Discuss how and with whom you shared the results of your assessment sessions—with co /peer teacher?? Child’s teacher?? Child’s parent/guardian?? . What recommendations did you suggest? What were their comments??

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Individual Portfolio Assessment

In preparing this Assignment 1, think of yourself as the reading clinician who has administered six (6) assessments to a struggling reader. This portfolio will be written in a scholarly manner. That means that there will be “proof” and evidence via assessment results to discuss the student’s strengths and/or deficiencies in reading.

Closely read the syllabus and the rubric for grading. This Assignment 1 in RED 554 will serve as a jump-board for RED 555. The results and scholarly conclusions you make will form the basis for the remediation to be done in RED 555.

Part One. Determining Reading Proficiencies and Difficulties

Begin this Part by a short background discussion of the student. Report student age; grade; any information gleaned from your time spent with the student; family information, if you have it, etc.  Enough so the reader will be able to visualize your student.

Look in the Ekwell- Shanker book page 100 (David’s Diagnostic Report). This is an excellent example for you to follow. Part 2- Health Record will not be included in your report.

Briefly discuss the student’s school- Location ; type of school- rural, city, magnet, specialized school ,technology in school, size of school. This sets the tone for the reader to understand what kind of school the student attends. This can be written using some of the example in Part 1—but you can modify it to your student’s school setting.

Briefly describe the school instruction this term due to Coronavirus—;my student was in person learning in class,

 

Part Two: Analysis of Data

Discuss the data you have collected to determine the student’s strengths and weaknesses. Provide data (scores for each Ekwell test and the Interest Inventory). I suggest you list each assessment, starting with the Interest Inventory. Briefly discuss it and why you chose it. instrument.

Then, copy and paste your six (6) assessment forms from Assignment 2.

Look at David’s Report – Part 4. This is how you will list it- although you will only have six (6) sessions listed rather than all of the ones in the sample.  Read the sample section where each of the main skills is discussed. You can model your discussion on this. Look at the summary and Recommendations of the sample ( page 104). This will help you.

 

Part Three:  Implications and Recommendations for Instruction

Based on your analysis of the completed assessment data. (Part Two), summarize all findings including the student’s reading levels, (decoding and comprehension, three levels each- frustration; independent; instructional), writing competencies and behaviors, spelling stage/level, and specific recommendations for instruction. Match the student’s instructional levels and interests with classroom materials, appropriate texts, and cultural and linguistic background to assessment results). I suggest making at least five (5) recommendations of classroom materials. Suggest several recommendations for intervention strategies– (this can be brief as you will do much more in RED 555).

Here is an example of listing the data results for Part 3.

Part III

Tests Administered and Results

Test 2: Basic Sight Word Vocabulary                           Mastery                         Score

2a. Quick Check for Basic Sight Words                           36                               24/36

Test 3: Phonics                                                           Mastery.                          Score

3a. Application of Phonics Skills in Context                    65.                               63/73

3b. Initial Consonants                                                      9                                  8/10

3c. Initial Blends and Digraphs                                        9                                  7/10

3d. Ending Sounds                                                          8                                  6/10

3e. Vowels                                                                       9                                *9/10

3f. Phonograms                                                               9                                  3/10

3g. Blending                                                                     9                               NA/10

3h. Substitution                                                               22                              NA/25

3i. Vowel Pronunciation                                                  13                               NA/15

*Indicates Mastery

 

Test 10 Graded Word List (GWL):

Independent Reading Level:       Grade PP

Instructional Reading Level:        Grade P

Frustration Reading Level:          Grade 1

Tests 11a and 11b: Reading Passages Tests

Oral                              Silent

Independent Reading Level:                  Grade  Below PP                Below Grade PP

Instructional Reading Level:                  Grade PP                             Grade  PP

Frustration Reading Level:                    Grade 1                                Grade  1

 

Part Four:  Share Results with an Audience—This will not be included if you are in the Avatar Program.

 Discuss how you shared the results and recommendations with a team consisting of the student’s classroom teacher, parents or guardian (if available) , and any others who work with the student. You might also share with your grade-level chair or department head /assistant principal. Did they have comments or suggestions for you?

 

Part 4-  Discuss how and with whom you shared the results of your assessment sessions—with co /peer teacher?? Child’s teacher?? Child’s parent/guardian??  . What recommendations did you suggest?  What were their comments?? 

Cite all tests in APA bibliographic format;

 

 

What Legal Issues in Education Technology Are School Leaders Most Concerned About?

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What Legal Issues in Education Technology Are School Leaders Most Concerned About?

The authors of the course text, Educational Leadership and Technology (Garland ‘ Tejada, 2013) discuss such legal issues in technology as copyright, internet access for all students, protection of student data, and responsible social interactions.

They are clear about the role of the school leader in maintaining a culture that promotes responsible, legal use of education technology. “Principals are leaders in the collaborative effort of teachers and administrators, and parents in ensuring safe, ethical, and legal use of digital information and online resources by students in their schools” (p. 93).

In addition to the critical legal issues mentioned above, concerns regarding the legality of how schools use technology for instruction, data collection, communication, and collaboration surface regularly, and must be dealt with by school leaders. Some of these legal issues may have been discussed when you studied School Law, so you are familiar with the statutes that govern them.

Additional legal issues in the management of education technology include:

  • Freedom of speech
  • Harassment
  • Special education student access
  • Intellectual property
  • Assistive technology
  • Content filtering
  • Use of cell phones (students or teachers)

For this assignment (2 pages, plus references), select one of the following legal topics listed above. Then create a scenario, (all names and places are anonymous) that involves a potential violation of the laws governing this legal topic. The scenario should be no more than one page in length.

1 reference must be from the course text, Educational Leadership and Technology (Garland ‘ Tejada, 2013)

On page 2 of the assignment, cite the statute/law that governs this issue and/or the school or district policy that addresses this scenario. Then provide your thoughts on how this scenario should be dealt with by the school principal.

What are some probing questions that could be asked about each research question in the interviews with clients when you interview them.

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

1. For each question, why literature is used or what theory is used to inform the research question? Need the author and ear of the literature.
2. What are some probing questions that could be asked about each research question in the interviews with clients when you interview them. Only 3 probing questions for each research question.
3. Are there any emerging themes from the literature for each research question.

And the last part is of the literature used for the research, which ones are deductive codes and which ones are inductive codes.

Name some of the forms that Discrimination based on race or ethnicity takes. Define “racial steering”. What may an “unprejudiced discrimination be?

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Stereotypes , Prejudice and Discrimination

* Below is also a link to an article to answer the questions that I listed below in essay form

  • https://philschatz.com/sociology-book/contents/m42860.html

1. Name some of the forms that Discrimination based on race or ethnicity takes.
2. Define “racial steering”.
3. What may an “unprejudiced discrimination be?
4. Define “institutional discrimination.
5. According to the article what is “white Privilege”?

According to the article, what does multicultural ed. Refer to? What does the principle of educational equity stand for? Name the four types of multicultural material?

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Glossary of education reform ( edu 130 )

* below are questions that need to answered in an essay form
* below is a link to the article to answer the questions.

  • https://www.edglossary.org/multicultural-education/

1. According to the article, what does multicultural ed. Refer to?
2. What does the principle of educational equity stand for?
3. Name the four types of multicultural material l?
4. How did Multicultural Education come about and evolve?
5. The article states that the Common Core Standards considers now which two groups of students?
6. How are they providing instruction for these two groups of students?
7. How has testing/assessments changed for these two groups of students.
8. What are some of the concerns/debates some people have about “heterogeneous grouping”?
9. What is meritocracy, according to the article?

describe your academic and professional goals as well as any experience relevant to the program to which you are applying.

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Personal statement

The intention of your personal statement is to describe your academic and professional goals as well as any experience relevant to the program to which you are applying. It is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your writing skills as you describe your future plans, expectations, and aspirations.

A personal statement is required of applicants to all graduate programs and should be approximately 1,000-1,500 words, double-spaced.

Explain three or four different types of organizational culture. What are the various ways leaders can gather data about their organization’s culture? What attributes should be considered when evaluating organizational culture?

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Organizational Culture

Instructions
Understanding the culture of a school or organization and the impact various leadership styles may have on that culture is the first step to making positive change within an organization. This week’s assignment has two parts: a short paper and a survey. Combine both parts into one document for submission.

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following points:
Define organizational culture
Explain three or four different types of organizational culture.
What are the various ways leaders can gather data about their organization’s culture?
What attributes should be considered when evaluating organizational culture? Consider things like leadership influence, work group effectiveness, worker accommodations/physical environment, communication, and job satisfaction.

Review several samples of organizational culture surveys. Start by looking over the resources. Then, conduct a general Internet search for examples of organizational culture surveys. Do not copy any of the surveys you locate. Use them only as a guide to produce your own original survey for your school or learning organization. The NCU library has provided additional guidance here: https://ncu.libanswers.com/faq/357738

Using an online tool designed to deliver surveys, develop a 20-question survey that could be used to evaluate organizational culture and leadership impact in your own setting. Include the link to your survey in the paper.

Length: 2-3 page paper and a link to a 20-question survey

References: Include a minimum of 2-3 scholarly resources, properly cited within the body of your paper.

”A Changing World Demands Changing Skills.” What does this mean to you and to your work as an educator?

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Reflective portfolio

Respond to the following prompt by writing in your reflective portfolio:

”A Changing World Demands Changing Skills.” What does this mean to you and to your work as an educator?

Cover the topics:
– Global competence framework
– Global minds and local hands
– 21st century skills and technologies

What are the major issues and debates? What are the main questions and ideas that have been researched to date? What are the key theoretical and conceptual ideas?

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Playground bullying and its effects on young children

TMA 03
Please send this assignment to your tutor via the eTMA system, to arrive . (See Section 2 of the Assessment Handbook for general information on submitting assignments.)

The word length of TMA 03 is 3000 words (excluding your title and list of references). Before starting work for this TMA, you should:

remind yourself about word length in Section 5.2 of the Assessment Guide
refer to the general guidance on assignments in the Assessment Guide
pay particular attention to Section 5.7 on good academic practice in the Assessment Guide
consider the assessment criteria that will be used for marking your assignment.

This assignment is based on EK313 Block 3.

Complete a literature review on a research topic of your choice relevant to early childhood or childhood or young people.

This assignment asks you to expand on the work you did in Unit 17 of the Study Guide in order to produce a small-scale literature review, which will help you to prepare for writing Part 1 of your EMA project. This says: ‘Your literature review should lead you to one or more reasonably well-defined research questions. You need to identify a question from your literature review, and consider whether it is descriptive or explanatory.’

To do this, you will need to look back over the module materials as well as find new material for yourself using the literature searching skills that you have brought to your studies and have developed from TMA 02 onwards.

Your literature review should include discussion of the main theoretical concepts underpinning your topic and critical examination of relevant evidence. The material that you review can be drawn from a range of sources, but you should make sure that at least some of these are recent (i.e. published within the past five years). You are required to review a minimum of six academic sources (excluding module materials and papers that you identified and included in TMAs 01 and 02). Selecting six sources may well be sufficient. Do not select and review more than six in the belief that this will enhance your literature review. The relevance of each of your sources is important.

Please note: website sources, such as Wikipedia or the websites of newspapers, magazines, charities or public bodies, do not count towards this six-source minimum. You can make reference to information you have found on these websites to give context to the issues you discuss, but it is important that you do not use this type of source as a substitute for the academic sources in your literature review. It is expected that you search for and critique articles in your topic area. Journal articles accessed online through the OU Library do not count as website sources, so all six sources could be electronic journal articles found in the OU Library.

For this TMA, you should choose a research topic area that is of interest to you and one that is relevant to early childhood/childhood/young people. Topics that focus primarily on young adults and adults are not relevant to the central themes of this module.

Before starting your review, it is important to point out that, in an assignment of this length, you are not expected to review every single piece of literature that exists on the topic. Even so, you should look for a wide range of sources to include in your assignment. A literature review is not a shopping list of articles that are in some way relevant to the topic; it is a systematic review of the literature available, chosen to develop a clear and logical argument about an issue. You must therefore be careful not to produce a list of every article you find, and instead concentrate on comparing, contrasting and analysing the articles you have selected to allow you to explore effectively a particular aspect of the topic you have chosen. You may find it helpful to re-visit some of the activities in Unit 17 of the Study Guide and familiarise yourself with the purposes of a literature review.

The purpose of a literature review is to summarise and synthesise existing knowledge about a particular topic. This entails identifying, describing and critiquing key theories, concepts and methods of investigation, and examining how these are related. Literature reviews are also used as a way of justifying a piece of research, which is an important part of your EMA.

Before starting work on this TMA you may find it useful to revisit the activities you carried out during Unit 17 and the tutorials in the Library resources section of the website.

Suitable resources
By entering keywords into the OU Library home page one-stop search facility, articles and information relating to your chosen topic area can be found. When the results of your search are displayed, it is possible to refine the results by using the left-hand column on the results page. Results can be refined in order to show journal articles only as well as information for a particular subject. Click on the link ‘peer-reviewed journals’ at the top of the list to see only academic articles.

The following databases, available via the Library home page, might also be useful:

Academic Search Complete
Sage Journals Online (access is via OpenAthens authentication: further information is available on the OU Library website)
Taylor and Francis Online.

Choosing a topic
You will need to choose a particular topic and select from the literature based on that topic. Choose a topic in which you are interested and keep a tight control on that topic area. Bear in mind that you will need to adapt any of the terms you use in a keyword(s) search to the specific topic you are pursuing in this assignment in order to locate the appropriate literature. It is important to note that the appropriateness of the articles you choose will be a factor in determining your mark for this TMA. Think carefully about this when selecting the number of sources you will use in your TMA. The best way to demonstrate that you have chosen an appropriate article is to integrate that article into your argument and use the material from it to engage with the ideas in the module materials. It is important that your selected topic is relevant to the core themes of this module and span the 0–18 age range.

Suggested structure
Rather than simply summarising arguments that have gone before, a good literature review points out where there have been differences of opinion and who has influenced what, where and when. You need to have enough breadth of understanding to be able to critically evaluate what you are reading. In the literature review that you prepare, remember to concentrate on comparing and contrasting the papers you read and on critically evaluating them. Think about what surprises you, some of the points you would like to learn more about and where there are gaps in the research that you could pursue.

You will find it helpful to organise your literature review into sections. Begin with an introduction that describes your topic and sets the scene. End with a conclusion that both summarises the main points you have extracted from your critical evaluation and sets out your research question(s). There is no prescribed format for structuring the sections in between. The following structure and questions may help you to organise your material logically, so that readers can follow your argument.

Introduction

What are the origins and definitions of this topic?
How does this relate to my focus within the topic?

Questions that might inform section headings

What are the major issues and debates?
What are the main questions and ideas that have been researched to date?
What are the key theoretical and conceptual ideas?
How has the literature increased knowledge and understanding of the topic?
What are the main sources that support my line of argument?
What are the main sources that question my line of argument?
Are there any areas that have not been explored previously in the literature?

Conclusion

What are the key points and what proposed research question(s) has this led me to?

References
Add a list of references, drawing on the Cite Them Right referencing system (as specified in Section 5.6 of the Assessment Guide). The title and list of references are not counted in the 3000-word length of this assignment.

Give your word count at the end of your essay, before the reference list.

Final reminder

Resist the temptation merely to produce a ‘shopping list’ of what has been written about your topic. You should provide a critical summary and assessment of the literature in your chosen field, which leads up to and justifies your research questions.

What does commercial general liability (CGL) insurance cover? Provide an example of a situation where there could be a CGL claim, and explain how it could have been avoided.

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

What does commercial general liability (CGL) insurance cover? Provide an example of a situation where there could be a CGL claim, and explain how it could have been avoided.
Your response must be at least 75 words in length

Describe the difference between comprehensive and collision business insurance. What can be done to reduce auto claims?
Your response must be at least 75 words in length

When is a mandated loss prevention program used, and why? How can a business benefit? Provide an example.
Your response must be at least 75 words in length

Briefly describe a real or fictional construction accident, and determine which insurance coverage would be involved and why. Would a wrap-up be useful in this situation? Why, or why not?
Your response must be at least 200 words in length