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You will complete FIVE questions for this RRG. Complete any four of the first seven questions below in response to the assigned reading for Module 4. Everyone must complete #8. Please type your answers immediately below the questions you select, changing the font color for your responses. Save the file as "LastNameRRG4." Upload your RRG to the Assignment in Canvas by the due date on your course schedule. This guide is worth 50 points, with each of the five questions worth 10 points.

Chapter 9 opens with a discussion of common school goals under the heading "Why Do Schools Exist?" Read the short description of each of the goals. Next, rank your top five in terms of which you believe are most important by putting a "1" by your most important goal, followed by numbers 2 - 5 by your other choices. 

 

	academic competitiveness		social mobility
	academic curiosity		passing the cultural/historical baton
	academic basics		acculturation
	work readiness		global knowledge
	civic loyalty and responsibility		empowering the powerless
	social change		ethical personal development
	artistic creativity		service learning
	Put a number (1-5) in the space to the left to rank your top five goals.		child care

Here, below the chart, in 2-3 sentences, explain how you arrived at your top 5. 

 

 

Determine what you believe schools should be doing today by completing the 20-question self-assessment in Chapter 9 under the heading "Where Do You Stand?" You can tally your results in the two-column chart below to see if you lean one way or another. For each of the items, record how important you believe the school goal is, using 1 for Very unimportant; 2 for Unimportant; 3 for Moderately important; 4 for Important; and 5 for Very important.

 

Purpose of Schools
Transmitter	Reconstructionist
Focused Item	Focused Item
1	2
3	5
10	9
12	15
13	16
19	18
Total	Total

After completing the self-assessment, write at least THREE valued goals that you believe schools should be working to attain:

1.

 

2.

 

3.

 

3. Chapter 9 includes a list of "Five Factors of Effective Schools." Record each of the five factors in column 1 of the chart below. To the right of each factor, interpret what it means, describing what you believe each factor looks like within the school setting:

Five Factors of Effective Schools	What They Look Like in the Setting
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

 

4. Chapter 9 introduces us to the reform movement. Read the section about this movement in Chapter 9, entitled, "The Schools We Reform," and the later "A Closer Look" section entitled "Rethinking Reform." Record a definition in your own words for the terms below, as well as the challenges associated with each:

Topic	What It Is	Benefits to Students	Drawbacks to Students
Charter schools
Vouchers
Open enrollment
Magnet Schools
Virtual Schools
Homeschooling

Reflect and Connect:

What experiences do you have with any of the types of schooling experiences above, either as a student or as a parent? Were your experiences positive? Negative? Mixed?

5. In Chapter 10, we are introduced to legislation from 2001, No Child Left Behind; standards-based education associated with the Common Core State Standards; and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. Each of these initiatives had an influence on standardized testing in the United States. After reading the following three sections of Chapter 10, "Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the Testing Culture," "The Common Core," and "The Problem with High-Stakes Standardized Tests," take a moment to reflect: What are some positive results of these education initiatives of the first two decades of the 21^st century? What problems have these initiatives created, and how do you believe we should address them?

6. Chapter 11 features a section entitled, "Classroom Management" that opens with a short scenario. If you were an observer in this teacher's classroom, what teacher behaviors might you have listed in your field notes? Immediately below the scenario, you will find a numbered list of strategies the teacher used to keep the lesson running smoothly and students engaged. Below, you will find key terms associated with each of those behaviors. Define them in the chart below.

Strategy Used	What It Looks Like
1. Group alerting
2. "Withitness"
3. overlapping

4. least intervention
5. fragmentation

 

7. Chapter 11 closes with a list of "Models for Effective Instruction." In the chart below, select any FIVE of the models in Column 1. Record what the model looks like; what research says about it; and how it incorporates the use of technology. Second, write a short paragraph below the chart, describing a lesson you have seen, either as an observer or as a student-participant, that you believe embodied "effective instruction" and what made it so.

Model	What It Looks Like	Research Says	Use of Technology
Direct or Explicit Teaching
Flipped Instruction
Cooperative Learning
Mastery Learning
Problem-Based Learning
Differentiated Instruction
Variety in Process and Content
Deeper  Learning

 

Everyone should complete #8 

 

8. Now that you have had the opportunity to read and think about the profession of education 

over the course of the term, how has your view of the profession changed? Select any one of the prompts below and write a 1 - 2 paragraph response as a concluding reflective statement:

a. Do you believe that teaching is the right career for you? If so, what have you learned over the course of the term that confirms your decision to become a teacher? If not, what have you learned about the profession that confirms for you that it is not the right fit?

b. If you had the power and resources to change something about the student experience of schooling in the United States, what would you change and why?

c. What do you consider the biggest challenges to be that teachers and administrators face in their quest to educate students today? How do you think states and the federal government could better support teachers and administrators?