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EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 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
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EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 1 Becoming a Teacher
1.List the various qualities the teachers mention
as essential. How many of them overlap with the
attributes listed in the sidebar Attributes of
Good Teachers in Chapter 1 of your text? 2.Begin
thinking about whether you have these qualities.
Name 3 that you will be working on developing.
Draft a plan for how you will go about doing
this.
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EDU 304 Week 1 DQ 2 Challenges and Rewards for
the Reflective Practitioner
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?
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EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 1 The Pendulum of Educational
Reform
Where is the pendulum now and which way is it
moving? Think about such educational reforms as
standards-based education, NCLB (No Child Left
Behind) and the Race to the Top competition from
the federal government (Race to the Top is a
federal fund for competitive grants. It awards
states money based on their approved plans for
educational reform). Visit the Ed.gov Race to the
Top blog (http//www.ed.gov/blog/topic/race-to-the
-top/) for more information.
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EDU 304 Week 2 DQ 2 Types of Assessment
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
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EDU 304 Week 2 My Personal Teaching Philosophy
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
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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EDU 304 Week 3 DQ 2 Aligning Instruction with
Federal Legislation
What is the best advice for a new teacher who
finds himself or herself in an inclusion
classroom as a general education teacher? How
does the inclusion specialist express the
sentiments behind the idea in Chapter 6 that one
size does not fit all?
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EDU 304 Week 3 The Inclusion Classroom
Define inclusion Describe the advantages
and disadvantages of this educational approach
Address the requirement for improved performance
of students with disabilities under the No Child
Left Behind Act
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EDU 304 Week 4 DQ 1 Teaching the Standards with
Technology
What role does technology play in regard to
academic standards? How does technology promote
meeting the needs of all students? Give specific
examples. In your opinion, what is the greatest
promise of technology for teaching and learning?
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EDU 304 Week 4 DQ 2 The Teachers Role in a
Global Classroom
Think back to what we said in Chapter 4 about
curriculum as both a window and a mirror for
students. How does this activity act as a window
and a mirror for the students in this class?
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EDU 304 Week 5 DQ 1 Classroom Communities and
Academic Success
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.
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EDU 304 Week 5 DQ 2 High-Stakes Testing
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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EDU 304 Week 5 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
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