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:  […]

Use the matrix worksheet (attached) to describe 3 sets of (DIFFERENT REAL CLASS ACTIVITIES) that you might use to teach and/or assess the children 6-12 years old about any mental or emotional health topics.  Come up with activities for each category from the sheet attached of multiple intelligence, so for each “learning style” (like some children learn better by doing stuff like acting a situation […]

Assessment Plan As early childhood educators, it is our job to ensure that students are learning and developing at an appropriate rate. As we have learned throughout this course, using developmentally appropriate assessment is one of the most efficient ways to be able to ensure that this happens. While it is our responsibility to understand the assessment process and the various strategies, tools, and procedures […]

   Prepare Prior to beginning work on this discussion, Read      Chapter 1.1: The Purposes of Educational Assessments Read      Chapter 5: Placement, Diagnostic, and Formative Assessment Read      Chapter 6: Summative Assessment Choose      one of the following videos to watch:  Reflect Consider how the teacher in the video you selected was assessing for learning. Make any connections with your own professional or educational experiences. Write (Post Initial […]

Theory or Opinion Challenge The three ethical perspectives (relativism, emotivism, and ethical egoism), and in Chapter 2, examples of how to applyethical theories and perspectives to various concrete issues. Prepare and post a response to the following prompt: ·         Define and contrast the three ethical perspectives. ·         How do the perspectivesdiffer from the ethical theories? ·         What does each ethical perspective tell us about morality […]

Assignment 1: The Scavenger Hunt Due Week 3 and worth 100 points Let’s put your investigative skills to work! In this assignment, visit the Strayer online library located in iCampus or the Resource Center tab in Blackboard and find four (4) peer-reviewed quantitative or qualitative articles related to your topic. Read each article. Write a five (5) page paper in which you: Summarize each article […]

  To begin the action research process, a researcher selects a focus and clarifies the vision and targets of the research. A close review of current scholarly sources about a research topic helps to clarify vision and targets of the research and builds support for a research investigation. In Topic 1 you selected two areas of research for your action research study. From these two […]

The traditional, academic hierarchy of painting genres is as follows: history paintings, portraits, genre paintings (everyday life), landscapes, and, finally, still-life paintings.  Regarding the first of these, history paintings, who were the foremost American followers of this so-called Grand Manner? How were their works similar? How were they different? What were the themes and sources for these works?   For what reason(s) were history paintings […]

   Purposes of AssessmentAs you know, the focus of this course is assessment in early childhood education. “Child assessment is a vital and growing component of high-quality early childhood programs. Not only is it an important tool in understanding and supporting young children’s development, it is essential to document and evaluate program effectiveness” (Epstein, Schweinhart, DeBruin-Parecki, & Robin, 2006, p. 1). It is hard to […]