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EDU 692 Entire Course For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   EDU 692 Week 1
Assignment My School and Its Culture EDU 692 Week
1 Discussion Caine's Arcade EDU 692 Week 2
Assignment Cultural Competence in the
Classroom EDU 692 Week 2 Discussion 1 Landfill
Harmonics and 21st Century Skills EDU 692 Week 2
Discussion 2 Outside Challenges EDU 692 Week 3
Assignment Analyzing Cultural Relevance in
Instruction EDU 692 Week 3 Discussion 1 Creating
an Evaluation Instrument for Cultural Relevance
in the Classroom EDU 692 Week 3 Discussion 2
Equal Versus Equitable EDU 692 Week 4 Assignment
Culturally Relevant Inspiration EDU 692 Week 4
Discussion 1 Models of Creativity
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EDU 692 Week 1 Assignment My School and Its
Culture For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   As illustrated in the introduction
discussion this week, each of you has experienced
a unique journey through a variety of educational
experiences throughout your lives. Naturally,
some of these experiences will have contributed
to your personal development and identity with
greater impact than others. Furthermore, many
in-school variables have affected your
educational journey. The decisions made by those
teachers and school staff defining your in-school
learning
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EDU 692 Week 1 Discussion Caine's Arcade For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Caines
Arcade. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Caine is a
9-year-old boy whose afterschool and weekend
project turned into an international imagination
movement. As theCaines Arcade video explains,
Caine built a gaming arcade almost entirely out
of cardboard and opened it up for business in the
storefront of his fathers auto parts store. This
story provides an excellent example of how
characteristics of Caines personal identity
might affect how and what he learned from the
specific experiences portrayed. The cultural
values that nurtured Caines curiosity and
inventiveness can be identified within his video
story and the factors contributing to his funds
of knowledge going into the project can be
readily
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EDU 692 Week 2 Assignment Cultural Competence in
the Classroom For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Nikhil Goyal is a
successful high school student who, like many
students his age, hates school. But unlike most
students his age, Nikhil wrote a speech about it
and delivered it to a global audience via a TEDX
Youth(2012) presentation. The central theme of
the presentation is relevance and, specifically,
how schools often lack relevance to the lives of
their learners. The majority of Nikhils story
focuses on Nick Perez, a boy who was marginalized
in school and
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EDU 692 Week 2 Discussion 1 Landfill Harmonics
and 21st Century Skills For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Landfill Harmonics
and 21st-Century Skills. 1st Post Due by Day 3.
As educators, knowing about the 21st- century
skills is important, and being able to recognize
the skills within specific examples is an
indicator that you truly understand them and how
they work in application. In Week One, we
discussed the story of Caine and his arcade as a
way to explore how culture influences creativity,
imagination, and inventiveness. In this
discussion, we go a step further by considering
21st-century skills in relation to another
inspiring story of creativity, imagination, and
inventiveness.
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EDU 692 Week 2 Discussion 2 Outside Challenges
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Out
side Challenges. 1st Post Due by Day 3. This
discussion focuses on identifying the economic,
technological, social and personal factors
outside of school that can result in barriers to
academic success inside school. From Week Ones
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EDU 692 Week 3 Assignment Analyzing Cultural
Relevance in Instruction For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   In Chapter 12,
Wardle (2013) summarizes the important
characteristics of a culturally relevant teacher.
Use this information as a guide or resource
throughout this assignment to help inspire your
thinking as you apply your knowledge of
culturally relevant pedagogy toward specific
solutions to problems facing a teacher with a
very diverse student population. This exercise
provides excellent practice over the application
of culturally relevant principles in the design
of effective instructional solutions. You will
need to design such instructional solutions
within the Final Project, so it is very important
to practice such skills here. Specifically, for
this assignment, you will view a brief video
taken with a
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EDU 692 Week 3 Discussion 1 Creating an
Evaluation Instrument for Cultural Relevance in
the Classroom For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Creating an
Evaluation Instrument for Cultural Relevance in
the Classroom. 1st Post Due by Day 3. In this
discussion, you will apply your knowledge of
culturally relevant pedagogy to examine the
degree to which a specific place-based
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EDU 692 Week 3 Discussion 2 Equal Versus
Equitable For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   Equal Versus Equitable. 1st Post Due by
Day 3. It can be difficult for students in any
class to understand the importance of equity in
their classroom. Its not fair! is a common
reaction from students who observe other students
getting benefits that they did not receive. For
example, some students with specific learning
disabilities may receive additional time to
complete assignments. Wardle (2013) points out a
clear distinction between equality and equity
noting that Equal education is providing equal
resources and opportunities for all students to
succeed in education (p. 51). On the other hand,
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EDU 692 Week 4 assignment Culturally Relevant
Inspiration For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   A number of important resources
supporting the design, development,
implementation, and evaluation of culturally
relevant instructional experiences are available
online. Throughout this course, you have had many
opportunities to view a number of such resources.
This assignment encourages you to reflect on the
key concepts presented in the course through the
creation of a web-based presentation or website
that you can use in the future to support your
teaching efforts.
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EDU 692 Week 4 Discussion 1 Models of Creativity
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odels of Creativity. 1st Post Due by Day 3.
Robinson (2011) noted that When people say to me
that they are not creative, I assume that they
havent yet learnt what is involved (p. 1). Do
you find it interesting to consider that
creativity can be learned? Or conversely, that it
can be unlearned? In this discussion, you will
apply your knowledge of creativity and the
strategies needed to encourage it by reflecting
on a personal experience in which your creativity
was either stifled or enhanced. Please review
this weeks Instructor Guidance for specific
assistance on excelling in this discussion.
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EDU 692 Week 4 Discussion 2 Triangle of Support
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riangle of Support. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Have
you ever seen Blue Man Group perform? If not,
here is a ten- minute video that showcases the
groups unique, creative talent Blue Man Group
part 01. In their own way, the members of the
Blue Man Group reflect the essence of the
Landfill Harmonic project. For example, at the
heart of Blue Man Groups act are musical
instruments made from things that were not
originally designed to make music. Similar to the
Landfill Harmonic accomplishments, Blue Man
Groups creativity is not just applied to making
music, but to making the instruments that make
the music.
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EDU 692 Week 5 Assignment A Case for
Problem-Based Learning For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com     For this
assignment, you need to assume the role of a
classroom educator. This can be based on a class
that you are currently teaching, one that you
have previously taught, or one that you hope to
teach in the future. Suppose you are
participating in a department team meeting with
the other teachers in your grade level. You are
having a discussion about an upcoming unit. One
of the teachers indicates that she plans to
distribute the same packets she used last year
and schedule five days of independent seat work
for her students to complete the packets by
locating answers in the course textbook. This
would be followed by a written exam over the
material in the packets.
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EDU 692 Week 5 Discussion 1 Decisions! For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com     Decisions!
Decisions! 1st Post Due by Day 3. Teachers are
professionals who must make many decisions
throughout their day! Some decisions are
immediate, spur of the moment choices like
disciplining students or revising a lesson that
is not working. Others decisions are more
calculated, like developing a semester-long
project designed to incorporate community
resources into a problem-solving scenario. All
the small decisions teachers make throughout
their day likely support the two most important,
larger overarching decisions that are made at the
beginning of a learning experience and are based
in part on many macrocultural and microcultural
factors What is truly important for students
to learn?
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EDU 692 Week 5 Discussion 1 Decisions! For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com     Decisions!
Decisions! 1st Post Due by Day 3. Teachers are
professionals who must make many decisions
throughout their day! Some decisions are
immediate, spur of the moment choices like
disciplining students or revising a lesson that
is not working. Others decisions are more
calculated, like developing a semester-long
project designed to incorporate community
resources into a problem-solving scenario. All
the small decisions teachers make throughout
their day likely support the two most important,
larger overarching decisions that are made at the
beginning of a learning experience and are based
in part on many macrocultural and microcultural
factors What is truly important for students
to learn?
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EDU 692 Week 6 Discussion Creativity, Innovation
and Culture For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com     Creativity, Innovation, and Culture.
1st Post Due by Day 3. In this final reflection,
you are asked to describe a set of skills you
acquired over the years that allows you to be
creative in some way. This might be musical
instrument skills, cooking, knitting, writing,
model-building, gardening....anything you
consider yourself good at that encourages you
to experience ...the process of having original
ideas that have value (Robinson, 2011, p. 151).
By analyzing these skills in light of the
culturally relevant context in which they were
learned, you may realize an even deeper
understanding of the skills facilitated within
this course. Initial Post Post a response that
addresses each of the following five items
What is something you do or have done in your
life that is creative?
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