What prior knowledge did you call upon to make sense of the passage? To what extent did your knowledge of stories influence your understanding and reduce the uncertainty of the task?

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Instructions for assignment: U.S. WRITER REQUIRED (write as if you are a 44 year old male in this course that is striving to teach full time instead of substituting) Below is the assignment DIRECTLY from the professor and the grading rubric.  The course is CONTENT AREA LITERACY for teachers to learn the subject for K-12 students. If you have ANY questions please let me know. Thank you!
Assignment Name: Kingdom of Kay Oss Simulation

Focus: Decoding, Comprehension and Motivation

This assignment involves a simulation (reading an odd text…drawing upon decoding comprehension, and motivation), reflecting, and answering questions about the experience in writing, applying course concepts/content.

Part 1:

Read the Kingdom of Kay Oss (right below) and answer the prompts.

Read this first…BEFORE looking ahead to the key/translation at the bottom! This is important! Otherwise, the assignment steps will not be worthwhile!

The Kingdom of Kay Oss

Once in the land of Serenity there ruled a king called Kay Oss. The king wanted to be liked by all his people. So one day thx bxnxvolxnt dxspot dxcidxd that no onx in thx country would bx rxsposiblx for anything. Zll of thx workxrs rxstxd from thxir dzily lzbors. “blxss Kzy Oss,” thxy xxclzimxd.

Now thx lzw mzkxrs wxrx vxry wvsx. But zs wvsx zs thxy wxrx, thxy dxcvdxd thzt thx bxst form of govxrnmxnt wzs nonx zt zll.

Part 2:

Consider this quote:

“Reading is a strategic act, which is another way of saying that successful readers use cognitive and metacognitve strategy so they can understand, respond to and even question and challenge the author’s ideas.”

Think about a time when you have struggled with a text: it may have been when you were young or maybe even with a more challenging graduate reading assignment. Answer the following questions on your own to help prepare you to respond to the assignment questions to follow.

Create a list of strategies you employ when you run into roadblocks to comprehension
How do they compare to some of the strategies introduced in the course?
Reflect and comment on the use of such strategies in your ownreading.
Relate some of these to what was happening when you initially tried to read the Kingdom of Kay Oss.
Reading is more than the total sum of all of the words.

Part 3:

In a Word document, include the questions below and respond in APA style paragraphs.

What prior knowledge did you call upon to make sense of the passage?
To what extent did your knowledge of stories influence your understanding and reduce the uncertainty of the task?
How often did you rely on your knowledge of:
Letter-sound associations?
Spelling patterns?
Relationships of words to each other?
Contextual meaning?
Did you risk being wrong in your attempt to derive meaning? That is, did you use context clues to guess unfamiliar words or just skip them?
Did you maintain sufficient speed when reading the selection to overcome the limitations of visual processing and short-term memory?

Rubric:

Questions included; double-spaced Word document used; and responses written in current APA style. 15 points

Responses include reflective, analytical responses about the Kay Oss reading simulation to each of the 5 questions and sub-components. 30 points

Responses include connections to course content/concepts. 50 points

Assignment submitted on time 5 points

Total Points =100

Reading Key/Translation

The Kingdom of Kay Oss

Once in the land of Serenity there ruled a king called Kay Oss. The king wanted to be liked by all his people. So one day the benevolent despot decided that no one in the country would be responsible for anything. All of the workers rested from their daily labors. “Bless King Kay Oss,” they exclaimed.

Now the law makers were very wise. But as wise as they were, they decided that the best form of government was none at all.

Is CLIL too ambitious a pedagogy for UK primary schools

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Is CLIL too ambitious a pedagogy for UK primary schools

Evaluate the platform and overall design and use theory to support your evaluation

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Kindly be informed the instruction is attached in another file and there are some articles in the reference part of the essay template which are our course literature and must be used somehow in the essay.

My program`s name is Information Technology and Learning.

In this paper you will choose a relevant design and technological platform for a specific professional learning practice. You can choose between teaching, health/nursing/ engineering professional learning sectors, or a sector that you are familiar with based on your professional education and disciplinary background. The intention is to provide an evaluation in your report that relate a platform choice with a particular professional learning practice.

You will evaluate the platform and overall design and use theory to support your evaluation (based on theories from Beetham & Sharpe, or other relevant theory). In your evaluation, you will compare to other designs and technological platforms to support your justification. Considerations on the formal and informal character of the platform should be regarded (relating to Manuti et al, or Johnson). You will look for benefits, problems and other relevant ideas. In your report you will also evaluate the impact of digitalization on the professional learning practice within your sector (relating to Havnes & Smeby, Aroles et al, or Littlejohn & Margaryan), either based on reports from the sector (work-life, competence reports from governmental or trade union organizations and similar), or interviewing a professional within the sector.

Your report will include an introduction, conclusion and reference list. You can choose the sub-headings in your written paper. You will need to include relevant course literature in your report, as well as finding other relevant literature.

 

Critically explore how the discipline of social pedagogy can be drawn upon when supporting children in social care or in community settings

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Critically explore how the discipline of social pedagogy can be drawn upon when supporting children in social care or in community settings

What makes an effective subject lesson?

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You will be expected to demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate your own professional practice and for this to be synthesised with appropriate academic theory. In support of the assignment you may want to provide appendices containing lesson plans, evaluations, resources and other evidence of pupil learning. You should only include material in an appendix if you specifically refer to it in your writing.

Critically analyses the selected sequence of lessons with reference to the underpinning research and scholarship.

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Developing and Reflecting on Subject Knowledge and Subject Pedagogy

Writing your assignment

What makes an effective lesson?

In this assignment you will critically reflect on the factors that contribute to effective lessons in your subject. This should include reference to relevant literature concerning subject pedagogy and may include general theories of teaching and learning.

You will then analyse a sequence of about 3 lessons that you have planned and delivered or you may wish to focus in on one lesson in particular to illuminate your understanding of effective learning in your subject (this will depend on the delivery pattern for your particular subject). You will then go on to discuss the ways in which critical reflection has developed and improved your practice.

Word limit: 4500 words

This guidance is intended to help you to think about how you might plan and structure your work.  It is not a writing framework and should be seen as supportive not constraining.  The word numbers for each section are indicative only.  Please make sure that you read the assignment brief and take note of any specific guidance given by your subject tutor.

Introduction (250 words

Your introduction should:

  • present your initial thinking about what contributes to an effective lesson in your subject
  • establish the lines of thinking / focus that you intend to pursue in your review of literature

Literature review (1000 words)

Pass criteria (Level 7)

Selects and synthesises relevant ideas and themes from a range of literature, demonstrating breadth and depth of reading and indicating a developing awareness of how some of these ideas can be applied to teaching and learning in your subject.

In your literature review you will be developing and evidencing your lines of thinking by drawing on evidence from the different genres of literature. You are likely to include aspects of:

  • the philosophy of your subject and the way in which it contributes to wider knowledge and learning and how students might understand its relevance to their lives and wider application,
  • the pedagogy of your subject – how learning is thought about and approached through teaching and assessment and the impact this might have on different groups of students
  • the practicalities of teaching your subject.

You may be drawing on subject specific literature, or applying a more generic literature to particular features of your subject.

You will find it helpful to plan each line of thinking before you start to undertake your writing.  Make sure that you have a logical sequence of points that you wish to make and that you have gathered the evidence to support your argument around each point.

Helpful questions to ask:

What is already known about this aspect of practice?

What is the quality (carefully researched or argued and peer reviewed- an individual’s opinion) and source (policy, journal, practice, newspaper article) of that knowledge?

Are there areas of disagreement or uncertainty?

How does this relate to your experience or understanding?

Drawing conclusions from your review of literature (500-750 words approx.)

Pass criteria (Level 7)

Uses the literature to critically evaluate the key features of an effective lesson in specialist subject

This is where you bring together your findings from your literature and explain how you have used this to help you to plan your own lessons.

Helpful questions to ask:

  • Which factors are important to an effective lesson in my subject from each line of thinking?
  • What are the features of these that  need to be paying attention to in my planning and practice?
  • What will these factors actually ‘look like’ in a lesson?
  • How have I used my reading to plan some lessons?

Your lesson analysis (1000- 1250 words)

Pass criteria (Level 7)

Critically analyses the selected sequence of lessons with reference to the underpinning research and scholarship. Demonstrates the ability to reflect on and critically evaluate strengths and improvement targets to develop effectiveness of classroom practice in relation to pupil progress.

Ethics

It is important that you do not identify at any point in your assignment, the school, school trust/alliance/local authority or any staff or pupils by name either directly or indirectly. Although you are asked to consider pupil progress with reference to different groups of pupils there is no requirement to collect or refer to any pupil data in this assignment. You should deal with the protection of pupil data in accordance with your placement school policy. This protects you, because it enables you to comment freely on your practice and any issues arising professionally without risk of repercussions.  It keeps you within the GDPR rules by preserving the anonymity of others and ensuring that you follow school guidance.

The suggestion for this section is that you analyse a short series of lessons with a particular focus on one lesson from the series or analyse a single lesson in depth.  The important sources of information are your lesson reviews and any observations from your host teacher or mentor

The danger in this section is that you write a description rather than analysing your practice so:

  1. make use of reflective writing here – N.B Jenny Moon’s  (2004) examples which can be found on Blackboard, reflective questions ( Angelides 2001)  or models  such as single and double loop learning (Argyris and Schön 1978)
  2. you could place the extracts from reflective writing/ observations of your practice that you wish to comment on in a text box to indicate that this is some data.
  3. then go on to draw upon the findings from your literature review (your framework) to analyse your practice in more depth.

Implications for your professional learning (500-750 words)

Pass criteria (Level 7)

Well-chosen evidence drawn from personal and critical reflection on pupil learning, progress and attainment is synthesised to provide a sound rational for development in relation to professional practice.

This section is your opportunity to demonstrate how you feel that your professional learning and your developing understanding of effective classroom practice has moved forwards since undertaking this work.  In this section you can discuss:

  • the analysis of sequence of lessons relating this back to your initial thinking regarding an effective lesson to demonstrate what you have learnt.
  • how ideas from the literature translate into practice, and the extent to which issues raised regarding learning and teaching in your subject were reflected in your own experiences.
  • What was successful, what will need to be adapted and refined, what your key targets for the future are.

References

Please check that you have referenced everything that you have cited, and that all you references are complete. We use the APA system at SHU. The Library Gateway has a number of resources to support you with formatting your citations and reference list. Please use them.

Appendices

Try to keep these to a minimum. Only use them where necessary either as additional evidence of work that you have done (e.g. scans of your lesson plans) or documents that are not easily accessible in the public domain (e.g. a local policy document). Please check that the documents in appendices do not identify your school, locality or any individuals. Only put something in an appendix if you are going to refer to it in your writing.

 

How would your teaching style imitate or differ from your cooperating teacher?

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Develop a Classroom Observation Paper as if you’re a U.S. 10th grade U.S. History 44 year old male student teacher. You will need to write as if you visit/observe with your cooperating teacher for a minimum of ten hours. The teacher’s name is Mrs. Alexis Smith and teaches 10th grade U.S. History in the U.S. The time you’re observing the studies are over The U.S. entering and fighting in WWII. There are 32 students. Write/act as if during this time you observe how the teacher interacts with the students and classroom. Take notes and record examples that outline her particular teaching style to use in the assignment paper. She used DIRECT INSTRUCTION(Reference: ), ADVANCED ORGANIZERS MODEL(References: uploaded text and COOPERATIVE TEACHING MODEL(Reference: )Think about the different philosophies of teaching that are UPLOADED/INCLUDED, from your mind pretend you’ve observed and write about how the supervising teacher/Mrs. Alexis Smith using all the included/uploaded teaching models for the class/topic.Take the approach that Mrs. Alexis Smith likes to teach more with the DIRECT TEACHING MODEL. Do you see it influencing their ability to teach the students? Take note of any cues that helped you make your decision. Around hour seven (7), imagine to have a talk with your teacher but write as if you were really there and hear how they see their philosophy and how it relates to their practice.
Submit the paper that looks at both your original observations and how they compared or contrasted with those that the teacher saw as their philosophy. Were you correct in your original observation? Now compare and contrast it to your philosophy of education. How would your teaching style imitate or differ from your cooperating teacher?
Below are more items for reference and more text will be uploaded and I’ll upload a previous observation paper as a guide that give structural ideas but the assignment requires emphasis about the teaching models be used and their effectiveness:

Using FOUR constructs of constructivist educational theory, describe how you might incorporate some constructivist-based techniques into the traditional methods that are currently utilized in the teaching of Anatomy and Physiology Biology Courses at the community\junior college level.

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Even though the behaviorist theory of learning works well enough for animals, cognitive scientists now subscribe to the constructivist theory as the most effective foundation for building a learning environment. Using FOUR constructs of constructivist educational theory, describe how you might incorporate some constructivist-based techniques into the traditional methods that are currently utilized in the teaching of Anatomy and Physiology Biology Courses at the community\junior college level. Give the names of the researchers associated with each construct. Don’t forget to discuss assessments used for each construct.

How do the theories explain the learning taking place?

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Question : You will pick one question from assessment task 2 to focus on (assessment 2 attached)

Rationale: You will use the Pedagogy of Listening to write a summary of the observations of ordinary moments

Interpretation/Analysis : You will use 3 or more child development theories (I have chosen Piaget-developmental theory, Reggio Emilia-Socio cultural theory and Skinner-Socio behaviourist theory to interpret and analysis your rationale and the
artefacts (pictures are in assessment 2). What learning is taking place here? How do the theories explain the learning taking place?
Plan (Provocation) – In this section you will react/ review the document and think about what other learning is possible? How
will you provoke the students in the group, across the class? Using the documentation panel, in particular, the question you pose
at the start of your panel, the rationale using the Pedagogy of Listening and your understanding of it using theories (in this order),
you will describe what happens next. This is not a list of”activities” — rather it is “provocation” of wonder and pondering and
should honour the complexity of teaching and learning.

Analyse the relationships and boundaries between the teaching role and other professional roles

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The student should submit a short essay analysing their own role and responsibilities in education and training. (400 words minimum) Please discuss your own roles and responsibilities within education and training – think about the pastoral role, planning, assessment, creation of resources, ensuring a safe learning environment etc.