Develop a 2-3 page response to the readings and address a vital issue or theme you found in the readings. Develop an interesting argument, put multiple readings into a discussion with each other, and effectively integrate a minimum of three quotes cited from at least three-course materials. Include a reference list of all sources.

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Reading Responses #1

Develop a 2-3 page response to the readings and address a vital issue or theme you found in the readings. Develop an interesting argument, put multiple readings into a discussion with each other (synthesize), and effectively integrate a minimum of three quotes cited from at least three-course materials. Include a reference list of all sources.

Reading Responses should be structured as follows. Include the following four headings in your summary:

1. Thematic Overview (1 paragraph, 10 points)

(What is the theme that has emerged from your readings?)

2. Arguments and Impacts (25 points)

Include a full summary of the major arguments and impacts raised by the readings. Be sure to show how the articles below all contribute to the emerging theme. Be sure to use at least 4 different quotes and include the citations within the response, in APA style.

3. Reflection (15 points)

Reflect on how the readings and theme have made an impact on your personal and professional life.

The articles you will use are below. Read each one carefully. Must be a high-level synthesis addressing a common theme that you see after reading all articles attached. Must use APA citations.

Use website articles in forming a common theme- read all articles, create an interesting argument, put multiple readings into the discussion with each other, and integrate a min of 4 quotes from different articles.

Reach out if you have questions.

1. https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/miracle-memes-and-inspiration-porn-internet-viral-images-demean-disabled-people.html
2. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/06/untangling-web-aleks-krotoski-disability
3. https://slate.com/technology/2016/03/how-spoonies-people-with-chronic-illnesses-use-memes-selfies-and-emojis-to-soothe-their-suffering.html
4. https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-41733769
5. https://themighty.com/topic/chronic-illness/invisible-illness-memes/

Based upon what you have learned from this course, and in particular from the required textbook, prepare a 10 – 12 page, doubled-spaced paper discussing and analyzing the most significant issues surrounding the principal’s role in the identification and development of emergent leaders and ensuring qualified candidates for succession management.

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Plan for Developing Emergent Leaders

Based upon what you have learned from this course, and in particular from the required textbook, prepare a 10 – 12 page, doubled-spaced paper discussing and analyzing the most significant issues surrounding the principal’s role in the identification and development of emergent leaders and ensuring qualified candidates for succession management. Include in your analysis a comparison of traditional teacher evaluation procedures with the current reality and future trends in performance evaluation.

Provide a plan that includes specific strategies for:

assisting and developing these emerging leaders,
promoting teacher leadership,
planning for professional learning, and
recommending performance compensation.

When making recommendations discuss:

pertinent legal issues,
existing as well as pending state and federal legislation, and
budgetary considerations when appropriate.

Describe and analyze the processes that are in place at your school to mentor beginning teachers (1-3years) as a means of ensuring their effectiveness in the classroom and increasing the probability of retaining them as members of the teaching profession.

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Module 3 — Induction and Retention Paper (Step 1) Start Assignment

Start thinking about the first draft of your assignment.

During the course of you studying the content within our text and other related resources that identify significant issues encompassing the principal’s responsibility to identify teachers and staff who have the potential to become successful. Consider what you have learned in each module as you begin to prepare your paper regarding the activities occurring at your school site for new teachers and staff members.

Describe and analyze the processes that are in place at your school to mentor beginning teachers (1-3years) as a means of ensuring their effectiveness in the classroom and increasing the probability of retaining them as members of the teaching profession.

Induction & Retention Paper Assignment Details Below:

Describe and analyze the processes that are in place at your school to mentor beginning teachers (1-3years) as a means of ensuring their effectiveness in the classroom and increasing the probability of retaining them as members of the teaching profession.(4 pages maximum)

The body of your essay will be a minimum of three and a maximum of five double-spaced pages, not including references and title page. List your reference list on a separate page. You may use references in addition to the class readings and may include peer-reviewed journals and scholarly materials.

Cover a letter to seek teaching job with 4 years of experience in a main stream classroom.

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Cover Letter Writing

Cover a letter to seek teaching job with 4 years of experience in a main stream classroom.

Do you expect to retire at a certain age? How much preplanning will you need to do? Do you expect to retire to a life of leisure, volunteer activity, new career, and so on?

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ASSIGNMENT

Think about your own retirement. In a 5 paragraph essay of at least 500 words, answer some or all of these questions:

Do you expect to retire at a certain age? How much preplanning will you need to do?

Do you expect to retire to a life of leisure, volunteer activity, new career, and so on?

Where will you live—same family home, retirement community, part of the year in the north and part in a southern resort?

Do you expect to be active grandparents/great-grandparents or somewhat disengaged from your offsprings’ families? What are your overall impressions of retirement—is it positive, neutral, or negative? Why? Use at least 2 references to support your assumptions. Your references need to relate to concepts learned about retirement and must be scholarly/academic in nature. Use of .com websites is not appropriate

 

State three new areas of information that this video made you aware of. List one activity that you could do with children that would help them learn more about food.

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Jaime Oliver

1. State three new areas of information that this video made you aware of.

2. List one activity that you could do with children that would help them learn more about food. You do not have to provide a full activity plan, just the name of the activity and a brief description of the actual activity.

Why does continuity of care matter? Why is a responsive environment important? Can a teacher “make or break” an environment?

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Care and Education

Ponder the aspect of teachers behavior and the effect on the indoor environment.

To begin, read these two articles

In two paragraphs, respond to these prompts:

1. Why does continuity of care matter?

2. Why is a responsive environment important?

3. Can a teacher “make or break” an environment?

4. Add your own thoughts on teacher responsiveness and continuity of care.

What evidence/data was used to substantiate the claims from the resources utilized? Identify any bias that may exist and postulate the potential causes for it. In other words, why do you think the single source/author point of view counters the scholarly, peer-reviewed work?

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Use Research to Separate Fact from Fiction

You now have enhanced understanding of implicit bias within individuals. This can also manifest itself through the written word. This week, you are asked to identify a theme/topic that is of interest to you. Ideas of themes/topics that may be of interest include summer learning opportunities for students, technology integration, professional development for educators, obesity prevention, redistricting attendance boundaries, suspension and expulsion alternatives, educational benefits of the arts in schools, and anti-bias education.

Certainly, there are a multitude of topics, so don’t feel that you need to choose from this list. The most important thing is to select a relevant topic that is of interest to you. Using the NCU Library and educational databases that contain peer-reviewed journals, locate three articles by three different authors that support a specific train of thought, lead to the same conclusion, and contain findings that are considered valid. These authors should have personally conducted research or reviewed scholarly research by others, yet all share the same findings, thereby substantiating the evidence through the process of triangulation. Then, conduct a web search using any search engine and find claims by at least one source that would essentially refute the claims made by the three well-researched authors.

In your submission, you are to address the following points:

  • Provide an overview of the theme/topic that you selected and why it is of importance to you.
  • Describe the methodology you employed and the process undertaken when conducting the research and identify the specific sources where the information was garnered.
  • What information within all of the documents was similar/different?
  • For any of the sources, could any information be included to further support a given claim and make the point(s) stronger?
  • What evidence/data was used to substantiate the claims from the resources utilized?
  • Identify any bias that may exist and postulate the potential causes for it. In other words, why do you think the single source/author point of view counters the scholarly, peer-reviewed work?

Through this activity, what changes (if any) will you now make when conducting evidence-based research?
Length: 5-7 pages including, not including title and reference page.

References: Support your work with a minimum of three scholarly resources.

Compare and contrast those qualities in themselves to those they have identified in Abraham Lincoln. Analyze their own leadership and those whom they have admired with respect to effective practices of leadership.

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Leadership

This next paper continues the exploration of leadership philosophies through the experiences of Abraham Lincoln. This paper covers the sections referred to as Endeavor and Communication.  Please reflect on your own experiences where you are or were the decision maker. Do you share the same philosophies as Lincoln? Have your leaders or mentors used these philosophies with you? How might you approach your followers different than Lincoln and/or your leaders or mentors? Please share your feelings and illustrate with specific examples. As always, in addition to the required readings you may use other articles or texts to illustrate your points, please be sure to cite them.

Specifics (Requirements):

Read 4 selected chapters (between Chapters 8-15) in Lincoln on Leadership identifying characteristics and competencies of the leadership qualities of Lincoln focused on Endeavor and Communication that identify ways in which he practiced as a successful leader and how those qualities fit into your own experiences and aspirations as a leader.  Write a scholarly integration paper (following formatting requirements identified in the Syllabus) that address the following learning objectives.  In addition, based upon your conclusions regarding characteristics and competencies, make sure to back up your conclusions with evidence from the book using appropriate APA-style citations.

Fundamental Learning Question:  In what ways did Abraham Lincoln practice leadership with regards to endeavors and communication that makes him one of the best leaders of all time?

Learning Objectives:

      1. Identify leadership approaches of Abraham Lincoln regarding endeavor and communication that they admire.
      2. Support through history why those leadership practices help identifies the president as a qualified and successful leader.
      3. Compare and contrast those qualities in themselves to those they have identified in Abraham Lincoln.
      4. Analyze their own leadership and those whom they have admired with respect to effective practices of leadership.

Using this verse, pull two ideas from Chapter 3 in your textbook that support these concepts of helping children recognize cultural differences, celebrating it and helping them see this is God’s goodness.

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God made us to be diverse, from our skin color to the expressions of our cultures and families.

Children as young as three and four begin to notice racial and cultural diversity. They see difference among people and seek to place those differences into cognitive categories. So the sooner we can note difference, celebrate it, and name God’s goodness in our difference, the sooner children will start building their foundation of seeing all kinds of people in the image of God, the core of Christian anti-racist theological ethics.

Using this verse, pull two ideas from Chapter 3 in your textbook that support these concepts of helping children recognize cultural differences, celebrating it and helping them see this is God’s goodness.

An excellent posting will be about one page long (about 250 words), submitted by Friday evening at midnight, address the prompt thoroughly, be free of grammatical and spelling errors, and include an element of faith integration and/or outside research. If you include a faith integration component, please avoid simply adding a Biblical reference; you need to address and explain some aspects of the topic using the lens of faith. Respond to two of your peers by Sunday night at midnight. No discussion board postings will be accepted later than one week after the due date.