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EDU 324 Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp.com

For more course tutorials visit<br><br>www.newtonhelp.com<br><br><br><br>EDU 324 Week 1 Assignment Colonial Classroom Then and Now<br> <br>Instruction in colonial schools was primarily religious and authoritarian. Its goal was preparation for eternity. The curriculum stressed the four Rs: readinu2019, u2019ritinu2019, u2019rithmetic, and religion. Memorization and recitation were the dominant instructional processes. <br>The schoolmaster relied on fear to motivate children and to keep them in order. It was not uncommon for a gag to be put in the mouth of a child who talked too much or for a child who did not perform well to be made to stand in the corner, sometimes on a stool, wearing a dunce cap.<br> <br>Classes often lasted from about 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a two-hour break for lunch, for eight months (March to October) and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for four months (November to February). In the early Colonial Period, classes were held in the house of the schoolmaster or the town meeting house. Later, when schoolhouses were built, they were scarcely more than a narrow log box with a masteru2019s desk and crude wooden student benches. u201cMany schoolhouses did not have glass set in the small windows but newspaper or white paper greased with lard were fastened in the rude sashes, or in holes cut in the wall, and let in a little lightu201d (Glubok, 1969, p. 120).<br> <br>Choose four points from above (e.g., fear to motivate, memorization and recitation as instructional practice) and compare them to todayu2019s classroom in the graphic organizer below.<br> <br>In a one- to two-page essay, provide examples to demonstrate how the practices from colonial days are similar to or different from todayu2019s practices. Describe any practices from the Colonial Period you wish were still in practice today and explain why. After reviewing the graphic organizer, explain whether or not progression has occurred in the education field over time. Outline how this transformation affects you as a classroom teacher in the 21st century.<br> <br>Your finished paper must include the graphic organizer, a title page, and a reference page using APA 6th-edition formats. It should not exceed three pages in length (not including title and reference pages). Include a minimum of two sources in addition to your textbook and reference them in APA style<br>

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  2. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 1 Assignment Colonial Classroom Then and Now For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 1 Assignment Colonial Classroom Then and Now Instruction in colonial schools was primarily religious and authoritarian. Its goal was preparation for eternity. The curriculum stressed the four Rs: readin’, ’ritin’, ’rithmetic, and religion. Memorization and recitation were the dominant instructional processes.  The schoolmaster relied on fear to motivate children and to keep them in order. It was not uncommon for a gag to be put in the

  3. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 1 Journal The New England Primer For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 1 Journal The New England Primer It has been said that The New England Primer was the most influential textbook in history. This text, written by Benjamin Harris in 1690, was used to teach reading. School in the 1700s was heavily influenced by religion. The common belief was that the inability to read was Satan’s way to keep people from reading the Bible. Scenario: Imagine you walk into your third grade classroom and your reading

  4. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 2 Assignment Take a Stand For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 2 Assignment Take a Stand Education was a priority for the founding fathers. Dr. Benjamin Rush, unlike his peers, was an advocate for education that included both females and blacks. He founded one of the first female academies in the United States, the Young Ladies

  5. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 2 Journal What Did He Mean by That? For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 2 Journal What Did He Mean by That? 1. What Did He Mean by That? [CLOs: 1, 4]. Due by Day 7. Horace Mann (1779-1859) is best known as the father of the American public education system. Mann improved the school system by limiting private influence, increasing the number of high schools and increasing

  6. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 3 Assignment Rough Draft For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 3 Assignment Rough Draft At this point you should have approximately 15 events for your Final Project. You will submit a rough draft of your project, listing at least 10 significant events. You must include the following for each event: The title of the event  The year(s) of the event  A summary (25 to 50 words) of the event  An image that represents the event

  7. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 3 Journal What Should Education Teach For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 3 Journal What Should Education Teach W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. He fought for African American rights and cofounded the NAACP. Du Bois sought social, economic and political reforms to expand equality and access for minorities (Pullman & Van Patten).

  8. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 4 Assignment Major Players For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 4 Assignment Major Players The following list is a very small sampling of reformers in education from 1918-1980: Friedrich Froebel  Jean Piaget  John Dewey Thurgood Marshall  Frazier and Sadker

  9. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 4 Journal A Walk Through Time For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 4 Journal A Walk Through Time Watch the We Didn’t Start the Fire video. Lyrics to the video are available here. There are many references to American education in the video. Choose any two examples from the video or the lyrics. List your examples

  10. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 5 Final Project Interactive Timeline For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 5 Final Project Interactive Timeline For the Final Project, you are required to make a timeline of the events in the history of American education that made a significant impact, and include a summary of each event. Guidelines for the Timeline To create the timeline, use the information from each week’s Timeline Discussion Forum response. (You may use the events you listed or the events your peers have listed. You will upload your text, event by

  11. EDU 324Anywhere Start Here/newtonhelp EDU 324 Week 5 Journal What is Balance in the Elementary Classroom? For more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com EDU 324 Week 5 Journal What is Balance in the Elementary Classroom? Review the following paragraphs from the Introduction in Chapter 10 of your text: The first president of the new century, George W. Bush, offered a reform plan called No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The most sweeping education reform legislation since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, it created “a much larger

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