Week 5 – Discussion 1 Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.   Engaging Parents Take some time to read the article, A guide for engaging ELL families: Twenty strategies for school leaders.Choose one […]

  Portfolio Reflection Portfolios are valuable assessment tools that represent authentic student work. They are helpful to demonstrate growth over time and to evaluate work that has been accomplished. For this Discussion, you will reflect upon your work thus far with the development of your assessment planning portfolio. To demonstrate your understanding of the purpose and function of portfolios and to share progress including goals […]

  For the Signature Assignment, you will reflect on a personal learning experience that was more traditional in nature and conceptualize a new way to create that experience using six assumptions about adult learners (Knowles, Swanson, & Holton, 2011).       The six assumptions about adult learners according to (Knowles, Swanson, & Holton, 2011) are:       Adults need to know why they […]

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT- EXTRA CREDIT (50points)    Chapter 11 – Relationships  Write! Directions: See Grading Rubric and example in Assignment Information Module!Each chapter of this book will ask you to write reflectively about the material you have just read. What did I learn? What’s the most valuable thing(s) I learned? What doesn’t work for me? Why doesn’t it work and how can I make it work? This is another way to remember […]

Write: For this post, the class will be divided into three sections. Please be sure to write about the specific topic you are assigned based on the first letter of your last name. First, all students should summarize how the Electoral College functions. Second, each student will focus on a specific argument regarding the Electoral College, based on the first letter of their last name. […]

Guided Response: In addition to responding to your instructor’s comments and questions, respond to at least two of your peers. How would you enhance the activities? Do you think the activities supported the text and anchor standards? Suggest any changes or improvement.            Here are the three word study activities/games I have chosen   1. Pick up sticks   Played with two to four students, Pick Up Sticks requires a set of popsicle sticks with words to be practiced written on one end of each stick. One stick has the word ZAP! written at the end. All sticks are placed word‐end down, into a can, cup, or some other opaque container. Play begins with one student pulling a stick up from the container. If the player can pronounce the word, he or she gets to keep the stick. If the word cannot be pronounced quickly it must be returned to the container. In turn, each player pulls one stick at a time. Play continues until the ZAP! stick is pulled. At this point, the player with the most sticks is the winner. Students love the suspense that develops as the number of remaining sticks becomes smaller and smaller. (Rasinski,T. & Padak, […]

Create a PowerPoint presentation of 15-18 slides on effective fluency strategies. Your presentation should cover the following topics at a minimum: The role of fluency within the five critical elements of reading Research-based teaching strategies for fluency The impact of fluency on reading comprehension Differentiation of fluency instruction for ELL, SPED, and diverse learners Assessments for fluency Title and reference slides are required. Use graphics […]

Compliance or Improvement? Using assessment for the purpose of quality assurance and quality improvement are oftentimes “hot topics” debated in the realm of higher education amongst institutional leaders and professional assessment organizations, just to name a few. You have been called upon as the Assistant Provost of Academic Affairs at Universal University (UU) write a 2 page paper that will be read by various stakeholders, […]

Part 1: The Influence of Dewey Imagine that you are a seventh-grade science teacher and your class just finished a unit that focused on the structure and function of cells. You finished grading your students’ end-of-the-unit test. Sadly, 50% of your students received a 70% score or below. Search the internet and find a famous quotation from John Dewey that resonates with you. Describe what […]