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EDU 324 The Secret of Education/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>

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  1. EDU 324 The Secret of Education/newtonhelp

  2. EDU 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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 324 The Secret of Education/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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