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• EDU 692 Entire Course
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• EDU 692 Week 1 Assignment My School and Its
  Culture
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• EDU 692 Week 1 Discussion Caine's Arcade
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• EDU 692 Week 2 Assignment Cultural Competence in
  the Classroom
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• EDU 692 Week 2 Discussion 1 Landfill Harmonics
  and 21st Century Skills
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• EDU 692 Week 1 Assignment My School and Its
  Culture
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• 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 experiences were derived from their
  philosophies of education and their understanding
  of educational theory. The prevailing educational
  theories informing your teachers could likely be
  defined along the continuum of major theories
  that include behaviorism, cognitivism, and
  constructivism. Refer to the Learning Theories
  resources provided in the Instructor Guidance for
  a concise review of these major theories.

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• EDU 692 Week 1 Discussion Caine's Arcade
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• 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

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• EDU 692 Week 2 Assignment Cultural Competence in
  the Classroom
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• 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
  medicated to be able to adhere to the parameters
  of thought and behavior expected for
  participation in the school. As you view the
  presentation, you will learn how Nick became
  disillusioned by the lack of relevancy and
  interest in his studies and how his
  disenfranchisement eventually led him to drop out
  of school.

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• EDU 692 Week 2 Discussion 1 Landfill Harmonics
  and 21st Century Skills
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• 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

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• EDU 692 Week 2 Discussion 2 Outside Challenges
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• Outside 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
  readings of the course text and the assessments
  related thereto, you should now be familiar with
  the research that describes the relationship
  between factors of social class and school
  success, the impact of diversity on learning, and
  the importance of family involvement. These
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• EDU 692 Week 3 Assignment Analyzing Cultural
  Relevance in Instruction
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• 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
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• EDU 692 Week 3 Discussion 1 Creating an
  Evaluation Instrument for Cultural Relevance in
  the Classroom
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• 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 experience implements culturally
  relevant strategies. Please review this weeks
  Instructor Guidance for detailed assistance on
  preparing for and completing this discussion.

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• EDU 692 Week 3 Discussion 2 Equal Versus
  Equitable
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• 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,
  according to Banks (2013), equitable education
  goes beyond equal, and to some extent
  contradicts it, in that it requires tailoring the
  educational approach... to each student, based on
  the students individual and cultural
  characteristics, so the student can achieve to
  his or her full potential,

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• EDU 692 Week 4 assignment Culturally Relevant
  Inspiration
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• 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. The goal is to showcase several model
  schools or programs representing what you have
  learned thus far regarding culturally relevant
  practices, creativity, and innovation. A plethora
  of options exists as you search for model

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• EDU 692 Week 4 Discussion 1 Models of Creativity
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• Models 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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• Triangle 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.
• Something you might not know about the Blue Man
  Group is that the members have created a school
  specifically designed to encourage and cultivate
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• EDU 692 Week 5 Assignment A Case for
  Problem-Based Learning
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• 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!
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• 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
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• EDU 692 Week 6 Discussion Creativity, Innovation
  and Culture
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• 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.

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• EDU 692 Week 6 Final Project Creative Teaching
  Designing Culturally Relevant Instruction
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• For the Final Project, you will assume the role
  of a classroom teacher applying for a 10,000
  Teacher Creativity Fellowship Grant. This award
  provides financial resources to teachers, which
  allows the recipient to spend time during the
  summer months developing an instructional
  experience that will be implemented and evaluated
  during the upcoming fall semester. These
  instructional experiences could include large
  projects, field trips, or simply improved daily
  or weekly lessons. This years grant recipients
  are awarded funding

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