Category: Education

Topic:
task aims to develop:
- writing skills (organizing ideas within paragraphs, clarity and accuracy of sentences)

- philosophical knowledge in Early Childhood

- an ability to incorporate a socio cultural perspective into the Early Learning Environment

- an ability to identify, scaffold and support emerging development

- an ability to link children’s learning to theoretical knowledge

A philosophy interprets our values and beliefs and is reflected in our practices. It demonstrates how we think about children and ourselves as educators and reflects our theoretical knowledge.
You are required to document your personal philosophy for children specific to the 0-3 age group using the following topics as headings:
- Children
- The programme
- Parents and family members
- Role of the educator

Each topic should include an explanation/justification for each of your beliefs and a statement about how each belief will transpose into practice and linked to theorists where appropriate.

The statement of philosophy should be 1200 words

Part 1
The case study simulates a teacher’s experience of working with diverse gifted students in a regular classroom. It is written as a sequence of events and information over a period of time to simulate the way a teacher is acquainted with their class and gradually finds out about their students over time and with thoughtful purpose.
You, as the teacher Mrs Lipman, in collaboration with your topic colleagues, will consider the questions arising in the case notes and discuss your responses. This will document your ideas about the students and the teacher’s response. There are opportunities here for you to read the literature about the issues raised to help inform your ideas and responses.

PART 2
Readings review & critical reflection (approximately 1500 words)
There will be a discussion thread on for each student. (willSign up to research one student) and use the thread for that student to discuss, share research findings and critically reflect on the behaviours, needs and provisions for this student.
There are 3 aspects to this assignment
• Discussing your student, their needs and possible provisions with your collaborators in a Internet discussion forum. There will be a sign-up sheet on Internet for you to select one of the 8 gifted students in the case study for further investigation. You and a partner will take on the role of Mrs Lipman, and discuss on Internet that student’s characteristics, behaviours and consider their learning needs.
• Completing a review of 2 readings that explore the theories and implications for teaching that relate to your student’s specific needs. Use the 3 column critical reflection format and post this on Internet Each person who is researching a particular student will read 2 (different) papers that help to inform knowledge about the issue, student needs and appropriate provisions. The review will be posted to the discussion forum for their student (approximately 500 words, NGP).
• Writing an individual critical reflection to submit on internet (approx. 1000 words) Using all the information from the case notes, the discussions, and the literature review, critically reflect on what you have learned. Your critical reflection will address the following questions:
* What is this student’s affective issue of most concern and how is it defined or explained in the literature and evidenced in the case study?
* Why might this student experience difficulties at school and in general?
* How might you (as Mrs Lipman) address this student’s needs within the regular classroom?
In conclusion, you may wish to reflect on what this PBL assignment has taught you about yourself, your beliefs and your approach to teaching.

Explanation of the 3 column approach to reviewing the readings:
Eliciting important ideas and impressions from reading the literature involves more than simply summarising what was written (particularly at Postgraduate level). Much of our knowledge is acquired through reading, so it is important to get the most out of the readings as possible by focusing on a range of different questions.
By writing these ideas in this way,
– you are more likely to learn and remember the content of what you have read
– you will build a useful ‘library’ of reference notes that you may well come back to in other contexts
– your reactions to what you are reading are captured in the moment
– the process will provide useful insights when it comes to writing your assignments
You may need to read the article a few times – once for meaning and general impressions and secondly for deeper interpretation of ideas, meaning, perspective…

|Use the knowledge from text book chapters (the human Development), propose a development trajectory that explains how poverty is a risk factor for (a) academic failure OR (b) juvenile delinquency OR (c) health outcomes in adult hood. Propose how and what protective factors and/or intervention may impact the development trajectory, in one of these three areas, of an individual lining in Connecticut.
APA STYLE DOUBLE SPACED, 12 POINT FONT

Paper needs to include cover page and a reference page (these are no included in the 4-5 pages) there should be a reference on the page for each textbook and each of the peer reviewed journals used as well as one external source. Intext citations must include the primary source, secondary source (book authors), year and the chapter.
I have to use information from 3 chapters in my text book
I have to include information from at least two other scholary sources, must be in addition to to content from at least 3 chapters in text

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no more than 1200 (+ or – 10%) words write an essay to discuss the following topic.
Early learning within the Humanities area lends itself to inquiry based learning strategies within a constructivist learning environment.

Examine and evaluate this pedagogical approach and the inquiry based learning approach and develop a balanced argument for how and why it can help young children explore their world through the social sciences

Instructions:
This checklist is designed to help students organize the weekly exercises/assignments to be completed as preparation for the final, capstone project proposal. This checklist will also serve as a communication tool between students and faculty. Comments, feedback and grading for modules 1-4 will be documented using this checklist.
Topic Task Completed Comments/Feedback Points
Identifying a
Problem
• Explains setting and/or context in which nursing problem is observed. _____ / 10
• Detailed description of problem, issue, or educational deficit provided. _____ / 10
• Impact of problem on work environment and patient outcomes described.
_____ / 5
• Significance to nursing profession discussed. _____ / 5
• Solution to the problem identified. _____ / 10
Total _____ / 40
Developing a Question • Identified components of PICOT:
P – Population of Focus
I – Intervention
C – Comparison
O – Outcome
T-Time _____ / 30
• Developed PICO question/statement. _____ / 10
• Total _____ / 40
Selecting Sources of Literature • Rapid Appraisal Performed (see below) on a minimum of 15 peer-reviewed articles. _____ / 100
• Total _____ / 100

Rapid Appraisal
Perform a rapid appraisal of each article by answering the following questions (one to two sentences are sufficient to answer each question):
1) How does each article describe the nature of the problem, issue, or deficit you have identified?
2) Does each article provide statistical information to demonstrate the gravity of the issue, problem, or deficit?
3) Example(s): morbidity, mortality, rate of incidence or rate of occurrence in the general population.
4) Does each article support your proposed change?

this week’s “Content: Connecting Data, Professional Learning, and Student Achievement” required reading, educators need to design professional learning based on identified needs and according to their own content, context, and process. In this assignment, you will practice the thinking involved when designing professional learning that addresses these components and begins with the end (student learning) in mind.

Consider an area of student learning that you know is in need of improvement at your study school. Then, describe student and educator learning needs (the content of learning) as follows:

What do students need to know and be able to do in the area you identified in terms of KASAB (Knowledge, Attitude, Skills, Aspiration, Behavior)?
In order for students to achieve and grow in this area, what do educators need to know and be able to do in terms of KASAB?
What do leaders of professional development need to do to support student and educator efforts?
Based on the Learning Resources this week, what types of professional learning strategies (process) might fit this content and the context at your study school?

Submit a summary of your initial ideas for professional learning in terms of content (KASAB for students and teachers) and specific process and context considerations at your study school related to the content

the process of strategy mapping and how it relates to performance management and establishing value propositions.

Assignment Expectations

Your essay should be 4 to 5 pages long and include the following:

Introduction: In this part of your essay you will need to introduce your topic and provide a very brief overview of the key points you plan to make in your paper.

Analysis: In this section you will present the actual comparison and contrast between BAA’s approach to the Balanced Scorecard and more traditional approaches.

Conclusion: Wrap up your argument with a clear and cogent synopsis of your findings. Do your best to convince your reader as to your position.
Additional Instructions: Your essay should be 3 to 4 pages in length (not counting your title page or references). You must include a list of references. APA formatting is preferred. Do not paste in sections of text into your essay. All of your work must be written in your own words. It’s OK to use a short quote now and again, but quotations must be in quotation marks and properly cited. In-text citations should be used anytime you are borrowing somebody else’s ideas, or information.

Assignment 2:
this assignment, your task is to observe and participate in the normal practice in an early childhood centre. With educators linking their practice to the EYLDF (Early Years Learning and Development Framework) and EYLF ( Early Years Learning Framework), you are to look for how they have incorporated this into practice, how they are ‘intentionally’ teaching science.

Across several weeks, select two examples of children exhibiting new learning through play. This learning must be related to science or environmental awareness.

Specifications:

This play can be with or without an adult present.

Select 2 illustrations which are quite different in the nature of the learning that occurs. It is preferable that both activities observed are different, however, if this is not possible, you may include one which has similarities. Eg while we would hope that you observe something related to physical science or chemistry or biological science, you may only observe two biological science activities.

Report

Format – please use sub-headings.

Introduction – Provide a paragraph on play theory – how children learn science through play (375 – 450 words). This should engage with contemporary literature and debates about learning science through play.

Two illustrations.- Prepare a 800-1000 word piece about each ‘illustration’ which describes the type of science learning- through-play which you have observed.

Describe what the children are doing, who are involved (other children, parents, educators), and what they are saying and what others are saying to them. This forms your data.

Analyse and discuss these data to identify children’s learning.

As you are looking at the intentional teaching of the pre-school educator, you need to discuss what promoted those learning opportunities:

children as peer tutors

what the educator has done to either set the experience up for the children,

enhanced the play experience through scaffolding (questioning, focussing or challenging)

extended the experience through teacher-led activities.

How did the tasks and resources affect children’s learning? How are tasks, resources and learning related to each other?

Conclusion (500-600 words)

Discuss how your two examples are linked to the science in the early years learning framework and the importance of intentional teaching for promoting science learning. Refer to broader educational research literature.
Assessment criteria.

Report

Assessment Criteria

Marks/100

Introduction

Play theory

15

Illustrations

One &Two

(35 marks each report)

Contextual description: what the children are doing, who are involved (other children, parents, educators), what they are saying, what others are saying to them.

10

15

Evidence of children’s learning – your recorded notes, taken at the time, of what it was you observed which indicated learning on the part of the child(ren)

Analysis and discussion of these data to identify children’s learning.

, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders in the DSM-5
Choose any disruptive, impulse control or conduct disorder covered in the assigned readings in this unit. Find and review several journal articles and textbook to inform your discussion. Your forum should include your understanding of diagnosis, assessment(s) used to diagnose the disorder selected, and school-based interventions you would use as a school counselor.

, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders
Choose any disruptive, impulse control or conduct disorder covered in the assigned readings in this unit. Find and review several journal articles and textbook to inform your discussion. Your forum should include your understanding of diagnosis, assessment(s) used to diagnose the disorder selected, and school-based interventions you would use as a school counselor.