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EDU 304 Entire Course (Ash)   FOR MORE CLASSES
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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.
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EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 1 Becoming a Teacher
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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.
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EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 2 Challenges and Rewards for
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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? 2.Which story did your find the
most instructive for your own teaching
philosophy? 3.What role do diversity,
accountability and educational reform play in
reflective teaching?
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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? Where is the
pendulum now and which way is it moving?
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EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 2 Types of Assessment
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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.co
m/cb/). Please define the following concepts in
relation to assessment Embedded assessments?
Authentic (performance) assessments What are the
advantages and disadvantages of each type of
assessment?
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EDU 304 Week 2 My Personal Teaching Philosophy
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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
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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?
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EDU 304 Week 3 DQ 2 Aligning Instruction with
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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 and No Child Left
Behind directly affects their teaching. Based
upon your viewing of this video and your reading .
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EDU 304 Week 3 The Inclusion Classroom
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Classroom Education - 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 Address the requirement for improved
performance of students .
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EDU 304 Week 4 DQ 1 Teaching the Standards with
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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?
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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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EDU 304 Week 5 DQ 1 Classroom Communities and
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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.
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EDU 304 Week 5 DQ 2 High-Stakes Testing
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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 .
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