Response 9

Read Chapter 8,  A Philosopher’s View: The Toulmin Model from our book. Your goal is to understand the four main parts of an argument according to Toulmin (claim, grounds, warrants, and rebuttals).  Then, read “We Need More Humanities Majors” by Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen in Chapter 13. In this article, the authors argue that … Read more

Discussion

In a two paragraph response for this Discussion Board, think of a time in your education when you experienced a teacher presenting a formal lecture. What class was it for? Did you learn the material well or not? How did you go about learning the material?

Reading Response

Read the article and then answer all of the questions (750 words): 1. What data do the authors draw on?  2. Is there anything notable about how they gathered the data?  3. Describe in layperson’s terms their analytic approaches: how did they analyze the data? 4. What did the authors find?  5. What findings do … Read more

English

In 2015 in South Carolina, a black female high school student refused to turn off her phone in class. As a result, her instructor called the police to arrest the student; she was violently body slammed in her desk by a police officer. A video was recorded by a fellow student. (I’ve attached a link … Read more

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  Respond to the following quote from the chapter to discuss the significance of cultural background: “It is crucially important to be aware that students from diverse cultural backgrounds bring different ways of knowing, different styles of questioning, and different patterns of interaction to school.” Describe classroom practices you can employ to assure culturally responsive … Read more

Reading Log

Choose a novel read throughout the course because one of the best ways to become a better writer is by reading great books. There is a reading log (attached) assignment to complete at your own pace, which asks you to log the time you spend reading for just one week of the course.  You can … Read more

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  Discussion Question: Discuss the process of writing text-dependent questions.  How can you ensure that your questions really are text-dependent and require students to reflect deeply on what they’ve read?  

Discussion

Then, answer the following questions in one or more paragraphs: What claim (idea) about education did you find most intriguing and why? Describe the way that idea was drawn. How did the animation help you better understand Robinson’s claim? 

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  Common Core and most state standards stress teaching with Complex Texts. What challenges might complex texts pose for students?  Identify some of the components a teacher must consider when choosing texts for classroom use.