EDU692 Week1 Assignment Culture

EDU692 Week1 Assignment Culture

EDU692 Week1 Assignment Culture

Ashford 2: – Week 1 – Assignment

My School and Its Culture
As illustrated in the introduction discussion this week, each of you has experienced a unique journey through a variety of educational experiences throughout your lives. Naturally, some of these experiences will have contributed to your personal development and identity with greater impact than others. Furthermore, many in-school variables have affected your educational journey. The decisions made by those teachers and school staff defining your in-school learning experiences were derived from their philosophies of education and their understanding of educational theory. The prevailing educational theories informing your teachers could likely be defined along the continuum of major theories that include behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Refer to the Learning Theories resources provided in the Instructor Guidance for a concise review of these major theories. Keep in mind also that prominent educational philosophies influencing professional educators have included perennialism, essentialism, progressivism and/or reconstructionism. Each of those theories is described in within the Instructor Guidance material for Week One.
After reading selected material from Chapters 7, 8 and 11 of the course text, you should now be familiar with the research that describes the relationship between social class and school success (Chapter 7), the impact of diversity on learning (Chapter 8), and the importance of family involvement (Chapter 11). You will use this knowledge as a foundation for completing this assignment.
For this assignment, describe a school-related experience that you believe influenced your identity either positively or negatively or both. You will analyze this experience and reflect on all the factors that might have shaped it, and the different ways these experiences shaped you. This analysis will include an examination of factors outside of school (such as social class, socioeconomic status, diversity, family issues, etc.) as well as factors inside of school (theories and philosophies) that you believe influenced classroom decisions. This type of analysis provides a powerful introduction to learning more about the relationship between culture, education and the teachers’ decisions in the classroom.
You analysis should include the following:
Content Expectations

School Experience (1 point): Describe your selected school experience that      influenced your personal identity development.
School Characteristics and      Cultural Dimensions (1 point):      Describe the school where your experience took place including (a) school      characteristics, (b) student population characteristics, (c)      socio-economic background of the families affiliated with the school, and      (d) the family structures represented in the school.
Educational Philosophy Analysis      (1.5 points): Describe the educational      philosophies that defined the school’s structure, purpose, operation, and      how the local culture may have influenced these philosophies.
Learning Theory Analysis (1.5      points): Describe the type(s) of      learning theories you believe your teachers used to help them design the      instructional experiences including (a) why or how you believe your      teachers demonstrated applications of behaviorism, cognitivism, and/or      constructivism and (b) how you feel these theories affected the      instructional decisions the teachers made. Refer to the Learning Theories      resources provided in the Instructor Guidance for a concise review of      these major theories.
Personal Influences (1 point): Reflect on the influence that your family’s “funds of      knowledge” and social capital had on your ability to succeed in your      school; address your success in the following three areas: academic      success, social success, and emotional success.
Application (1 point): Explain, using specific examples, how educators could      use information about culture and individual student identities to make      effective instructional decisions.
Written Communication Expectations

Page Requirement (.25 points): Submit three to five pages, not including the title      and reference pages.
APA Formatting (.25 points): Format your paper according to APA style as outlined      in the Ashford Writing Center.
Syntax and Mechanics (.25      points): Display meticulous      comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling      and grammar.
Source Requirement (.25      points): Reference at least two      scholarly sources in addition to the Wardle (2013) textbook to provide      compelling evidence to support ideas. All sources on the references page      need to be used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.
It is strongly recommended that you review this week’s Instructor Guidance for additional information about completing this assignment! Contact your instructor for clarifications about this or any assessment in the course before the due date using the “Ask Your Instructor” forum. Then, also using the Grading Rubric as a guide for your performance on this assignment, construct your assignment to meet each of the content and written communication expectations.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

• The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.