Describe and provide implementation examples of the following strategies: specific praise, choice making, effective group contingencies, contingent instructions, and time-out. Describe how or if these communication strategies can be used to motivate and encourage individuals with disabilities how to adapt to different learning environments.

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Encouragement Strategies to Increase Positive Student Behavior

Effective teachers must be able to draw from a variety of strategies in order to respond to different, challenging student behaviors. Teachers can apply these strategies to remind students of expectations, redirect behavior, and positively respond to expected behavior in the classroom.

Review the "Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) Example." Then, use the “Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) Template” to complete this assignment.

Identifying one student from the “Class Profile” who would benefit from additional intervention, complete a behavior intervention plan to include:

Behavior
Goals and how they will be measured
Interventions and Frequency of Interventions
Person Responsible
In a 500-750 word essay, describe strategies teachers can use to respond to challenging behavior during classroom instruction. Your essay should address the following topics:

Describe and provide implementation examples of the following strategies: specific praise, choice making, effective group contingencies, contingent instructions, and time-out.
Describe how or if these communication strategies can be used to motivate and encourage individuals with disabilities how to adapt to different learning environments.
Discuss any cautions related to using each strategy.
Describe the decision making process that teachers use when deciding how to intervene on challenging behavior when engaged in instruction.
Support your findings with a minimum of two scholarly resources.

What are my beliefs about the family and the nature and quality of family life and the human experience? What is a “family”? How important are families? What values do I hold regarding families and the human experience? What does it mean to be human?

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Philosophy Statement

Instructions
After completing this week’s readings, respond to the questions below. Create your philosophy in a word document and upload the document as an attachment. Your response must be a minimum of 500 words and be supported by 2 APA formatted references with corresponding citations. Please see the grading below.

Building a working philosophy statement of family life education. (Note: this assignment is taken from the Required Reading listed below.)

Follow the guidelines below and design your own working philoso­phy of family life education. Address the questions in your discussion. (Duncan, S. F., & Goddard, H. W. 2011 p. 24)

• What are my beliefs about the family and the nature and quality of family life and the human experience?

• What is a “family”? How important are families? What values do I hold regarding families and the human experience? What does it mean to be human?

• What are my beliefs about the purpose of FLE?

• What is the nature of FLE? What value does FLE have in com­munities? Is it to provide insight, skills, and knowledge? Is it to change behavior? How “interventionist” should FLE be?

• What are my beliefs about the content of FLE?

• Of what value is university-based theory and research to families? Of what value is the lived experience of individuals, families, and communities, and how can it become part of the content of FLE? How do my personal values regarding families and the human experience influence the content I select?

• What are my beliefs about the process of learning for families in outreach settings?

• How do individuals and families learn most effectively? What teaching strategies have the greatest impact? How important are learning goals and evaluation in these processes? What assumptions do I hold about learners?

Duncan, S. F., & Goddard, H. W. (2011). Family Life Education : Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc. p. 24

Identify the top three challenges in order of what needs to be addressed first to accomplish your school’s vision. Provide a rationale and include the use of specific data to support your selection.

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Long Branch- Parent involvement- absences- English- poverty- single young parents

The intern understands and demonstrates the capacity to evaluate, develop, and implement management, communication, technology, school-level governance, and operating systems that support each student’s learning needs and promote the mission and vision of the school.

Artifact: Report to the school improvement team
Meet with your principal and a team of colleagues to brainstorm a list of five or more challenges at your school. From this list, identify the top three challenges in order of what needs to be addressed first to accomplish your school’s vision. Provide a rationale and include the use of specific data to support your selection.

Why is Documentation Critical to Providing Treatment in the Behavioral Health and Mental Health Fields.

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Documentation

ASSIGNMENT: Write a 5-page paper using APA,7th edition.

TOPIC: Why is Documentation Critical to Providing Treatment in the Behavioral Health and Mental Health Fields.

Include Background information, state why documentation is critical, define mental health and behavioral health and clinical documentation. Relate the purpose of clinical documentation to reimbursement for clinical services and what steps the clinician MUST take to ensure that payment is received for the client’s treatment services

Provide direct assistance funding to middle or high school libraries for special short-term projects or events that would create new or enhance educational activities in order to engage students with and in the library and to promote reading,books, literacy and authors.

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AASL Special Event Grant Application – For a Cricut

Overview
Through the generous donation of Marina “Marney” Welmers, an AASL member and retired middle school librarian, AASL is pleased to offer the Inspire Special Event Grant. The grant opportunity supports a special event so that an existing public middle or high school library can create new or enhance its extracurricular activities in order to increase student academic achievement at their school. The goal is to provide direct assistance funding to middle or high school libraries for special short-term projects or events that would create new or enhance educational activities in order to engage students with and in the library and to promote reading,books, literacy and authors.

The fund is $10,000 per annum. The direct assistance is capped at $2,000 per grant.

Eligibility
1. The applicant must be a publicly funded middle or high school, grades 5-12, and have an existing campus library. Each library, regardless of the variety of constituents it may serve,is limited to submission of one application.

2. The grant is awarded to individual schools, not to districts; all schools in a given district are welcome to apply if they meet the criteria, but each school must submit an application that is specific to their needs.

3. Private, parochial, independent, and home schools are not eligible. Charter schools can apply if they are publicly funded.

4. The public middle or high school library must be located in the United States, with one staff position being held by a certified school librarian.

5. If the school does not have a certified school librarian on campus staff, the applicant can still apply if there is a certified school librarian available at the district or regional level who will work with the school on the selection of materials to be purchased. Regional level may include service centers or equivalent, university faculty, or staff of neighboring school districts.

6. The school and/or the certified school librarian do not have to be a member of ALA, AASL, or any other ALA division to apply; however, the jury may take membership into consideration when determining grant awards.

7. Schools that have 85% or more of its student population qualified for Free Reduced Lunch  (FRL) program should include this information in their application to receive additional consideration by the Jury.

8. The Jury may take the school’s geographic location into consideration when determining grant awards.

9. Funds can be used to fund author visits, special events, contests, Book Clubs, Summer Reading programs, displays, etc. that engage middle or high school students with and in the library.

10. Institutions represented by Inspire Special Event Jury can be eligible to apply, but committee members must recuse themselves from the discussion and voting or decline if they have a conflict of interest.

11. The school library must be a first-time recipient of the Inspire Special Event Grant. All previous recipients are ineligible to apply.

12. The recipient must agree to deliver a final report within twelve months of receipt of the grant money. If photographs or images are part of the report, the school must include digital copies (300 dpi images or higher) of all release-signed photographs.

Using technology resources for handbooks provided online. Then, create a fully articulated discipline management plan that is aligned to school and district policies.

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Discipline Management: NELP 6.3

Legal Policy for Student Well-Being
The intern understands and demonstrates the capacity to reflectively evaluate, communicate about, and implement laws, rights, policies, and regulations to promote student and adult success and well-being.

Artifact: Discipline management plan
To guide the development of the discipline management plan, assume the role of a principal through the following scenario:

You have just been hired as a first-year principal and are in the process of updating the teacher handbook. Upon careful review, you notice that the section on discipline management procedures for student conduct is vague and not clearly defined. Having seen the report from the previous year on the high numbers of disciplinary infractions, you recognize that a plan must be put in place immediately.

In preparation for designing a discipline management plan, review the legal due process for suspensions and expulsions in your district and review at least two student codes of conduct handbooks from other schools or districts, using technology resources for handbooks provided online. Then, create a fully articulated discipline management plan that is aligned to school and district policies. Discuss what steps you will take to:

Communicate the plan to stakeholders.
Implement the plan at your school.
Monitor the plan for effectiveness.

Interview both your principal and a district-level finance administrator to learn how the district’s financial revenue provides funding for the school’s annual budgets and how principals develop and monitor the school budget.

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School Budget: NELP 6.2

NELP 6.2 Data-Informed Equitable Resource Plan
The intern understands and demonstrates the capacity to evaluate, develop, and advocate for a data-informed and equitable resourcing plan that supports school improvement and student development.

Artifact: School budget analysis
This assignment requires you to analyze a school budget. This is about the school’s budget, not about the district’s budget. You will interview both a district-level finance officer and the school principal to understand how funds are managed and how the school’s budget is developed. In some districts, the principal controls all of the funds; but in many districts, the district controls the funds and the principal has limited input. Report this in your assignment.

Using the questions in the Budget Interviews [DOC] resource, interview both your principal and a district-level finance administrator to learn how the district’s financial revenue provides funding for the school’s annual budgets and how principals develop and monitor the school budget. Summarize your findings from both interviews in one narrative analysis (5–7 pages).

In your summary, you must report specific budget sources and amounts for your school. You must report all of the sources from which the school receives funds. Typically, these include a number of federal funds, such as Title I, Bilingual Ed, Migrant Ed, Special Ed; state funds, such as the state’s education funding and, perhaps, special funds (technology infrastructure fund) or grants; and local funds, including local tax money and education foundations. DO NOT report budget allocations (that is, where the money is spent); instead, report budget sources. Be explicit: name each fund; do not clump them together under the labels “federal,” “state,” and “local.” You must indicate dollar amounts for the school, not the district.

Whether the principal controls large sums or small, the principal still has to decide how to spend the money allocated to the school. For example, are we going to buy microscopes or class sets of novels this year? You must report, explicitly, the steps that the principal takes to develop the school’s budget.

Some districts are reluctant to release budget information. This is a political journey you’ll have to navigate. If your school is a public school, then all district finances are public information and subject to public inspection. If your district refuses to release the budget, it raises ethical questions.

Explain a critical problem and a possible solution in education.

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Critical problem and a possible solution in education

Explain a critical problem and a possible solution in education. (Sample problem areas: Administration, funding, policy, standards, technology, teacher preparation, student achievement, urban education, motivation, school violence, assessment, 21st Century skills, subject area curriculum, tablet technology, social networking, international education, middle school and secondary education, etc.)

With a focus on MATHEMATIC SUBJECT, critically analyse what considerations are needed to support pupils with SEND to access learning. What does scaffolding look like in this subject and evaluate the role it plays. Critically reflect on how the theories you have encountered have prompted you to adapt your delivery to ensure learning is possible for all in this subject.

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EFFECTIVE PRACTICE

DEVELOPMENT: Effective Practice (USE HARVARD STYLE REFRENCING)

In the assignment for this module trainees will be required to demonstrate understanding of the complexities and diversity required in teaching and assessment for learning. Write an essay of 2,500-3,000 words

SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE & SEND
With a focus on MATHEMATIC SUBJECT, critically analyse what considerations are needed to support pupils with SEND to access learning. What does scaffolding look like in this subject and evaluate the role it plays. Critically reflect on how the theories you have encountered (for example Bruner and Vygotsky) have prompted you to adapt your delivery to ensure learning is possible for all in this subject.

What are the impact of metal detectors on student achievement in secondary schools in the United states?

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Impact of metal detectors

What are the impact of metal detectors on student achievement in secondary schools in the United states?