What is it about this topic that stirs your professional passion? Family Engagement and promoting family involvement.

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4These post must not be combined. Cite sources in APA format.

Post 1-What key advocacy issue provides a focus for your energy and professional passion?  Throughout this course, you have had opportunities to explore and develop as a leader. An important aspect of this journey has included exploration of advocacy issues that stir your passions. In these remaining weeks of the course, you will refine and further develop your advocacy interest into an advocacy action plan.

To prepare:

Consider the advocacy topic you have selected and why this is such an important topic within the field of early childhood education. Think about the following questions:

  • What is it about this topic that stirs your professional passion? Family Engagement and promoting family involvement.
  • Who does your topic influence?
  • Why should this topic be of interest to others?
  1. Post 2. -Policy, Practical Wisdom, and Courage

Think about different types of factors that influence your advocacy topic, including policy, guidelines, and regulations. Carefully reflect on how the context provides both opportunity and constraints. Also, consider levers—such as policy—as well as your own practical wisdom and courage. Keep these factors in mind as you complete the following Discussion.

To prepare:

Consider factors that influence your advocacy topic, including policy, guidelines, and regulations. Carefully reflect on how the context provides both opportunity and constraints. Also, consider levers—such as policy—as well as your own practical wisdom and courage. Keep these factors in mind as you complete the Discussion.

By Day 4 of Week 8

Post an analysis of the issues of policy and practical wisdom as presented by Bruno, Fromberg, Robinson, and Schwartz in this module’s media pieces. How do these ideas and presentations influence your perceptions of the common good as related to early childhood, education, and schooling? In each of the presentations, it takes courage to address the needs identified. Within your post, consider and comment on what it means to exhibit courage. Specifically, how might courage help early childhood leaders to create and manage change?

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How does trauma manifest itself in the classroom?

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1. Read each question — there may be more than one.
2. Responses should be of sufficient length with proper grammar.
3. Be sure to answer ALL QUESTIONS separately (with a heading for each).

1. How does trauma manifest itself in the classroom? Provide one example from the classroom. What questions do the examples raise about the impact of trauma on young children?

2. Teachers of young children enduring traumatic stress must have a strong self-awareness to be attuned to the internal world of a child. Self-reflect on your own self-awareness and why this is important.

Critique the overrepresentation of students of color in special education classes.

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Critique the overrepresentation of students of color in special education classes.
Why does this happen?
How can it be prevented?

Explain the importance of distinguishing facts and opinions in thinking critically about problems and issues.

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  1. Explain the importance of distinguishing facts and opinions in thinking critically about problems and issues.
  2. Argue the relationship between opinions, facts, claims, reasons, and evidence.
  3. Analyze examples of facts and opinions, subjective or objective reasoning, and obstacles to critical thinking in a piece of writing.

What does culture mean here?

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Please read this recent NYT article and comment on what the headline is referring to. What does culture mean here? What does it include? What, if anything, surprised you?

In what ways do you act as a scientist during the course of a workday?

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Consumers of Research
In your personal and professional life, it is important to be a well-informed consumer of research.
• In what ways do you act as a scientist during the course of a workday?
• How do you separate misinformation or unsupported claims (such as those from publishers or advertisers) from research-based information? Trustworthiness vs. non-trustworthiness?
• Describe how you have felt about the topic of research and any changes in viewpoint you are experiencing.
• How have you approached reading research articles?
Your original post MUST include information from a professional, scholarly source that is cited in APA style and a complete bibliographic entry in APA 7th format style at the conclusion of the post.
Which must include a citation from at least one source.
If your source has a doi (digital object identifier), it should be included. DOIs in a reference are formatted as URLs.

Briefly discuss the benefits of implementing this idea/strategy for students’ learning and their psychological development.

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Please read all the 6 images not only the yellow lines. Select an idea/concept/strategy (or several interrelated ideas) in the assigned reading(s) that, in your view, is the most important one and that can be implemented in classroom teaching, and explain in your own words why you think this idea or strategy is important for teachers. Give a specific example of such implementation – describe how you would incorporate this idea/strategy in your classroom while teaching something in particular. Briefly discuss the benefits of implementing this idea/strategy for students’ learning and their psychological development. Do not include summaries of the readings or lists of the main topics in it. Instead, begin from and articulate your opinion about the most important ideas/strategies in a given reading. Your reflections need to show your thinking about the issues and engagement with the material. Try to be as specific as possible in explaining the relevance of the selected idea or strategy

Identify the structural organization of public schools and the leadership structures in public schools for the 2 countries you selected.

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EDD 714 WK 4 DQ 1 Structure of Public Schooling

Select 2 countries, other than the United States, that you are interested in learning more about.

Write a 250- to 300-word response to the following:

  • Identify the structural organization of public schools and the leadership structures in public schools for the 2 countries you selected.
  • Compare the structures of public schooling in the countries you selected and the United States. What are the similarities and differences between these 3 countries’ public school structures?
  • Include examples of 2 standards used to assess student learning in all 3 countries.
  • Include your own experience, as well as 2 citations that align with or contradict your comments as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. If you found contradicting information to what your experience tells you, explain why you agree or disagree with the research.

 

If constructivism aims to provide context for learning, how can teachers provide context for very young students who do not have a framework for learning?

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If constructivism aims to provide context for learning, how can teachers provide context for very young students who do not have a framework for learning? Provide an example.

Explain how you and your colleagues could work towards influencing professional understandings, community views, and government policy with regard to your chosen issue.

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The focus in each of these issues is on how you as a professional educator in an early childhood setting can inform yourself about these matters, and what actions you can take to advocate for them with colleagues, families and the broader community.
Look at the issue below and discuss your understanding of the issue with reference to the literature. Explain how you and your colleagues could work towards influencing professional understandings, community views, and government policy with regard to your chosen issue.
You may need to access other peer reviewed literature, apart from the readings, to inform yourself about the issue. The idea is for you to have informed discussion. It is easy to be emotive about social justice issues. However, emotive argument is not usually successful in changing beliefs or policy.