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What activities do you use to encourage student expression in a variety of forms, including speaking, physical activity, and artistic presentations?

Interview Interview an early childhood teacher (preschool through third grade) who has at least one special education student in the class. Develop a 2–3-page report that can be shared with your class members in this unit’s discussion. The purpose of this interview experience is to help you get a sense of how a teacher adapts […]

Describe your current educational setting, including the age of children (0-2, 3-5, or 6-8), number of children you work with, and the philosophy of your education setting.

Grant Proposal Throughout this course, we have been discussing becoming the Whole Teacher. One of the five pillars of becoming the Whole Teacher is to find ways to encourage child-centered active learning. As we learned through our conversations in the discussion forums this week, two elements that contribute to the development of this type of […]

Explain how you could use each of the measures of central tendency to better understand the criminal justice research topic you chose in Week 1.

Measures of Central Tendency One of the main goals of data analysis is to describe data in a succinct manner so that it is easily understandable; this is called data reduction. To succinctly describe data, measures of central tendency (that is, mean, median, and mode) can be used. For example, suppose you collect data on […]

How do you assess the overarching significance of the opening of the Atlantic in this period?

Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Chapter 1: Antecedents: The Americas, Africa and Europe in the Fifteenth Century Chapter 2: Commencement: The European Opening of the Atlantic Ocean Fassnacht, Max, Stephanie Fink, Robert Jackson, and Michelle Warn. “The Anatomy of a […]