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Kellie is a new faculty member and has been working hard getting
ready to teach her courses. She feels pretty good about her

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preparation and can't wait until the semester starts. Kellie has a
real passion for learning and for teaching, and she hopes to pass it

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on to her students. After all, many of them will soon be classroom
teachers, and she hopes they will be better prepared than she was.

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It was only a few years ago that she was a middle school teacher
herself and she clearly remembers how surprised she was by the

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number of students with disabilities who were included in her
classes. Kellie got her doctorate and became a faculty member

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because she wanted to help others be better prepared to work in the
schools. She hopes she can do a good job. While she believes her

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undergrad preparation to be solid, she knows she learned too little
about meeting the needs of exceptional students. However, there's

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one thing she knows for sure; as a college professor, she does not
want to slip into the kind of instruction that used to drive her

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crazy as an undergrad, like class after class of impersonal
lectures. She wants to be an effective professor so that her

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students avoid the "information overload" experienced by many of her
undergraduate peers. Kellie's convinced that her own instruction

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needs to be a good model for instruction--one that her students
can reference for their own future use. That, she hopes, will give

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them a much-needed advantage when they accept their first teaching
positions. Her own teaching and experience has given her many clues

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about what this model should look like. But she wonders is she ready
for prime time? Fortunately, Amani, a tenured faculty member, was

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assigned as her mentor. Kellie and Amani really get along, and Amani
wants to help Kellie become a great instructor. She told Kellie

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about an on-line module that deals with the issue of how people
learn. She thought it might be helpful. Amani actually suggested

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they work through the module together by discussing its content
after she finished each section. Kellie thought this was a great

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idea, and they set up some days and times to meet across the next
several weeks.

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Here is your challenge: