Assignment task: Please address the following questions:
1. When you were in elementary and secondary school, how diverse were your classmates in terms of ethnic or religious background? Socioeconomic background? Place of birth?
2. How diverse were your teachers in these respects?
3. How sensitive were they to ethnic and cultural diversity?
4. In your experience, how fairly did the curriculum and the general education programs of the school address the histories, traditions, and other needs of different groups in your schools?
5. Were some groups favored over others?
6. What problems arose that reflected ethnic, religious, or socioeconomic differences?
7. If you had been a teacher back then, instead of a student, are there things you would have wanted to change about your school to produce more social harmony and address unmet needs related to diversity?
8. What would you have tried to change?
To answer questions, click on reply at the bottom of the page. It is best practice to write your response in a word processing program like Word and copy and paste it into the reply text box. All responses should be substantial. Class discussion of the chapters assigned for each week in the Discussion Board is a significant component of this course. The class, as a learning community, relies on this asynchronous communication to engage in collective and individual knowledge construction. For each Canvas Discussion Board Assignment, all students should respond at least twice weekly to the discussion board in addition to your response to the main thread questions.
Please copy all the questions for the week, answer them, and paste your responses into the discussion board.
In addition to your response to the main thread questions, please respond substantially at least twice for the week in addition to your main thread posting to at least two classmates in your responses. All responses will be made on the discussion board.
Spelling and grammar will be factored into your grade.
The instructor will provide you with feedback either by posting in the discussion forum or in the comments section in the gradebook.
Substantive postings are those that respond to a question in a way that clearly supports a position, offers a contrasting or divergent point of view, begins a new topic, clarifies a point already made, or adds to the existing discussion by critically reflecting on what's been said or moves the discussion in another direction. Agreeing with someone else is not a substantive posting.
Students need to first post a response to all of the questions from the main stem, then post in response to other students' postings. Note: Given this is a fully online course, discussion board activity is vital to the class flow. Students are expected to post discussion board threads and responses by the due dates listed on this syllabus. Each Discussion Board Forum will close on the deadline listed.
Do not submit as attachments, just submit responses.