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?

 

Explain how cross-curricular integration aids in students’ learning, development, and motivation. How can thematic planning across content areas make it easier to incorporate individual students’ strengths, needs, and interests when planning instruction.

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Science/health content

Using engaging science/health content can help teach reading, writing, and math more effectively, combining areas such as technology

In true symbiotic style, using engaging science/health content can help teach reading, writing, and math more effectively. Combining areas such as technology, art, music, and movement can enhance instruction, while providing an opportunity for all students to use their strengths and interests in science/health learning.

* Definition of cross-curriculum instruction.

* Explanation of how cross-curricular integration aids in students’ learning, development, and motivation.

* How can thematic planning across content areas make it easier to incorporate individual students’ strengths, needs, and interests when planning instruction.

* Three examples of instructional strategies and thematic ideas to incorporate science and health into other content areas (math, ELA, social studies ).

* Title each section.

Support your presentation with 2-3 scholarly resources.

Post a summary of your research plan in this Discussion area. Clearly and succinctly detail your research plan, including each of the following four parts: (1) study title, (2) statement of the problem, (3) purpose statement, and (4) study question.

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Discussion Board Post 1

Post a summary of your research plan in this Discussion area. Clearly and succinctly detail your research plan, including each of the following four parts: (1) study title, (2) statement of the problem, (3) purpose statement, and (4) study question.

Listen to the first episode of Nice White Parents – Why is this an aptly named podcast series

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Nice white parents

Listen to the first episode of Nice White Parents – Why is this an aptly named podcast series?

What is the general topic and the specific focus? How was the research carried out? What were the main conclusions? What did you learn? What connections can you make with other academic sources, contemporary issues or topical debates? What was most interesting and/or surprising?

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Independent Study 3 Assessment

The 3,500 essay is in two main parts:

1 Essay : Describe and discuss (1,250 words X 2 = 2,500 words)
2 Essay : Reflect on two TED talks (500 words X 2 = 1000 words)

1 Essay : Describe and discuss (1,250 words X 2 = 2,500 words)

Select two of the three articles listed below. Write two separate pieces, so 1,250 words about each chosen article, to describe and discuss the main points.

Bradley, L. and Butler, C. W. (2017) An interactional analysis of one-to-one pastoral care delivery within a primary school, Pastoral Care in Education, Vol. 35, no. 1, 39–51 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2016.1243145

Gooseman, A., Defeyter, M.A. and Graham, P. M. (2020) Hunger in the primary school setting: evidence, impacts and solutions according
to school staff in the North East of England, UK, Education 3-13, 48:2, 191-203, DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2019.1602155

Lee, C. and Lucy Wenham, L. (2021): ‘We just have to sail this sea all together until we find a shore’: parents’ accounts of home-educating primary-school children in England during COVID-19, Education 3-13, DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2021.1963803

❋ Use these questions to help you. Do not include the actual questions in your written piece.

What is the general topic and the specific focus?
How was the research carried out?
What were the main conclusions?
What did you learn?
What connections can you make with other academic sources, contemporary issues or topical debates?
What was most interesting and/or surprising?
What are the implications?
How does the content link with your own ideas?

3 Essay : Reflect on two TED talks (500 words X 2 = 1000 words)

1) What kids wish their teachers knew, Kyle Schwartz | TEDxKyoto (about 12 minutes)
A simple one-sentence writing assignment set by third grade teacher Kyle Schwartz revealed the heartbreaking realities faced by her young students. Kyle, a Denver, Colorado Public Schools “Distinguished Teacher”, shares what she has learned from her students and offers educators ideas and strategies towards supporting their students academically and emotionally.

Here is the link –

2) Every kid needs a champion, Rita Pierson (about 7 minutes)
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.'” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

Here is the link –

❋ These questions are to help you to write the 500 words. Do not include the questions in your essay.

Note: In your essay write ‘children’ or ‘pupils’, not ‘kids’

What did you learn?
What was most interesting and/or surprising?
Does this TED talk raise other issues for you?
What connection can you make with reading from an academic source?
How does the content of this talk link with your own ideas?

 Quote or paraphrase the WTW textbook and provide a page number to share the concept or practice you have identified.  Explain how the video illustrates, exemplifies or relates to the concept/practice you have identified.

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Quiz 1

Question 5

Match the word to the description:

Options: morphemes, phonemes, concept of word in text, orthography, alphabetic principle, prosody and concepts about print.

  1. The ways in which letters and letter patterns in words represent sound and meaning
  2. smallest units of meaning in a language
  3. letters represent sounds in a systematic way, and words can be segmented into sequences of sound from left to right
  4. individual speech sounds
  5. the ability to fingerpoint or accurately track words in print while reading
  6. elements of spoken language, such as expression, intonation contours, and tone of voice that are used to communicate ideas and emotions
  7. conventions of written language such as where to begin to read on a page, left-to-right directionality, and return sweep at the end of a line

Question 6

Match the word with the description

Options: pretend reading, memory reading and pre-alphabetic reading

  1. Children identify a few familiar words based primarily on non-alphabetic cues such as shape and color.
  2. An accurate recitation of a familiar text, possibly accompanied by pointing to print.
  3. A spontaneous retelling that typically matches the pictures and cadence of written language while turning pages of a familiar book.

Question 7

A child brings you the paper below. When you ask the child to read what they have written, they say, “I’m playing outside.” Which stage of emergent writing is represented?

  • (I’ll email the image)
  • Group of answer choices:
  • Scribbling and Drawing
  • Letter-Like and Random Letters
  • Salient or Initial Sounds

Question 8

A child brings you the paper below. When you ask the child to read what they have written, they say, “I am playing soccer.” Which stage of emergent writing is
represented?

  • (I’ll email image)
  • Group of answer choices:
  • Scribbling and Drawing
  • Letter-Like and Random Letters
  • Salient or Initial Sounds

Question 9

Word study in the emergent stage (and continuing into the letter-name alphabetic stage) should help to develop six fundamental components referred to by Bear et al. (2020) as the “literacy diet” for early literacy and learning instruction.

Identify and explain each of the six components.
Give an example of an instructional practice and identify which component it can be used to strengthen.

Question 10

Phonological and phonemic awareness are related, but different concepts. Define each term and explain the relationship between the two concepts.

Question 11

  • How many phonemes are in the word last?

Question 12

  • How many phonemes are in the word space?

Question 13

  • How many phonemes are in the word pocket?

Question 14

Video description:
In the video a three year old is reading ” Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See” by Bill Martin Jr. She is reading accurately through the pages fast without even looking at the words and her speech is not clear.

Watch the video. Then identify a concept or practice related to emergent literacy within Ch. 4 of Words Their Way that is illustrated in the video. In your response:

  1.  Quote or paraphrase the WTW textbook and provide a page number to share the concept or practice you have identified.
  2.  Explain how the video illustrates, exemplifies or relates to the concept/practice you have identified.

Question 15

Video Link: https://youtu.be/FsxdyRZVGrc

This video features a conversation between a dad and his baby. It went viral in 2019.

Watch the video. Then identify a concept or practice related to emergent literacy within Ch. 4 of Words Their Way that is illustrated in the video. In your response:

  1.  Quote or paraphrase the WTW textbook and provide a page number to share the concept or practice you have identified.
  2.  Explain how the video illustrates, exemplifies or relates to the concept/practice you have identified.

Question 16

Video description: This video features Allison, a 5 year old kindergartener, performing a familiar tale for her mother and sister with the props she made at school. The child is very expressive and she follows the plot of the original story without reading the book.

Watch the video. Then identify a concept or practice related to emergent literacy within Ch. 4 of Words Their Way that is illustrated in the video. In your response:

  1.  Quote or paraphrase the WTW textbook and provide a page number to share the concept or practice you have identified.
  2.  Explain how the video illustrates, exemplifies or relates to the concept/practice you have identified.

Watch the Mitosisvideo to see how the process of mitosis unfolds in the live cell. How does it compare to the static images in the microscope slides? Record your observations to reference later. Clear the bench of all slides and instruments by dragging them back to the shelves, and then return to your course page to complete any assignment for this lab.

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Experiment 1: Mitosis in Onion Root Cells

Part 1: Stages of Mitosis

  1. Take a microscope from the Instruments shelf and place it onto the workbench.
  2. Take an onion root slide from the Containers shelf and place it onto the microscope stage. Use different objectives and focus until you can clearly see many cells in one view.
  3. Scan through the slide using the x-axis stage adjust and y-axis stage adjust knobs and find at least one cell in each stage of the cell cycle:
    1. Interphase
    2. Prophase
    3. Metaphase
    4. Anaphase
    5. Telophase
  4. Label images of the specific cell phases. To do so, use the overlay tools at the top of the microscope’s viewscreen.

Your annotated images should look something like Figure 20.04.

Figure 20.04 An Example of Onion Root Cells Labeled with Their Phase of Mitosis  (Macmillan Learning)

  1. Save a screenshot of each annotated image to upload and submit it later.

Part 2: Relative Time Spent in Mitosis

  1. Select one side of the root tip. Scan 5 columns across and 20 cells down within each column. Identify the phase that each cell is in, to the best of your understanding. Use initials for the phases:
    1. I = Interphase
    2. P = Prophase
    3. M = Metaphase
    4. A = Anaphase
    5. T = Telophase
  2. Record a grid of cells that looks something like this to reference later:
I M I I I
I I I I A
I I I P I
I I I I I
T I I I I
  1. Determine the number of cells in each stage of mitosis by counting every incidence of its corresponding letter. For example, add all letter I’s to determine the number of cells in interphase, and so on for each stage. Record this information.
  2. When you are finished, drag the slide back to the Containers shelf.

Experiment 2: Mitosis in a Whitefish Blastula

The cells of a blastula, or developing embryo, divide rapidly, which make this whitefish slide useful for viewing the different stages of mitosis.

  1. Take a whitefish blastula slide from the Containers shelf and place it onto the microscope stage. Make the necessary adjustments to focus in on the cells.
  2. Find at least one cell in this fish embryo to represent each of the phases below.
    1. Interphase
    2. Prophase
    3. Metaphase
    4. Anaphase
    5. Telophase
  3. Label your images of the specific cell phases. To do so, use the overlay tools at the top of the microscope’s viewscreen. Take a screenshot of each annotated image to upload and submit it later.

Experiment 3: Live Mitosis in Cultured Mammalian Cells

  1. Watch the Mitosisvideo to see how the process of mitosis unfolds in the live cell. How does it compare to the static images in the microscope slides? Record your observations to reference later. Clear the bench of all slides and instruments by dragging them back to the shelves, and then return to your course page to complete any assignment for this lab.

What are the key ethical issues? How will they be meaningfully applied in the context of this proposed research and method(ology)? What is informed consent? How was it gained from the various categories of participant?

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Ethics methodology

In this Document……

  • cover these points in your Methodology section and Ethics section.
  • See below for full reading/reference list of what you covered in ED4074.
  1. Methodology

This section will provide the rationale(s) for the research design choices and discuss issues relating to validity – linked consistently to the stated project aims and RQs; and supported with relevant literature on research design.

  • Which research paradigm did you use – positivist or interpretivist, and why.
  • Which research approach/strategy (e.g. case study, ethnography, survey, action research) did you use? Why?
  • Identify the data collection method(s) selected. Why?
  • How do the selected methods engage with the stated research paradigm and approach?
  • How will reliability and validity be assured? Consider issues related to statistical analysis and/or triangulation.
  1. Research Ethics SECTION the bullet points to use as subheading

Demonstrate your understanding of ethical procedures and, where appropriate, how they were applied in your research. Your discussion in this section must be supported with relevant literature on ethics.

  • What are the key ethical issues? How will they be meaningfully applied in the context of this proposed research and method(ology)?
  • What is informed consent? How was it gained from the various categories of participant? Gate keeping.
  • What is meant by confidentiality and anonymity? How was confidentiality and anonymity assured in this research?
  • What are the benefits of your research? What are the potential risks? Issues in dissemination
  • How has your researcher identity and positioning influenced the data gathering process (and analysis?).
  • Consider power relations in your role as researcher

Identify 5 key points: What were 5 main ideas that were significant for you from the particular chapter c) Determine the “so what”? What do the ideas in the chapter mean to you as a future Human Service paraprofessional? How can you relate these ideas to a practicum experience or any other interaction that you have observed?

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Chapter critique

Purpose Students in Human Services will encounter a wide range of behaviors in children and youth. This assignment allows students to

  • Read about a challenging behaviors in the context of case study
  • Describe strategies used in the narrative study
  • Explore and analyze one’s own response to the ideas presented in the study

Procedure
1. Use the book: Thanks for chucking that at the mill instead of in (2007).

2. Read the book and choose 2 chapters to critique: a) Include the APA reference for each chapter at the top of the page as shown in the sample b) Identify 5 key points: What were 5 main ideas that were significant for you from the particular chapter c) Determine the “so what”? What do the ideas in the chapter mean to you as a future Human Service paraprofessional? How can you relate these ideas to a practicum experience or any other interaction that you have observed?

3. Write each critique in 12pt Times New Roman font on one page. Submit as per dates determined. See sample layout.
Marking Criteria Reference: 2 marks (Hint: Follow the sample, You only need to change the chapter and page numbers if different) Five Key Points: 5 x 2= 10 marks So What: 3 marks Total Possible: 15 marks for each critique x 2= 30 marks

In Velazquez’s Las Meninas, there is quite a bit of ambiguity as to what is happening in this scene. As you read the various interpretations and look at the painting yourself, what do you think the narrative is? What do you think the artist is painting? What are the two focal points that are established by lines of sight?

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Writing Assignment Chapter 24

1. In Chapter 24, we see several examples of tenebrism in painting. What do you think the effect of this technique is as you view those paintings?

2. In Velazquez’s Las Meninas, there is quite a bit of ambiguity as to what is happening in this scene. As you read the various interpretations and look at the painting yourself, what do you think the narrative is? What do you think the artist is painting? What are the two focal points that are established by lines of sight?