Course Syllabus

Week 1: May 24-31: Read Chapter 1, "Status of the Profession."

Introductions, and reference to NEA Code of Ethics at
http://www.nea.org/home/30442.htm
Welcome to EDU-2010 - Foundations of education. This chapter covers
the teaching profession. Respond to question 1 and two others.

Discussion Board:
1. Introduce yourselves and tell us why you are taking this course.
2. Why do you want to become a teacher? What are the satisfactions
and dissatisfactions of teaching as related in the text or as experienced
by you or others you know?
3. What are the steps to certification in Vermont? Discuss the issue of
supply and demand as you perceive it relates to Vermont and your
local community.
4. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of incentive pay
plans at use in education. Give examples in other professions that
could be considered performance-based pay. Review the pros and cons
of individual performance-based pay presented in the Controversial
Issue: Individual Performance-Based Pay on page 21.

Assignment : An Ethical Dilemma:

Sarah Ling, one of your students with a specific learning disability in
reading, is on the borderline between failing and passing in your sixth
grade social studies class. She also has problems participating in class
because she struggles with English, which she is learning as a second
language. When final grades are due, you see that she has a barely
failing average. You pass her, reasoning that since she has a disability
and struggles with English, she deserves a break. Perhaps she didn't
understand the wording on some assignments or quizzes.
1. Item 6 of Principle I of the NEA Code of Ethics says the teacher "Shall
not on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, national origin, marital
status, political or religious beliefs, family, social or cultural
background, or sexual orientation unfairly grant any advantage to a
student." Is giving Sarah a passing grade a violation of this code?
2. Does the fact that Sarah has both a learning disability and struggles
with English influence your decision in Question 1?
3. Are grades and standards absolute or should they be adjusted in
cases like Sarah's?
4. What would you do in this situation?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objective 3: Describe the process by

which education in the United States has been shaped by political,
social, and cultural forces.

Week 2: May 31- June 7. Read Chapter 2, “Development of the

Profession.”

Discussion Board:
1. The duties and expectations of teachers include a variety of
activities and responsibilities such as (1) planning activities, (2) guiding
the learning of students, (3) record keeping, (4) providing necessary
reports, (5) maintaining essential student records, and (6)
communicating with parents. How would your rate the importance of
these activities and how would you manage your time to accommodate
these duties and expectations?
2. Why should all teachers be required to continue with their
professional development? And, in what ways can teachers continue
with their professional development?

Assignment : Parent Teacher Conferences

You are a first-year teacher in an inner-city middle school, it's mid-
October, and you just survived your first parent-teacher conferences.
For 2 days you sat in the school gym with all the other middle school
teachers waiting for parents to come and talk to you about their son or
daughter. There are 147 students in the school, yet only 33 parents
showed up. Where were the other 114? You sent notes home with all
your students but noticed a number of these in the wastebasket.
Unfortunately the majority that did show up were parents of A and B
students wanting to know how they could help their children learn
better. Only two parents of failing students came, and none of the
parents or guardians of your ESL students were there. You're
discouraged, especially since other teachers seemed to have a better
turnout.
1. What are some possible reasons why more parents didn't come to
talk with you?
2. In hindsight, what might you have done differently prior to the
conferences?
3. What can you do now to establish better linkages to your students'
homes?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.
Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objective 2: Explore the roles and

relationships between learners, teachers, schools, and society.

Week 3: June 7-14. Read Chapter 3, “The Major Philosophers” and

Chapter 4. “The Impact of Educational Theories on Educational
Practice.”

Discussion Board:
1. What is your definition of philosophy? Share this in the forum.
Create your own initial philosophy statement.
2. Explain why morals, values, or ethics can not be a part of the
school curriculum in a pluralistic society.
3. What is a way of knowing? Describe one or two ways that you
“know.”

Assignment: Educational Philosophy in the Classroom

You're an American history teacher and you want your students to do
more than simply memorize their way through the information you're
teaching. You want them to develop their critical-thinking skills, learn
to solve problems, make informed decisions, and get involved in
lessons.
This turns out to be a daunting task, however. The students seem to
want you to describe every required detail in assignments, and when
you call on students who don't have their hands raised, the most
common response is, "I didn't have my hand up," or "I don't know." In
other cases, they say, "C'mon, just tell us what you want us to know,"
and "Why do we have to learn this stuff?"
1. To which educational philosophy are your goals most closely
aligned? To which are they least aligned?
2. Using one of these educational philosophies, how might you
respond to students when they ask, "Why do we have to learn this
stuff?"
3. Should you "force" students to be involved if they're reluctant to
participate? How might you involve reluctant students in lessons?
4. How would you handle the situation just described?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolio Assignment:
 1. Create your own initial philosophy.
2. Use the Vermont Framework of Standards to begin working on
your five (5) philosophies.
3. Start assembling your resume.
4. Portfolio segment from chapter.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses the following Essential Objective 1: Discuss the

historical and philosophical roots of contemporary American education
and its development as a discipline.

This forum also addresses Essential Objective 7: Develop an initial

philosophy of education statement that has personal significance to
the student.

Week 4: June 14- 21 Read Chapter 5, “American Education: European

Heritage and Colonial Experience.”

Discussion Board:
1. How would Aristotle and Plato answer the question: Should the
right to an education be guaranteed by the government? Why or
why not?
Or
What impact did the Reformation have on the education of the
common people?
2. Social and economic changes during the later colonial period
brought a change in
education and led to the introduction of the academy. Discuss
whether you would
prefer to attend the Boston Latin school or Mr. Walton’s school.
Why?

Assignment: How Cultural Differences Affect Learning

You've been invited to a community awards ceremony at a local church
that is to honor Pacific Island students from your school. (This
invitation and the events that followed actually happened to one
educator.) You gladly accept, arrive a few minutes early, and are
ushered to a seat of honor on the stage. After an uncomfortable (to
you) wait of over an hour, the ceremony begins, and the students
proudly file onto the stage to receive their awards. Each student is
acknowledged, given an award, and applauded. After this part of the
ceremony, you have an eye-opening experience.
The children all go back and sit down in the audience again, and the
meeting continues with several more items on the agenda. The kids
are fine for a while, but then they become bored and start to fidget.
Fidgeting and whispering turn into poking, prodding, and open
chatting. You become a little anxious at the disruption, but none of the
other adults appears to even notice, so you ignore it, too. Soon, several
of the children are up and out of their seats, strolling around the back
and sides of the auditorium. All adult faces continue looking serenely
up at the speaker on the stage. Then the kids start playing tag, running
circles around the seating area and yelling gleefully. No adult response
—you are amazed and struggle to resist the urge to quiet the children.
Then some of the kids get up onto the stage, run around the speaker,
flick the lights on and off, and open and close the curtain. Still nothing
from the Islander parents! You don't know what to do (adapted from
Winitzky, 1994).
1. What cultural differences were encountered that could potentially
affect the way these students would benefit from American
classrooms?
2. What would you do if you were at the awards ceremony?
3. What adaptations could a teacher make to help students such as
these learn better in classrooms?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolio Assignment:
1. Begin work on an autobiography that will explain to the reader
how you arrived at this career choice. Include pertinent
information from past educational experiences, mentors or
favorite teacher reflections and any other relevant information.
2. Lesson Plan 1 due in forum – share our work.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objective 6: Examine and discuss

multiculturalism and diversity as they connect to educational issues
and practices.

This forum addresses Essential Objective 5: Explore the linkages

between politics in educational policy and its implementation at
international, national and local levels.
Week 5 June 21-28 Read Chapter 6 “American Education From
Revolution to the Twentieth Century” and Chapter 7 “Modern American
Education from the Progressive Movement to the Present.”

Discussion Board:
1. Research Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, Emma Willard, and
Catherine Beecher. Create a chart as to their contributions to the
Common School Movement. What was something that stood out for
you, through this research, and why?
2. What impact has the historical neglect of the education of
minorities had on their education and on the education system
today?
3. What did the impact of the Great Depression, World War II and
the cold war have on education? How has it impacted education
today?

Assignment : Reporting Child Abuse

You're a middle school teacher in a rural district, and you meet with
your homeroom students every day. You use homeroom to take care of
daily routines and to get to know your students as individuals. Janine
has always been a bright, happy student who gets along well with her
classmates. Lately she seems withdrawn, and her personal appearance
is disheveled. As you periodically look at her, you see that she seems
hesitant to make eye contact. You ask her to come in after school to
talk. She says she has to go right home to help care for her younger
brothers and sisters, so you suggest her lunch break instead. She
reluctantly agrees.

When she comes in, she appears nervous, fidgeting with her hands and
refusing to look at you. You ask her how she feels, and she replies,
"Fine." You mention that she seems to be different lately, preoccupied.
She only shrugs. You ask if there is anything bothering her, and she
shakes her head no. You reaffirm your availability if she ever wants to
talk, and she smiles briefly. As she gathers her book to get up and
leave, her sweater slides off her shoulder, revealing bruises.

"Janine, what happened to your arm?" "Oh, I fell the other day."
Janine's pained and embarrassed expression suggests a fall
wasn't the cause. "Did someone try to hurt you, Janine? You can
tell me." "Only if you promise not to tell," she blurts out.

Without thinking, you agree. She then proceeds to tell you tearfully
about an angry father who has been out of work for months and who
becomes violent when he drinks. As she leaves, she makes you
promise that you won't tell anyone.
1. You promised that you wouldn't tell anyone about your conversation
with Janine. Should you keep or break the promise?
2. Who could you talk to about this problem? How much information
should you reveal in the conversation?
3. What would you do in this situation? Why?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolio Assignment:
1. Create your philosophy of parent involvement.
2. Create your lesson plan techniques and develop a sample lesson
that illustrates this philosophy. Place it in the forum.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objectives 1 & 3.

1. Discuss the historical and philosophical roots of contemporary
American education and its development as a discipline.
3. Describe the process by which education in the United States has
been shaped by political, social, and cultural forces.

Week 6: June 28-July 5 Read Chapter 8, “The Social and Cultural

Contexts of Schooling. Their Influence and Consequence.”

Discussion Board:
1. In which ways have racial, ethnic, or financial levels affected
education? How might you address these issues in your
classroom?
2. The family transmits the culture, serves as a major socializing
agent, influences the use of language, affects gender role
perceptions, and influences educational achievement and
attainment. What were the child-rearing practices in your home
during your formative years? How were gender roles perceived?
3. The impact of social class differences is manifest most clearly in
the existence of poverty. What is the educational impact of
poverty on children and youth?

Assignment Working to Change the School Organization

You've been offered a job at Burlington Middle School, an inner-city
school in a medium-size city. Burlington boasts some of the most
successful basketball and football teams in the city, and it is a primary
feeder school for Burlington High School, a city football power. The
coaches of the two schools closely coordinate the development of the
schools' athletes.

Burlington's students typically score quite low on standardized

achievement tests, and the school's administrative staff is working to
change the school organization. They want to create teams in which a
history, English, math, and science teacher all have the same group of
students along with a common planning period. They've also gotten a
grant to support in-service activities designed to help teachers move
away from using lectures as the primary method of teaching and
toward more student involvement and integration of topics between
different content areas. "We want to see standardized test scores
going up, and we want to see more kids on the honor roll. These kids
are going to have to compete when they get to high school, and now is
the time for them to learn how. These kids—all of them—can learn; all
we have to do is believe it, and we can make it happen," urges Adam
Argalas, the school principal.
1. To what extent is Burlington consistent with the characteristics of
middle schools?
2. In what area, or areas, is Burlington inconsistent with the
characteristics of middle schools?
3. Based on the information presented, is Burlington likely to be a
relatively effective or ineffective school? How do you know?
4. Would you accept a job at Burlington? Why?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolio Assignment:
1. Create a philosophy of classroom management.
2. Submit lesson plan 3 in the forum.
3. Create your philosophy of assessment.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objective: 6: Examine and discuss

multiculturalism and diversity as they connect to educational issues
and practices.

Week 7: July 5-12 Read Chapter 9, “Responding to Diversity” and

Chapter 10 “Students at Risk.”
Discussion Board:
1. Discuss some of the current issues in education of Native
Americans and how it impacts their education.
2. Discuss how culture influences the way teachers view gender
roles, selection of
curricula, teaching styles, motivational strategies, and your
assumptions about
your students, as well as how those outside the school view the
teaching
profession, the appropriate role of government, and the purpose
of schooling.
3. Research the most popular prevention and intervention
strategies for dealing with
suicidal youth and report your findings in the forum. Did
anything from this
research stand out to you? If so, what?

Assignment:
You are just beginning your first teaching position in a nearby urban
area. Like many new teachers in an urban area, you were offered the
job only a few weeks before school started. You have never been to
that part of the city but you were sure you could make a difference in
the lives of students there. Soon you learn that many students have
single parents, many of whom work two jobs to make ends meet. More
than half of the students are eligible for free lunch. You are
disappointed in the condition of the school, and your classroom in
particular, but have been assured it will be painted during one of the
vacation periods.

The Learning Disability Coordinator informs you that, in a classroom of

28 students, you will have six students with IEPs. The IEPs of these
students vary widely. Some students simply require extended time on
their tests. Other students must be given guided notes, modified tests
and additional study aids. One student in particular has a hearing
difficulty and is in a wheelchair. Due to budget cuts, you will not have a
special education assistant in your class.

1. What assumptions about these students did you make as you

read this brief description?
2. What might you want to learn about student’s backgrounds to
ensure they learn?
3. What kind of challenges are you likely to confront during this
year?
4. Where would you go for assistance in working with students with
IEPs?
5. What are some things you need to do to make this teaching
 assignment beneficial to all children in your classroom?

Portfolio Assignment:
1. Address chapter portfolio assessment.
2. Complete your introduction and table of contents.
3. Begin putting your portfolio together.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Question 4: Discuss current issues and

problems relating to the movement for contemporary educational
reform.

Week 8: July 12-19 Read Chapter 11, “Legal Framework for the Public
Schools.”

Discussion Board Questions:

1. What should be the place of corporal punishment in schools? How
might the following factors influence your response: the age of the
student, the type of misbehavior, and the age and gender of the
teacher?
2. Should teachers private lives be placed under more public scrutiny
than other professionals’ lives? Why?
3. A teacher became involved in her city's gay rights movement,
passing out leaflets at demonstrations and making speeches. Her
school district warned her and then fired her for her activity. What
legal issues would be involved here?

Assignment Classroom Management

You're an elementary teacher in a self-contained classroom. You've
got a class of 29 lively sixth graders, and you've been struggling all
year with classroom management. Damien, a larger than average boy,
seems to resist your efforts at every turn.

You like science and have tried to provide concrete, hands-on science
activities whenever you can. You've been debating whether or not to
do a fun activity on chemical changes where students actually test
different "mystery powders" (for example, sugar, salt, and baking
soda) with different liquids like water and vinegar. You decide to go
ahead with it and strategically place Damien up toward the front of the
room where you can watch him. In addition, you pair him with Katie,
one of your more responsible female students. Everything is going well
until you go to the back of the room to answer a question and hear a
student shriek, "Damien!" As you rush to the front of the room, you see
Katie holding her eye as a mixture of vinegar and baking soda drips
down her cheek. Damien is sitting there with a guilty look on his face.
As you rush the crying Katie to the office, you wonder if you should
have handled the science lab differently.
1. To what extent are you responsible for the actions of students like
Damien?
2. If this problem developed into a liability suit, what factors would the
courts consider in judging whether you were negligent?
3. In hindsight, were there some things you could have done
differently in terms of this science activity?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolio Assignment:
1. Complete portfolio for submission by week 11.
2. Either scan or create a list of letters of reference, certificates,
awards, etc. to include in your portfolio.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objective 5: Explore the linkages

between politics in educational policy and its implementation at
international, national and local levels.

This forum also addresses Essential Objective 2: Explore the roles and
relationships between learners, teachers, schools, and society.

Week 9: July 19-26 Read Chapter 12, “Teacher’s, Students, and the
Law” and Chapter 13 “Governance and Financing of Elementary and
Secondary Schools.”

Discussion Board:
1. Discuss how the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act has
expanded parental and student rights in regard to student records.
2. Discuss the growth of charter schools and their possible impact on
public schools.
3. Determine the number of private and church-related schools in your
community. How popular are private schools in the community?
Discuss your perceptions and experience with private schools—both
independent and church related. Would you prefer to teach in a private
school, a public school, or a proprietary school? Why?
Assignment : Involving All Students
You're in the middle of your student teaching in a Rutland middle
school math classroom in Vermont. Classroom management is now
less stressful, though your students still test you from time to time.
They recognize their limits and realize that you're in charge.

Now you're focusing on your instruction and are trying to design

lessons that involve all students. When you first started your student
teaching, you notice that Mr. Gibbs, your directing teacher, taught
efficient, almost drill-like lessons that proceeded smoothly. But you
also notice that 90 percent of his questions were answered by a
handful of students, mostly boys. Girls and cultural minorities sat
quietly, some seeming to pay attention, others not.

When you mentioned this to Mr. Gibbs, he replied, "I know some of the
kids don't participate, but they like it that way. I've tried calling on
them, but it makes them nervous." Realizing that you seemed
skeptical, he continued, "Go ahead and try something different if you
want, but don't be discouraged if it doesn't work."

You try different ideas, but the results are mixed. You call on students
up and down the rows, but those in the uninvolved rows quickly drift
off. You try pulling students' names out of a jar at random, placing the
names of the students you've already called in a different jar to ensure
that everyone participates. You can't tell who likes it less: the shy
students who don't want to participate, the embarrassed ones who
don't know the answers, or the previous stars who either chomp at the
bit with the answer or sit back bored at the slower pace. You're not
sure what to do.
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of trying to call on all
students during lessons?
2. What should a teacher do if a student doesn't know the answer?
What should a teacher do if the student doesn't want to participate?
3. What responsibilities does a teacher have in attempting to actively
involve all students—girls, underachievers, cultural minorities—in
lessons? Do these efforts have any negative consequences for more
verbally aggressive students?
4. What would you do if you were the student teacher described in this
case?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolio Assignment:
Continue putting your portfolio together, complete any last minute
pieces. Proofread your work.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objective 5: Explore the linkages

between politics in educational policy and its implementation at
international, national and local levels.

Week 10: July 26- August 2 Read Chapter 14, “The School Curriculum:
Development and Design.”

Discussion Board:
1. You show your students two short essays on the overhead
projector. One effectively makes and defends an argument, and
the other does not. Your purpose in doing so is to help your
students learn to make and defend an argument in writing.
Identify the curriculum decision and the instruction decision in
what you did. Describe an alternative to your instructional
decision (a different way of helping your students reach the
goal).
2. Block scheduling at the secondary level has classes meeting for
90–100 minutes a day rather than the traditional 50 to 55 minute
periods. Identify at least two ways in which block scheduling
might influence the curriculum.
3. How does the Vermont Framework of Standards and Learning
Opportunities affect Vermont curriculum in schools?

Assignment: Teaching Basic Skills Using Personal Experiences

You're a first-year, seventh-grade English teacher in a middle school
attached to the high school. Many of the students have difficulty with
grammar and standard English in their speech, and spelling is a major
problem. Because of this, the school leadership is strongly emphasizing
basic skills, such as the ability to spell, punctuate sentences correctly,
and use appropriate grammar. The book you're using has a large
number of exercises in it, such as the following:

Rewrite the following sentences so that they are capitalized and

punctuated correctly.
1. Joanne a student in Mrs. Andersons class said to Leroy another of
Mrs. Andersons students would you help me decorate the gym for the
dance Additional exercises focus on using correct grammar.
Your students hate the exercises, and, in some cases, leave entire
assignments undone. Frustrated, you decide to abandon the text;
instead, you have the students simply write about some of their own
personal experiences. They will work on their basic skills by revising
and correcting their own writing. Although they are not necessarily
enthusiastic, the students are more willing to write, and you're
beginning to see some slow improvement.

Your department head overhears a faculty lounge conversation in

which you describe what you're doing.

"I'm not sure that's a good idea," she comments. "The district is
committed to our kids knowing and being able to use basic skills.
That's why we're using this book, and it's in our curriculum guides."

"But the kids hate it, and some of them won't try," you protest
uneasily.

"Your job is to get them to try," she responds. "That's what we're here
for. We're accountable for the kids knowing this stuff."
1. Why do you suppose the students so intensely dislike the book's
exercises?
2. Is being able to write using correct grammar and spelling an
important goal?
3. In one approach to learning to write, students master basic skills
and then use the skills when they write. An alternative is to have
students simply write and then develop the basic skills using the
writing. Which is the better approach? Why do you think so?
4. What would you do in the situation just described?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolio Assignment:
Apply finishing touches and submit when complete via email to
lynl1108@yahoo.com. Submission no later than Thursday, August 5th,
midnight.

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objective 2: Explore the roles and

relationships between learners, teachers, schools, and society.
Week 11: August 2- 9 Read Chapter 15, “Instructional Practices in
Effective Schools,” and Chapter 16 “Trends in Education.”

Discussion Board:
1. According to the Vermont Standards, how should effective
instruction occur in the classroom? What is the reasoning behind this
pedagogy?
2. Virtually no teacher would suggest that it isn’t important to be a
good role model. Given that belief, why do you suppose some teachers
don’t model the behaviors they expect their students to imitate?
3. Explain the major differences between formal, or standardized,
assessment and informal, or classroom, assessment.

Assignment Defining yourself as a professional

You’re a middle school life science teacher beginning a unit on the

different body systems, such as the skeletal, the circulatory, the
digestive, and the muscular systems.

You plan to begin with the skeletal system, and you want your students
to understand the relationship between the structures and the
functions of the different parts of the skeleton, such as understanding
that the skull is essentially solid because it protects the brain, which is
the most important organ in the body, the rib cage exists to protect
other important organs, such as the heart and lungs, and the leg bones
are the size and shape they are because they support the body as we
stand and move.

What models of instruction could you use to help you reach your goals?
Explain why you would use those models?

Complete a short essay discussing your responses to the above

questions and post in the discussion board for further discussion.

Portfolios due Thursday, August 5th by midnight via email to

lynl1108@yaoo.com. Save your portfolio as one document and
save it as a rich text file, (.rtf).

Peer Review:
Each week you need to respond to at least one of your classmates’
discussion thread and one of your classmates’ reflection responses.
This counts as class participation.

This forum addresses Essential Objectives 2, 6 & 8

2. Explore the roles and relationships between learners, teachers,
schools, and society.
6. Examine and discuss multiculturalism and diversity as they connect
to educational issues and practices.
8. Identify career options related to the field of education.

Week 12: August 9-16 Conclusions

Discussion Board
1. How did the variety of class assignments (resume, lesson plans,
autobiography, philosophies, etc) that the portfolio required assist you
in understanding the material better?

2. Based on the study and learning that has occurred in this class
discuss how your outlook has changed, if at all, about becoming a
teacher. Has/have your perspective(s) changed? Will you do things
differently?

3.Would you like to share if anything specifically did or did not work for
you or your learning style?

Self evaluations due via email to me at lynl1108@yahoo.com

Assignment: Complete the instructor evaluations.