How is geography important in helping elementary children understand and appreciate their roles and responsibilities in an increasingly complex, global community?

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Chapter 10&11

Instructions:

Chapter 10

How is geography important in helping elementary children understand and appreciate their roles and responsibilities in an increasingly complex, global community?

Chapter 11

In a pluralistic society such as the United States, celebrations and holidays present many challenges and opportunities for elementary school teachers. What is at the center of public schools’ position on these issues? Select one issue (perhaps from current events) to specifically discuss in terms of both the challenges and opportunities for social studies instruction.

What are the various frameworks, models, or “schools of thought” related to how Angela thinks about her situation? How can Angela develop her knowledge to move between different frameworks?

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Inventory Systems

Instructions

Select ONE of the following case studies to discuss. Indicate your case selection in the subject line of your post ( i.e. Your name – Angela’s Case.)

Discussion Documents

Review Kanban Inventory Management and Its Uses Across Multiple Industries to further explore inventory systems.

CASE 1: ANGELA MURPHY

Read the case study and imagine yourself in Angela’s position. What are the various frameworks, models, or “schools of thought” related to how Angela thinks about her situation? How can Angela develop her knowledge to move between different frameworks? According to Kegan & Lahey, where is Angela- socialized mind, self-authoring mind, or self-transforming mind? Why? be sure to cite the readings.

Angela is a purchasing and buying professional working in the auto industry. She has worked for a small parts (nuts and bolts for cars) supplier in the Midwest for about 5 years. She has a basic understanding of spreadsheets and is good at tracking how often individual items sold by her company need to be restocked. One day her manager asks her to study a new model for doing supply chain management, called Kanban. What might Angela do to learn more about this new framework or school of thought in her field?

Further information: In the late 1940s, Toyota began studying supermarkets with a view to applying store and shelf-stocking techniques to the factory floor, figuring that in a supermarket, customers get what they need, at the needed time, and in the needed amount. Furthermore, the supermarket only stocks what it believes it will sell, and customers only take what they need because future supply is assured. This led Toyota to view a process as a customer of preceding processes, and the preceding processes as a kind of store. The customer process goes to this store to get needed components, and the store restocks. As in supermarkets, originally, signboards were used to guide “shoppers” to specific restocking locations. “Kanban” uses the rate of demand to control the rate of production, passing demand from the end customer up through the chain of customer-store processes. In 1953, Toyota applied this logic in their main plant machine shop. An important determinant of the success of production scheduling based on “pushing” the demand is the quality of the demand forecast that can receive such “push.” Kanban, by contrast, is part of an approach of receiving the “pull” from the demand. Therefore, the supply or production is determined according to the actual demand of the customers. In contexts where supply time is lengthy and demand is difficult to forecast, the best one can do is to respond quickly to observed demand. This is exactly what a Kanban system can help with: It is used as a demand signal that immediately propagates through the supply chain. This model is also associated with Walmart restocking procedures each night, and is considered a great shift in practices or advancement in the business community.

CASE 2: BOB JOHNSON

Read the case study and imagine yourself in the position of Bob an experienced educator. What are the ways that Bob might develop new learning and new appreciation for different learning models and schools of thought? According to Kegan & Lahey where is Bob- socialized mind, self-authoring mind, or self-transforming mind? Why? be sure to cite the readings.

Bob Johnson is a 30 year veteran grade school teacher working in a public school in North Carolina. He enjoys working with his students and has seen many changes, including increased use of computers by students as young as kindergartners, an increase in standardized testing, and a decrease in funding for physical education, music and arts programs in schools. In 2004, he begins to hear his colleagues speak more and more about phrases like “teaching to the test” and “assessment culture”. In 2005 he hears about the report of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, led by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. The report discusses the importance of assessment of student performance as well as teacher performance in class. As Bob is an engaged teaching professional, he wants to stay current and grow with the recent changes in higher education. Reflect on how Bob might learn more about these changes, and become more comfortable within the new theories and “schools of thought” presented in assessment culture.

WHAT IMPACT DOES THE LACK OF FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY HAVE ON STUDENT LEARNING AND TEACHING?

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Annotated Bibliography Sources

RESEARCH QUESTION:

WHAT IMPACT DOES THE LACK OF FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY HAVE ON STUDENT LEARNING AND TEACHING?

What are your thoughts on this TED Talk? Can you relate this this teacher and their point of view? While this teacher is speaking about their experiences as a high school educator, how can you relate this to your experiences working in child care?

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Learning Objectives

This discussion is for:

  1. Getting familiar with who you are as a person and as an educator.
  2. Understanding the power of the role you have in the lives of children and families.

Activities

Watch the 4 videos.  The videos total about 35 minutes of content.  So give yourself some time.

For video #1 write about:

  • What are your values?
  • What are your beliefs around child rearing?
  • Where do your values and beliefs around child rearing come from?

For video #2 write about:

  • What are your thoughts on this TED Talk?
  • Can you relate this this teacher and their point of view?
  • While this teacher is speaking about their experiences as a high school educator, how can you relate this to your experiences working in child care?

For video #3 write about:

  • What about this TED Talk resonates with you?
  • Rita Pierson is giving us “real talk” about working in classrooms with children and adolescents, what is relatable to her story in your work in early childhood?
  • Did you get fired up and motivated to love every child who walks into your classroom? How does that feel?  Elaborate on your emotions.  Let your passion speak.

For video #4 writer about:

5 Critical Components that Teachers Need to Know

We need teacher to understand:

  1. The emotional development of children (one-directional) and teachers need to reflect on who they are (personal baggage, implicit baggage)
  2. Teachers need to understand children’s temperament and teachers need to reflect on their own temperament (their inner souls)
  3. Teachers need to understand the family histories (what’s going on in the family, and host families where they are)
  4. What’s going on in our environment? Great opportunities are in the environment – nurture a child’s soul so they feel emotionally safe.

What’s the 5th critical component that teachers need to know?  I have listened to this part a few times and every time I miss it, or Steve Zwolak doesn’t exactly name it.  But if it’s not in his talk, what do you think it is from this clip?

Explain your fictional center’s approach to ensuring and maintaining the health, safety, and nutrition of all children enrolled.

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Final Project

Overview
As with all ECE exams, begin with your Title Page formatted in APA style. (Refer to the Sample APA Paper for ECE Students on the Early Childhood Resource Learning Center website.) Type your submission, double-spaced, in a standard print font and size. Calibri 11, Arial 11, and Times New Roman 12 are all recommended fonts and sizes. Use a standard document with one-inch margins. Set the margins at a standard 1 inch on all sides. Because you’ve already provided your information (your first and last name, your student ID number, the examination name and number, the course name and number and the date of submission) on your Title Page, no running header is necessary. The standard style format for citations, if required, is American Psychological Association (APA). For assistance with proper APA in-text citations and references, please review all available APA resources on the Early Childhood Learning Resource Center.

Your completed work will be submitted in essay format consisting of at least nine (9) fully developed paragraphs; each paragraph will include at least five to seven fully developed sentences. Begin your assignment by selecting one of the following age groups to focus on throughout your essay:

Infants, 6 to 17 months
Toddler, 18 to 35 months
Preschoolers, 3 to 5 years

Instructions
This graded assignment requires you to again imagine yourself in the role of director of a center-based child care facility. Your submitted assignment will reflect your responses to this hypothetical situation and won’t reflect any real-world early childhood setting at which you may currently work or observe.

One of the many responsibilities you would face as the center’s director is to promote your child care facility to prospective parents and new families. In this assignment, you’ll explain your fictional center’s approach to ensuring and maintaining the health, safety, and nutrition of all children enrolled. In an early part of your essay, you’ll share information about the center’s indoor and outdoor environments and the many ways in which they’re kept sanitary, safe, and secure. In a later portion of your essay, you’ll explain four detailed lessons included in your curriculum that effectively teach children about health, safety, and nutrition. Finally, you’ll explain a planned modification to one of these four lessons to accommodate a child enrolled with a hypothetical special need or disability. As always, your written work will include introductory and concluding paragraphs, and it will be supported by APA formatted in-text citations and references wherever needed.

Include the following components:

Introductory paragraph. Share an opening paragraph that previews for the reader (in this instance, any prospective parent and family considering enrollment at your imagined center) what they’ll be reading and learning about in your essay. In your introductory paragraph, you’ll want to express to your reader the important role your center plays in ensuring their child’s health, safety, and proper nutrition. Your introductory paragraph is the best place to include your thesis statement (the most important statement, summary, point or argument to be made in your assignment). Your introduction is also the best place to identify which one of the three age groups your center enrolls (this is the one age group you’ve selected to write about). Your introductory paragraph will be composed of four to six fully developed sentences.

Second paragraph. In this paragraph, begin by discussing the ideal location of your facility. Imagine if you could build or purchase a facility anywhere, where would it be? Would you be located in a remote area with a large building and large usable outdoor space? Or, would you be located within the city for easy access by families going to and from work? You will also need to discuss your facility’s space and security. When families come to your facility, what do they see? How is the space set up? What equipment and materials are included in the outdoor play space? What does your security look like? For example, is the space fully fenced in? Is only the outdoor play space fenced in? Do you have security cameras? Think about how you’ll keep the children in your care and your belongings safe. In this paragraph, you will also want to explain appropriate facility maintenance and upkeep. Who is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep? What does it look like on a regular basis? The goal is to provide families with a clear understanding of what your facility looks like from the outside, what is included in the outdoor play space, and how your facility is kept safe and healthy. This paragraph will consist of four to six fully developed sentences, and it will include specific examples of the quality of care rather than generalized statements.

Third paragraph. Next, share specific examples to prospective families to demonstrate how your center’s indoor space, security, materials, and maintenance keep children healthy and safe. Share specific information about the indoor environment of the center, including the facility’s classroom areas. Questions to consider: When families enter the facility what will they see? How is the indoor area set up? Are there multiple classrooms or play areas? If it is one large room, how is it arranged in a developmentally appropriate way? What materials and learning centers are available to the children? The answers to these questions will depend on the age group you’ve selected to complete the assignment on and what your vision is for your own facility. Remember to also discuss how the learning area is kept safe and healthy. What do those procedures look like? Who is responsible for carrying them out and when? Again, your goal is to provide a clear explanation and image of what the indoor facility looks like and how it promotes health and safety. This paragraph will consist of four to six fully developed sentences, and it will include specific examples of the quality of care rather than generalized statements.

Fourth and fifth paragraphs. It’s sometimes helpful to describe sample lessons to families in efforts to demonstrate how children are engaged in learning at your center. Select two indoor lessons that are age- and developmentally-appropriate, play-based, hands-on, fun, and engaging while also (and importantly) teaching children about any topic related to health, safety, and/or nutrition. Consider specific lessons that you would teach children only once per school year, such as those on making healthy food choices or dental health; do not write about everyday activities such as washing hands, brushing teeth, or tying shoes. Science experiments are a terrific way to satisfy the requirements of this portion of your assignment. In two separate paragraphs, identify the titles of the two lessons, then share the materials needed, the step-by-step procedures, the physical space, the expectations for behavior, and the measurable objectives involved in each lesson. Each paragraph will consist of four to six fully developed sentences.

Sixth and seventh paragraphs. Next, write about two outdoor lessons that are age- and developmentally-appropriate, play-based, hands-on, fun, and engaging while also (and importantly) teaching children something specific about any topic related to health, safety, and/or nutrition. Again, select specific lessons that you would teach to children only once per school year such as those on fire safety, sun safety, or water safety; do not write about everyday activities such as putting on coats, hats, gloves, scarves, and boots before going outside to work and play. Science experiments are again a terrific way to satisfy the requirements of this portion of your assignment. In two separate paragraphs, identify the titles of the two lessons, then share the materials needed, the step-by-step procedures, the physical space, the expectations for behavior, and the measurable objectives involved in each lesson. Each paragraph will consist of four to six fully developed sentences.

Eighth paragraph. Now that you’ve planned indoor and outdoor lessons that teach children about an important topic related to health, safety, or nutrition, consider the impact enrolling a child with a special need or disability might have on one of these four lessons. Pretend the child of a prospective family reading your essay has an identified disability, special need, medical condition, or allergy. Identify the specific special need or disability and select one of your four lessons. Then, explain the ways in which you would modify that lesson so their child could safely participate and be fully included in the experience. Describe the adaptions you would make to the lesson so all children are equal participants. Remember that you are not creating a new activity or a separate activity for the child to complete. Instead, adjustments need to be made to the existing lesson to allow the child to fully participate in a way that is appropriate for him or her. This paragraph will consist of four to six fully developed sentences.

Ninth paragraph. Share your conclusion in your final paragraph. Remind the reader of your supported thesis statement and reiterate what they’ve learned about your demonstrated commitment to children’s health, safety, and nutrition at your center. This paragraph will also consist of four to six fully developed sentences.

Identify a topic of interest specific to cultural responsiveness and develop a presentation for stakeholders linking research to practice through the use of evidence based practices.

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RESEARCH TO PRACTICE PRESENTATION INSTRUCTIONS

For this assignment, you will identify a topic of interest specific to cultural responsiveness and develop a presentation for stakeholders linking research to practice through the use of evidence based practices. Presentations should be 20-25 minutes in length and address the policy foundations and knowledge base supporting this practice. You should include a script in the notes section of the PowerPoint. Your presentation should focus on the significance of the research, evidence, outcomes based on your findings, and implications for practice. Include a final slide titled “References” and include a minimum of 4 scholarly references. You must identify relevant scriptural principles and perspectives from a biblical worldview, including at least 1 relevant Bible verse.

What does the evidence say when it comes to teachers’ digital skills helping with pedagogical/ content knowledge? What does the evidence say when it comes to teachers digital skills and the link to student learning? (pre-and-post Covid-19)

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Teacher Digital Skills in Bangladesh

Section 1:

Why teachers’ digital skills are important

1.1 What is meant by teachers’ digital skills, and how do we define it for this chapter?  (½ page)
1.2 Why is a focus on teachers’ digital skills important ? (½ page)

Section 2:

A situational analysis of what we know about teachers’ digital skills in Bangladesh?

2.1 What do we know about teachers’ digital skills (1½ pages)
This is intended to be a synthesis of what we know about:
The type of technology teachers have access to in Bangladesh
Teachers digital skills in Bangladesh
It will draw upon surveys which have tried to capture this information (e.g. T4 Global Teacher Survey)

2.2 Policy overview of GoB initiatives relating to teacher’s digital skills? (pre-and-post Covid-19)   (1½ pages)
2.3 What does the evidence say when it comes to teachers’ digital skills helping with pedagogical/ content knowledge? (pre-and-post Covid-19) (1½ page)
2.4 What does the evidence say when it comes to teachers digital skills and the link to student learning? (pre-and-post Covid-19 (1½ page)

Section 3:

The EdTech landscape targeting teachers digital skills in Bangladesh

3.1 Landscaping of large scale initiatives focusing on supporting digital skills for teachers (1 page)
3.2 Emerging opportunities of effective practices within these initiatives (½ page)
3.3 Current gaps in the provision of EdTech programmes focusing on teacher’s digital skills (½ page)

Section 4:

Recommendations

Will be informed by results from Section 2 and Section 3.

Are you familiar with what law requires your as a mandated reporter? Could you spot indicators of possible child abuse or neglect? How would you talk to children about suspected abuse?

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Childcare Provider Training

Directions for the Training:
1. Go to this online Training: https://mandatedreporterca.com/training/child-care-providers
2. Complete the General Training. Once completed, then continue to Childcare Provider Training.
3. Complete Childcare Provider Training.

Directions for the Reflection:
● Write a one page ESSAY reflection in APA style.
● Include one of the prompts below, and how you will apply this information to your future work with children and families.

○ Here are some prompts to write about – Choose ONE:

■ What did you learn?
■ Are you familiar with what law requires your as a mandated reporter? Describe.
■ Could you spot indicators of possible child abuse or neglect? Discuss.
■ How would you talk to children about suspected abuse?
■ What’s the process if you suspect child abuse or neglect (making a report, after report is filed, etc.)

NOTE:
AB 1207 – CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE PROVIDERS: MANDATED REPORTER TRAINING

This Child Care Worker Training satisfies the requirements of AB 1207

The Child Abuse Mandated Reporter Training California website team in association with the California Department of Social Services have developed a new online training for child care providers, working in a licensed child care facility. The new Mandated Reporter Training for Child Care Providers does now satisfy the requirements of AB 1207.
Followed by the general training module, the Child Care Providers module is a three hour training that includes eight sections. Each section will include practice test questions or vignettes.
At the conclusion of the training you will take a final exam which will test the information that you have learned during the training. Upon scoring an 80% or higher you will be able to fill out and print your Certificate of Completion.

You will Learn
● What the law requires of you as a mandated reporter
● How to spot indicators of possible child abuse or neglect
● How to talk to children about suspected abuse
● How to make a report
● What happens after a report is filed
● Special issues related to child abuse reporting for child care providers

The Child Care Providers training may take you up to 3 hours to complete. You will receive a certificate for your records upon completion of the training.

The Mandated Reporter training will assist staff in recognizing child abuse or neglect and remind staff members to report any suspicion of abuse immediately to local law enforcement and Child Protective Services, as required by law.

The Child Abuse Mandated Reporter Training California website team in association with the California Department of Social Services have developed a new online training for child care providers, working in a licensed child care facility.
The new Mandated Reporter Training for Child Care Providers does now satisfy the requirements of AB 1207.

Narratives are commonly used in elementary school social studies classrooms. Choose three or four types of narratives discussed in the chapter; describe the narrative and how you would use it in to teach social studies content.

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Discusion chapter 8&9

Instructions:

Chapter 8

Narratives are commonly used in elementary school social studies classrooms. Choose three or four types of narratives discussed in the chapter; describe the narrative and how you would use it in to teach social studies content.

Chapter 9

Select a topic for a history that is appropriate for upper elementary students according to your state’s curriculum standards (or other appropriate guidelines). How are primary sources beneficial? Describe a) a specific primary source you might use for this topic; b) how you would use that primary source; and c) the types of follow up activities you would choose to use with that type of primary source.

Based on the National Association of State Directors of Education and Certification (NASDTEC) Model Code of Ethics for Educators, describe the advantages of making a good first impression with your cooperating teacher/mentor, students, and school campus important? How do the “Professional Dispositions” help you to make a positive first impression?

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Topic 3 DQ1 Student Response SPD-590

RESPONSE TO STUDENTS POST FROM TOPIC 3 DQ1 WITH 150 WORDS  AND 1 SCHOLAR REFERENCE. RESPONSE TO STUDENT BY USING STUDENT NAME.  PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE SEPARATE ASSIGNMENT AND SHOULD HAVE THERE REFERENCE PAGE.  INCULDED TOPIC IN THE TITLE.

 

Based on the National Association of State Directors of Education and Certification (NASDTEC) Model Code of Ethics for Educators, describe the advantages of making a good first impression with your cooperating teacher/mentor, students, and school campus important? How do the “Professional Dispositions” help you to make a positive first impression?