Education

Reflect upon the skills necessary to engage in the larger university community political, social, economic, legal, and cultural interactions. Interview 2 students of whom can come from your district or a district other than your own. The contents of this interview are to be described in these sections. Section 1:Collaborating with Faculty and Community Members This section will describe your knowledge to collaborate with faculty and community members by collecting and analyzing information pertinent to the improvement of the school’s educational environment by discussing how you would:1.Use collaboration strategies to collect, analyze, and interpret school, students, faculty, and community information? ( Section 2.Communicate information about the school within the community? This section will describe your knowledge to mobilize community resources by promoting an understanding, appreciation, and use of diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources within the school community by discussing how you would: 1. Identify, use, and mobilize diverse community resources to improve school programs? Section3: Responding Positively to Community Interests and Needs Section 4: Responding Productively to Community Interests and Needs (This section will describe your knowledge to respond to community interests and needs by building and sustaining productive school relationships with community partners by discussing how you would:1.Does conduct need assessment of community partners? 2. Develop effective relationships with a variety of community partners? 3. Involve community partners in the decision-making processes at the school?

Applicants must submit a 500- to 700-word (maximum two pages, double-spaced)  on How will a degree make a difference in your life and career?

Create a 2-page newsletter for parents/guardians of your preschool classroom. In the first part, you will welcome them to your class and invite them to become part of the learning experience. You may create special events or simply identify opportunities during the school day where they may participate. The second part of your newsletter will contain information on local resources and services that families may need or find helpful. Helping families connect to the community can further increase student success. Include resources that can be found in your area. · Be creative and make your letter visually engaging – use color and pictures · Use a newsletter format · Identify 5 different ways that parents can become involved in your classroom and describe each opportunity. Be sure to include a wide variety of ways parents can participate.. · Identify 5 different resources and services available to help families in the community. Briefly describe each service as well as provide pertinent contact information.

This assignment will allow you to articulate your own philosophy of education and organize the bits and pieces of a lifetime of being a student and observing the world around you. By bringing your philosophy of education to a conscious level, thinking carefully about it, challenging your assumptions, and organizing your ideas into a written statement, you will have a solid foundation on which to begin teaching. A well-developed sense of purpose, values, and underlying beliefs about teaching and learning will help to maintain focus throughout your teaching career. Think about your own approach and experiences in education. Make a list of all of the things that are important to you as a student and to you as a teacher or future teacher. Consider why you think these elements are important. You may use your Reflection Paper as a basis to organize these thoughts. What will you do as a teacher to ensure that these important factors are present in your classroom and are reflected in your instructional strategies and classroom-management techniques? Read about the major philosophies of education: Essentialism, Perennialism, Progressivism, and Social Reconstructionism. There are others, but these four represent a broad range of general recognized educational philosophies and should serve as a good starting place by which you will build your own. You can find these in the document titled “Four Philosophies: Overview” or you may do your own research. Explore philosophies that match your beliefs. Write a paper in which you discuss your beliefs in terms of the four philosophies, and explain which of these resonates with you the most and why. Your paper should be well structured and logically organized to demonstrate how your teaching philosophy (i.e., values and beliefs) relates to what you will do in the classroom (e.g., instructional strategies, use of technology, role of collaboration, types of discipline, respectful rapport). This 1-2 page paper should describe your core beliefs about teaching and learning and how these beliefs will be enacted in the classroom. To support your ideas, please provide specific examples and connect these to at least 1-2 specific philosophies. Include an Annotated Bibliography. Remember to cite any sources in APA format that you used to help you develop your ideas or that inspired your teaching philosophy.

A student notifies you that she has been subjected to bullying through a classmate’s Facebook page. In 550-650-words, address the following: Steps you are required to take that are consistent with state statutes, your district’s school board policies, faculty handbook, and the student handbook; Any First Amendment arguments you think the student with the Facebook page may raise, and Responses you could make to the First Amendment arguments that are consistent with the cases in the assigned readings. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment is for a technology grant proposal project. There must be a need for the technology grant you are writing about based on research. It must be a “real” technology plan that a school district would be interested in pursuing. 1.3 Policies, Procedures, Programs & Funding Candidates research, recommend and implement policies, procedures, programs, and funding strategies to support the implementation of the shared vision represented in the school, district, state, and federal technology plans and guidelines. Funding strategies may include the development, submission, and evaluation of formal grant. proposals. (PSC 1.3/ISTE 1c Instructions As specified by PSC 1.3, writing grants is an effective strategy for acquiring funding for technology projects and initiatives. Writing this grant will demonstrate your ability to design a technology integration project and a budget that aligns technological resources to instructional priorities. For this assignment, you will complete a technology integration grant proposal template. Your responses to the questions on the template may be used later in an effort to obtain funding for the technology project you design. You will not be required to submit your project for funding during this course; however, it would be excellent for you to do so in the future! The grant proposal project will be evaluated according to the evaluation/scoring rubric for the grant application. To earn an A, there must be evidence of a need for the project and intent to submit the grant for consideration. Such evidence includes significant and literature-based detail for the project description, technology integration, assessment elements, timeline, and funding components.

Christian Response COLLAPSE As Christians, we must identify and stand against injustice. Throughout the Bible, scripture tells us that we are to love our neighbors. Speaking out when we see wrong being done to someone else is showing love. The Ten Commandment can be broken down into two categories of instruction: four commandments instruct us to love God and the other six commandments instruct us to love our neighbors. When those that we love hurt, we hurt. If we are striving to true “Christ-like” Christians we are to show love to everyone, even our enemies.  The bible did not separate these instructions by race, economic status, or religion. It is the responsibility of the Christian to stand with those that are being oppressed, we don’t get to pick or choose. 1 John 4, asks how a man can love God and hate his brother. It is not possible to truly love God with all our heart, mind, and soul as Mark 12 speaks of if we don’t love our neighbor.  Injustices are often looked over when it doesn’t affect us, someone we love or know. But is that the way that Christ would have us be? Definitely not. The scriptures didn’t specify or categorize who should or shouldn’t receive love.  Jesus died for us all, that we may be saved. Our love and compassion should mirror that of Christ. In his letter from the Birmingham jail, Dr. King referenced how Christians have been prosecuted for their religious freedoms (Loritts, 2014). They also suffered for taking a stand for the things that they believed in. Love is a virtue that we as Christians are to possess. Love for our brothers and sisters should be the driving force to break the silence of injustices inflicted on the oppressed in this country. It is the responsibility of the church to start uncomfortable conversations about the injustices and prejudices that are inflicted on minority communities. Letters To A Birmingham Jail COLLAPSE In Dr. Martin Luther King’s letter written in the Birmingham jail, he voiced his disappointments about the injustice that plagued Birmingham, Alabama. Still, the most heartbreaking disappointment came from the clergy (Loritts, 2014). The Jewish rabbi, Abraham Joshua Heschel, commented, the Birmingham policemen’s billy clubs were not the most violent enemy. The real enemy was the clergy wanting Dr. King to embrace their crusade of passive and lukewarm indifference (Loritts, 2014). Dr. King could not accept this ideology from the church. Birmingham’s city was thorough and fortified in its’ stance towards segregation, its’ hideous publicized history of brutality, its’ crudely prejudiced court system, and its high rates of unaccountable bombings of negro’s homes and churches (Loritts, 2014). King was dismayed by the clergy viewing him as an extremist but later reviewed it as an honor. King’s letter directed the clergy to follow: Jesus, not self, love not to hate, and the sacrificial church, not the pious social groups (Loritts, 2014). In the eyes of Dr. King, he referred to Jesus, Moses, Amos, and Paul as extremists who no longer ignored the wrong and were willing to sacrifice comfortability to change the status quo (Loritts, 2014). Dr. King’s history, leadership, and legacy mimic volumes of the passage of Romans 8:18 (English Standard Version Bible, 2001) “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Dr. King weighed the cost of his destiny, and humanity became better for his sacrifice.  For more information on Christian Response read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response

Pick ONE of the following case studies to answer for your discussion board assignment. Indicate in the subject line of your posting which case study (#1 or #2) you are answering. Be sure to read the Code of Ethics for the Health Education Profession (Appendix A) to inform your response. Case Study #1 You’ve just graduated with your degree in Health Studies from TWU and received your first job offer. The position is serving as a Health Educator for a national non-profit organization, and the salary is very good. The mission of this organization is to make the world a better place by building courage, confidence, character and good health in girls ages six through eighteen. This organization only focuses on females and is not affiliated with a religion. Here’s the catch: This organization will not allow you as a health educator to educate the girls about sexual health, including basic facts about anatomy and conception, using condoms, and having the HPV vaccine. How do you feel about this? Do you think this is unethical? Do you take the job? Upon what ethical principles do you base your response? Create a posting that answers these questions. Your posting should be at least 250 words long and use APA format to cite your sources (don’t forget a reference list). Case Study #2 After graduation, you accepted a position as a health educator in the patient education department of a local county hospital. You are one of five health educators working in this department, and Tom is the most experienced health educator working there. After about three months on the job, you observed Tom accepting a really nice windbreaker (worth about $100) from a pharmaceutical company representative. In return, the pharmaceutical rep asked Tom to recommend the pharmaceutical company’s glucometer during the diabetes education sessions he ran with patients. Tom said that “ that would be no problem.” How do you feel about this? Do you think this is unethical behavior? What, if any, specific actions do you think you should take? Upon what ethical principles do you base your response? Create a posting that answers these questions. Your posting should be at least 250 words long and use APA format to cite your sources (don’t forget a reference li For more information on Writing read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing

Deaux’s article “Social Identity” not only introduced you to various social identity categories but also to some theories concerning the nature of social identities. You learned that all social identities affect your thinking, your emotions, and your behavior. For example, you may or may not share the way people attribute certain characteristics to specific social identities; one or more of your social identities may evoke strong emotions in you, and different social identities may influence you to behave in certain ways. Considering that society attributes certain stereotypical traits to different social identities, at this point in the course, which of your social identities do you believe conforms most/least to the stereotypical traits attributed to it by society—and in what ways? Which one of your social identities evokes deep, strong emotions, and in what ways does this emotional connection manifest itself in your life? In what way(s) do any or all of your social identities influence your behavior when you are with people who are like you/different from you—and in what ways do other people’s or groups’ behaviors influence your social roles? Once you have spent some time reflecting on these questions, summarize your responses and add at least one new insight or question-related to the connections you perceive between social identities and diversity.

Describe and evaluate role on how a smartphone can play in online learning in ODL Institution and write negative and positive