EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Entire Course (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 1 Effective Teachers  EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational Psychology  EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Intelligence  EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 2 Intellectual Exceptionality  EDU 372 Week 2 Applied Questions  EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 1 Reinforcement and Conditioning  EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 2 Reciprocal Teaching  EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 3 DEAL Problem-Solving  EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 1 Memory  EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 2 Preferred Learning Style  EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 1 Corporal Punishment Debate  EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 2 To Test or Not to Test?  EDU 372 Week 5 Final Paper

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 1 Effective Teachers (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 1 Effective Teachers  Education - General Education  Effective Teachers. This week students have learned how theories, laws, principles governing competent teachers, and beliefs are related. Using information from our reading assignment this week and reflections on your own personal experiences:  a. Describe two characteristics that competent (perhaps even outstanding) teachers possess and how they relate to student learning.  b. Provide an example that illustrates how teacher beliefs impact student learning.

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational Psychology (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Educational Psychology  Education - General Education  Educational Psychology. In addition to the many tasks required of teachers, they must understand educational psychology as it relates to student gender and the various developmental stages (from childhood to adolescence). Address the following:  What is the significance of student gender in educational psychology? How does gender impact your instruction and the learning environment?  Why is understanding psychosocial stages in childhood and adolescence important?  Provide an example(s) to illustrate your points.

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 2 Applied Questions (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 2 Applied Questions  Education - General Education  Applied Questions. Respond to at least three of the questions listed below. Your response must be in proper APA format and include evidence from the text and at least one other scholarly resource to support your answers. Your response should be no more than five pages in length (not including title and reference pages).  List some of the educational implications of the views of intelligence advanced by Cattell, Sternberg, and Gardner?  Explain why correlation does not prove causation.  Debate the merits and educational implications of the belief that intelligence is modifiable.  Using library resources, research the proposition that measured intelligence is related to family size, and birth order.

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Intelligence (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Intelligence  Education - General Education  Intelligence. There are many ways to measure the intelligence of a person. One well known method is the I.Q. testing. Take the I.Q. Test available at the I.Q. Test Labs website ( Using your experience with this test and the information from our reading assignment this week respond to the following:  Do you agree with the results of your own I.Q. test? Why or why not?  How do you feel about the practice of I.Q. testing? What did you learn about I.Q. testing? How does your experience connect with information from the text on I.Q.?

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 2 Intellectual Exceptionality (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 2 DQ 2 Intellectual Exceptionality  Education - General Education  Intellectual Exceptionality. Legislation mandates that, wherever possible, children with exceptionalities be educated in mainstream education classrooms with other students. As a result, a teacher’s role and responsibilities have become increasingly complex. List some of the common characteristics of gifted students, and specific ways in which a teacher could accommodate the needs of a student who is gifted in the mainstream education classroom. What are some of the ways in which both high achieving students and students with disabilities are served in the mainstream classroom? Identify at least two ways both parties are served and then determine what works best for these student populations, and explain why.

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 1 Reinforcement and Conditioning (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 1 Reinforcement and Conditioning  Education - General Education  Reinforcement and Conditioning. Reflect on your own educational experience and relate examples of classical and operant conditioning that were implemented in the classroom. Describe the experience and the outcome of its use. Give an example of negative reinforcement and punishment that you observed or were a party to. Did it impact learning in the classroom?

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 2 Reciprocal Teaching (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 2 Reciprocal Teaching  Education - General Education  Reciprocal Teaching. Watch the video “Watch & Learn: Text Comprehension” ( and discuss how the students assume responsibility for helping one another learn. Explain how strategies used in reciprocal teaching can increase reading comprehension. How does reciprocal teaching accommodate diverse learners?

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 3 DEAL Problem-Solving (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 3 DQ 3 DEAL Problem-Solving  Education - General Education  IDEAL Problem-Solving. In place of a written assignment this week, you will generate a problem that can be used to illustrate the IDEAL problem- solving strategy. Your problem must be aligned to learning outcome created by you.  Post your learning outcome along with your problem in your discussion post by Friday, Day 4.  Then, review several of your classmates’ problems and choose one to solve using the five steps in the IDEAL problem-solving strategy. Identify each step in the process and post your solution by Sunday, Day 6.

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 1 Memory (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 1 Memory  Education - General Education  Memory. How does understanding how memory works impact instructional strategies? Give an example of how sensory memory can be used in the classroom. Provide examples of instruction that require to the use of short-term and long-term memory. How can you aid memorization during instruction? What works best for you when required to commit facts to memory?

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 2 Preferred Learning Style (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 4 DQ 2 Preferred Learning Style  Education - General Education  Preferred Learning Style. What is your preferred learning style? How would you outline the educational approaches most compatible with it? Can the traditional classroom environment accommodate all your needs? Describe the ideal learning environment for you and explain how it will increase your motivation and ability to learn. What obstacles would hinder the creation of your ideal learning environment?

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EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 1 Corporal Punishment Debate (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 1 Corporal Punishment Debate  Education - General Education  Corporal Punishment Debate. Effective teachers tend to use a variety of classroom management strategies to meet the developmental and learning needs of their students. Some states are still using corporal punishment as a form of behaviormanagement. Watch the CBS Report, “Corporal Punishment in Schools” ( and respond to the following questions:  Do you feel corporal punishment is an appropriate means of behavior management in schools? Why or why not?  Does corporal punishment impact a child’s psychological development? How?

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 2 To Test or Not to Test? (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 5 DQ 2 To Test or Not to Test?  Education - General Education  To Test or Not to Test?. That is the question. In today’s educational culture, high stakes testing has caused many to question whether assessment is a necessary element of instruction. Does testing matter? Are assessment and measurement a valid tool for teaching and learning? Is there a better way to evaluate student needs? Can a teacher design effective instruction without assessing students beforehand? Why or why not? How will you diagnose your students’ needs in order to create effective instruction?

EDU 372 CART The Power of Possibility/edu372cart.com EDU 372 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  EDU 372 Week 5 Final Paper  Education - General Education  FINAL PAPER  For this Research Project, students will identify a topic, find at least five articles from scholarly sources on that topic, prepare an annotated bibliography including these articles and information about them, and summarize the research and the implications relevant to the chosen topic. Students will:  1.Self-select an educational psychology topic of interest.  2.State the reasons for their choice of topic.  3.Research this topic.  4.Answer specific questions about this topic.  5.Provide applications of this research to academic, professional, and personal work.