2. Welcome back to MUSC 335 Laura, have you: Run the questions and cut them up?

4. Housekeeping  Chapter 1 reading is available as a PDF on the wiki  Let’s find it now, shall we?  Dropbox. What’s up with that?  Timeliness of grading  My fail is your window of opportunity…..  Who here isn’t yet registered for the course?

5. Techné and Libré education  Technical college  Liberal studies

6. A word about e-submissions  Msword docs are standard  Simple text is ok.  I can read pdf files, but I can’t comment on them.  Fonts  I could care….  …except for Courier font. There is no aesthetic reason it should exist. Don’t go there.

7. Stuff to know…  I’m not an expert in this.  I just do my best, and so should you.  Pre-Student Teaching I (EDUC 242) will complement this class  More in-depth discussion on certain condition  More pedagogical preparation projects/activities

8. Education in Democracy  Take out a piece of paper  … or the new millennial version thereof  Jot down thoughts on what it means…  To educate in a democracy  To educate democratically  To education for a democracy  To have democracy in education

9. To educate in a democracyTo educate in a democracy? 

11. To educate democratically

12. To education for a democracy

13. To have democracy in education

14. Take a question from the envelope  From Text pg. 21  Post answers to your question on wiki by Sept. 4th before class  Don’t be concrete operational.  Don’t work on the knowledge/comprehension level of Bloom  Do include observation  Do include citations/links to interesting info  Do pose unanswered questions that provoke thought

16. Special Education  Defined as “specially designed instruction, which meets the unique needs of an exceptional child”.  Special Education =expensive  Extra services  Equipment  Busing  Teachers  Therapists  “Million $ baby”

17. Fair ≠Equal  How are schools funded?  Federal  State  Local  Rural  Tax-based funding  Geography of services  Who is in special ed?  Higher number of urban students  Higher number of impoverished students  Higher number of students of color  Higher number of student who are not English speakers and/or immigrant birth  Higher number of single- parent children

18. Special Education needs are increasing  Why?  Better medical care  pre- and neonatal  Accident  disease  Improved diagnostic training/skills  Increased ‘umbrella’ of recognized exceptionality  TBI  Autism  SLD

19. Mazlow’s heirarchy of needs

20. Ooohhh! It’s a music class!  Let’s listen to some, shall we? Let’s listen to some, shall we

21. Lable-free approach  Person-first language

22. Let’s talk vignettes  Typical or atypical classrooms?  Typical or atypical children?  What kinds of exceptionalities are  Easily seen?  Easily diagnosed?  Developed?  Grown out of?  Easily accommodated for?

23. Let’s talk readings/viewings  Parents  Teachers  Gen/choral 15/85 issue  There cannot be music excellence in the schools if there isn’t a place for musical okayness as well.  Students  Opportunities missed  Opportunities created

24. Terms & acronyms to know  Paraprofessional  NCLB  RTTT  Inclusion  Mainstreaming

25. Coming up  Post @50-100 words on your question by 7:30am Sept. 4  Comment on your peers’ posts by midnight Sept 4th  This is one of those ‘timely’ assignments  Read Chapter 1 for Wednesday Sept..4th.  Today’s lecture  Also Domains/categories