Identify the principles of critical thinking and critical writing. Outline the principles of effective critical reading for research. Provide an in-depth appraisal of the effectiveness of the key competencies of teaching, demonstrating excellent critical reasoning skills.

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Primary education with QTS

LO3: Identify the principles of critical thinking and critical writing

LO4: Outline the principles of effective critical reading for research

Provide an in-depth appraisal of the effectiveness of the key competencies of teaching, demonstrating excellent critical reasoning skills. Focused and justified recommendations will be made as to how problems/weaknesses identified in teaching may be overcome and know how they might be improved. Extensive research demonstrating use of a wide range of current secondary research sources will be evident. Academic style and referencing will be excellent.

Document where specific guidelines are utilized and provide a rationale for how you determined your choices. Identify any child’s special needs that might require modifying this plan.

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Fun, Safe, and Healthy Mealtimes

Overview:
For this assignment, choose one of the developmental stages, either toddler or preschooler, and plan a well-balanced day’s menu using the national nutrition and food program guidelines: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the USDA-HHS Dietary Guidelines. This assignment provides the opportunity to use all of the knowledge gained these past weeks to develop an integrated daily nutritious meal plan.

Instructions:
Your meal plan must include the following:
• You plan must be written about the following age groups:
o Toddler
o Preschoolers
• The daily menu should include:
o Breakfast
o Lunch
o Afternoon snack

• Be sure to document where specific guidelines are utilized and provide a rationale for how you determined your choices.
• Identify any child’s special needs that might require modifying this plan.

Requirements:
• Submit the assignment in a Word Document.

How will you create developmentally appropriate instruction that takes into consideration the students’ strengths, differences, interests, and needs.

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Benchmark Summative Assessment

Assessment Description
Throughout this course, you have studied the major principles, concepts, and learning theories related to the major developmental milestones and stages of development. With this knowledge, you will explore how to integrate the major principles, concepts, and learning theories when determining the appropriate instructional strategies that meet the diverse needs of all students.
For this benchmark assignment, you will complete a summative course assessment consisting of one essay question based on a case study.
Consider the following scenario:
Several students in your fifth grade class are disengaged during math instruction and discussions. One student has an IEP (Individualized Education Program) for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), one student has an IEP for dyslexia, one student has an IEP for visual impairment, and one student has severe language development concerns preventing understanding of instructional material.
Citing major concepts, principles, and theories, write a 750-1,000 word essay in which you describe instructional strategies along with the differentiation you would implement that would encourage them to participate and develop more confidence in their abilities.

In your essay, include:
Strategies that support engagement in the class as a whole, the role of language, and readiness of learning, based on the theories learned in class.

How you would modify instruction by applying the concepts and theories related to development (cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical).

How you will create developmentally appropriate instruction that takes into consideration the students’ strengths, differences, interests, and needs.

Strategies that can be implemented for motivation and acquisition of knowledge.

Strategies to provide equitable access for all students to appropriate digital tools and resources.

Support your findings with a minimum of 3-5 scholarly resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Demonstrate and explain how an inquiry model such as ARPP/action research could be use by the college leadership to plan the next phase of improvement or change.

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BELMONT ABBEY

Assignment Scenario
Assume that you are a formal or informal leader in your organization. You, along with your supervisor (or the rest of your leadership team) are engaged in a study of your organization’s challenges and strategic position with the intention of developing and implementing a series of improvement initiatives. You have shared some of the ideas in this course in casual conversation with others on the team and stimulated their interest. As a result, you have been asked to present the course’s concepts to everyone on the team so they, too, can begin to broaden and deepen their thinking organizational learning, change, and improvement.

You decide to use a teaching case, Belmont Abbey, to help your team develop an understanding of the key course concepts. For this task you’ll develop a set of teaching materials in the form of a PowerPoint presentation and corresponding script that convey the course concepts. Using examples from the case, you’ll enable your team to develop understanding of systems thinking, systems archetypes, and change and action research inquiry processes. In developing these teaching materials, you will be synthesizing course concepts and gaining a deeper understanding of their application to problems of practice.

Instructions
Create a PowerPoint presentation and corresponding script (or speaker’s notes) that consists of the following bolded components:

Introduce the case.
Preliminary Introduction of the Case: Summarize the case for your team. Provide a synopsis of the Belmont Abbey case that enables the intended audience to understand the case, including events, stakeholders, and challenges that will be analyzed.

Use disciplines of learning organizations to analyze problems of practice.

Disciplines: Apply the lens of the four core disciplines (personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision) to the case, and provide an analysis of the extent to which the discipline(s) reveals organizational dynamics and contributes either to organizational learning or to the organization’s problems.

Analyze the organizational disabilities and systems archetypes present in the case.
Systems Archetypes: Explain and map at least one example of a systems archetype can be seen in the case. Include at least one systems map as part of your presentation.

Recommend change management strategies for the organization based on the case.

Critical-Thinking Tools: Prior to suggesting change management strategies, demonstrate critical thinking tools to identify assumptions the stakeholders in the case may have made, and develop a set of questions you would ask to help the stakeholders in the case uncover their assumptions and clarify the steps needed for future progress. Reference Paul and Elder’s Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life text in your comments.

Four-Stage Change Process: Describe and explain how the four-stage process could be used by the Belmont Abbey leaders to improve the strategic planning process that enhances the chances of success for one of the college’s initiatives. Explain how your set of questions would help uncover stakeholder assumptions and clarify steps needed for future progress. Refer to Stroh’s Thinking for Social Change text.

Propose an inquiry model to plan for next phase of organizational improvement.

Inquiry Cycle: Demonstrate and explain how an inquiry model such as ARPP/action research could be use by the college leadership to plan the next phase of improvement or change.

Recommendations: Provide a set of specific practical recommendations about how the president should proceed. Demonstrate how your recommendations align with the college’s mission, vision, and values.

Questions: Conclude with at least 3 discussion questions you would pose to help uncover team members’ assumptions and facilitate their inquiry into and understanding of the key concepts you have presented.

Based on information from The Healthcare Divide, how has the pandemic challenged the existing health inequalities in the U.S. health care delivery system, especially how hospitals operate?

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Final Exam Question #2

It is not necessary to include an introduction/conclusion. Proofread for typos/clarity before submitting your assignment on Blackboard.
Watch Frontline: The Healthcare Divide (2021) here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-healthcare-divide/
Analysis of video: • Based on information from The Healthcare Divide, how has the pandemic challenged the existing health inequalities in the U.S. health care delivery system, especially how hospitals operate? Describe, in detail, two major issues.

Assessment of paper: • Answer all the questions in any order as long as the paper is organized in a logical and coherent manner. • Clarity of discussion and analysis. • Inclusion of specific and detailed examples from any sources used for the paper. • Make sure to proofread your paper for typos and grammatical errors to ensure that your ideas are clearly stated.
Grading Rubric: • Clarity of writing (proofread, grammar) = 3 points • Analysis of 2 major issues = 22 points

Complete a Reflection Paper that analyzes how the Touro College experience has prepared you for school building leadership.

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Reflection Paper

Complete a Reflection Paper that analyzes how the Touro College experience has prepared you for school building leadership. In this paper, you are to reflect upon how and describe in detail how the course work and the internship program have informed your leadership style, your core knowledge of the principles and practices of effective administration, supervision, and leadership. Emphasize how this will impact the improvement of the schools in which you work (KAPPA in Brownsville, Brooklyn). Additionally, you are to describe how you plan to continue to enhance your potential as a leader after graduation. https://gse.touro.edu/academics/masters-programs/school-leadership

Is this a proposal for a new chess program, or an improvement of an existing program? Does the proposal detail the institution, the learners, and the chess resources that will be involved? Does your Institution Paper show how the chess program will meet the needs of the learners, the institution, and the community?

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Institution paper

The Institution Paper is based on the curriculum theory of Ralph Tyler (The Tyler Rationale), which states that three sources must be addressed by curricula. Those sources are content, developmental needs of learners, and societal concerns. Here are the questions your Institution Paper final draft must answer to earn some or all of the 450 points possible:

1) Is this a proposal for a new chess program, or an improvement of an existing program? Does the proposal detail the institution (name, location, mission), the learners (ages, developmental needs, cognitive abilities), and the chess resources (books, software, Web sites, and other chess content) that will be involved? Does your Institution Paper show how the chess program will meet the needs of the learners, the institution, and the community?

2) Does the Institution Paper use the readings from this course and also resources that students investigated in Discussions to support its points? You must use Discussions C, D, E, F, G, H, and J in your Institution Paper. Be sure to incorporate the edits Dr. Root gave you on each of those Discussions into the versions of those Discussions that you include in Institution Paper

3) Is APA Style used? When I request APA Style, I am only referring to
a. in-text citation (author, date) or (author, date, p. #), or the equivalent citation for other sources such as films or Internet sites, and
b. Your Reference List
c. Quotes, accurately done, from your sources

When you learn APA Style, please concentrate on accurate quotes, correct citations, and a Reference List.

Discuss the causes and effects of the article that you have noted while critically reading the article – State your opinions regarding the issues highlighted – Suggest recommendations – Identify and provide more than two values.

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HIGHER EDUCATION SHOULD BE RELEVANT TO THE REAL WORLD

Communicative English 1 

Work in pairs and follow all the steps:

Step 1 : Choose one article provided by your lecturer.

Step 2 : Read the article to get an understanding of the main idea.

Step 3 : Read the article again with a critical eye. As you read, take note of the 4 main parts of your article critique.

Part 1 (Introduction) Include an introductory paragraph that includes the following: – The author’s name(s) and the title of the article – The author’s main point – A thesis statement that previews your analysis

Part 2 (Summary) After your introduction, discuss the following: – The main points of the article – The issue presented in the article – The findings of the article

Part 3 (Critique) After summarising the article, critique the article by doing the following: – Discuss the causes and effects of the article that you have noted while critically reading the article – State your opinions regarding the issues highlighted – Suggest recommendations – Identify and provide more than two values.

Part 4 (Conclusion) Finally, end your article critique with a conclusion that does the following: – Summarise the key points in the article, as well as the key points from your own analysis.

Guidelines/ prerequisite Here are the requirements of the task: 1) All parts ( Part 1 to 4 ) of your article critique should be presented in a mini report/folio with attachment of the original article.

What should Linda do if the assessment of information from the process indicates a child needs additional support to achieve a learning outcome?

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RCC questions – End of Diploma

Unit CHCMGT003 “Lead the work team”
Question 1) Today the centre director is typing up the professional development goals for all staff. Amy is the assistant in the toddler room and has not submitted any goals and does not want to attend any workshops; you have recommended. How would you support Amy?
I would ask her the best free time she had to discuss with her face to face or zoom meeting in order to understand her needs and find a suitable solution that best works in order to stay up to date in her professional development as everyone is important and inclusive. In order to succeed as a whole team, we seek everyone’s participation.
Question 2) It’s Tuesday morning and you are on the open shift. You receive a phone call that the two staff members starting at 8am and 9am are away sick, what do you do? Explain the process you would use. Include what you would do if none of your casual staff were available.

Question 3) Explain how a service evaluates the effectiveness of plans and practices?

Unit CHCECE019 “Facilitate compliance in an education and care service”
Question 1) In your own words. Write down why the assessment and rating process is important to a service and what the responsibilities of staff are when a representative of the Regulatory Authority visits the service.
The assessment and rating process is important for understanding if the centre is meeting the NQS of the Victorian National Regulation criteria. That assessment determinate the right rating. Thanks to that, the center is able to plan a QIP if needed any improvement.
Question 2) List the steps for informing educators about an Assessor’s visit.

Unit CHCECE017 “Foster the holistic development and wellbeing of the child in early childhood”
Question 1) Andrew, 3 years old, is crying. He wants to use the large shovel. However Claire, 4 years old, won’t give it to him. Give at least one example of how you could help them to communicate.
Question 2) Give an explanation of what a key milestone checklist is. Why is it important for educators?

Unit CHCECE020 “Establish and implement plans for developing cooperative behaviour”
Question 1) Which elements in the NQS are linked to setting limits? Summarise the information about setting limits and guidelines in your own words.
Quality area 3, Physical environment?
Question 2) What do you think are appropriate and inappropriate behaviours? Review your own stance and reflect on your own values.
Appropriate: respectful, caring, role-model, following the rules/ routine in appropriate manner
Inappropriate: scratching, pushing, grab toys with no consent, not listening

Unit CHCECE024 “Design and implement the curriculum to foster children’s learning and development”
Question 1) Access a Childcare Centres Philosophy and the National Quality Standard (This can be sourced from your work place or the internet), choose one NQS Standard and state where they are reflected in the services philosophy.

Question 2) Prepare a collaborative learning experience for a small group of children based on a topic that relates to respecting families, the community, or both.

Document:
How you will prepare the environment.
How you will engage the children.
What you will talk about and the questions you will ask the children.
The props, materials and equipment you will use.

Unit CHCECE026 “Work in partnership with families to provide appropriate education and care for children”
Question 1) How the service meets the needs of families who need assistance with English as a second language.
Having documents in various languages; within staff member ask who is able to talk in different language in order to translate during face to face meeting.
Question 2) Explain why you believe parent participation and communication is important.
That is part of Quality Area 6 “collaborative partnership with families” is a crucial part in order to archive the best benefit/outcome for the child.

Unit CHCECE018 “Nurture creativity in children”
Question 1) How have you encouraged children to respect and appreciate other children’s creative efforts? Give examples.
A nice way is to make a wall art with all the children art craft where each child has the ability to express his art work to his peers before attach on the wall by taking a turn.
Question 2) Explain why it is important for an educator to be an effective role model for creativity.
Planning a creativity activity is important to stimulate the right side of the brain and express emotions / feelings through the paint, draw etc..
The educator maintain a good role model al all the times by supporting the children with intentional and ZPD strategy to pursue their creation.

Unit CHCECE021 “Implement strategies for the inclusion of all children”
Question 1) What role does the IPSC paly in strengthening partnerships between educators’, families, communities and other agencies?
Use the following link;
https://www.education.gov.au/inclusion-support-programme-isp
Question 2) How would you communicate clearly with a parent who:
Is unable to speak recognizable words, but understands English
Has a hearing impairment
Has vision impairment
Has an intellectual disability

Unit CHCECE023 “Analyse the information to inform learning”
Question 1) Linda is a Diploma qualified working in the room with 27 children and two other educators.
The children are aged between 4-5 years old and from a range of backgrounds.
They all speak and understand English well.
The children usually attend between 9.00am and 3.00pm.
(1a) Develop a process that Linda could use to ensure each child is observed and suitable information is gathered to make the curriculum responsive and inclusive.
(1b) What should Linda do if the assessment of information from the process indicates a child needs additional support to achieve a learning outcome?

Unit CHCECE016 “Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children”
Question 1) Mia does not always respond to you when you talk to her, you notice the she doesn’t seem to hear you unless you are in her line of sight.
What process would you follow before approaching the parents? Include questions you might ask.
Question 2) Dylan, 20 months old, falls from an A-frame and hurts his arm. He holds his arm and is upset if it is touched or moved.
How would you explain to Dylan’s Parents(s) that Dylan has fallen and hurt his arm?
I will call them to inform of the occurring accident and update the status of the child. I will communicate in calm, informative and rational manner by describing exactly what happened; which following procedure has been taken in place and ask for a signature on the accident form ones finish to discuss about the situation.
What sensitive procedure would you follow?
– call the parents to inform of non-serious accident
– complete the accident form that has to be signed during pick-up time by one of the child parent.

Unit HLTWHS003 “Maintain work health and safety”
Question 1) Two tasks educators often carry out when working with infants and toddlers are:
Lifting and carrying an infant or toddler on their hip.
Changing nappies
For each of these tasks, identify the existing and potential hazards and record them.
Question 2) Briefly explain why it is important for workers to understand the legislative requirements of their job role.

Unit CHCECE025 “Embed sustainable practices in service operations”
Question 1) Choose one of the following aspects of sustainability; water, energy or waste. Describe how you would demonstrate that you respect, are and appreciate natural resources in relation to the aspect you have chosen.
Question 2) Find three resources that encourage children to discuss sustainable practice. For each resource:
Name and discuss the practice
List the points on sustainable practice that the children will learn from the discussion.

Unit CHCECE022 “Promote children’s agency”
Question 1) How would you respond to a child’s choice not to participate?
Question 2) How do you support children’s efforts by assisting and encouraging them?

 

 

What state of Massachusetts disability category would it come under? How is it diagnosed? How common is it?

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Visual Impairment Disability in Schools

Disability Information
• Definition of the disability under IDEA in the USA
• What state of Massachusetts disability category would it come under?
• Causes of Visual Impairment (Physiological Causes, Environmental, Psychological Causes)
• Characteristics of Visual Impairment (cognitive, academic, and social/emotional)
• How is it diagnosed?
• Statistics
• How common is it?
• Age typically diagnosed
• Life expectancy
• Other interesting statistics
• Identify data sources used for information

Early Intervention/ Preschool Interventions
Age 0-5
• Early Intervention
• Family perspective

School: K-12
Age: 5-18
• Classroom supports
• Type of classrooms setting(s) most commonly placed – in the Least Restrictive Environment
• Accommodations/ Modifications in PLEP A&B on IEP (Individualized Education Program)
• Common Service Delivery on IEP
• Common Goal Focus Areas on IEP
• Trends
• Social issues
• Family perspective

Post-Secondary
Age: 19+
• What are some options after high school? (college, training programs, life skills, programs/ groups, job)
• Family perspective
• Independent living