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EDU 692 Entire Course For more course tutorials
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Assignment My School and Its Culture   EDU 692
Week 1 Discussion Caine's Arcade   EDU 692 Week 2
Assignment Cultural Competence in the Classroom  
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 EDU 692 Week 1 Assignment My School and Its
Culture For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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
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EDU 692 Week 1 Discussion Caine's Arcade For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   C
aines 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.
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EDU 692 Week 2 Assignment Cultural Competence in
the Classroom For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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
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EDU 692 Week 2 Discussion 1 Landfill Harmonics
and 21st Century Skills For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.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
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m   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
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EDU 692 Week 3 Assignment Analyzing Cultural
Relevance in Instruction For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.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.
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EDU 692 Week 3 Discussion 1 Creating an
Evaluation Instrument for Cultural Relevance in
the Classroom For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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 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 For more course tutorials
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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
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EDU 692 Week 4 assignment Culturally Relevant
Inspiration For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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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m   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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m     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.
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EDU 692 Week 5 Assignment A Case for
Problem-Based Learning For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.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.
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EDU 692 Week 5 Discussion 1 Decisions! For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Deci
sions! 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.
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EDU 692 Week 6 Discussion Creativity, Innovation
and Culture For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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
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EDU 692 Week 6 Final Project Creative Teaching
Designing Culturally Relevant Instruction For
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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.
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