Write a critical analysis of Social Mobility in Education – Do pupil premium children have equal opportunities in education compared to that of their more advantaged peers?

Social Mobility in Education

Write a critical analysis of Social Mobility in Education – Do pupil premium children have equal opportunities in education compared to that of their more advantaged peers?

Discuss your personal epistemology (epistemic cognition) and how this has influenced your teaching practice. Critically evaluate your teaching practice and identify measures to enhance this, supporting your answer with evidence from educational literature.

Teaching practice

(a) Discuss your personal epistemology (epistemic cognition) and how this has influenced your teaching practice (30%);

(b) Critically evaluate your teaching practice and identify measures to enhance this, supporting your answer with evidence from educational literature (70%).

Describe one topic, issue or happening in the story of education in British Columbia.

Educational Research

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT #3

Describe one topic, issue or happening in the story of education in British Columbia.

Reflect on own practice to promote positive outcomes for each child. Understanding positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation of their work with young children.

NAEYC Standard Four Philosophy/Reflection

Candidates prepared in early childhood degree programs understand that teaching and learning with young children is a complex enterprise, and its details vary depending on children’s ages, characteristics, and the settings within which teaching and learning occur. They understand and use positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation for their work with young children and families. Candidates know, understand, and use a wide array of developmentally appropriate approaches, instructional strategies, and tools to connect with children and families and positively influence each child’s development and learning.

Key elements of Standard 4

4a: Understanding positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation of their work with young children

4b: Knowing and understanding effective strategies and tools for early education, including appropriate uses of technology

4c: Using a broad repertoire of developmentally appropriate teaching /learning approaches

4d: Reflecting on own practice to promote positive outcomes for each child

For each graphic organizer explain why each one was chosen and its relative value for helping students with disabilities.

Special Education

Assignment 3:  The Classroom Instructional Plan

Your classroom instructional plan will delineate your plan for instructing struggling students and students with disabilities to understand new educational material and, thus, achieve learning objectives whether you are working in a classroom or another setting.  Your plan is not to exceed 8 pages and must include:

  • Explanation of research-based instructional strategies other than graphic organizers – 1-2 pages
  • Attach three different graphic organizers – 1 page each, using the template provided.
  • Explanation of each chosen graphic organizer and how it assists students with disabilities – 1-2 paragraphs each. Template provided.
  • References –Template provided

 

  • Instructional Strategies
  • Explore the 20 instructional strategies on list with web links, provided (see attached)
  • Pick 3 strategies other than graphic organizers which you can use to help struggling students and students with disabilities to understand new educational material and, thus, achieve learning objectives
  • List and explain one strategy at a time:
  1. Name of strategy
  2. Explain the strategy IN YOUR OWN WORDS – DO NOT QUOTE
  3. Explain how you will use in your class/group

 

  1. Research and select 3 Graphic Organizers:
  • Graphic organizers are visual or graphic displays that provide students a visual way to organize and understand information about a topic. Completed organizers show relationships between facts, information or ideas (e.g., sequence of events, comparison of features, sides of argument, elements of a concept, steps of a procedure, cause and effect).  Also called:  knowledge, concept or story maps, cognitive or advance organizers, concept diagrams.
  • Explore and then choose 3 graphic organizers you can use in your classroom or group setting

 

 

 

  1. Explain Value of Graphic Organizers Chosen
  • For each graphic organizer explain why each one was chosen and its relative value for helping students with disabilities.

 

 

  1. References – APA Style (1 point)

Author’s last name, first initial. (Year). Title italicized.  Name of Website.  Retrieved from: web address.

 

For example,

Wright, J. (n.d.). Choice: Allowing the Student to Select Task Sequence.  Intervention Central.  Retrieved from:  http://www.interventioncentral.org/behavioral-interventions/motivation/choice-allowing-student-select-task-sequence

Create a 3-minute video outline that could be posted on a school special education webpage as a resource for parents of students with disabilities. The video should show you as the presenter, summarizing the history of special education law in the United States, highlighting important historical judicial decisions.

Special Education Law Presentation

There have been many education policy changes resulting from court cases, laws, and social movements in society. The laws that have formed special education today will most definitely affect the job of a special education teacher.

For this assignment, create a 3-minute video outline that could be posted on a school special education webpage as a resource for parents of students with disabilities. The video should show you as the presenter, summarizing the history of special education law in the United States, highlighting important historical judicial decisions.

Use the “Special Education Law Presentation Video Template” to outline the video. Your video presentation should consider the parental/guardian audience, be clear, and follow the “Professional Dispositions of Learners.”

Include the following in your video:

1. Brief history of special education before the 1970’s and from the 1970’s to present day  referencing appropriate judicial decisions.

2. Brief description of two court cases about parental rights and students’ educational rights such as FERPA, IDEA, or rights of students in public charter schools or private schools.

3. At least 3-4 recommended resources including at least one from the state in which you will teach(New Jersey) to stay up-to-date with current legal trends in special education

Choose ONE variable and speculate as to what the trajectory might entail and its impact on schools.

Covid 19

The biggest change to children’s daily lives under COVID-19, might have been the closure of schools and introduction of digital home schooling. School is a place of academic learning, but also an arena for development, socialization and connecting with friends and peers, and for emotional and academic support from teachers, which are all important factors for children’s psychological wellbeing and adjustment. Structured school routines further allow children to have regular bed/wake times, predictable meals and regular physical activity and educational stimulation/concentration on school work. For children the impact of the COVID-19 shutdown may have long term effects, even into adulthood. COVID-19 variables such as, home school experience, family stress and instability, screen time use, missing friends, lack of social engagement, lack of routines and worry about virus infection are associated with children’s emotional, somatic/cognitive and anxiety, respectively. Choose ONE variable and speculate as to what the trajectory might entail and its impact on schools.

Explain the history of desegregation and the reasoning behind different opinions on the topic.

Historiography: What Were The Reasons For Desegregation In Schools?

In this paper, you will explain the history of desegregation and the reasoning behind different opinions on the topic. Desegregation was viewed differently by various scholars, and this paper will help clarify the idea choosing schools for desegregation shaped contemporary American society.

To what extent has the delegate demonstrated in-depth knowledge of the research, literature, policy and guidance surrounding this topic? Delegate demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of the literature on inclusive education, with a range of references to literature, law, government documents and associated curriculum guidance.

A critical analysis of the relationship between the culture and ethos of your setting/locality and international research on inclusive education provisions for learners with SEND

Assignment Objectives

Your paper should provide an in-depth and insightful analysis of the background legislation, policies and evidence that set the context to inclusion and SEN provision within your locality, together with an analysis of the role language and culture play in enacting best practice.

Structure

It may be helpful to consider the success criteria for this assignment as the structure for your writing, although the exact structure can be varied and we would encourage you to adopt a structure that suits you. Whatever structure you do adopt, it should be one that:

• Provides a clear and logical structure to your assignment and the argument(s) it contains.

• Uses headings / sub-headings that are useful to the reader.

• Organises material according to the headings you use.

• Provides a clear introduction to the task and summarises your findings and /or conclusions at the end.

• Use appendices to include some of the more descriptive elements of the approaches to ensure your assignment covers more critical debat Assignment Length Your paper should be within 10% of 3000 words excluding your reference list

Success criteria

1. To what extent has the delegate demonstrated in-depth knowledge of the research, literature, policy and guidance surrounding this topic?

1a. Delegate demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of the literature on inclusive education, with a range of references to literature, law, government documents and associated curriculum guidance.

1b. Information from published documents is integrated into an analysis of how these shape and impact on delegate’s own school context and experiences of working with pupils with SEN.

2. To what extent has the delegate demonstrated analytic abilities to compare, contrast, critique, evaluate, analyse.

2a. Delegate demonstrates ability to critically analyse inclusive practice in relation to relevant literature.

2b Evaluation of how the inclusive ethos of the delegates current settings fits within the wider international perspectives on inclusion i.e. UNESCO

3. The delegate is able to express own view with new insights from own practice offering a personal perspective on the issue. Information only available from the delegates own experiences. Applied professional practice included & considered against other evidence.

3a. The delegate reflects critically on the role of language and culture both in terms of identifying SEND and communicating effectively with stakeholders within an international context.

3b. An evaluation of unique challenges of working with learners who have varied cultural identities is given with particular reference to the cultural identities prevalent in the delegate’s setting.

4. To what extent has the delegate demonstrated a high level of scholarship and research skills, through a task that is sequential, ordered and consistent with Harvard referencing conventions.

4a. Structure is well organised, clearly written & logical. Language & grammar are clear & accurate.

4b. Referencing (using Harvard conventions) is accurately undertaken and carefully handled, thereby avoiding plagiarism. Care is given to ethical reporting of the schools used in the assignment (i.e. they should not be identified) and all sources of information are anonymised.

Create your own version of this form tailoring it for use at the program you currently work at or an early childhood program you would like to eventually work with.

Curriculum Planning Form

Once a research question has been developed and agreed upon in the mentoring process, it is time to make meaning of documentation and strategize for curriculum and teaching. The purpose of the assignment this week is to construct a tool to help the teacher see how alignment or connection of these three big areas is the key to positive child outcomes. This form can be used to guide the coaching process and should be flexible enough to be used in parts only, for short-term or for long-term goals, observation, and for learning experiences. The power of coaching is partnering with teachers where they are. This requires and assessment of their knowledge and experience and the developmentally appropriate addition of skills to their repertoire.

After reading chapter six refer to Appendix A (at the end of the chapter), create your own version of this form tailoring it for use at the program you currently work at or an early childhood program you would like to eventually work with (i.e. Head Start, state-funded childcare, infant program, home day care, etc.).  Make sure you capture all the elements of sections one, two, and three. Additionally, create your own section (numbered four) that will be inspired by an outside source (i.e. program evaluation tool, instructional resource, etc.). See figure 6.1 for more ideas for your designed section.

The Curriculum Planning Form

  • Must be at least two and a half to three double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center(Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of Form
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least one sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.