Why is it important for the human service professional to have knowledge of community resources?

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In Chapter 12 you read about the human service professional’s work within communities while addressing issues and problems of individuals. It is important that you as a human service professional familiarize yourself with methods to improve your life as well as the lives of your clients who live in communities.

You also read about how the external environment may affect the lives of those you work with and you. Therefore, the human service professional must also become knowledgeable of the social, political, and environmental conditions that affect their clients.

In the reading for this unit and throughout the term, you explored how you as a professional may have an impact on not only the individual client but also on the client’s community. You also read how the human service professional plays multiple roles in the community.

Those roles include: advocate, educator, consultant, change agent, facilitator of indigenous support systems, facilitator of indigenous healing systems, and adviser. Because of the numerous roles of the human service professional, a systems perspective in understanding the community as a functioning unit is essential.

This reading also emphasizes the importance of mobilizing community resources and influencing policymakers in one’s efforts to promote community change

Respond to the following:

As a human service professional, how might you identify some of the responsibilities the professional may need in bringing about change in the community?

Why is it important for the human service professional to have knowledge of community resources?

How might you as the professional develop strategies that will lead to empowerment of individuals within community settings?

What are the advantages of the professional educating the client about community resources?

Remember to cite your work using APA format when referencing from the text or outside resources.

Contrast the planning, teaching and assessing of a series of lessons, and evaluate the impact on your developing philosophy of leading learning.

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Impact of pedagogies on the students

Through the exploration of subject-specific pedagogies, discuss the theoretical perspectives and research that have influenced your practice.

Contrast the planning, teaching and assessing of a series of lessons, and evaluate the impact on your developing philosophy of leading learning.

How long and how much success have they had owning their current team?

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Sport Owners Discussion

Each student will pick one professional sport (men or women’s sports) and research to find the top 3 richest owners in that respective sport.

Include the following within your 1-2 page abstract.

–  brief summary of each owner (how they made their $, etc.)

– What is their net worth?

– Why did they decide to own a professional sport team?

– How long and how much success have they had owning their current team?

Based on this week’s readings and at least one additional resource, do you agree or disagree with the quote?

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Some literacy experts have said, “A dyslexic child should be educated at their ability level, rather than their literacy level.”

What does this mean? Based on this week’s readings and at least one additional resource, do you agree or disagree with the quote? How will your opinion translate into your classroom teaching?

Discuss an experience with student affairs or student affairs administration in your current educational role.

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EDD 641 Mod 3- Discussion: Student Affairs Administration

Discuss an experience with student affairs or student affairs administration in your current educational role. What surprised you? What did you learn?

Discuss your assessment, the strengths and areas of improvement, and the relevance to your current, or future, role as an educational leader.

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Student affairs administration can encompass a wide variety of organizations and services in college and universities.

However, there are key elements of student affairs that should be considered to ensure best practices.

Select one of the seven inventories outlined by the NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and apply it to a student affairs division or department at your campus.

Discuss your assessment, the strengths and areas of improvement, and the relevance to your current, or future, role as an educational leader. You can access the Principles of Good Practices for Student Affairs

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What are the key factors that motivate someone to learn a foreign language?

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What are the key factors that motivate someone to learn a foreign language?
To what extent can we, as teachers or language advisors improve levels of motivation in our students?

How will you engage families? How will you be inclusive of children with exceptionalities?

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Development of Family Engagement Plan

For your final assignment, you will need to synthesize all of your knowledge into creating a family engagement plan for your classroom. Imagine you have a reasonable budget (not unlimited) and willing school administrators.

How will you engage families? How will you be inclusive of children with exceptionalities? This project is meant to synthesize all of your learning in this class and put it to use in a practical way. Use your creativity.

You could design a website, newsletter, Smore, or some other means of engagement. You could plan a series of events. Given the creativity of the assignment, no rubric is attached.

Shows an understanding of children with exceptionalities.

Utilizes state and federal recommendations for family engagement.

Promotes inclusive practices and settings while presuming competence in all learners.

It provides information in an attractive way likely to engage families.

Describe the use of discussion in self-directed, transformative, problem-based, and experiential learning.

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Analysis

Compare and contrast adult learning theories and practices.

These include andragogy, self-directed, transformative, problem-based, and experiential learning.

Describe how you understand neuroplasticity as it relates to andragogy, self-directed, transformative, problem-based, and experiential learning.

Describe the use of discussion in self-directed, transformative, problem-based, and experiential learning.

Consider how discussion, as presented by Brookfield, functions within each of the adult learning theories.

Evaluate the use of adult learning theories and practices in varied adult learning environments.

Describe the advantages, disadvantages, and best practices of the adult learning instructional approaches listed.

Describe the formal, informal, and nonformal learning environments in which adult learning takes place.

Application

Apply the principles of experiential learning to change an adult learning activity.

Think of a course you are teaching. How could you incorporate experiential learning into one of the units? (Remember that problem-based learning is a specific form of experiential learning.)

Describe the unit and which part you would replace with an experiential learning activity, and then describe the experiential component and how you would envision it working. If you are not teaching, imagine a course that you have taken in the past.

Describe the effects you would expect the incorporation of experiential learning to have on neuroplastic development in your learners.

What is the impact of socio-cultural influences on teacher mentoring programs on new or student teachers?

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What is the impact of socio-cultural influences on teacher mentoring programs on new or student teachers?