Provide a brief description of two court cases about parental rights and students educational rights such as FERPA, IDEA, or rights of students in public charter schools or private schools.

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Special Education Law

NEW YORK:
1)Brief history of special education before the 1970’s and from the 1970’s to present day referencing appropriate judicial decisions.
2)Brief description of two court cases about parental rights and students educational rights such as FERPA, IDEA, or rights of students in public charter schools or private schools.
3)At least 3-4 recommended resources including at least one from the state in which you will teach to stay up-to-date with current legal trends in special education

Write an essay on the challenges of identifying learning disabilities in students that are English language learners.

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Challenges of Identifying Learning Disabilities in Students that are English Language Learners

Write an essay on the challenges of identifying learning disabilities in students that are English language learners.

Are the NAEP expectations sensible starting points for describing reading proficiency? What, if anything, might be more sensible? What do you think of the challenges NAEP expectations present readers? What other challenges do they present? Are these challenges reasonable?

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Writing Assignment 6

Prompt: Recall the implications from this week’s focus chapter on NAEP reading proficiency. Are the NAEP expectations sensible starting points for describing reading proficiency? What, if anything, might be more sensible? What do you think of the challenges NAEP expectations present readers? What other challenges do they present? Are these challenges reasonable? And how far beyond NAEP-type expectations should instruction go? How can educators help improve reading proficiency?

Requirements: This paper should be 250-500 words in the main body and contain in-text citations (you can use the textbook as a source), correctly formatted in APA. Adhere to Belhaven’s APA- compliant formatting, including a title and reference page.

Describe three research-based, developmentally appropriate instructional strategies that can be used to help motivate students and increase engagement in the classroom. Explain how teacher effectiveness affects student motivation.

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Motivation Essay

In 500-750 words, write an essay addressing the following:

Outline how student motivation can enhance performance with specific examples of theories and principles that promote motivation.
Specify how intrinsic and extrinsic motivations differ, including one specific example of each.
Define factors that affect motivation (such as contextual factors, and self-efficacy), including at least two specific examples.
Describe three research-based, developmentally appropriate instructional strategies that can be used to help motivate students and increase engagement in the classroom.
Explain how teacher effectiveness affects student motivation. Specific classroom related examples are required.

Describe at least two effective instructional practices based on the Science of Reading. Provide ideas for one short-term and one long-term literacy goal for each student. Create at least one follow-up question you could ask the teacher while providing advice.

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Supporting Colleagues with At-Risk and Struggling Readers

Imagine you are part of a K-3 PLC team and your colleagues come to you seeking instructional advice. Some of your colleagues are asking for your input on how to support students’ struggling with specific literacy skills. Write a 150-250 word response to each scenario that includes the following information:

  • Describe at least two effective instructional practices based on the Science of Reading.
  • Provide ideas for one short-term and one long-term literacy goal for each student.
  • Create at least one follow-up question you could ask the teacher while providing advice.
  • Identify any other professionals the teacher could collaborate with in the school or community to support the students who are struggling with reading.

Scenario 1: One of the second grade teachers has a student who has been receiving small group instruction in phonics. When progress was monitored last week, the student’s accuracy score dropped 7 points. In reviewing the errors, the teachers noticed he is missing vowel teams, which has been the focus of the small group instruction. What additional ideas and strategies can you provide the teacher to support this individual student?

Scenario 2: As the end of the year approaches, one of the kindergarten teachers has a small group of students that has not mastered the skill of recognizing rhyming words. The students can produce word families, but when given two words they are not able to recognize if they rhyme or not. What strategies can you provide the teacher to help this small group of students master the skill?

Scenario 3: A third grade teacher has a student who is a fast and accurate reader. She can answer multiple choice questions but cannot retell them on her own. When asked to retell, she stares at the teacher with a blank face. How can the teacher support her in further developing her comprehension skills?

Scenario 4: A first grade teacher has a student who has been identified as having dyslexia. She reads very slowly, often making many mistakes. How can the teacher support her in further developing her fluency?

Clarify the underlying principles and the values you can trace in your leadership. Explain how well your teaching corresponds with your own visions. What ethical dilemmas can arise?

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Practical professional theory

You must formulate a text that describes your practical professional theory with references to relevant literature and the current curriculum. Here you demonstrate knowledge of the connection between proven experience and scientific basis, as well as your didactic perspectives and practical approach.
The purpose is to raise awareness and be able to communicate one’s practical occupational theory. It is about making visible professional competence, both experience-based and theoretically anchored.
You start from at least one area that is particularly important to you.

The practical professional theory contains three dimensions:
1. Practical dimension: Here, you must write about how and with what you work/will work as teacher. What do you do in the day-to-day business? Give examples.
Think about how you usually do when you plan and carry out teaching. Describe, e.g., how you organize teaching

2. Theoretical dimension: Here, you must write about research and experiences to explain why you want to do as you do in your practice. Describe research and experiences that help you anchor what you choose/chosen to work with or working methods that you choose/choose to use. What does it say in the literature, policy documents, etc., about what you do? Give examples. (NOTE: references – not citations)
– You can say that this is an analysis of and reflection on what you do. Here you can take support in the literature that you have come into contact with to clarify the underlying issues of the principles/theories in your teaching.

3. Ethical dimension: What view of learning, people, knowledge, and society do you have, and how should you want to construct your teaching – a vision of what you want to achieve as a teacher, and it should be one explanation for why you do what you do in your practice. What does your ethical approach look like? Give an example. Does it agree with the curriculum and other governing documents? (NOTE: references – not citations).

– Clarify the underlying principles and the values you can trace in your leadership.
– Explain how well your teaching corresponds with your own visions.
– What ethical dilemmas can arise?

James, an African American student, is very successful in your class and has been on the honor roll for the past three quarters. His family is concerned with his abilities to socialize with peers of various cultural backgrounds. How can you support the families in your classroom in embracing cultural identity’s role in a student’s personal and social development?

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 Personal and Social Development Scenarios

*Review the original assignment directions and rubric prior to submission.

* 50-100 words per entire scenario response.

* A minimum of one scholarly resource per rationale for support is required for full credit.

Scenario 1
In an upcoming lesson in third grade, you will be addressing state standards related to listening and speaking (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). How would you encourage parents/guardians to support this standard outside of the classroom?
Instructional Strategies for the Classroom  

 

 
Collaboration Strategies

 

  

 
Method of Communication

 

  

 
Rationale for the Method of Communication (Research support is required.)  

 

Scenario 2
James, an African American student, is very successful in your class and has been on the honor roll for the past three quarters. His family is concerned with his abilities to socialize with peers of various cultural backgrounds. How can you support the families in your classroom in embracing cultural identity’s role in a student’s personal and social development?
Instructional Strategies for the Classroom  

 

 
Collaboration Strategies

 

  

 
Method of Communication

 

  

 
Rationale for the Method of Communication (Research support is required.)  

 

Scenario 3
Recently, a concerned parent brings to your attention that a poll was taken on social media, and students in your class nominated Jenna as the “biggest loser.” How can you best communicate your school’s policy on cyberbullying, your plan to address the concern at school, and how parents can address it in the home?
Instructional Strategies for the Classroom  

 

 
Collaboration Strategies

 

  

 
Method of Communication

 

  

 
Rationale for the Method of Communication (Research support is required.)  

 

Scenario 4
For the past few weeks, you have noticed that several cliques have developed in your classroom and there are many students being left out of social activities in and out of the classroom. There are beginning to be tensions rising between two of the cliques. How can you encourage inclusion, and explain to parents how they can support you from home?
Instructional Strategies for the Classroom  

 

 
Collaboration Strategies

 

  

 
Method of Communication

 

  

 
Rationale for the Method of Communication (Research support is required.)  

 

Scenario 5
At the beginning of the school year, you notice that several of your sixth graders are wearing the same brand of Nike shoes. A few days later, you overhear a few of these students mocking another student for not having these same shoes. The next week, the student being teased comes to school in the Nike shoes. How can you address peer pressure within your classroom and encourage parents to support the concept from home?
Instructional Strategies for the Classroom  

 

 
Collaboration Strategies

 

  

 
Method of Communication

 

  

 
Rationale for the Method of Communication (Research support is required.)  

References

Describe the characteristics of various disabilities and their educational implications for students at your school. Explain the effects disabilities can have on students’ academic and social development, attitudes, interests, and values.

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Field Experience B: Student Differences and Individual Learning Needs

In the interview, address the following.

Discuss the similarities and differences among students with and without disabilities.
Describe the characteristics of various disabilities and their educational implications for students at your school.
Explain the effects disabilities can have on students’ academic and social development, attitudes, interests, and values.
Describe how factors such as cultural diversity and human issues affect students with disabilities.
Explain how you address the unique learning needs of students with disabilities in the classroom, including those students with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Explain strategies you use when collaborating and co-teaching with general education teachers. Include discussion of why it is important to avoid becoming a silo, behavior enforcer, or aid in the classroom rather than a co-teacher.
Describe how you use various types of technology to support students with disabilities in both the special education and regular education classroom.
Describe the legal responsibilities you have to protect the rights and privacy of students with disabilities. Include discussion of IDEA, procedural safeguards, FERPA, HIPAA, etc. Include examples of some dilemmas associated with upholding these standards.
Discuss how you collaborate with general education teachers to communicate, create, and store student documentation.
Describe one or two of your favorite co-teaching strategies.

In 250-500 words, reflect on what you learned from the interview and discuss the following:

1)Describe the unique needs of students with disabilities and the effects disabilities can have not just on students’ academic progress, but also on their social development, attitudes, interests, and values. Include discussion of additional factors related to culturally and linguistically diverse students.
2)Explain why it is critical for special education teachers and general education teachers to communicate, collaborate, and co-teach to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Include explanations why this is important not just for teaching students, but also in documenting and communicating information related to progress and meeting IEP goals.
3)Summarize why it is important to properly execute the IEP process and maintain confidentiality for students with disabilities. Include discussion of the challenges and dilemmas that can result when collaborating with general education teachers to ensure compliance in these areas.
4)Summarize what you learned from the interview and discuss how it can be applied in your future professional practice.

Provide an evaluation and analysis of your pedagogical planning and the implementation of your lesson.

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Pedagogical planning

Provide an evaluation and analysis of your pedagogical planning and the implementation of your lesson.

Write a three-page paper reporting on the results of your interviews including your own perspective following the interviews.

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Assignment 3: Field Research – A Parent’s Perspective vs A Teacher’s Perspective

Throughout your textbook, there are perspective inserts related to different topics that showcase how parents and teachers are viewing particular family engagement issues and/or barriers. (See pp. 7,10, 12, 15, 17, 32, 35, 44, 47, 48, 54, 52, 64, 82, 84, 92, 94, and 98)
Read through these to get a feel of the many issues and barriers facing early childhood educators in the realm of family engagement.

1. Spend about 30 to 60 minutes interviewing a parent from a family other than the traditional nuclear family. Ask about specific challenges and/or positive experiences they face when trying to participate in family engagement activities at their child’s preschool or childcare center.

2. Spend about 30 to 60 minutes interviewing a teacher at a preschool or childcare program. This person doesn’t have to work at the center where the above parent sends his/her children to school, but the type questions and focus of the interview should be the same topic which is what are the challenges and/or positive experiences do parents face when trying to participate in family engagement activities at their child’s preschool or childcare center.
1. Write a three-page paper reporting on the results of your interviews including your own perspective following the interviews. Include the following:

a. Cover page

b. Page one – Interview with a parent

c. Page two – interview with a teacher

d. Page three – self-interview

e. Reference page

e. Format your write-up for each interview with the categories modeled in the textbook: Description (background of person being interviewed, date, time, place of interview, and occupation); Challenges (what challenges does the interviewee identify as being barriers to family engagement); Strategies (what strategies does the interviewee identify that they used to address the challenges); and Results (what outcomes does the interviewee report).

f. Format your self-interview with the model as above. But, you must be more reflective and report how you now view the topic (challenges, strategies, results) now that you’ve interviewed the topic from two perspectives.

g. Include a reference page that includes your textbook and one additional source.

h. Write your paper using a basic APA 7th edition format. (cover page, two pages for the body, reference page, double space, 12 point font, Times New Roman, 1 in margins on all sides)