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• EDU 639 Entire Course(Ash)
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• The 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 1 Assignment Diary Entry of a
  Diverse Student (Ash)
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• 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 1 DQ 1 The Socio-Historical Context
  of Multicultural Education (Ash)
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• The 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 1 DQ 2 Bias and Social Psychology
  (Ash)
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• Bias and Social 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 2 DQ 1 Gender and Gender-Fluidity
  (Ash)
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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?

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• EDU 639 Week 2 DQ 2 Race Illusion vs. Reality
  (Ash)
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• Race Illusion vs. 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?

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• EDU 639 Week 2 Gendered Experience of Racism
  (Ash)
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• 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

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• EDU 639 Week 3 DQ 1 Segregation (Ash)
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• 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 3 DQ 2 Additive vs. Subtractive
  Bilingualism (Ash)
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• Additive vs. Subtractive Bilingualism. View the
  video entitled, Immersion. How accurate (or
  over-dramatized) is Moisess story? What might
  his teacher and principal have done differently
  in order to capitalize on the strengths of what
  Moisesdoesknow in order to help him add English
  to his knowledge base and succeed in US schools?

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• EDU 639 Week 4 Cultural Immersion and
  Socio-Historical Research and Presentation (Ash)
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• 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 1 Common Beliefs (Ash)
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• Common 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 4 DQ 2 The Culture of Poverty.
  (Ash)
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• The 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 5 DQ 1 Non-Heterosexual Parents and
  Kids (Ash)
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• Non-Heterosexual 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?

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• EDU 639 Week 5 DQ 2 Tracking, Grouping and
  Dis-Ability in the Classroom (Ash)
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• 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?

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• EDU 639 Week 6 DQ 1 Affirming Diversity within
  the Community (Ash)
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• Affirming Diversity 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.

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• EDU 639 Week 6 DQ 2 Becoming a Multicultural
  Educator (Ash)
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• Becoming a 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?

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• EDU 639 Week 6 Final Paper (Ash)
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• 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.

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