Overview As the classroom environment expands and shifts to accommodate student and societal needs, online learning has become an increasingly important topic in education. Effective educators must be comfortable with this type of instruction to ensure the continuity of instruction when residential instruction is not possible or when students learn better outside of the school building.  Instructions For this assignment, you will write a 1,000-word […]

Create ISTE Exercise/Quiz Create an online learning activity (such as a game) or a quiz that helps learners interact with and test their knowledge of the ISTE Standards for Teachers  (http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-T_PDF.pdf) . Use one of the sites listed in the Week Three Resources document or one you find on your own. Your online quiz/activity must allow learners to review, learn or self-assess their knowledge of each of the five ISTE Standards […]

For this field activity you will use a portion of the 15 Dimensions of Schooling, as developed by Wiles and Bondi (2015) to determine the actual educational practices and compare that to the stated educational philosophy at a K-12 school of your choice. While schools all promote learning, the curriculum design of schools differs, as do their educational philosophies. The desire is for the stated […]

CHOSEN APPROACHES: Additive and Transformation approach to multicultural education TOTAL LENGTH: 4-5 Pages, 1200-1600 words.  5 REFERENCES NEEDED PROJECT INFO: Follow the link below and select 2 approaches to multicultural education topics to compare and critique. Then, submit these approaches for the instructor’s approval. All that is needed is 2-3 sentences on which approaches you have selected and why. Four Approaches to Multicultural Reform http://people.uncw.edu/robertsonj/SEC210/MulticulturalCurriculumReform.pdf […]

  Education professionals respond to meet the needs of students from a variety of backgrounds, varied experiences, with different abilities and needs. This video provides important insight into how to respond to meet the needs of students in the classroom and offers important advice to teachers and families. After viewing the video “F.A.T. City: A Look Back, a Look Ahead—A Conversation about Special Education,” in […]

  Scenario for Assignments 1-3Assume that you are the curriculum designer for a school district. The school board has requested that several teams develop proposals for new curricula to meet newly established state standards. You and your team must develop the first proposal to provide as a pilot or model for the other teams. You have to first identify a specific curriculum area not currently […]

Take a Stand Education was a priority for the founding fathers. Dr. Benjamin Rush, unlike his peers, was an advocate for education that included both females and blacks. He founded one of the first female academies in the United States, the Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia. Although he was a believer in women being educated, his reasoning for the importance of education was that it […]

What Should Education Teach? W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. He fought for African American rights and cofounded the NAACP. Du Bois sought social, economic and political reforms to expand equality and access for minorities (Pullman & Van Patten). Watch the short biography of W.E.B. Du Bois (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. on […]

Week 6 Forum In this week’s forum, we will study two statistical procedures: Measures of Association (MOA) and Test of Significance. Please recall in Week 4, we explored crosstab and used epsilons and 10-percent-point rule to determine if a potential relationship between two variables is worth examining further. If we decide to move forward, MOA is the procedure that tell us the exact strength such relationship and […]