Contextual Influences On Learning Presentation

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Contextual factors play an integral role in the learning process. Outside factors, such as families, culture, socioeconomic dynamics, and family discipline routines, can have a profound effect on student development and readiness for learning. Teachers who recognize these factors equip themselves to meet the learning needs of diverse student populations. Additionally, by modifying instruction or procedures to address all of the students’ contextual factors, they will have an increased likelihood of academic success.

Create an 8-10 slide digital presentation for a teacher professional development  on how contextual factors affect student learning.

Include the following:

  • How social interactions, culture, society, and technology can affect student development and readiness for learning.
  • How the contextual factors could be addressed in classroom instruction.
  • Two specific examples of how you would modify  classroom instruction to address contextual factors (e.g., you provide an Internet-based family activity, but several of your students’ families do not have Internet access at home.) How would you modify the activity?
  • A title slide, a reference slide, and presenter’s notes.

The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.

Support your presentation with 2-3 scholarly resources.

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 uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion

BenchMark Philosophy Of Special Education

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A philosophy of special education is a statement regarding your beliefs and values about special education. A shorter version of this statement is often required as part of the application process to obtain employment as a teacher.

Create a 750-1,000 word draft of your special education philosophy. Include statements regarding your beliefs and values in each of the following areas:

· The purpose of education.

· Your personal vision of meeting the learning needs of students with special needs using standards-based instruction.

· How some of the ethical frameworks and professional practice standards you have examined will guide your professional practice.

· The types of resources teachers should seek to continually deepen their understanding of cultural, ethnic, gender, and learning differences among their students.

· The types of professional activities or learning communities that would best facilitate lifelong learning.

Include three scholarly references to support your philosophy of education.

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 uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit assignments that are print deliverables to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Course Materials if you need assistance.

Program competencies and national standards assessed in the benchmark assignment:

MEd in Special Education (ITL/NITL)

MEd in Special Education: Moderate to Severe (ITL/NITL)

6.1: Use professional ethical principles and professional practice standards to guide professional practice. [CEC 6.1, ICSI.6.K2, ICSI.6.K4 ICSI.6.S1, ICSI.6.S2, ICSI.6.S3, ICSI.6.S4, ICSI.6.S5, ICSI.6.S7, IGC.6.K4, IGC.6.K6, IGC.6.S2; InTASC 9(a), 10(f); MC3, MC4, MC5]

6.4: Demonstrate the significance of lifelong learning by participating in professional activities and learning services. [CEC 6.4, ICSI.6.K2, ICSI.6.K5, ICSI.6.K6, ICSI.6.K7, ICSI.6.K10, ICSI.6.S3, ICSI.6.S3; InTASC 9(a), 9(g), 10(f); MC2, MC4, MC5]

MEd in Special Education Mild to Moderate Disabilities (Nevada)

Differentiating For Diverse Students Chart

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Maria Thompson

ELM 480

Professor Angie Robins

September 5, 2021

 

Utilizing differentiation strategies in the ELA classroom is vital in meeting the various needs of students and presents an opportunity to address individual personal interests, traits, and goals. Understanding how to differentiate for different learning, linguistic, and cultural needs will increase teaching efficacy. The goal of this assignment is to practice selecting reading texts to support diverse students in the English language arts classroom.

For this assignment, complete the “Differentiating for Diverse Students Chart,” appropriately selecting a reading text (fiction or non-fiction) for each student, and providing a 50-100 word rationale for each selection. The text should be engaging, culturally relevant, and selected based on the student’s unique learning needs.

In addition, in 100-150 words, describe a strategy or activity that utilizes the selected text to teach an ELA skill for each student. Rationalize your instructional choices, supported by one or more scholarly resource (which may include your text and the readings from this course).

Support your findings with 3-5 scholarly resources.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

 

 

 

Differentiating for Diverse Students Chart

Student:

Carmen, Kindergarten
English Language Learner:

No

 Socioeconomic Status:

Mid SES

 Ethnicity:

Native American/Pacific Islander

 Gender:

Female

 IEP/504:

No

 Other:

None

 Reading Performance Level:

At 1st grade level

 Parental Involvement:

Med
Text Selection and Rationale

 

 

ELA Strategy or Activity and Rationale

 

 

References

 
Student:

Eduardo, 2nd grade
English Language Learner:

Yes

 Socioeconomic Status:

Mid SES

 Ethnicity:

Hispanic

 Gender:

Male

 IEP/504:

No

 Other:

Tier 2 RTI for Reading

 Reading Performance Level:

One year below student’s 2nd grade level

 Parental Involvement:

Low
Text Selection and Rationale

 

 

 

ELA Strategy or Activity and Rationale

 

 

 

 

 

References

 
Student:

Jade, 4th grade
English Language Learner:

No

 Socioeconomic Status:

High SES

 Ethnicity:

African American

 Gender:

Female

 IEP/504:

No

 Other:

None

 Reading Performance Level:

At 4th grade level

 

 Parental Involvement:

High
Text Selection and Rationale

 

 

ELA Strategy or Activity and Rationale

 

 

References

 
Student:

Ines, 7th grade
English Language Learner:

No

 Socioeconomic Status:

Low SES

 Ethnicity:

Hispanic

 Gender:

Female

 IEP/504:

Learning Disabled

 Other:

Tier 2 RTI for Math

 Reading Performance Level:

One year below student’s 7th grade level

 Parental Involvement:

Low
Text Selection and Rationale

 

 

ELA Strategy or Activity and Rationale

 

 

References

 

 
Student:

Kent, 8th grade
English Language Learner:

No

 Socioeconomic Status:

High SES

 Ethnicity:

White

 Gender:

Male

 IEP/504:

Emotion-ally Disabled

 Other:

None

 Reading Performance Level:

At 8th grade level

 Parental Involvement:

Med
Text Selection and Rationale

 

 

ELA Strategy or Activity and Rationale

 

 

References

 

 

 

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IT Infrastructure Project: Designing WAN Networks Assignment

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Project Background

Reference Figure 1. Global Care Hospital is a network of four large hospitals in the U.S. You have recently purchased the organization, naming it [Your Firstname Lastname] Global Hospital. Please refer to the hospital as “place your name here” Global Hospital.

Global Hospital owns a network of hospitals supported by four (4) office buildings. Their original design, depicted in Figure 1, was categorized as a medium-size network for 200 to 1,000 devices. They have well surpassed this and added new services in telemedicine. In addition, it has several flaws. You, as their senior network engineer, are tasked with the job of a complete re-design. This design must support a large-size network for over 1,000 devices, address the current design flaws per figure 1, and meet the future needs of a globally capable hospital IT infrastructure. *Note, each of the office buildings in Figure 1 also contains additional routers, switches, workstations, and servers that would support a typical hospital office building of this hospital size. Include these devices to meet the rubric requirements as you design the detailed version of this network. Regardless, only one workstation is needed per network switch to show working functionality.

Overview 

see attachment

BMIS 520

 

IT Infrastructure Project: Designing WAN Networks Assignment Instructions

 

Project Background

Reference Figure 1. Global Care Hospital is a network of four large hospitals in the U.S. You have recently purchased the organization, naming it [Your Firstname Lastname] Global Hospital. Please refer to the hospital as “place your name here” Global Hospital.

Figure 1. Global Hospital Network Design

Jerry Quarles Global Hospital owns a network of hospitals supported by four (4) office buildings. Their original design, depicted in Figure 1, was categorized as a medium-size network for 200 to 1,000 devices. They have well surpassed this and added new services in telemedicine. In addition, it has several flaws. You, as their senior network engineer, are tasked with the job of a complete re-design. This design must support a large-size network for over 1,000 devices , address the current design flaws per figure 1, and meet the future needs of a globally capable hospital IT infrastructure. *Note, each of the office buildings in Figure 1 also contains additional routers, switches, workstations, and servers that would support a typical hospital office building of this hospital size. Include these devices to meet the rubric requirements as you design the detailed version of this network. Regardless, only one workstation is needed per network switch to show working functionality.

 

Overview

In this project, you will study performance improvements in a congested, wired WAN environment that can be solved to varying degrees by a new IT infrastructure design and fully functional implementation in Cisco Packet Tracer.

 

Instructions

Project Requirements

· Take screenshots demonstrating your network, servers, configurations, and protocols properly functioning in the new design. Screenshots must include a unique piece of information identifying the student’s computer along with a proper operating system date/time. Submit these as appendices in the Word document.

· Submit a working Packet Tracer lab, typically this file has a .pkt file extension.

· This will include the fully operational new IT infrastructure design

· All devices in the lab must be named with your first name and last name

· Example: Jerry_Quarles_Router_1

· All hardware and software should be configured properly and should be able to communicate securely using optimized networking designs, configurations, and protocols

· Packet Tracer IT Infrastructure Re-Design Requirements

· You must start with a blank/new Packet Tracer file, existing labs or modified labs of existing solutions will receive a zero without exception

· Include the existing hospital network design but optimized/improved

· LANs must function using the OSPF protocol

· Buildings 1 and 3 must connect to buildings 2 and 4 using a properly selected and configured WAN protocol

· Design a large-size network for over 1,000+ devices

· An appropriate WAN design supported by research is necessary

· Add appropriate routers and switches to support this new design

· Design and configure at least one appropriate networking protocol, IPv4 or IPv6

· Design IP addressing that will scale to over 1,000 devices

· Use proper network address translation (NAT)

· Add appropriate security into the design, at least one (1) significant improvement

· Add sufficient modularity, resiliency, and flexibility into the design, at least one significant improvement for each for a total of three (3) optimizations

· Design and implement the following new services and systems

· Assure each service supports telemedicine

· A Healthcare Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system

· Requires four front-end web servers

· Requires load balancers that balance traffic to the front-end web servers

· Requires two database servers

· Requires a storage area network (SAN) to store all data

· A website hosted on a web server in each ISP, accessible by all workstations

· Two new user workstations in each building that uses the new services and services properly

· Show these services working on each workstation in your project (e.g. the Healthcare ERP, the websites in the ISPs)

· Paper Requirements (Introduction, Literature Review, and Conclusion)

· Written Requirements

1. Introduction

2. Literature Review

3. Design Explanation

4. Conclusion

5. References

· Introduction

· Introduce the primary goals and objectives of the project

· Include more than 5 scholarly sources and 500 words in the Introduction and Conclusion combined

· Review of literature that supports the new system simulation, model, and design

· Include appropriate IT frameworks and standards in which to design a large enterprise class IT infrastructure and network

· Address system feasibility, RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability), security, and disaster recovery

· Include at least 10 scholarly journal articles focusing on relevant research on the problems being addressed

· Meets the length requirement of 1,000 words

· Packet Tracer design explanation

· Explain each of the additions and improvements

· Reference the primary configurations and how these were developed

· Include running configurations from routers/switches as appendices

· Conclusion

· Highlight any limitations, managerial implications, and conclusions of the project deliverables and outcomes

· Totals words overall 2000 words

 

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