EDU101Chapter2

1. Read chapter 2 in //The Joy of Teaching//.

2. When you finish the section on students with disabilities, watch a [|10 minute presentation by Aimee Mullins] who talks about "The Opportunity of Adversity."

This chapter addresses 6 main questions about students in today's schools:
 * 1) How racially and ethnically diverse are our schools?
 * 2) How does socio-economic status (SES) affect students?
 * 3) How does gender influence students?
 * 4) What should teachers know about English language learners?
 * 5) What are the religions of students?
 * 6) How are students with disabilities integrating schools?

3. Pick one of the 6 questions to answer. You will write a special "summary" for an answer as a blog entry. Here are the details of how to do that:

Section .002 you can just email your writing to Dr. Theresa
 * 1) Use the blog title described below. Even though you're only addressing a part of the chapter, this your blog entry for the whole chapter.
 * 2) At the top of your blog entry (not the title, but the beginning of where you write your reading response), state the question you selected. Leave a blank line between the question and your "answer".
 * 3) Synthesize the information from the chapter related to your question. A good summary will actually answer the question. Do not use the words or sentence structure from the chapter summary on p. 86. Write 1 paragraph with no more than 6 sentences in it for your summary. This is not an opinion piece; you must use information from the chapter. You must follow the guidelines in the Bedford Focus.


 * Posting Title:** Chapter 2: Today's Students
 * Content Points:** 2
 * Label:** Joy of Teaching
 * Bedford Focus:**
 * “Summarize to demonstrate your understanding” pp. 91-93 (especially the “Guidelines for writing a summary”) [Even if you are already good at summarizing and/or have your own summarizing style, for the sake of the followup class activity, please use the summarizing technique described in the book for this activity.] ( pp. 474-475 in 7th edition)
 * ...and the UMF faculty list in the front of //The Bedford Handbook// (that was used in the Chapter 1 assignment).