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EDU 673 Entire Course For more classes
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Research Supports Differentiation EDU 673 Week 1
DQ 1 Key Principles of Effective
Differentiation EDU 673 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational
Neuroscience EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 1 Fluid and Fixed
Mindsets EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 2 Effective
Differentiated Curriculum EDU 673 Week 2
Journal EDU 673 Week 2 Welcome Activity EDU 673
Week 3 Assessment and Differentiation EDU 673
Week 3 DQ 1 Effective Assessment
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EDU 673 Week 1 Brain Research Supports
Differentiation For more classes
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Supports Differentiation. In a three- to
five-page paper (not including title and
reference pages) a. Analyze how neuroscientific
research findings and recent discoveries
regarding how the brain learns support
differentiation in the classroom. b. Discuss how
insights into the learning process affirm the
importance of differentiation.
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EDU 673 Week 1 DQ 1 Key Principles of Effective
Differentiation For more classes
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Effective Differentiation. Analyze the five key
principles of effective differentiation and
discuss which of the five will be the most
difficult for you to embrace with a ?fluid or
?growth mindset.? What are the obstacles you see
that will inhibit implementing the principles in
your current or future educational setting? Which
of the five is the easiest to accept? Why?
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EDU 673 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational Neuroscience For
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l Neuroscience. Educational neuroscience is an
exciting new discipline that brings together
research from psychology, neuroscience and
pedagogy to help educators make the best
curriculum, instructional and assessment choices
for effective learning. Locate an article in the
Online Library that investigates findings from
cognitive and neuroscientific research. Provide a
brief summary of the article and explain how the
findings could be translated into what educators
do in schools and classrooms. Do the findings
support differentiated teaching and learning? Why
or why not?
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EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 1 Fluid and Fixed Mindsets For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Fluid and
Fixed Mindsets. Souza and Tomlinson (2011)
explain, "Mindsets are the assumptions,
expectations, and beliefs that guide our behavior
and our interaction with others"(p. 19). A
teacher's mindset is of utmost importance in the
differentiated classroom. Think about your least
favorite teacher and consider what their mindset
must have been. Share how you felt in the class
and how the teacher's mindset affected your own
well-being and academic success as a student.
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EDU 673 Week 2 DQ 2 Effective Differentiated
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.com Effective Differentiated Curriculum. Visit
the Discovery Education Lesson Plan Library
website and locate a lesson plan that represents
the grade level and subject area you are teaching
or are interested in teaching. In your
discussion, post a link to the lesson plan that
you have selected. Next, answer the following
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EDU 673 Week 2 Welcome Activity For more classes
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Imagine it is the first day of school and you are
welcoming a whole new set of students to class.
Create your own welcoming activity for the first
day of school that demonstrates how you will
incorporate differentiation through a growth
mindset. You are not limited to any particular
format, but you must address the following
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EDU 673 Week 3 Assessment and Differentiation For
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and Differentiation. For this assignment you
will need a lesson plan or unit that includes an
assessment. You may use one of your own, create a
new one, or modify one that you find. Make sure
the assessment contains all the elements of
effective assessment and then explain or provide
measures to show a. How it aligns to the
essential knowledge, understanding, and skills of
the targeted learning outcomes.
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EDU 673 Week 3 DQ 1 Effective Assessment For more
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Assessment. Provide an example from your own
classroom or from your past educational
experience of effective assessment. What elements
made it effective? Did it lead to improved
teaching and learning? Why or why not? What was
its overall purpose? Next provide an example of
ineffective assessment. What elements made it
ineffective? What were the results of the
assessment? Did it hinder your learning? Lower
you confidence as a learner? Change your
motivation?
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EDU 673 Week 3 DQ 2 Summative Assessment For more
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Assessment. There are two types of summative
assessments, those that assess rote-knowledge
skills and those that assess higher-level
executive functions. Using the information in
your text and from your own educational
experience, develop an argument that supports the
use of both types of summative assessments.
Explain and defend the appropriate use of each
type of assessment. Finally, express your opinion
on the use of high stakes testing (tests attached
to funding)
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EDU 673 Week 3 Journal For more classes
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EDU 673 Week 4 Differentiated Instruction for
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Instruction for Student Readiness. For this
assignment you will need a lesson plan or unit
that includes measurable learning outcomes. You
may continue to use the lesson plan from Week
Three, or you can create a new one or modify one
that you have found. Provide and explain
differentiated teaching strategies that are
appropriate for a variety of students at
different levels of readiness. Your strategies
must align to the learning outcomes. Make sure to
include the following
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EDU 673 Week 4 DQ 1 Student Readiness For more
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Readiness. After reading Chapter Five of the
course text, create a checklist of the nineteen
guidelines for differentiating curriculum in
response to student readiness as a separate
document. You can group the guidelines in
whatever way makes the most sense for you. You
are creating the checklist to keep as a tool for
use in your current or future classrooms.
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EDU 673 Week 4 DQ 2 Student Interest For more
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Interest. After watching the talks by Sir Ken
Robinson (TED Talk Ken Robinson Says Schools
Kill Creativity, and TED Talk Sir Ken Robinson
Bring on the Learning Revolution!), answer the
following questions a. Does differentiation make
the difference between a good teacher and a great
teacher? Why or why not?
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EDU 673 Week 5 Differentiating for Learning
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m Differentiating for Learning Profile. For this
assignment you will need a lesson plan or unit
that includes measurable learning outcomes. You
may continue to use the lesson plan from previous
weeks, create a new one, or modify one that you
have found. For this assignment, make sure to
address the following
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EDU 673 Week 5 DQ 1 Learning Style Debate For
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Style Debate. The four aspects of learning
profile are controversial. Highly respected
researchers argue vigorously for the existence of
cognitive styles or intelligence preferences.
Other noted psychologists argue that the
construct of cognitive style or intelligence
preference makes little sense in terms of
learning. In this discussion, we will briefly
debate the validity of both
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EDU 673 Week 5 DQ 2 Culture and Gender For more
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Gender. Share with your classmates how you
believe your own culture and gender influence
your teaching and learning. Do you believe your
gender served as an advantage or a disadvantage
in your own academic experience? How about your
culture? Explain how you will account for the
ways in which gender may affect your students
learning. How will you adapt your teaching so
that your classroom will be a good fit for
students from all backgrounds?
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EDU 673 Week 6 DQ 1 Orderly Flexible Learning
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al.com Orderly-Flexible Learning Environments.
Our text describes four kinds of classroom
environments that stem from teacher management
beliefs and styles. Orderly-flexible learning
environments are most likely to support
differentiated instruction. Choose one of the
following three kinds of classroom
environments a. Dysfunctional learning
environments b. Adequate learning environments
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EDU 673 Week 6 DQ 2 Personal and Professional
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Personal and Professional Growth. As you reflect
on this course, what assumptions about
differentiated instruction have been confirmed?
Have others been challenged? Which? What steps
will you take to modify your teaching strategies
now or in the future? What specific goals will
you set for becoming a more academically
responsive teacher? What do you believe is the
best piece of advice you can give yourself and
others when it comes to differentiated
instruction?
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EDU 673 Week 6 Final Paper Professional
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Project To create your Final Project you will be
designing your own Professional Development Plan.
You will need to create a step-by-step timeline
that shows your commitment to personal and
professional growth in creating academically and
culturally diverse classrooms.
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