Education
Focus paper
DescriptionI will give access to the book and all other information regarding this paper1.You must choose from one of these two options for topic1.Choose a particular historical perspective, event or theorists that impacted the development of special education and research this perspective in more depth.OrChoose a particular piece of legislation discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. Research this legislation and its impact on special education in more depth.a.Explain/describe how this perspective, event, theory or legislation applies to special education specifically?b.What age group and/or disability does this perspective, event, theory or legislation most apply to?c.Explain/describe how you believe the aspects of this perspective, event, theory or legislation might affect your own (or future)classroom teaching, planning and assistance of special needs children?d.You should have a bold font heading for this section2.The issues of integration, inclusion, multicultural or bilingual aspects of special education.Choose one of these four issues in special education covered in chapters 3 through 5 and research it in more depth.a.Describe how your chosen issue became an important consideration with regard to special education service delivery and explain how you believe it impacts special education services?b.Explain what you have found, through your research, some of the benefits and difficulties of your chosen issue with regard to meeting the needs of special needs children?c.Explain how you believe this issue would affect your own (or future)classroom teaching, planning and assistance of special needs children?d.You should have a bold font heading for this section.3.Choose an issue or factor that influences parents and families of special needs children as discussed in Chapter 6 and research this issue in more depth.a.How does this issue influence parents and families with special needs children? Describe how your issue/factor pertains to parents, siblings or extended family members?b.Describe and provide information, from your research, about services that are currently in place to assist parents and families with this issue?c.Describe specific ways you, as a teacher, (would) effectively assist parents and families with this issue?d.Explain how helping the parents or family deal with this issue would be done by the general education teacher, special education teacher or how these two professionals should work together?Explain your answer.e.You should have a bold font heading for this section
Special Education Program
7001-7 Assignment: Prepare an Initial Evaluation of a ProgramInstructionsFor this assignment, evaluate a special education program in a school system where you are employed, reside, or have access. Some of the initial preparation has already been completed in the previous lessons. Organize and write a program evaluation. You can use the information from other lessons in this course as well as any experiences you have had in this or any other educational setting. Use pseudonyms for any specific students, school personnel, schools, and school district in the report. (If necessary, this project can be accomplished via website analysis and electronic communication with district personnel, without on-site contact.)Be sure to include the following information in your special education program evaluation:Demographic information (number of schools, programs, students, disability categories)Personnel information (number of special education teachers, paraeducators)What specific special education programs are provided in the district? (Include early childhood intervention and gifted/talented programs when responding to this question.)How informal and formal assessment of students is carried out, by whom, and when.How informal and formal teacher observations/evaluations are conducted and how often.How are the special education programs reviewed, internally and externally, by whom, when?Results and analysis: What are the overall programs areas of strength and areas in need of improvement?Action Plan: What would you suggest to fine-tune or improve the overall program?Reflection: What have you learned as a result of evaluating a district-wide special education program?Length: 6 pages not including title and reference pages References: Minimum of 10 scholarly resources. Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards.
The Federal Reserve System
he Federal Reserve System (the Fed) has the authority given to it in 1913 to print and maintain the US dollar, monitor and regulate commercial banks, and act as the bank for the United States government. Should the Fed be independent of the executive branch of the government? Or should it be like other departments of the government like the Department of State with its secretary appointed by the president? Please post your point of view in a coherent way summarizing the pros and cons and your personal view on the subject.To get the full credit, your discussion should be of proper length, 2-3 short paragraphs totaling at least 150 words and make a comment on at least one classmate’s post. You must post your discussion before you can see others’. Please post your discussion by Wednesday 11:59 pm so your friends have time to read and make comments by Friday, 11:58 pm.I will start grading after the due date and time.
The Power of Wardrobe
Review the rough draft you submitted in Week 3, the Self-Assessment Worksheet and revision notes you completed in Week 4, and any feedback from your instructor. Use these documents to guide the edits you make as you finalize your paper.Review The Power of Wardrobe on pp. 335346 of Research Matters as an example of expectations. You may also review the Sample Paper as another example.Complete the edits for your paper using the Final Paper Checklist to ensure youve addressed all the requirements of the assignment. Your final paper should be between 500 and 750 words and should be formatted using the APA template appropriate for this course.Prior to submitting your final paper, use the SafeAssign Originality Report to review your work for errors or concerns about incorporating evidence, and then make corrections as needed. Visit Checking for Plagiarism to view instructions on using SafeAssign.Ensure the paper reflects your best effort at a clean copy in terms of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Writing Excellence
Refer to your in-progress persuasive essay draft. You may find it helpful to make revision notes on your draft as you work on this assignment.Complete the Self-Assessment Worksheet with full-sentence responses.Use your completed worksheet and any notes you made as you revise your draft for the final paper due at the end of Week 5.Submit your worksheet.Self-Assessment Worksheet1. What strategies did you use to appeal to your audience? How effective do you feel you have been in convincing the readers to agree with your position? Mark any passages that need improvement or additional support. Pay attention to areas where your instructor has provided feedback.2. What part of this paper are you the proudest of? Include a quotation and/or description from your essay as an example. Explain why you think this part is effective. How might you amplify strengths like this in the final paper? Make a note to yourself within your draft to remind you where you want to expand on the strengths youve mentioned.3. Review your thesis statement in the introduction and any comments from your instructor and include it here on the worksheet. Is your thesis statement a complete sentence that reflects the main argument and does it contain 3 supporting reasons? If not, what changes will you make to revise it? (Review the readings related to writing and refining your thesis in the Week 1 learning activities if you need additional support.)4. How, specifically, did you get the readers attention in the introduction? What style or approach did you use, and what did you hope to achieve by using it? If this part of your paper needs improvement, what strategy might you try instead? Why might this be a stronger strategy? Apply that change to the final paper.5. Examine the research you collected and used for support. In your rough draft, underline or highlight all the places where you have used evidence within the paper. Is each body paragraph supported by at least one piece of evidence, and is it compelling? Does the research come from multiple sources, of which at least one is peer-reviewed? Make a note to yourself about places within each paragraph where you will want to revise the evidence you present and where you might need to add research to support your ideas. Check the citations against the references. Do they match up? If not, what revision must you make?6. Do you feel that your paper shows a fair and balanced approach to your issue? If so, what did you do within the paper to ensure that was the case? If not, what specific changes will you make to be more balanced in your argument? How did you overcome any personal bias?7. Go to the last paragraph of your paper and read the last sentence of that paragraph. Does the sentence make sense? Does it use proper grammar, punctuation, and any APA style necessary? If not, make note of the changes you will need to make during revision. Do this same type of review moving backward through the essay, sentence by sentence. As you review your writing in this way, you might notice errors and patterns that you missed when reading from beginning to end. What did you discover in terms of research content, style, language, or grammar in your draft? What are at least 2 resources that you can use to help strengthen and support your writing in these areas?8. Use one of the reviewing services available in the Center for Writing Excellence to review this document. What are the next steps you will take to revise your draft and prepare to finalize your paper?
Disney Animation
1. What problem is Geibel trying to solve? What factors, over time, have contributed to creating this problem at Disney Animation? How and why it differs from Disney Animation in 2013?2. What changes were made at Disney Animation? What do you think of Geibel and Johnsons approach to change? Why did they take this approach?3. What led this teaming structure to be effective at Disney Animation? How does research theory support this approach?4. What is your assessment of the new team structure i.e., the new structure for Disney Animations systems group? What are its strengths and weaknesses? Is this the right structure for the work the group does? Why or why not?5. What organizations is the teaming model suited for, and in which organizational structures would it not work? What are the advantages? Disadvantages?
Education Lesson Planning
2. Lesson Planning (due within 4 hours)Imagine you are a substitute teacher teaching a topic of interest (your choice) to 3 different grades in elementary school: kindergarten, grade 3, and grade 6. Design a quick 5 minute lesson to any of the grades from Piagets perspective. Now try and design the same 5 minute lesson from Vygotskys perspective. How do the results differ? Would you do anything different based on the age and why?
Physics Application
For this assignment there are 2 parts you need to complete:- Identify and summarize the topic of your policy memo. (atleast 135 words)Choose a science &/or energy policy issue related to physics that interests you. The topic of your memo is very important, so do some research and think carefully about it. You should choose a specific issue that is of interest to you, that you can understand, that you can find adequate information about, and that is actually a question with different possible answers.- For the actual written memo (Part II), you will need to use a broader and deeper range of sources. (atleast 135 words)You also need to determine who your audience will be. There are at least two considerations. First, who will be interested in your topic, and who might be able to act on the recommendations that you make? Second, do you plan to write your memo for a layperson or for someone with technical knowledge?More instructions see the attached file below
Professional Experience
Week 5 Assignment – Professional Experience: Presentation SummaryThe Professional Experience assignments are designed to help prepare you for communicating in a professional work setting. To earn credit, make sure you complete all elements and follow the instructions exactly as written. This is a pass or fail assignment, so no partial credit is possible. Assignments that follow directions as written will receive full credit. Assignments that are incomplete or do not follow directions will be scored at a zero.For this Professional Experience, you will create a PowerPoint deck in which you summarize an instructional Internet resource of your choice on preparing effective PowerPoint presentations or slide designs.InstructionsDownload and review the Week 5 PPT Resources [PPTX].Save the file to your desktop using the following file name format:YourFirstName_YourLastName_Wk5_PPT.pptxExample: Ed_Buchanan_Wk5_PPT.pptxLocate an article, video, or other resource that explains how to make a PowerPoint presentation or discusses effective slide design. No other topics should be used.In the PPT template you saved:Give your presentation a title on slide 1.On the body slide (slide 2), write a brief summary of your resource. Do not write fewer than 20 words or more than 50 words; otherwise, the submission will not be eligible for credit.Include a link to the resource or information on the body slide. Provide a working hyperlink on the slide so your professor can read the article or watch the video. The link will not count toward your word count.
Book Analysis
Essay Topics for FrankensteinPlease, analyze and quote the text of the novel only, as your primary source. Do not use any secondary sources or critical essays available online (this time I will run the plagiarism check through Turnitin). If you want to support your analysis by a secondary source from a scholarly article, you may use a few short quotes only from the essays available within the book itself – Norton Critical Edition of Frankenstein.Your essay should be 3-4 pages long and formatted according to the same MLA guidelines that you applied to your previous essay. In addition to the entire module dedicated to essay structure and writing, I have also included a few Frankenstein essay samples by my previous students. Everything you might need to review in relation to planning, outlining, writing and formatting your essay is covered on our Canvas page.Choose one of the following topics for your essay. Remember that you will have to focus the topic of your choice into your own, precise thesis. After your introductory paragraph, each body paragraph should focus on one major point in support of your thesis, and then analyze that point by offering evidence only from the text of Frankenstein quotes and/or paraphrased evidence. Always aim for clarity and precision. Avoid over-generalized or generic statements, universal truths and plot summary. We all know the events in the novel. I am interested in your opinion, interpretation, and your ability to analyze Frankenstein, supported by the specific evidence that you consider important.1. Is Frankenstein a condemnation of blind ambition and extreme pursuit of scientific achievement without regard for consequences and ethical implications? Victor Frankenstein’s own reflections on his career would seem to imply as much. Is he right? Is this what the author wants us to think?2. Mary Shelley is careful to outline the progression of the Creature’s awareness, beginning with his earliest sense impressions. This progression seems to duplicate the stages of infant, child, and general human development. Does this account tell us anything important about what it means to be human? How does this relate to his journey from complete innocence to revenge and guilt?3. How should we pursue knowledge according to Shelley?4. Frankenstein may seem to endorse the common modem sociological premise that antisocial or criminal behavior is conditioned by rage, which in turn is induced by society’s rejection of its marginal members. Does the novel give clear support to this sociological premise?5. After Frankenstein’s decision not to create a female mate for the Creature, the latter vows to avenge himself on Frankenstein on his wedding day. Through all the long months during which Frankenstein broods over this threat, it never occurs to him that Elizabeth, and not he himself may be the intended victim. What do you make of his rather incredible lapse of imagination? What is wrong with Victor?6. Do Victor and the Creature appear as doubles, two sides of the same mind? Does it seem that Victor, in some way, complies with the Creatures acts of revenge?7. Victor had many opportunities to organize the capture of the Creature and destroy him earlier to prevent more death around him. Why doesnt he do that? Is he able to?8. How do the notions of extreme enterprise, blind ambition, pursuit of power and fame, reflect some of the fundamental ideas within patriarchal structure, hierarchical social order and European views of the world in the 19th century, according to Frankenstein?Here a link is for summary of book or I will also attach the book. But quotes must be put into the essay from the original book.https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/frankenstein/frankenstein-at-a-glance
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