Education

INTRODUCTION The culminating assessment for the Synthesis of Educational Theory domain is a research paper that identifies a problem in education, clarifies relevant ways to address the problem, and explores different perspectives regarding the future of education. Note: This assessment must be submitted and passed prior to submitting the associated multimedia presentation required in SDA1.  REQUIREMENTS Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.   You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. Write a research paper (suggested length of 20–30 pages) that includes the following: A. Provide an introduction in which you do the following: 1. Identify an open-ended problem in education. a. Explain your current thinking about the future of education posed by the open-ended problem you have identified, supporting your explanation with research-based evidence. B. Choose five aspects that influence your open-ended problem, which can include but are not limited to the following: • teachers and standards • high-stakes assessments • curriculum/instruction • methodology • technology • bilingual/ELL • special education • public policy • diversity and inclusion 1. Identify two possible approaches and discuss how they address the open-ended problem, using each of the 5 aspects chosen in part B. Note: The same two possible approaches should be used for each of the 5 aspects. Note: For example, a proponent of public school Montessori may have an approach that differs from the approach of a proponent of homeschooling. Or, a proponent of self-contained special education may have an approach that differs from the approach of a proponent of full-inclusion special education. a. Provide evidence to support your discussion from part B1. i. Discuss the quality of evidence, including the credibility and bias of the provided information or evidence relevant to the possible approaches presented in part B1. b. Discuss the underlying assumptions of the possible approaches presented in part B1. 2. Discuss how two of the influencing aspects chosen in part B and the possible approaches from part B1 impact each other. 3. Analyze the pros and cons of implementing each of the possible approaches from part B1. 4. Propose your solution to the open-ended problem identified in part A1. a. Discuss potential criticisms of the solution you proposed in part B4 and ways of addressing those criticisms. 5. Reflect on what education would look like in the future if the solution from part B4 were implemented. 6. Summarize the main points from the research paper. C. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. D. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission. File Restrictions File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( ) File size limit: 200 MB File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg, wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z Two aspects I will be touching on is mental health and funding. Teachers are pushed for higher test scores, but students need more funding for more resources- but they wouldn’t receive funding for more resources till the scores were up (the vicious cycle)

Ask for Help Print DJM2 — DJM2 TASK 1: VIDEO OBSERVATION TASK INTRODUCTION Western Governors University employs a three-step developmental framework to support you through your preclinical and clinical experiences. This framework also helps to ensure you exit the program confident in your ability to meet the needs of your future students and school system. This assessment falls under step one of the three-step framework. In this task, you will engage in activities that will go toward preclinical hours of your Early Preclinical Experiences requirements. In this task and others in this program, you will use Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (Gibbs, 1988) as a framework to respond to observations and experiences. Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle encourages you to think systematically about the phases of an experience or activity, first describing the experience, then addressing how it made you feel, next evaluating and analyzing it, then drawing a conclusion, and finally considering how this experience will apply to your future practice. In this task, you will complete video observations and related reflections focusing on elements of educational psychology and human development in classroom settings. REQUIREMENTS Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide. You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course. Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt). A. Select and view a video from the “Elementary School” section of the “Video Observation List” web link and complete the following: 1. Describe the developmental stages of the student population in the video, including the following: • video number • approximate age, grade level, and quantity of the students • relevant student characteristics (e.g., gender, students’ needs, culture, socio-economic status [SES], personal interests) 2. Explain which learning theory best aligns with the instructional and assessment strategies the teacher uses in the video. Support your response with specific example(s). B. Select and view a video from the “Middle School” section of the “Video Observation List” web link and complete the following: 1. Describe the developmental stages of the student population in the video, including the following: • video number • approximate age, grade level, and quantity of the students • relevant student characteristics (e.g., gender, students’ needs, culture, socio-economic status [SES], personal interests) 2. Explain which learning theory best aligns with the instructional and assessment strategies the teacher uses in the video. Support your response with specific example(s). C. Select and view a video from the “High School” section of the “Video Observation List” web link and complete the following: 1. Describe the developmental stages of the student population in the video, including the following: • video number • approximate age, grade level, and quantity of the students • relevant student characteristics (e.g., gender, students’ needs, culture, socio-economic status [SES], personal interests) 2. Explain which learning theory best aligns with the instructional and assessment strategies the teacher uses in the video. Support your response with specific example(s). D. Select and view a video from the “Students with Unique Needs” section of the “Video Observation List” web link and complete the following: 1. Describe the developmental stages of the student population in the video, including the following: • video number • approximate age, grade level, and quantity of the students • relevant student characteristics (e.g., gender, students’ needs, culture, socio-economic status [SES], personal interests) 2. Explain which learning theory best aligns with the instructional and assessment strategies the teacher uses in the video. Support your response with specific example(s).

write a peaceable elementary school plan that includes all the following subtitles: (overview, goals, objectives, Rationale and Purpose, Proposed Implementation Activities and Assessment (description of how you would assess the effectiveness of the program)

Browse the files and answer the following questions. 2 pages per question 1. How have you or how could you develop a mindfulness routine to cultivate insight into your thoughts and emotional experience during this time in your life? Describe at least one mindfulness practice you could do regularly and identify which WHAT skill it uses and how you would use all three HOW skills for it. 2.How are you going to know when you’re above a 65 on your emotional thermometer? When you are above a 65, choose one or more skills you are going to use to stay effective and explain how the skills work and why the skills would work for you in being effective at managing your emotions during this time. Describe the skill and the specific strategies/components. 3. When you are below a 65, choose one or more skills you are going to use in helping to reduce the severity of the emotion you might be experiencing and/or change your emotion to a more preferred one.   Similarly, explain how these skills work and why they would be effective for you. Describe the skill and the specific strategies/components.

Discuss the importance of an instructional coach as it relates to the classroom. What steps would you take as an instructional coach to increase student achievement needs at your school? (See attached for school information)

Watch the documentary, Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show (2018) Feel free to download and/or read the documentary film Showrunners transcript. I would like you to think about the following questions and respond to them in your post: Please respond to each question with its own, full, thoughtfully-developed paragraph(s). 1. Which of the showrunners featured in the documentary did you most identify with? What aspect of their personality and/or work ethic did you find most compelling? Please be descriptive and use concrete examples from the film in your response.  To help refresh your memory, use the attached PDF with a list of the showrunners: About the Showrunners.pdf 2. What differences, if any, did you notice between the way male and female showrunners approach their job, careers, and job security? What do you think accounts for these differences? Be specific. 3. Finally, what changes, if any, do you think would make the system of producing television shows “better”? Consider this question in terms of quality of content, fairness, or diversity of the showrunners, directors, actors, and others. Please note that instances of plagiarism or academic dishonesty will likely result in removal from the class.  Please respond to all of these questions, addressing each one in a separate paragraph. The quality of your writing must be: formal, not casual academic, not ‘spoken’ descriptive, i.e. you explain the ‘what’ and describe scenes, moments, and examples from the film. The more specific, detailed, and colorful your response, the better. analytical, i.e. you explain the ‘why’ and provide reasons and support for your claims and assertion. Use logic and reasoning to explain why – and be persuasive! be clear in your writing: sentence structure, clarity, spelling, and punctuation are important. do not simply provide one sentence answers – no points will be awarded to answers that do not provide substantial explanation and responses to these questions.

What is your philosophy of education? Write at least 2 page of your teaching philosophy. Below are the guiding questions. —Philosophers/philosophies that influence your thinking (review our textbook chapter 1) What makes teaching young children different from teaching elementary school students?  Why is early childhood education important? ( Review readings for the module 4 and 5) —The purpose of education, how children learn, and how they should be taught What  ECE approaches you like the most and why? What goals do you have for your students? Describe how you are going to teach young children who are individually, developmentally, culturally diverse?  Justify why you teach that way

Directions:  Write at least 3 paragraphs. The purpose of this assignment is to ask you to formulate your own philosophy regarding technology and teaching.  The following is by no means an exhaustive list, but you may wish to include responses to these questions to get you started:   How has your knowledge base grown?   In what ways do you see the use of technology helpful and similarly in what ways do you see the use of technology hindering as it pertains to teaching and learning?   What are some essential elements to teaching with technology that have a positive effect on your teaching and your students’ learning?   How will you keep up with what industry may call “new technology” that will change the way you teach and the way your students learn?  Essentially, how will you continue to be a lifelong learner? How will you determine if a new piece of technology is worth your time and investment?  How will you communicate your philosophy to fellow co-workers? How do the technology standards support your philosophy?

FIRST, write an Initial Post of at least 300 words (about 2 paragraphs, one per question), in which you address BOTH of the following question. You must address BOTH questions to successfully complete the assignment.  Question 1: After reading through chapter one and mod 1 readings, in your own words, describe what the Humanities are and argue why they are important. In your discussion, identify and describe at least three distinct subject areas (disciplines) in the humanities that help illustrate your understanding and support your argument. **Note, “beauty” is not a subject area. For example, in the sciences, biology, chemistry, and physics would be examples of subject areas. Pay attention to the key terms there, identify AND describe.  Question 2: Choose ONE of the following articles and associated question to respond to. Choose the one most relevant to your goals or interests. After reading “Studying Humanities Teaches You How to Get a Job” discuss how you think studying the humanities might help you get a job in the future. Reference the article’s examples in your discussion. After reading “Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities” summarize why the author thinks a bridge between the humanities and engineering is important and whether or not you agree with the article’s premise. Justify your response with discussion.  Based on your reading of “How the Humanities Can Train Entrepreneurs” what skills are employers looking for that the humanities can provide future students who want to work in business or become entrepreneurs? As a reminder, any outside sources used should be scholarly in nature and included at the bottom your post along with a citation for the textbook in a properly formatted MLA style “Works Cited” section at the end of your post. Any material you integrate into your post word-for-word must be placed in quotation marks and have an in-text parenthetical citation and a works cited entry. Any material you paraphrase or summarize must be cited with an in-text parenthetical citation and a works cited entry. Links https://psmag.com/education/studying-humanities-teaches-you-how-to-get-a-job https://www.chronicle.com/article/building-a-bridge-between-engineering-and-the-humanities/ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/how-the-humanities-can-train-entrepreneurs/540390/ file:///C:/Users/TEMP/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_Chapter_01_Outline_and_Introduction.html.zip/Module01/Chapter_01_Outline_and_Introduction.html

Critical Tech Reflection ( Desmos Review) Directions:  For this reflection, you are to do a write up of your chosen tech tool that you presented in this class (DESMOS). You have seen many resources used throughout the course of the semester and now is the time to critically write and review one of your own.  Parameters: Title your paper “Critical Tech Reflection” Your paper should be a 12-point font and should be between 3 and 5 paragraphs. You should address the following questions: What is the name of the tech tool?  What is used for?  What issues does it resolve?  What issues does it create? What makes this tool great? What are the shortcomings of this tool?  Where does it fail? How does this tool support the themes and ideas presented in this class? In what ways or capacity can you see yourself or your students using this tool? Does this tool have any competitors?  If so, what are they?  What makes them different? Do you have to pay for this tool?  What options does this tool offer? How does this tool align to the standards?  Here is a link to those standards. You are going for more of a narrative rather than a set of unrelated bullet points.  I would like this exercise to be about how you would intelligently speak to your future colleagues as a professional educator.