What are my Reflection on School, Family, and the Community? This course is engaged in community learning.  It is my hope that you share your most salient learning in terms of equitable school-family-community (SFC) engagement.  Some areas to consider but not inclusive: (1) What surprised you the most?, (2) What practice will you engage in first?, (3) What barriers do you see in equitable engagement […]

Content Expectations:The following content areas are required for this PowerPoint: Introduction Slide: Clearly establish the purpose of your management system with an introduction slide. Slide 2: This slide should contain information about a credible web-based source related to a professional association that you will find valuable during your academic studies and professional work. Describe the source, including the type of source it is and why […]

Deviance is the label sociologists use to describe behavior that violates cultural norms. Norms include the expectations and rules that guide our behavior, appearance, manners, gestures, body language, conduct, et cetera. For this assignment, your task is to break a norm and write about your experience, as follows:   Choose one norm to break as long as it is within the guidelines for legal behavior. […]

Complete the weekly journal assignment for Week 1. The journal assignments will be reviewed each week, and all five journal entries for Weeks 1-5 will be used for a Journal Reflection discussion in Week 6. Title the Week 1 reflection as “Journal Entry #1: Learning Styles.” Write a 350- to 525-word response on the following: Reflect on your learning style and how it might affect your teaching style […]

  For this benchmark, create an in-depth, 15-20 slide PowerPoint presentation to inform other teachers in your school district of the benefits of using the SIOP model as a teaching framework. This presentation should elaborate on the empirical research that shows the benefits of the SIOP framework when used with general education students as well as with ELLs. Your presentation should include: A brief historical […]

  Select Case Study 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, or 3.9 in “For Cultural Competence: Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions needed to Embrace Diversity.”  Examine the scenario through a lens of cultural competence to determine when/how a deeper cultural understanding would have influenced the teacher’s responses. In a 500-750 word analysis, discuss 2-3 of the following concepts of deep culture in the context of the selected case study:  […]

To prepare for this discussion, read the article A Unified Theory of Development: A Dialectic Integration of Nature and Nurture (Links to an external site.). For your initial post: Compare and contrast Sameroff’s Transactional Theory of Development to Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model of Human Development. Use a visual representation (graphic organizer) to complete this comparison. Explain how as a leader in the field of early childhood […]

  This assignment requires you to write a detailed comparison of any two listening selections found in the textbook.* One of the listening selections you choose must be a piece that was not assigned in the class. Your music study should cover the following, in full sentences: Identify: The full titles of the pieces The composers’ full names, birth and death dates, and nationalities The years […]

  Post an explanation of two criteria for evaluating the quality of qualitative research designs. Next, explain how these criteria are tied to epistemological and ontological assumptions underlying philosophical orientations and the standards of your discipline. Then, identify a potential ethical issue in qualitative research and explain how it might influence design decisions. Finally, explain what it means for a research topic to be amenable […]

  It is important to integrate multimedia into ELA instruction and assessments when applicable in order to enhance the instruction in order to foster active engagement in literacy and create a supportive learning environment. For this assignment, create a 250-500 word digital brochure to give to families to highlight two multimedia tools that can be used to enhance literacy instruction. Your digital brochure should show […]