicultural Education For more course
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Socio-Historical Context of Multicultural
Education. Describe the socio-historical and
contemporary contexts for multicultural and
bilingual education in your school district. How
have decisions such as Brown vs. the Board of
Education, the 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court
against voluntary de-segregation or the policies
of No Child Left Behind /Race to the Top impacted
the way multicultural education has evolved and
been interpreted in your district. Who is
silenced or forgotten in your school curriculum
as a result of these decisions or policies?
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EDU 639 Week 1 DQ 2 Bias and Social
Psychology For more course tutorials
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Psychology. Social scientists believe that
everyone possesses conscious and unconscious,
preferences for some social groups over others.
Consider your own background and experience with
race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexual
orientation. What groups do you gravitate towards
in society and how can you create more
opportunities for exposure to individuals from
backgrounds quite different from your own?
Considering the cultural immersion exercise due
in Week Four, how do you think you might be able
create opportunities for broadening your world
view while taking this class?
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EDU 639 Week 2 DQ 1Gender and Gender-Fluidity For
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Gender and Gender-Fluidity. View the short
documentary entitled, Im Just Anneke. How does
gender color ones perspective on the world and
relation to society? How are gender and
gender-stereotypes perpetuated by schools? What
do you think about gender-fluidity and how do you
imagine Anneke would fair in your local school?
Do you agree with the way Annekes
endocrinologist and parents are allowing Anneke
to experiment with her gender-fluidity?
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EDU 639 Week 2 DQ 2 Race Illusion vs.
Reality For more course tutorials
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Reality. Explore the interactive tutorial
Sorting People Can You Tell Somebodys Race by
Looking at Them?. What surprised you about
activity? If race is an illusion, why is it so
dangerous to be "color-blind" as an educator? How
can we work to combat institutional racism in our
schools and society?
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EDU 639 Week 2 Gendered Experience of Racism For
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DU 639 Week 2 Gendered Experience of
Racism Business - General Business Gendered
Experiences of Racism. Choose one of the
following topics and respond in a one-to-two page
paper a. Watch the documentary A Girl Like Me,
then provide a one-to-two page commentary on the
intersection of race and gender by addressing the
following How is racism translated to concept
of beauty and self-image for young, African
American women? What unique challenges do
African American females have compared to those
who are white? What about as compared to
African American males?
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EDU 639 Week 3 DQ 1Segregation For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Segregation.
What different forms can segregation take in US
schools? When can these methods affirm diversity
and when are they detrimental to learning?
Consider economic segregation, culturally-based
schools (i.e. African American, Latino, or Native
American), gender-specific, or charter schools.
Provide examples from your own experience and at
least one reference in addition to the course
textbook
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EDU 639 Week 3 DQ 1Segregation For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Segregation.
What different forms can segregation take in US
schools? When can these methods affirm diversity
and when are they detrimental to learning?
Consider economic segregation, culturally-based
schools (i.e. African American, Latino, or Native
American), gender-specific, or charter schools.
Provide examples from your own experience and at
least one reference in addition to the course
textbook
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EDU 639 Week 4 Cultural Immersion and
Socio-Historical Research and Presentation For
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DU 639 Week 4 Cultural Immersion and
Socio-Historical Research and Presentation Busines
s - General Business Cultural Immersion and
Socio-Historical Research Presentation. Identify
a culture you might encounter as a teacher which
you have very little knowledge about and would
like to further explore (you may select the same
cultural group you chose for the Cultural
Immersion Activity in Weeks One, Two, and Three).
In a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation, you
will address the following
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EDU 639 Week 4 DQ 1Common Beliefs For more course
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Beliefs. Explore Commonly Held Beliefs that
Influence Teachers Work with Diverse Students.
Before clicking the link, select one of the
commonly held beliefs listed under Step 2 that
you identify with the most. Explain why you
identify with this belief. Next, click the link
and read the information provided. Has your
belief changed? Why or why not? Respond to at
least two of your classmates postings in a
thoughtful and substantive manner.
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EDU 639 Week 4 DQ 2 The Culture of Poverty. For
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he Culture of Poverty. Theorists warn against
the continued use of deficit theories to connect
low social-economic standing to failure in
school. They have left a lasting mark on schools.
Identify a student from a low socio-economic
status, either from experience or from the course
text, who is not succeeding. How much of that
failure is due to forces beyond his or her
control and a mismatch between what is being
learned at home and what is valued in the
classroom? What other contributing factors could
be present? How can we effectively teach children
despite these contributing factors? Respond to
at least two of your classmates postings in a
thoughtful and substantive manner.
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EDU 639 Week 5 DQ 1Non-Heterosexual Parents and
Kids For more course tutorials
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Parents and Kids. View the short documentary
Homecoming. Is there anything teachers can do to
help students like Ron feel safer in school in
towns like Rons hometown? Is it better for gay,
lesbian, asexual, transsexual or parents with
these orientations to simply seek out more
liberal schools for their children? Does your
school district resemble Lakeville or his new
arts high school in Minneapolis? How can teachers
help such students feel valued and safe in the
classroom where the school culture is not there
to support them? Respond to at least two of your
classmates postings in a thoughtful and
substantive manner
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EDU 639 Week 5 DQ 2 Tracking, Grouping and
Dis-Ability in the Classroom For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tracking,
Grouping and Dis-Ability in the Classroom. Read
the article, Into the Mainstream. What are the
unique challenges and rewards of integrating kids
labeled disabled into mainstream classrooms?
How can these observations be applied to ideas
regarding tracking of non-disabled students and
grouping by ability in the classroom? Provide an
example from your own experience or suggest ways
you could work with students with a wide range of
abilities to feel more integrated in the
classroom setting.
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EDU 639 Week 6 DQ 1Affirming Diversity within the
Community For more course tutorials
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within the Community. Identify factors that can
help you build successful bridges between the
educational setting and the community. Describe
how these may impact the community and school
setting. What are the community resources and
social services in your area which encourage
parent and community involvement in the school?
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EDU 639 Week 6 DQ 2 Becoming a Multicultural
Educator For more course tutorials
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Multicultural Educator. How do you intend to
expand your horizons to become a multicultural
person who helps students add new cultural ideas
to their experience? How can you help students
learn more about their own culture and
incorporate what they already know into their
learning? Respond to at least two of your
classmates postings in a thoughtful and
substantive manner
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EDU 639 Week 6 Final Paper For more course
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6 Final Paper Business - General Business The
Final Paper will require you to describe your
community demographics and predict the type of
diversity you might expect to find in your
classroom. You will then identify at least three
(3) cases which represent some of the different
groups found in your community. If you truly live
in a mono-cultural area then, simply choose three
(3) backgrounds you would like to better
understand. You can use real examples of
individuals you know, examples from the textbook
or class links, or by scouring the internet.
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