Write an essay geared toward a public audience, that has some sort of argument regarding the “immigrant students” and “woman students of color”.

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Immigrant Students in the US Education System

Write an essay geared toward a public audience, that has some sort of argument regarding the “immigrant students” and “woman students of color”.

What do you want to say? What should educational stakeholders (re)consider? What are you trying to inform the larger public (or, if you make clear, a specific audience) about? It will be your job to synthesize the viewpoints a immigrant student and your own opinions into a readable, accessible essay as part of your argument or point of clarification.

In addition to the study/scholarship in which your interview/essay is framed around, include at least three additional links/“references” that are synthesized and then linked in your essay (these can be other readings but other links such as news articles, podcasts, Twitter, etc.).

Finally, make sure to have at least a small section about suggestions or “action steps” that we can take to provide a more equitable schooling experience for students. Do not forget this!

Think about multicultural approaches and what tangible things that we can do inside schools that can help the student population in which you are writing about.

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?

Critically examine the main factors that are generating educational change in United Kingdom. Discuss how schools are responding to these change forces

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Educational change in United Kingdom

Critically examine the main factors that are generating educational change in United Kingdom. Discuss how schools are responding to these change forces

Using the questioning technique from Feeney & Freemen (2016), briefly explain why it was an ethical issue. How did you handle it? Which principle or ideal in the NAEYC’s Code of Ethical Conduct will help you in the scenario you described?

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Feeney & Freeman

NAEYC created the Code of Ethical Conduct to assist early childhood professionals in recognizing and responding to challenges in the workplace.

Read the assigned article (Feeney & Freeman, 2016).
When faced with challenging situations, you must determine if they involve ethical issues. This can be a difficult process and one that many are unsure about. The first question you should ask yourself is, “Does it concern right and wrong, rights and responsibilities, human welfare, or individuals’ best interests?” If you answer no to each of these items, the situation is not an ethical issue and you can handle it as you would handle other concerns in your workplace. If you answer yes to any of the questions, you are facing an ethical issue (Feeney & Freeman, 2016). In this discussion, we will examine the NAEYC code and share our own experiences with ethical situations.

In your work or personal life, write about an experience that presented an ethical dilemma and/or required ethical responsibility
Using the questioning technique from Feeney & Freemen (2016), briefly explain why it was an ethical issue. How did you handle it? Which principle or ideal in the NAEYC’s Code of Ethical Conduct will help you in the scenario you described? List the specific principle or ideal, including the number. Maintain privacy in your example by using fictitious names and places of employment.

Regarding the three teaching/parenting styles (Authoritarian. Authoritative and/or Permissive), share a short story about a time that you may have experienced one of these styles as a student What was the outcome?

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4 of Gardener’s intelligence

1.Regarding the three teaching/parenting styles (Authoritarian. Authoritative and/or Permissive), share a short story about a time that you may have experienced one of these styles as a student What was the outcome?

2. jean Piaget’s developmental stages…

  •  The Sensorimotor Stage
  •  The Preoperational Stage
  •  The Concrete Operational Stage
  •  The Formal Operational Stage

Choose only one of the stages…
Define the stage in your own words and give TWO examples of how a teacher can help a student/child progress through the stage you have chosen

3. Given what you know about MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES – what would you do during a first-grade MATH LESSON ON COUNTING MONEY to address at least 4 of Gardener’s intelligence?

Watch “The First Years Last Forever” and write a one to two-page reaction paper. In your reaction, relate the video to our discussion on biological development.

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EDUC231 Reaction paper #2

Watch “The First Years Last Forever” and write a one to two-page reaction paper. In your reaction, relate the video to our discussion on biological development. The video can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI-BXTHvRfs.

What is the first antecedent for day 1? What was the behavior that followed the first antecedent? What was the consequence that followed the first behavior?

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Special Education Chapter 9

1. What is the first antecedent for day 1?
2. What was the behavior that followed the first antecedent?
3. What was the consequence that followed the first behavior?

FBA: Functions of Behavior

  • • Attention
    –     From adults, peers
  • • Tangible (material)
    –     Item/object
    –     Activity/event
  • Escape/Avoid
    –     Task/activity
    –     From adults, peers
    –     Item/object
  • • Sensory
    –     Visual
    –     Auditory

4. What was the next antecedent on day 1?
5. What behavior followed the second antecedent on day 1?
6. What was the consequence for the second behavior on day 1?
7. What was the next antecedent on day 1?
8. What behavior followed the third antecedent on day 1?
9. What was the consequence for the third behavior on day 1?

After two observations…
• Were Jessica’s behaviors consistent throughout the observation?
• What kind of intervention can be effective for Jessica?

Discuss the effectiveness of learning sign language using phrasebook, videos and weekly lessons on bridging the communication gap between deaf children and hearing parents, siblings and extended families.

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Learning sign language

Discuss the effectiveness of learning sign language using phrasebook, videos and weekly lessons on bridging the communication gap between deaf children and hearing parents, siblings and extended families.

Explain who the participants are in your study and where the research is conducted. Describe data collected and what you observed in the instructional videos.

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Social Cognitive Theory and Effective Teachers – Collecting data

Submit a 3-4 page Microsoft Word document. For this milestone, you will explain who the participants are in your study and where the research is conducted. You will also you will describe data collected and what you observed in the instructional videos. The participants, setting, and data will be obtained from the same video you observed.

Since your data is based on videos of classroom observations, your participants are students (include grade level and subject and how many students) and the teacher (include gender and other descriptors). The setting will be the classroom and school where the study is conducted.

As you are writing the Participants/Settings section, ask yourself:

● Who are the participants in the videos I observed? What is the setting? Why is it important in a research study to discuss participants and
setting?

● How can I best use the qualitative research examples as models for my writing?

As you are writing the Data Collection section, ask yourself:

● What do I observe?

● What is the teacher doing?

● What are the students doing?

● What do I notice regarding the classroom environment?

● What else do I notice?

● What do I observe happening in the classroom that can help answer my research question?

● How do my observations connect to my topic and research question?

What was your impression of the event as a whole? Did anything surprise you about the event or the act of talking with employers? Do you feel that you had adequate time to talk with the recruiters? In what way did you feel prepared and confident? Is there anything you wish you had known or done differently before going to the fair?

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Career fair Reflection

What was your impression of the event as a whole?

Did anything surprise you about the event or the act of talking with employers?

Do you feel that you had adequate time to talk with the recruiters?

In what way did you feel prepared and confident?

Is there anything you wish you had known or done differently before going to the fair?