A final and more formal paper will give students an opportunity to write about one of the forms of identity performance we have discussed in class and to analyze ways in which it has succeeded and not succeeded in creatively redressing wrongs or helping resolve conflicts.  You will need to be very specific regarding both performances and texts and are free to use other critical […]

 examines the institution of education. In the first section, the authors discuss how education in the United States is a conservative institution because the goal of education is to preserve dominant culture, not transform it. Aside from just teaching basic disciplines, the educational system is a process whereby members of society are instructed to understand and support the American way of life. The avowed function […]

Foundations and Implications of a Differentiated Classroom One of the key principals of differentiation is information dissemination to stakeholders including students, parents, colleagues, and others involved in the education community. In preparing for the first day of a new school year, you decide to create either informational literature (like a brochure or double-sided flyer) or a classroom website explaining the foundations of Differentiated Instruction and […]

Choose one of the five topics below for your Writing Assignment 2 Essay. Write about 500-600 words and upload your essay via the link provided above. 1) In my discussion of an Andean first haircutting ceremony as a “rite of passage” in the Lead-in to Lesson 5, I introduced the concept of “ritual kin”, or what anthropologists often call “fictive kinship” – the application of […]

Please upload your creative projects here. You may upload a maximum of 4 files. Remember to include: 1) the project itself, 2) a short description of what the project is (e.g., “My project is a haiku on a passage in the Euthyphro”), and 3) a brief explanation of the connection between the project and the text you’ve selected or an explanation of the relationship between […]

Develop an essay response (750 words) to ANY AND ONLY ONE of the following topic/questions. LABEL YOUR ANSWER, SO THAT IT IS CLEAR WHICH TOPIC/QUESTION YOU ARE RESPONDING TO. Take your time so that you can produce a polished final product, but DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. (In other words, don’t wait until the last minute to prepare and submit your essay. It just won’t work!) Provide a title and […]

Progress Healthcare, a local hospital in South Carolina, recently installed a nurse tracking system. This Real Time Locating System (RTLS) from Stanley Healthcare is an expansion of the commonly known Aeroscout, which is used for asset tracking. The goal is to understand workflow streams and utilize the data to streamline the workflows through a LEAN event. Data is captured from the employee badges and sent […]

For this assignment, I would like you to find an article from the New York Times that you disagree with, either in tone or in substance. Write a rebuttal in which you refute part or all of the article’s argument and then offer a counterargument that explains a better way to address the issue. You don’t need to completely refute the article. In other words, […]

Chapter 1 of our textbook, A bridge to the classroom and early care: ECE capstone, discusses seven developmentally appropriate practice topics.  For this discussion, you will be focusing on one of these topics based on the group to which you are assigned below. For the topic you are assigned, write a position statement that reflects your current thinking on this topic.  Make sure to include […]

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Respond to two of your classmates, one who chose to pick three points that were different than the ones you chose and another classmate who shares similarities (one or more) in selection of the three ideas. Compare and contrast your thoughts behind you responses to those of your classmates. For instance if you had similarities but for different […]