Unit 4 Assignment

Attending live Seminars is important to your academic success, and attendance is highly recommended. The Seminar allows you to review the important concepts presented in each unit, discuss work issues in your lives that pertain to these concepts, ask your instructor questions, and allow you to come together in real time with your fellow classmates. There will be a graded Seminar in Units 1 through 9 in this course. You must either attend the live Seminar or you must complete the Seminar alternative assignment in order to earn points for this part of the class.

In this week’s Seminar, you will be discussing educational philosophies. Review the following article, or find one on your own.

Source: Combs, J. (2010). Writing your own Educational Philosophy. Retrieved from http://www.edulink.org/portfolio/philosophies.htm.

Some topics to focus on are:

1. Why do you want to teach?
2. Whom are you going to teach?
3. How and what are you going to teach?

Review the following article:

Source: Best Practices: A Resource for Teachers: Public Schools of North Carolina. Retrieved from: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/curriculum/bpractices2.pdf

1. Share at least three best practices that you will include in your philosophy and your teaching.

Option 1: Participate in a synchronous Seminar discussion. You are strongly encouraged to fulfill your Seminar requirement through this option if possible. Many students find the Seminar very helpful because your instructor will clarify information and your classmates may pose questions that you also have about the material.

Option 2: Complete the Option 2 written assignment by answering the Seminar topics. Your responses should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be 300–400 words in length. You should create your Seminar responses in MS Word making sure to follow APA format and cite all references used. Save your answers and submit them to the Unit 4: Seminar Dropbox. The Dropbox is located at the top of this class on the blue toolbar.

Be sure to complete all questions to earn your Seminar points. You are also strongly encouraged to review the Seminar transcript for gain the full educational benefit intended.