Create a table or matrix to showcase your research. Include a 100-word explanation of the characteristics of each domain in the context of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Characteristics of Intellectual Disabilities

There are an infinite number of ways that a learner with intellectual and developmental disabilities may present deficits in cognitive functioning and/or adaptive behavior. An integrated perspective on these exceptionalities will help you have a better understanding of the students you may serve as an educator.
Research the following characteristics of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities:

  • Cognitive
  • Language and communication
  • Social and/or behavioral
  • Academic learning

1. Create a table or matrix to showcase your research.
2. Include a 100-word explanation of the characteristics of each domain in the context of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Use academic sources
Cite your sources.

Which defense(s) would you advise an employer to rely on in the following cases of prima facie discrimination?

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Prima facie discrimination

Which defense(s) would you advise an employer to rely on in the following cases of prima facie discrimination? Assume that all the defenses are available in Alberta Human Rights.

The employer refuses employment to a person in a wheelchair because the job requires employees to be able to stand for long periods of time.

A Christian high school gives hiring preference to Christian teachers.

A department store employer fires an employee who, for religious reasons, cannot work on Saturdays, the busiest day of the week.

A university refuses employment to a professor who has a vocal disability that prevents her from lecturing in large lecture halls.

An employee is fired when he reaches age 65 because the employer’s pension plan includes a mandatory retirement clause.

An organization that provides services and counselling to abused women has a policy of hiring only women.

 

Build upon the Literature Review: Rough Draft Assignment by completing the final draft of a literature review.

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EDUC860-Literature Review: Final Draft Assignment

For this assignment, you will build upon the Literature Review: Rough Draft Assignment by completing the final draft of a literature review

Write as if you are trying to persuade a reasonable, open-minded, neutral audience to adopt new beliefs or behaviors utilizing effective rhetorical strategies.

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Research Paper

Examine a (global or local) social issue, event, or condition that you believe is culturally important and make an argument about it. This can be a trend found in pop culture, news, entertainment, family life—there are no restrictions on the topic as long as it directly affect people today. For example, you may want to write about why a specific audience should engage in a particular dietary lifestyle, what is causing obesity, why you should not donate to Green Peace, why we should ban plastic bottles, why we should label foods with genetically modified ingredients, why women/men should get maternity leave, why all children should receive free pre-school, etc. You could approach this paper as a solution to a condition or issue such as homelessness, under-vaccinated children, domestic violence, opioid use, or gentrification. You could also make an argument about the effects of a particular phenomena or trend on society—tinder and dating apps on romance, helicopter parents, childhood obesity, etc. I strongly suggest that you expand your mid-term essay for this assignment if you can—it will be much less work than starting over on a new topic.

Be clear and specific with your thesis statement; make sure that it takes a clear stance on the issue. This is not an “overview” paper where you summarize the topic / arguments for and against the topic, and leave it up to the reader to decide—you have to take a specific position on your topic and persuade them that your position is the correct one.

In addition to taking a clear and specific stance (helps establish good ethos) you need to include dissenting voices/arguments/CONS (opposing ideas) of an argumentative issue. In addition to acknowledging the opposition, you need to establish some kind of common ground with them, but then explain why their arguments aren’t adequate or why yours are better.

Write as if you are trying to persuade a reasonable, open-minded, neutral audience to adopt new beliefs or behaviors utilizing effective rhetorical strategies. However, just because your audience is reasonable does not mean they don’t hold preconceived positions, opinions or misconceptions when it comes to your topic. Make sure to appeal directly to your intended audience and tailor your flow of information and examples to them. For example, if your topic is under-vaccinated kids in Colorado your audience will probably be Colorado parents, so establish the 3 appeals accordingly.

You may utilize personal experience and interview in order to personalize and charge your topic emotionally but be aware of logical fallacies like emotional manipulation, either-or reasoning, slippery slope, and generalization if you do. This could be a good opportunity to use code meshing/switching and non-standard English depending on the occasion and audience of your essay.

Organization will be important in this essay. Each paragraph should support your thesis and provide examples and evidence of why your audience should agree with you. All argumentative topics have PROs and CONs. Before starting to write, it is imperative to make a list of these ideas and choose the most suitable ones among them for supporting and refuting. In addition to acknowledging an opposing audience, you need to build some kind of common ground with them, but then explain why their arguments aren’t adequate or yours are better. You do not need to stick to a strict 5 paragraph format, but it is a good place to start. Here is a suggestion of what a 5 paragraph outline might look like for this assignment:

  • Paragraph 1: Intro with background and Thesis statement:
  • Paragraph 2: CONS, refutations, building common ground
  • Paragraph 3: evidence/reason 1 we should agree with you
  • Paragraph 4: evidence/reason 2 we should agree with you
  • Paragraph 5: Conclusion- use to project outward. How would the world be changed if we all adopted your thesis statement?

NOTE: there are two different organizational model handouts in Module 9.

Write about why you still believe in those practices, or why your thinking has changed. Are there any of Wormeli’s (2011) 14 tips for allowing do-overs (pp. 22-26) that you agree/disagree with? Why?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

  • https://www.k12dive.com/news/portfolios-boost-assessment-relevancy-for-truly-transformative-learning/548118/
  • n the initial baseline survey, many of you professed to have grading practices that included giving extra credit, zeros for cheating or missing assignments, and docking points for late work. The authors in this module (Reeves, 2010, O’Connor, 2010, Chappuis & Stiggins, 2020) disagree with all of those as well as several other common grading practices.

Write about why you still believe in those practices, or why your thinking has changed.
Are there any of Wormeli’s (2011) 14 tips for allowing do-overs (pp. 22-26) that you agree/disagree with? Why?
Finally, Hodges (2019) and Chappuis and Stiggins (2020) make the case for portfolios being able to answer that age-old student question, “Why do we need to know this?” yet they believe that some would make them simple refrigerator art galleries. How can portfolios go beyond the simple collection of student work? What are the different types and which one would you use in a classroom?

Assuming the role of a University President – identify a possible Macro Budgetary focus. Explain your choice.

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Macro Budgetary focus

Assuming the role of a University President – identify a possible Macro Budgetary focus. Explain your choice.

Discuss the role of a Budget Manager in a University. As the Budget Manager, discuss the most significant challenges to overcome. What advice could be given to a NEW Budget Manager? Justify the responses.

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Budget Manager in a University

Discuss the role of a Budget Manager in a University. As the Budget Manager, discuss the most significant challenges to overcome. What advice could be given to a NEW Budget Manager? Justify the responses.

Complete any outstanding requirements for your final project. Incorporate feedback received from your instructor.

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FINAL IMPLEMENTATION-READY PROGRAM PLAN

Complete any outstanding requirements for your final project. Incorporate feedback received from your instructor. Review the grading criteria for the final assignment and make any further adjustments you feel will add to the quality of your course. Submit your final project for grading.

Based on what you have learned regarding components of literacy-rich environments for young children, develop a list of 10-15 items that you would feel are important for inclusion within an environment that is supportive of young children’s literacy skills.

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Literacy Environment Check list and Reflection

For this assignment you will be looking at classroom design as a teaching strategy to promote literacy. You will first develop a checklist of elements to look for in a literacy-rich environment. Then, during an observation of a preschool classroom, you will administer your checklist. This observation will provide you the background needed to develop a “literacy-rich” environment for preschool children.

To prepare for this assignment:

Part 1: Developing Your Checklist Prior to your classroom observation, complete the following:

    • Based on what you have learned regarding components of literacy-rich environments for young children, develop a list of 10-15 items that you would feel are important for inclusion within an environment that is supportive of young children’s literacy skills.
    • Arrange these items in a checklist format.
    • Be sure to use in-text citations to support why you included that item in your checklist.

Part 2: Implementing Your Checklist

    • After you have developed your checklist, you will be filling it out based on your observation within a preschool classroom. This can be a at the center where you work, a childcare center or school that you arrange to visit in person, OR an observation of a classroom video provided by the instructor.
    • Using your checklist as your main data collection tool, observe within the early childhood environment.
    • Be sure to fill out each aspect of your checklist, taking careful notes outlining how individual variables were met.

Part 3: Reflection Following implementation of your checklist, respond to the following:

    • How effective do you feel the environment you observed within was in terms of supporting children’s literacy development? Cite examples from your checklist and analyze in terms of course materials.
    • What do you feel was most effective in terms of supporting literacy development? What do you see as environmental challenges?
    • What suggestions or opportunities for improvement would you suggest that would ensure the literacy development of each and every child is supported?

https://youtu.be/ztZaq45dwcY

 

Using the previous video as a guide, conduct a running record of the child reading the book in the following video.

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Activity 15-C

https://youtu.be/oERVrjyApGk- first video

Using the previous video as a guide, conduct a running record of the child reading the book in the following video. Be sure to mark miscues, pauses, fluency, etc.

https://youtu.be/zIcDeAVmka0