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<strong>Ashford</strong> <strong>EDU</strong> <strong>692</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 5 <strong>Discussion</strong><br />
1 <strong>Decisions</strong>!<br />
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<strong>Ashford</strong> <strong>EDU</strong> <strong>692</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 5 <strong>Discussion</strong> 1 <strong>Decisions</strong>!<br />
<strong>Decisions</strong>! <strong>Decisions</strong>! 1st Post Due by Day 3. Teachers are professionals who must make many decisions<br />
throughout their day! Some decisions are immediate, spur of the moment choices like disciplining students or<br />
revising a lesson that is not working. Others decisions are more calculated, like developing a semester-long<br />
project designed to incorporate community resources into a problem-solving scenario. All the small decisions<br />
teachers make throughout their day likely support the two most important, larger overarching decisions that are<br />
made at the beginning of a learning experience and are based in part on many macrocultural and microcultural<br />
factors:<br />
What is truly important for students to learn?<br />
What is the best way to arrange experiences within the learning environment to maximize the<br />
probability<br />
that all students will learn what is intended for them to learn?<br />
Chapter 1 of the course text provides a number of different definitions for the term “culture.” Wardle<br />
(2013) makes a distinction between cultural factors at the national level (macroculture) and cultural factors<br />
unique to a specific sub-population of people in local communities (microculture). This discussion<br />
provides you with additional practice identifying cultural influences on specific decisions teachers make to<br />
develop the most effective learning experiences possible, which further prepares you for the <strong>Week</strong> Six<br />
Final Project. You will use one of the schools or programs identified in last week’s assignment (website or<br />
web-based presentation) that you and your peers developed as the subject of the first discussion. Recall<br />
that these schools showcase examples of innovative educational experiences designed to promote 21stcentury<br />
skills while promoting culturally relevant pedagogy.<br />
Initial Response: This discussion requires you to select one of the schools/programs you researched and<br />
included in your <strong>Week</strong> Four Assignment. Once selected, you need to conduct a brief analysis of the<br />
decisions that needed to be made in the design and implementation of the school or program you<br />
selected. To help guide this analysis, ensure that the following questions are addressed:<br />
• What decisions, in general, did the program developer(s) and/or other professional(s) need to make in<br />
order to plan the school or program?<br />
• What macroscopic cultural influence likely supported the development and implementation of the<br />
program?<br />
• What microscopic cultural influence likely supported the development and implementation of the<br />
program?<br />
Be sure to provide a link to the school or program you are analyzing so that other students can have easy<br />
access as they review your work.<br />
Guided Response: Navigate through several of your classmate’s selected schools or programs and<br />
respond to at least two peers, paying close attention to the particular school or program they featured in<br />
their initial discussion post. Review the analysis of the decisions and cultural influences discussed and<br />
indicate how you agree or disagree with their analysis. As with previous discussions, though two replies is<br />
the basic expectation, for deeper engagement and learning, you are encouraged to provide responses to<br />
any comments or questions others have given to you. This will further the conversation and provide you<br />
with opportunities to demonstrate your content expertise, critical thinking, and real world experiences with<br />
this topic.
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