Educators often rely on best practices to inform their own practice. In this assignment, you will critique and assess best practices in education. General Requirements: Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment: Instructors will be using a grading rubric to grade the assignments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric…
As you begin to move beyond your initial outline and summary, your next step will be drafting. Drafting is a very important step in the writing process, but by no means should it be considered the final stage. In it you should focus on putting as much on paper as you can including your Purpose…
Discussion #4, Continued Work on Vygotsky A. Why is it important as a teacher to understand what children are: interested in? thinking about? attempting to create or problem-solve? how does this knowledge support further development? B. Note teaching strategies that enable you to learn about the child or children’s thinking: decriptive language, narration waiting for…
Characteristics of Child Development Through your readings this week, you learned about basic developmental characteristics and how each can serve as a window through which to contemplate and more fully understand child development. Review your readings, and focus specifically on the five developmental characteristics discussed in the Berger text (i.e., development is multidirectional, multidisciplinary, mulicontextual,…
Discern what Hjalmarson (2011) means when she states, “Rather than expecting parents to adapt to us, we need to create a parent involvement system that meets parents’ diverse needs” (p. 45). Do you recall, as a K-12 student, certain educators who provided leadership in partnership activities? Please give specific examples about those partnerships. Describe those…
Who should take the leadership role in organizing outreach programs to the parents, the family, and the community? What specific strategies would you employ? See full work assignment attached Week 3 Discussion 2 Leadership Roles Who should take the leadership role in organizing outreach programs to the parents, the family, and the community? What specific…
Using the Journal tab, reflect and respond to the following question: Thinking about the readings and your authentic personal experience, based on Epstein’s six types of involvement interactions, which ones have you observed? Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your journal entries….
Effective parent-school relationships begin with classroom teacher and individual parents. While parents clearly know their children best, as education professionals, classroom teachers need to take the lead in establishing and maintaining these relationships. Moreover, the most effective relationships take the form of a partnership between parent and teacher/school. This partnership arrangement is of the most…
In this self-reflective journal, please reflect on what Knowledge, Critical Thinking Skills, and Personal Life Effectiveness factors you reflected upon when you were thinking about what you were thinking about with the material in this unit…. Self-reflection journal (about 500 words worth 20 points); Using the format outlined below(!): Address and identify how in this…
Second outline. QUESTION : Select at least 5 momentous decisions which best reveal either great wisdom or tragiclost opportunity between 1450–1750 CE. For each, apply your historical hindsight todetermine the following: First – What was possible to understand at the time by thedecision-makers? Second – What were the most significant forces working on thedecision-makers? And…
