Description of how Gradual Release of Responsibility Model is or is not represented.

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  • Instructional Plan Design Analysis

    Three instructional plan templates constructed by a variety of leaders in education provide solid examples of what quality instructional plans should include. The work of Madeline Hunter dates the furthest back and is still used today, primarily in the elementary setting. Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe provide a more modern approach to curriculum and lesson design with their model of Understanding by Design (UbD). Others, as modeled by the New York State Educational Department, work closely to align their instructional plans with the Common Core State Standards.

    Review each of the provided instructional plan designs:

    • Common Core aligned instructional plan template
    • Understanding by design-backwards design lesson template
    • Madeline Hunter’s lesson plan format

    Analyze each instructional plan and structure a Word document, essay-style as such:

    1. Introduction: Introduce the essential elements, purpose, and value of creating and following a high-quality instructional plan. Include a thesis stating your intent to highlight key elements of each respective plan as well as your intent to identify what you find to be the most effective plan while justifying your reasoning.
    2. Body: Discuss the following for EACH instructional plan design. (Do not list—this is paragraph format without headings/subheadings.)
      • The source’s name (i.e.; Hunter).
      • Key components representing most essential instructional plan requirements (standard, objective, activities, assessments, etc.).
      • Unique components (What makes each plan different from the others? What is notably missing or added compared to the others?).
      • Description of how Gradual Release of Responsibility Model is or is not represented.
      • Description of how assessment is embedded and potentially supports informing a teacher of student mastery of the objective(s).
      • Evidence that the instruction plan stimulates critical thinking.

    Your intent in this first part is to:

      • Inform the reader through the introduction and body.
      • Identify the instructional plan template that YOU believe is the most well-rounded and high-quality and justify your reasons with research and examples.
    2. Conclusion: Make a selection between the three templates as to which one represents the best instructional plan to you. Include the key elements you’ve explored thus far. Explain its strengths, and recommend two ways to make it more effective and high quality. Be sure to justify why enacting your recommendations would make it better. Your essay will be between four to five pages, not including the required cover and reference pages, and should follow APA formatting requirements. You must include a minimum of five peer-reviewed articles or web references (in addition to the textbook), including the three from which the templates came, at least one from any reference used in Weeks One or Two, and one outside source of your own.

    Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Budgetary Variance Model

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Prior to completing this assignment, review Assignment 9 in Chapter 17 of your course text. Prepare an evaluation of the performance of the Radiology Department Manager for a hospital.

The service unit, or output, for this department is the number of procedures performed. A static budget was prepared at the beginning of the year. Examine that budget in relation to actual experience. The relevant data are included in Table 17-18 in your course text. The department manager is pleased because the department has a favorable $120,000 cost variance. Evaluate the effectiveness claims of the manager using the budgetary variance mode described in Chapter 17. What is your analysis of the department manager’s performance? Explain your reasoning.

Your paper must include an introduction, thesis, and conclusion. Your paper must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.  Utilize three scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources (excluding the course text) that were published within the last five years. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and provide complete references for each source used on the reference page.

REVIEW the Judaism article, pp. 433-434 on Sacred Symbols

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1. At the start of the article, the author says “in Judaism, faith is less a matter of affirming a set of beliefs that of trust in God and fidelity to his law” (423), and he introduces the important term Halakha. Keeping in mind these words, find an example from the DAILY section on the handout A Partial Listing of Jewish Ritual Obligations and explain how Halakha may deeply influence a religious Jew’s daily life.

2. Read the section of the article called “Central Doctrines” (pp. 430-431). Describe ONE of the central doctrines that is very DIFFERENT from Christianity. Describe ONE of the central doctrines that seems to be SHARED with Christianity.

3. The section of the Judaism article “Sacred Symbols” describes at least six central symbols of Judaism. Describe one of them, and explain just what it symbolizes.

4. REVIEW the Judaism article, pp. 433-434 on Sacred Symbols – this section will help you with Dani’s description of her father’s religious practices. What memories of her father’s religious rituals bring Dani comfort? Why?

5. Is there a connection between Dani’s anxieties and her ability to believe in God?

Displays Of Evidence For Making Decisions By Edward R. Tufte

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BIS232 NAME:

Tufte Worksheet

Read the first part of Tufte’s booklet (pages 5-15) and answer the questions below.

Either bring your answers to class or upload them into Canvas before class on Monday.

 

Part I: Dr. Snow and the Cholera Epidemic

 

1. Look at Tufte’s description of Dr. Snow’s displays of data(pages 5-15). What is the story? Why was this an important case study of visual displays of data? What were the elements of this story that pulled the ideas and data together into new knowledge?

 

2. Considering the map graph, spanning pages 8-9:

a. What data is it displaying?

b. Which of the displayed data is (are) the cause(s)? Which is (are) are the effect(s)?

c. How do you know?

d. Why is it an improvement to the time graph on page 7?

e. How does it compare with the other bar graphs of the data? What information is unique to each?

f. Why do you think Tufte purposefully left it black and white except for sight additions of the yellow?

g. What are the “outliers” in this graph? That is, items that don’t seem to fit with the rest of the story?

h. What are the limitations of such a “dot map?” (See definition of dot map on page 13.)