Compile and submit a total of ten resources for this assignment. Include the APA citation, or organization name, contact information, and a brief description of their services in supporting early childhood professionals in their own growth and development, as well as any other relevant information.

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Professional Development Resources

This week you will add to your list of resources that you began last week for supporting teachers and staff in a variety of content areas. You will only focus on one core standard this week which is composed of several elements. Read NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs (Links to an external site.), focusing on Standard 5: Using Content Knowledge to Build Meaningful Curriculum.  In your group divide the categories so that each member contributes one resource to their assigned curriculum content areas. (If you are a group of two each member will provide one resource for their five assigned areas, the larger the group the fewer areas each member will have):

  • Language development
  • Literacy
  • Art—music, creative movement, dance, drama, or visual arts
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Physical development
  • Health and safety
  • Social studies
  • Designing curriculum for children
  • Evaluating curriculum for children

Each group will compile and submit a total of ten resources for this assignment. Include the APA citation (article), or (a) organization name, (b) contact information (address, phone number, website), and (c) a brief description of their services in supporting early childhood professionals in their own growth and development, as well as any other relevant information

Discuss why elementary teachers are ill-prepared or unable to adequately teach social studies. Provide a comprehensive resolution that includes increased social studies teaching and learning in elementary classrooms. What key components would you include in the social studies curriculum and why?

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EDUC314 Midterm

Social studies develop students’ ability to critically examine and interpret current and past socio-political issues, historic events, and provide an understanding of geography, economics, and civics, yet elementary teachers are fraught with numerous challenges and are unable to teach the subject. Respond to the following question by:
1) citing at least 7 articles from class readings
2) referring to the c3 framework and the NCSS standards.

Discuss why elementary teachers are ill-prepared or unable to adequately teach social studies. Provide a comprehensive resolution that includes increased social studies teaching and learning in elementary classrooms. What key components would you include in the social studies curriculum and why?

Pick one of the scenarios depicted in the video and using the strategies presented in the NAEYC and Reading Rockets articles write how you would handle the parent.

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Pick one of the scenarios depicted in the video and using the strategies presented in the NAEYC and Reading Rockets articles write how you would handle the parent. (3pages minimum)

https://www.wevideo.com/view/1822021241

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/surviving-difficult-parent-teacher-conference

https://www.naeyc.org/resources/topics/family-engagement/principles

Write a reflective 3000-word critical analysis of the teaching session, discussing each stage of its delivery from its early planning and setting learning objectives to the final evaluation by the learner(s) / self.

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Approaches to teaching

Write a reflective 3000-word critical analysis of the teaching session, discussing each stage of its delivery from its early planning and setting learning objectives to the final evaluation by the learner(s) / self.

Discuss the process for the Final Exam Project-Based Learning (PBL). Identify each step and clarify the expectations for each step. Identify 2 knowledge, skills, or mindsets you will have to develop to successfully complete the PBL.

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Inst Module 1

Discuss the process for the Final Exam Project-Based Learning (PBL).  Identify each step and clarify the expectations for each step. Identify 2 knowledge, skills, or mindsets you will have to develop to successfully complete the PBL.

Based on what you learned from the Fact Sheet about the children in your state, select one area for which you would advocate for young children. Describe one action you would take as a child advocate to address this issue using the Help Me Grow System.

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State of America’s Children 2020

In preparation for this discussion, read about the status of children in one state. You are encouraged to select the State of America’s Children 2020 Fact Sheet for your home state.

In your initial post:
From the Fact Sheet data, summarize your selected state’s strengths, greatest challenges and any startling statistics.
Advocacy: Based on what you learned from the Fact Sheet about the children in your state, select one area for which you would advocate for young children. Describe one action you would take as a child advocate to address this issue using the Help Me Grow System.

Define conflict, utilizing Bevan. Describe one interpersonal conflict that was not handled effectively in the television episode or film. Explain how this situation meets the criteria for interpersonal conflict, utilizing Bevan, Section 9.2.

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The Interpersonal Conflict in Film

Define conflict, utilizing Bevan.
Describe one interpersonal conflict that was not handled effectively in the television episode or film.
Explain how this situation meets the criteria for interpersonal conflict, utilizing Bevan, Section 9.2.

Note: Focus on one exchange that illustrates one conflict and not the entire plot of the episode. If possible, provide some dialogue so the reader can clearly see how the characters handled the situation.

Explain why the conflict was not handled effectively, utilizing Bevan (Chapters 8 and 9).
Describe two strategies outlined in Bevan that the characters used to address the conflict, utilizing Bevan.
Describe two strategies outlined in Bevan that the characters could have used to resolve this conflict more effectively, utilizing Bevan.

Explain and justify how your insights, generated from your critical reading, enhance your understanding of leadership.

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FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Book of Substance: Leading Professional Learning: Practical strategies for impact in schools. Helen Timperley, Fiona Ell, Deidre Le Fevre and Kaye Twyford.

You are to explore in depth one perspective in educational leadership addressed in EDLE 680. You do this by critically reading an appropriate book of substance (Leading Professional Learning: Practical strategies for impact in schools by Helen Temperley). The assignment invites you to explain and justify how your insights, generated from your critical reading, enhance your understanding of leadership. (2750 words).

As Dewey made very clear, is not one of how to eliminate the school but of how to strike the right balance between formal and informal modes of education. And there was no doubt in his mind, and in ours today, that the balance has tipped disastrously onto the side of formal schooling.” (2017:16) In the light of what you have studied on this course, do you agree with Ingold?

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Entries 3 – Learning Journal Prompts

In his short book, Anthropology and/as Education, Tim Ingold argues that, “The question, as Dewey made very clear, is not one of how to eliminate the school but of how to strike the right balance between formal and informal modes of education. And there was no doubt in his mind, and in ours today, that the balance has tipped disastrously onto the side of formal schooling.” (2017:16) In the light of what you have studied on this course, do you agree with Ingold?

 

Identify and reflect on two elements that are useful in your professional development and ability to: Integrate educational research, technology, and information sources into leadership practices to support successful educational organizations.

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Integration and Reflection

Identify and reflect on two elements that are useful in your professional development and ability to:

PLO 5. Integrate educational research, technology, and information sources into leadership practices to support successful educational organizations.

PLO 6. Solve problems of practice using quantitative, qualitative, or action research methods to develop meaningful solutions that improve the success of educational organizations.