One popular approach to lesson planning for all levels of education is backward design or the backward planning approach. The idea behind backward design/backward planning is that you teach and plan toward the end goal, or what you want the students to be able to know or do. This typically ensures that the content being taught stays focused and more organized, thus promoting better […]

  Need to answer the following questions Explains your personal theory or model of how students learn. Be sure to cite specific elements of learning theories or models that influence or complement your theory. Explains how your experiences at Walden have helped shape your classroom approach to technology integration. How might your approach continue to evolve? Explains how your personal theory of learning is reflected […]

Accessing Early Literacy Skills   Read Chapter 3: Assessing Word Recognition and Reading Fluency (pp. 20-40). This chapter describes several early reading assessments such as Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Awareness, Basic Print Concepts, Three Minute Reading Assessments, Common Phonogram Assessment, etc. These tests measure various early literacy skills such as word recognition or sight words, concepts of print, fluency, etc. The following are other sources […]

During job interviews, potential employers often ask candidates to describe a time where they have demonstrated their initiative and/or results driven skills. This week, you’ll have a chance to practice.  In paragraph 1, describe a time at work, home, or school where there was a problem and you took the initiative to solve that problem and to seek results on your own. In paragraph 2, […]

Interactive Timeline   For the Final Project, you are required to make a timeline of the events in the history of American education that made a significant impact, and include a summary of each event.     Guidelines for the TimelineTo create the timeline, use the information from each week’s Timeline Discussion Forum response. (You may use the events you listed or the events your […]

   Question 1 Which of the following could be described as an Agile framework? Waterfall Crystal methods  Scrum  Agile Unified Process Question 2 Which of the following is considered a Scrum artifact? Stand-up meeting Pair programming Agile manifesto Sprint backlog Question 3 What is the purpose of a Sprint retrospective? To meet with the customer and demo the increment To review the last 24 hours […]

   MGT 4 peer responses JOHNNY’S POST: How does employee empowerment aid in building partnerships between companies and their customers?   From my personal experience when I feel empowered and entrusted from my leadership than I am usually in a better mood. The employee’s feel that they are valued and important to the organization. Therefore, they are more likely to work harder and take pride […]

   Write a short paper of 500–600 words. Include title and references pages with your assignment and follow current APA guidelines. You do not need an abstract. The paper should include the following: · Explain the concept of high-stakes testing.  · Then, respond to critics of high-stakes testing who believe high-stakes testing results in teaching to the test and that this—rather than real learning improvement—is […]