ECE 405 (Ash) Experience Tradition/uophelp.com

1. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com for more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

2. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Entire Course (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • ECE 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Commonly Held Beliefs and Bias • ECE 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Children and Prejudice • ECE 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Race Illusion vs. Reality • ECE 405 Week 2 DQ 2 Cultural Differences

3. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 1 DQ 1 Commonly Held Beliefs and Bias (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Commonly Held Beliefs and Bias. Review the questions, links and accompanying videos for the Commonly Held Beliefs that Influence Teachers’ Work with Diverse Students at http://www.tolerance.org/tdsi/cb_intro. Which of the 13 misconceptions stand out for you as being particularly i

4. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 1 DQ 2 Children and Prejudice (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Children and Prejudice. In Vivian Gussin Paley’s book, “You Can’t Say, You Can’t Play”, a hierarchy of “bosses” and “outcasts” emerges year after year in her classroom. What, in your experience with children, determines this hierarchy and how much of it is due to the development of pre-prejudicial behavior in children? Provide examples and then consider why it is important to address this behavior

5. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Race Illusion vs. Reality (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Race: Illusion vs. Reality. Review the seven “propositions” including the accompanying videos on “Understanding the Influence of Race” (http://www.tolerance.org/tdsi/uir_intro). From these links and videos, you will learn that much of what we hold to be true about race is a social construction, which has little connection to human biology. Unfortunately this means children of different races may face stereotypes ba

6. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com • ECE 405 Week 2 DQ 2 Cultural Differences (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Cultural Differences. On page 64, your text offers a list of 13 childrearing patterns that differ between cultures. These can create challenges for educators when family structures and norms conflict with the assumed norms of the school. In the US, these are most often based on white, middle

7. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 2 Exposure to Stereotypes (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • xposure to Stereotypes. Children are bombarded by racial, cultural and gender stereotypes both within and outside the classroom. Consider the movies, television series and products (including toys and videogames), which are marketed to young children. Submit a 2-3 page paper (not in

8. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 3 DQ 1 Second Language Learners (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Second Language Learners. Imagine that you teach in a school where the majority of the student population is English speaking, and there is a growing a number of English language learners. You are assigned to a first-grade classroom where 60% of children speak English only and the o

9. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 3 DQ 2 The Role of Families and Communities in Culturally Relevant Anti-Bias Education (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • The Role of Families and Communities in Culturally Relevant Anti-Bias Education. Often school attempts to connect with families fail. One reason is that schools assume the role of “educator” and expect families to go out of their way to learn how they can help modify family patterns to best suit the school environment. However, a more effective way to connect to families is for teachers to go out

10. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com • ECE 405 Week 3 The IRIS Center Module (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • The IRIS Center Module. The IRIS Center is a national center that aims to provide high quality resources and training for educators. Go to http://www.iriscenter.com/clde/chalcycle.htm. Begin by selecting the Challenge balloon. Listen to the Case study. Then select the Initial Thoughts balloon. Fo

11. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 4 DQ 1 Classroom Environments and Learning (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Classroom Environments and Learning. Both your reading in Roots and Wings and the lessons from Vivian Gussin Paley’s book demonstrate that classroom environments give children and parents strong messages in the way they are set up and decorated. Identify and describe at least two ways you can

12. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 4 DQ 2 Multicultural Literature (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Multicultural Literature. There are many different kinds of multicultural children’s books. Choose one book from the titles presented in your text. Read the book and provide a brief summary of the story. Describe how the book fosters one of the curriculum goals listed on page 162 in your text. Be s

13. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 4 PowerPoint Presentation(Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • PowerPoint Presentation. You will create an 8-10 slide (not including the title and reference slide) presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint. The presentation should provide an overview of the arguments, ideas, facts, and information students will be applying to their final paper. The information should be presented in a visually compelling manner and discuss how the information provided c

14. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 5 DQ 1 Evaluating Multiculturalism in the Classroom (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Evaluative Multiculturalism in the Classroom. Teachers can be genuine in their efforts to deliver a culturally-relevant and anti-bias curriculum, but still fail to produce a classroom where children are fully inclusive of others and prejudice-free. What criteria will be most important to you as you evaluate your literature selections and activities in the classroom for multicultural and anti-bias? What behaviors will you be looking for in your students that indicate your program has been successful? How will your activities and application of multicultura

15. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com ECE 405 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • Focus of the Final Paper: • This paper should be a combination of philosophies, theories, and concepts learned and how they apply to the early childhood classroom. The primary focus will be on the comprehensiveness of understanding the many components that are necessary for the preschool classroom.

16. ECE 405 Experience Tradition/uophelp.com for more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com