This is an introductory video of EDU 310. Your instructor is Dr. Jennifer Levin-Goldberg. This brief presentation will let you know what you will be learning, reflecting, and examining in the course. I order to view the videos, click onto links, play my intro video, and hear the music, you need to download the video!!!! Then play it on your computer.

1. Welcome to EDU 310
Your Instructor is Dr. Jennifer Levin-
Goldberg

2. Introductory video! 

3. What will you be learning

4. Reflecting

5. and Examining in this course

6. Demographics of American K-12 education

9. Types of Schools
•Private
•Public
•Charter

10. Teacher Credentialing/Licensing
• State •Degree
credentialing provider
agency
Your states credentialing
agency’s

11. What is an educated person?
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12. Would you have assumed a Harvard
graduate is more knowledgeable than Will
Ferrell’s character in Old School?
Do we replicate these stereotypes
of what we consider
“knowledgeable” or “educated”
people?
Do you consider a nuclear scientist
as knowledgeable but a delivery
man not?
Do you do this with your students

13. •What is Learning?
•Knowledge?
•Teaching

14. Is the learning personal?

15. Are they applying the new knowledge?
Are you inspiring them to explore the content or
skill further outside the classroom walls?
Do they have the skills to know how?
Are we teaching them to “think”?

16. What is the purpose of
education?
Preparation for standardized
testing
Or becoming a
democratic, productive citizen?

17. How do we best learn and process
information?????
Learning Styles……

18. How do we build a positive school culture?
Do the students want to go there?
Do they feel safe?
Supported?
Do they passionate about what they are
learning?
Who are the stakeholders?

19. What is your vision of a school’s purpose?
Climate?
Work environment?
Are you creating a community of learners
or fostering competition?

20. Small Schools Large Schools

21. Who is designing the curriculum?
Teachers?
Parents?
Students?
or States
Federal government
District officials?

22. How much influence should all stakeholders have in
designing the curriculum?
Should it be child-centered versus society-centered?
Futurist versus presentist or adaptive?
values-centered education versus skills-training?
or humanist/existential versus behaviorist?
What is the hidden curriculum?
Core curriculum?

23. Who sets the learning goals?
The teachers
or the students?
Are you teaching to the students
interests?

24. Who makes the rules on your classroom?
You
or the students
If they break rules what are the consequences?
Detention?
Are detentions and suspensions effective?
Will it change the behavior?
Do the consequences fit the crime
or are there better ways to inspire the desired behaviors?
Like community service...
Do we involve the student in how to best change the behavior?

25. The Separation between church and
state
and its role and debate in education

26. Are we making learning real
enough

27. The New 3 “R”s
Relevance
Relationships
Rigor

28. Are we connecting the learning to their
life?
Are there internships,
apprenticeships,
and mentors available to embed
authenticity to the learning and cater to
their interests

29. What role does collaboration have on the
profession?
Does your school possess and encourage
PLC?

30. What represents you as a teacher?
An expert disseminator of knowledge?
A learner?
A facilitator?
or a relations developer?

31. What are the dispositions of a
teacher?
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32. Ummmmmmm…..
Not a very good example of a teacher exemplifying
proper or appropriate dispositions

33. How do you measure students progress?
Solely through grades
or embracing and utilizing specific and meaningful feedback
based upon their own unique goals?
How do you ask students to demonstrate their learning?
Multiple choice tests
or via PBL
Exhibitions, and so forth

34. What issues surround the American
educational systems today?
The role of the government in education
IDEA..special education laws/rights and 504 Plans
Funding
Separation of church and state in education
Hidden curriculum
Type of curricula
High stakes standardized testing
School Choice and vouchers

35. What are the various educational reform
models?
Business Model of Standards-driven
reform
Educator Accountability Model
Political Accountability model
Ministry of Education Model

36. What is in store for the future of
education
and what role will you as an educator play
in its evolution

37. Restructuring

38. Reformation

39. and Transformation?

40. Please click onto the following link
to see a screencast on navigating Loud
Cloud and what to do the first few
days of class. 
• http://screencast.com/t/rHSyDFc7GH