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Assignment 1:

Write a 1000 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer the questions for each bullet point. There should be separate sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.

Essay Questions:

1. The definition of teaching in this chapter discusses how a teacher can modify his or her behavior to influence students as it is the only behavior a teacher has control over. Give three examples of different kinds of inappropriate behavior involving interruptions by students in class and discuss how a teacher’s influence can change each.

2. The textbook supports the use of a decision-making hierarchical approach to managing the classroom. Discuss the pros and cons to such an approach.

3. Write a scenario of a typical classroom where only a few of the 30 students participate in classroom discussions and, when they do so, they give very short answers. Then, in the next paragraph, discuss four ways a teacher can turn this situation around so most students will be raising their hands to participate, and do so with more detailed and well thought-out answers.

4. Look at the list of student behaviors on page 42 in Chapter 2 of the textbook. Choose 10 of these behaviors and give at least one type of “wrong” behavior a teacher may be employing that might make student misbehavior increase.

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Assignment 2:

Write a 1200 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer the questions for each bullet point. There should be separate sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.

Essay Questions

1. Even though they are beyond the school’s control, shifts in society can influence student behavior in school. What shifts in society during the past 10 years do you believe have had influences that are negative on behaviors in the classroom?

2. What are some normal behaviors (considering their developmental level) for early childhood education students that can be disruptive in a classroom?

3. How does a teacher’s lack of understanding and acceptance of different cultures influence students’ behavior? How could a teacher influence positive behavior in the classroom if his or her attitude were to change? Use a concrete example to support your answer.

4. Self-esteem can be conceptualized mathematically as follows: Self-Esteem = Significance + Competence + Power + Virtue. How does this self-esteem formula help explain why students act in a disruptive manner inside and outside of the classroom?

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Assignment 3:

Write a 1200 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer the questions for each bullet point. There should be separate sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount.

Essay Questions:

1. Think of the best teacher you have ever had. What authority base and influence model did this teacher use the majority of the time? Think of the worst teacher you ever had. What authority base and influence model did this teacher use the majority of the time?

2. Discuss teacher-directed, collaborative, and student-directed Learning. Give a solid example for each in an early childhood education setting. Discuss your own personal philosophy on these teaching methods and explain how you would use them in the examples you chose.

3. Select a concept from any subject with which you are familiar. Write a question for the concept at each of the following levels: analysis, evaluation, knowledge, synthesis, comprehension, and application. Would there be any difference in the use of wait time in asking the six questions you wrote? Why? In classroom management, why is a hierarchical ordering of questions important?

4. Prepare a lesson for early childhood education using an individual lesson structure and rewrite it as a cooperative learning lesson with all three important elements of cooperative learning. List and discuss the positive interdependences your students might practice in this lesson