Evaluating Program Conditions for Professional Development

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Week 6 – Discussion

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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

Evaluating Program Conditions for Professional Development

For teacher inquiry, reflection, and growth to be successful, early childhood programs must support the conditions for mentoring and professional development. After reading the text, with special attention to Table 8.5 Reflecting on Conditions Conducive to Reflective Supervision and Professional Learning.

Explain how you might respond if you were a coach working with a program with observable growth opportunities in the ability to support professional learning, reflection, and mentoring. Using the text and one outside source, address the following in your initial post

You must respond to both A and B; and C or D:

  1. Discuss what you perceive to be the two most important conditions a program can have to support professional learning. Provide a rational to support your selection.
  2. Identify and explain the two conditions that you perceive are most likely to derail a supportive professional learning environment
  3. Discuss the potential benefits and/or disadvantages of first working with the supervisor, administrator, or program manager to increase his or her skills in reflective supervision prior to working with an entire staff.
  4. Describe one program setting with which you are familiar to share with your peers (i.e., Head Start, family childcare, for-profit preschool, etc.) and the best choices for coaching for increasing the learning potential at this type of program.

Guided Response: Respond to two peers’ posts who discussed two important conditions different from those you presented. Ask them a question to gain a deeper understand of their selection.

Job Range, Depth And Relationships

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Prompt: Review the text discussion of Job Range, Job Depth, and Job Relationships.

Using the terms used in the text and in at least ONE other reference on this topic, describe your current job position or one with which you are familiar.

Be sure to describe any attempts that the employer has made to increase job range or job depth, and evaluate whether or not these efforts appeared to be motivational to the employees.

If you have not seen any attempts at increasing range or depth, describe a change that you would recommend and tell how you expect it to change motivation in employees.

Requirements: Minimum of 500 words; 2 peer-reviewed or trade journal sources, in addition to your text; APA-compliant

Book-Ivancevich, J. M., Konopaske, R., & Matteson, M. T. (2018). Organizational behavior and

management (11th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN-13: 978-1259894534

Did the speaker effectively use transitions to clearly move your attention from section to section?

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Submit a critique of one of the published speeches listed below using the PQP method described in the Content area. In addition to the PQP, be sure to answer the following questions in your response:

  • Was the speaker able to make and maintain consistent eye contact with the audience?
  • Did the speaker effectively use transitions to clearly move your attention from section to section?

Be specific in providing feedback about what worked and how the information could have been presented differently. Be sure to indicate which speech you are critiquing. When possible, reference ideas from the text in providing your feedback.

Speeches

  • Anxiety 
  • Importance of Sleep
  • Chicken and Broccoli Braid Recipe
  • Teddy Bear History
  • Making Slime

Classroom Organizational Design Plan

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Early childhood teachers must be proactive in managing their classrooms by setting clear behavioral expectations for the children and using motivation techniques, modifications, and interventions to help them succeed. Establishing this environment will also increase the students’ sense of safety and trust.

Part 1: Classroom Layout Plan

Design a classroom layout plan to actively and equitably engage students by organizing, allocating, and coordinating the resources of time, space, and students’ attention by drawing and labeling the floor plan.  Take into consideration motivation, modification, and interventions.  Make this your dream classroom.

Part 2: Rationale

In 750-1,000 words, describe your classroom layout.  Your classroom organizational design plan should include the following, and make sure to justify your answer for each bullet point:

  • How do you modify the classroom environment to meet the different behavioral and cognitive needs of children with and without exceptionalities?
  • What strategies do you feel are unique to your specific early childhood aged group?
  • What classroom rules and procedures do you use to support differentiated learning and interventions in the classroom?

Support your rationale with 3-5 scholarly resources.

Submit both the Classroom Layout Plan and the Rationale as one submission.