EDU/692 EDU692 EDU 692 WEEK 5 DISCUSSION
- ashford university / EDU 692
- 28 Mar 2018
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EDU 692 WEEK 5 DISCUSSION
DECISIONS! DECISIONS
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?
·
What is the best way
to arrange experiences within the learning environment to maximize the
probability that all students will learn what is intended for them to learn?
Chapter 1 of the course text provides a number of different definitions
for the term “culture.” Wardle (2013) makes a distinction between cultural
factors at the national level (macroculture) and cultural factors unique to a
specific sub-population of people in local communities (microculture). This
discussion provides you with additional practice identifying cultural
influences on specific decisions teachers make to develop the most effective
learning experiences possible, which further prepares you for the Week Six
Final Project. You will use the school or program identified in last week’s
final assigmment/presentation. Recall that the school showcases examples of
innovative educational experiences designed to promote 21st-century skills
while promoting culturally relevant pedagogy.
Initial
Response: This discussion requires
you to reflect upon two schools or programs presented by your colleagues in
Week Four’s Final Assignment. You can view these projects in the Doc Sharing
portion of the course (upper right hand corner of the Course Home Page). Once
selected, you need to conduct a brief analysis of the decisions that needed to
be made in the design and implementation of the school or program you selected.
To help guide this analysis, ensure that the following are addressed:
·
Evaluate and describe
the decisions program developer(s) and/or other professional(s) need to make in
order to plan the school or program.
·
Explain what
macroscopic cultural influence likely supported the development and
implementation of the program.
·
Explain what
microscopic cultural influence likely supported the development and
implementation of the program.
Be sure to provide a link to the school or program you are
analyzing so that other students can have easy access as they review your work.
You may reflect on these questions in essay format, with a PPT, screencast, or
using any of the other programs/tools that we have used throughout the course
(or something new you have discovered). However, remember that APA needs to be
used in order to provide a reflection that is linked to course content.
Guided Response: Navigate through several of your classmate’s
selected schools or programs that the Instructor provided and respond to at
least two peers, paying close attention to the particular school or program
they featured in their initial discussion post. Review the analysis of the
decisions and cultural influences discussed and indicate how you agree or
disagree with their analysis. As with previous discussions, though two replies
is the basic expectation, for deeper engagement and learning, you are encouraged
to provide responses to any comments or questions others have given to you.
This will further the conversation and provide you with opportunities to
demonstrate your content expertise, critical thinking, and real world
experiences with this topic.