Education

Special education teachers are called upon to make legal and ethical decisions for children and their families on a regular basis. Often, ethical dilemmas prove much more difficult to resolve than legal ones. How does having a strong personal moral code assist special education teachers in deciding their actions?

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the parent education program “A Psychoeducational Program for Parents of Dysfunctional Backgrounds” (Fine & Lee, 2001) and do you believe this program will be helpful in improving parenting skills in this population? Provide support for your conclusions.

Post an initial response contrasting two different settings where special educators work, ensuring that each setting comes from different categories. For example, you may choose the resource room from the public school setting and a charter school from the parent choice setting.In your own words, contrast the two different settings, including the role and function of the special educator within each setting. Include ways in which the special educator will collaborate with other educators and colleagues.Reflect on how a special educator will provide learning experiences for students with disabilities that are differentiated, developmentally appropriate, and challenging within both chosen settings. Your reflection must include details about what differentiated and developmentally appropriate learning experiences are, with at least one example that illustrates the importance of ensuring these types of learning experiences occur. The example(s) may be based on a personal experience or based on readings for this week.

· Week 7: Assignment – Part 3: Literature Review and Critical AppraisalWeb PageTask: View this topicPoints: 100 | Due Date: Week 7, Day 7 | CLO: 5 | Grade Category: AssignmentsAssignment PromptThis week’s first assignment is STEP 3 – Literature Review and Critical Appraisal of “Assignment 1”The student will complete the following items and submit a Word doc to the assignment link.1. Provide a title that conveys or describes the assignment.2. Literature Review – Provide the key terms used to guide the search for the evidence and provide at least five (5) summaries of research studies to support the evidence.3. Critical Appraisal of Literature – Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence, what is known from the evidence and any gaps in knowledge from the research evidence.4. References – Cite a minimum of five scholarly references in APA 6th ed format.Expectations· Due: Monday, 11:59 pm PT· Format: Completed paper with references in APA 7th ed. format· File name: Save the file with Student First Name_Last Name_Part 3See USU NUR Writing Assignment Rubric for additional details and point weighting.· Week 7: Upload – Part 3: Literature Review and Critical AppraisalAssignmentTask: Submit to complete this assignmentTop of Form://classroom.usuniversity.edu/d2l/img/lp/pixel.gif Starts Feb 15, 2021 4:00 PMBottom of Form

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. 335–346 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 you’ve 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.

Learning objective: Develop a resume and cover letter to be sent to potential employers.Prompt: Preparing and requesting referencesInstructions:Employers request potential new hires (as well as those who are being considered for promotion) to provide letters of recommendation from former employers and/or instructors. Consider who you would ask for a recommendation. Draft a letter that you can use to request a letter of recommendation. Your draft letter should be approximately 1 page in length and follow APA formatting.Additionally, provide the first names of 3 people you would choose and discuss what influenced your decision to choose these individuals.Your discussion and reflection on what influenced your decision to choose these individuals should be approximately 1 page in length and follow APA formatting.The total assignment should be approximately 2 pages in length.Once reviewed by the Instructor, and you make corrections, upload the file to your Portfolium account.

In writing Essay 1, students are expected to incorporate class discussions and assigned readings, when pertinent. An initial draft of the essay will be read by each student’s TA, who will provide comments and feedback on both substantive and stylistic matters. It is expected that students will use TA feedback in rewriting their essays for final submission. The essay draft is mandatory but will not be graded. Only the final, revised, version of the essay will be graded. We are looking for short polished essays that make an argument in a powerful but succinct manner.Essay 1 (ca. 800-1000 words):Please present an argument based on the following statement:“Cities are a revolutionary technology of human spatial organization that forever changed the human career.”Your answer should define what cities are, should detail broadly when and where they appear in the archaeological record of mankind, whether (or not) cities can be conceptualized as a type of technology (which presumes a particular definition of technology), and whether (or not) V. Gordon Childe’s concept of an “Urban Revolution” is an appropriate term to describe the pertinent evidence for the emergence of cities.Your essay should make use of, and incorporate, pertinent materials from class lectures and from relevant assigned class readings.

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 Piaget’s perspective. Now try and design the same 5 minute lesson from Vygotsky’s perspective. How do the results differ? Would you do anything different based on the age and why?

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.

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 Creature’s 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 doesn’t 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