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Assignments Weekly Assignments: Go to Week-by-Week, on the contents bar above, for weekly assignments which must be completed by due date posted on the WebBoard.    Cooperative Learning:  Each student is to choose one of the Eight Critical Areas of School Change to research and report on. Presentation will be enhanced through reflection, dialogue, and collaboration; therefore, 3-5 people may want to choose the same Critical Area. Collaboration should occur through e-mail, chat rooms, and WebBoard postings. After posting questions or informations about the chosen area, the group (or student) should schedule a time for web interaction with their peers. Before a group report, a leader will emerge or the professors will appoint one. (NOTE: Internet research is encouraged; graduate students, on the other hand, are to turn in a formal research paper on one of the Eight Critical Areas and libraryresearch should augment the Internet research.)   Weekly Media Reaction Writing:  Students are to do a Dichotomy Exercise by viewing each week's assigned video or by listening to the assigned audio cassette; then write about what you most liked about the tape and what you least liked about the tape. Finally, write what you are most likely to store in your long term memory concerning the tape and explain why. Send reactions by the date posted on the WebBoard   Pre Service Teachers Practicum:  Preservice teacher trainees are to complete 30 hours of classroom observations following the protocols and assignments in the Secondary Practicum Book which will be supplied.   In Service Teachers' School Interviews:  Teachers already in classrooms, will not do the Practicum. These students are to refer to the Eight Critical Areas of School Change in the Course Objectives and use this material to generate 10 questions for school people who are in the position to bring about school change. Interview 6 school people using your questions.  Organize the information, write a report, and post a short summary of your findings on the WebBoard. (Do not use actual interviewee's names.) Send professors questions and report via attached document or e-mail.   Return to Top

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