Category: Education

(SEE TOPICS AND FULL INSTRUCTIONS ATTACHED) You will analyze and critique two peer-reviewed journal articles from varying professional journals this term. The articles must address one of the topics in the chart below that coincide with current issues and trends in education. You must select an article two years old or less. Your article critique must include the following: • A summary of the author’s position • An analysis of the author’s key points and the extent to which it is backed up; and • A personal response that addresses your agreement and/or disagreement with the author and why. Additionally, your personal response should link personal experiences to the article’s content which also includes a summary statement on the overall effectiveness of the article. Each journal article critique must be a minimum of 700 words. The assignments must reflect current APA format and include a title page and references page. You must provide a reference entry for the journal article for confirmation and instructor review.

Uploaded is what needs to be written about. Everything must be cited from the textbook (exceptional students: preparing teachers for the 21st century) along with the cited page. Please no plagiarism, I check. Need this done by 7pm today. So 4 hours from now.

Discussion Content INITIAL POST Spend time this week considering how you will develop a strong introduction and conclusion for your upcoming speech. In this discussion post, discuss why introductions and conclusions are so important to the overall success of your speech. Refer to information you have learned in the textbook and share examples of well-done speeches you have heard. Describe how you think you may start or end your own Informative Speech and why this strategy would be most effective in grabbing your audience’s attention and leaving them with a lasting impression. Be specific and draft a version of these components in your discussion thread. Consider different attention-grabbing techniques and request feedback. Use this opportunity to workshop with your classmates.

The purpose of this assignment is to synthesize and design a curricular unit. Think about something (it can be about any subject) you are familiar with and design a curricular unit that includes the following slides in a slide deck: Slide 1: Title Slide 2: Overview of the Curricular Unit Answer these questions: How is it useful? How is it unique? How is it urgent? (How does it address a current need?) How is it ultra-specific, yet a part of a bigger curricular infrastructure? Slide 3: Purpose of the Curricular Unit Who is the unit intended for (grade, age, etc)? Where does it fit into the established curricula? What state/federal education standards does this unit align to? Slide 4: Curricular Unit Learning Objectives Start with an action verb. Use the framework “Students will be able to…” (SWBAT) You should have at least 2. Slides 5-7: Strategies of Instruction (may take more than one slide) What are the ways you are going to present the information? What resources are you going to use? What are the activities the students will participate in? Individual versus collaborative Synchronous versus asynchronous Slides 8-9: How You Will Evaluate the Implementation and Instruction What are the student deliverables? What are the rubrics? Give examples of both the deliverables and rubrics. Slides 10-11: How You Will Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Curricular Unit How will you evaluate student success? How will you evaluate the success of the unit overall? Slides 12-13: Curricular Mapping Tables (create a table for each of the following) Show how the artifacts map to the unit objectives. Show how the deliverables map to the unit objectives. Slide 14: Reflection Talk about how the curricular design process has changed the way you understand the profession of teaching. Slide 15: References Provide APA references for all of the artifacts that will be used in the unit. Provide APA references for all in-text citations/quotations. Submission Instructions: Create a presentation with a minimum of 15 slides. The presentation is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling. The slides should be formatted per current APA, excluding the title and reference slides. Research and incorporate a minimum of 3 current academic resources within your work. Lecture materials may be used, but do not count toward the five sources that you are to research.

Each student will select a court case to report on. The following format will be used to describe the selected court case:
I. Citation
II. Topic
III. Issue
IV. Facts
V. Findings
VI. Reasoning

Each student will select a court case to report on. The following format will be used to describe the selected court case:
I. Citation
II. Topic
III. Issue
IV. Facts
V. Findings
VI. Reasoning

What are some significant comprehension challenges faced by struggling readers, and what can teachers do to help these students comprehend text?
Roe, Betty, Sandra Smith, and Nancy Kolodziej. Teaching Reading in Today’s Elementary
Schools. 12th ed., Cengage Learning, 2018.
Chapter 9: Comprehension Part I pp. 227-269
What role does the reader play in relation to comprehension?
What strategies can be used for pre-, during-, and post- reading activities?
Chapter 10: Comprehension Part II pp. 270-319
What skills constitute literal comprehension?
How does effective questioning contribute to comprehension?
For more information related to comprehension, you may want to review the following print and online resources:
“Before-During-After Reading Strategies.” Before-During-After Reading Strategies. Pennsylvania Department of Education, n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2014. .
Dymock, Sue, and Tom Nicholson. Teaching Text Structures: A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success. New York: Scholastic, 2007. Print.
Filkins, Scott. “Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas – ReadWriteThink.” Readwritethink.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2014. .
Harvey, Stephanie, and Anne Goudvis. Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse, 2007. Print.
Lewin, Larry. “Teaching Critical Reading with Questioning Strategies.” Educational Leadership. N.p., 2010. Web. 15 Nov. 2014. .
“Sequencing.” Sequencing. Teacher Vision, n.d. Web. .
Stuck, Arleen. “Setting a Purpose.” Ohio Resource Center Reading Strategies. AdLIT, n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2014. .

1. There are 3 components of fluency – accuracy, prosody, and reading rate. Explain one (1) way to simultaneously assess all 3 components of fluency. (You need to write 120 words reply to my classmates post please use basic english) 2. Explain one way that school children were affected by COVID. How were they affected, and what specifically can be done to help children (not adults) to recover cognitively, socially, or academically from the pandemic? (You need to write 120 words reply to my classmates post please use basic english)

There are many leaders that see the importance of happiness in the workplace and some organizations have leaders who actively attempt to boost their employee’s happiness. Google is one example of a “happiness friendly” organization where initiatives are facilitated by their Chief Happiness Officer. However, there are still some skeptics about the importance of happiness, even some organizational leaders.
In this scenario, you are a leadership consultant and based on your doctoral education, you know of the importance of happiness in the workplace. Unfortunately, the CEO of the organization you are currently working with doesn’t see the importance of happiness. You are to write her a letter to convince her of the importance of happiness in the workplace. In a letter to her, that may be no more than four pages double spaced, address the following:
Explain what happiness is, its components (including positive emotions), and how it works.
You must explain the broaden and build theory of positive emotions. Briefly describe the theory and how it works.
Explain the research and outcomes of happiness/positive emotions in general and specifically at work. This will overlap with the next prompt:
Give her reasons, backed up by research, why she should care about having happy employees.

Feel free to provide examples to illustrate points. You many incorporate any of the recommended readings or other research articles not included in Modules 6 or 7.
For this assignment, you should write the letter directly to the CEO (i.e., Dear Ms. CEO, …). Format this as a letter, however be sure to still include a cover page, reference page, in-text citations, and use double spaced 12 point font.

Part One: Lesson Plan
A. Using the “Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template,” create an original elementary-level (K–6) mathematics lesson plan that incorporates a hands-on mathematical tool or a virtual mathematical tool that students can use to enhance learning outcomes. Include the following:
• one state or national mathematics standard, including the alphanumeric indicator code and the written standard
• one measurable learning objective that aligns with the standard including:
• condition,
• behavior and
• measurable criterion

Part Two: Reflection
B. Explain how the hands-on or virtual mathematical tool from Part A will enhance student learning during the lesson.

C. Explain how your lesson plan incorporates each of the following components:
1. conceptual understanding
2. problem solving
3. procedural fluency

D. Explain how one instructional strategy in your lesson plan (e.g., collaborative learning, modeling, discovery learning) supports learning outcomes.

** Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.**