Community Needs Analysis Paper

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The goal of this assignment is to conduct a community mental health needs and resources assessment that also familiarizes you with the overall mental health needs in your community. Having assessed the most pressing local mental health needs, you will focus on one of the major identified issues involving a specific, marginalized population and evaluate what services are offered and by what organizations.

The paper must be 10-12 pages (not including title page, abstract, or reference page; however, these are required as well). You must use current APA style 7th edition (write in third person) and integrate references to at least 10 recent and relevant sources

 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.

Sample paper:  https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/professional-annotated.pdf

Video by Dr. Simmons:   https://watch.liberty.edu/media/1_pwjtmc3s

Perdue Owl:  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_changes_7th_edition.html

EDCO 705

Community Needs Analysis Paper Assignment Instructions

The goal of this assignment is to conduct a community mental health needs and resources assessment that also familiarizes you with the overall mental health needs in your community. Having assessed the most pressing local mental health needs, you will focus on one of the major identified issues involving a specific, marginalized population and evaluate what services are offered and by what organizations.

 

Your paper must be 10-12 pages (not including title page, abstract, or reference page; however, these are required as well). You must use current APA style (write in third person) and integrate references to at least 10 recent and relevant sources. Ideally, include both June & Black and Scott & Wolfe in a meaningful way. You may use scholarly journal articles, but your most important sources will be (local and state) government reports, census data, hospital records research, news reports, information from CDC and DHHS, and professional organizations. Sources cited must be specific and relevant to your immediate locality. Include the following content, using appropriate headings:

 

1. Introduction of your community: Describe its location, populations, demographics, and relevant trends, etc.

2. Local needs assessment: Articulate the overall, big picture of your community’s mental health needs and at-risk populations. Be sure to give clear attribution to your sources.

3. Identification of a specific population or issue: Explain why you chose to focus on this particular group.

4. Local resources assessment: Identify the specific organizations that work with this specific population/ issue. Include government, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations in your analysis. How are these organizations addressing this specific need in the community? Your goal is to briefly describe what they do, not to evaluate their effectiveness.

5. Personal reflection: Reflect on how this project has changed your view of your community and/or aided you in better understanding your community. You may use first person in this section.

 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.

 

Hello Class –

I have graded your initial thread to your first discussion board.  I really appreciated the insight that you each shared the case you chose and reflection questions.  You were able to share your wisdom as we begin to learn through our reading and from one another.  The class as a whole did a great job following the rubric and including at least two additional resources to Sue et al. (2014).  Be sure that your citations and resources are in APA format.  I know that we have recently switched from the 6th to the 7th edition and there are some changes.  As a graduate student, you should also be following the professional (not student) format.

Sample paper:  https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/professional-annotated.pdf

Video by Dr. Simmons:   https://watch.liberty.edu/media/1_pwjtmc3s

Perdue Owl:  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_changes_7th_edition.html

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Complete the synthesis matrix using the format presented below. This synthesis matrix includes:

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EPA Strategy is: antecedent-based interventions.

1. Develop a thesis and 2-3 main ideas based on the peer-reviewed articles related to your strategy. You may use meta-analyses and comprehensive literature reviews to support your thesis. However, research articles must be used to support your main ideas. Specifically, the research articles must be a report of an experimental research design.

a. A thesis is more than just a presentation of the professional literature about the topic. It is a one-sentence statement that is an argument or claim about the research findings on the strategy based on a thorough level of analysis of the professional literature. Before finalizing your thesis, be sure that there is enough research in the professional literature to support it.

b. Your main ideas are two to three ideas, or conclusions, represented across the studies you have reviewed. It is also appropriate to focus one of your main ideas on critical gaps, or points of disagreement, in the research. Each main idea must be supported by four studies.

2. Complete the synthesis matrix using the format presented below. This synthesis matrix includes:

a. Information describing the findings in each research article that support your main ideas (thus supporting your thesis). This is content you will put in the tables. You are to write this information in your own words so that you can avoid plagiarizing the authors’ works.

b. Summary paragraphs written in your own words describing the support for each main idea. In your summary paragraphs, which will be placed beneath the tables, you should avoid summarizing each article separately. Your goal is to identify common themes/conclusions across articles related to your main ideas and, if appropriate, to identify any points of disagreement across articles.

Submission guidelines:

o Your assignment must be formatted in the Synthesis Matrix Template (provided at the end of this document)

o Your strategy description and summary paragraphs must be written in APA 7th edition format (formatting, in-text citations, and a references page).

o Use peer-reviewed articles from the library databases to support your thesis and main ideas.

o NO direct quotes allowed. Summarize in your own words.

o Submit your assignment to the appropriate assignment links in the course.

** You are to focus on only one evidence-based strategy.** Antecedent-based interventions**

For this strategy, you are to write about two main ideas.

You are to identify four references for each main idea. Thus, you will identify a total of 8 references.

The references must be reports of experimental research studies about the evidence-based strategy.

You will construct one table for each main idea. The content that is presented in each reference is to be summarized in one column of the table to which the reference applies. The summary should closely match the relevant information that is presented in the reference’s Abstract section. Specifically, your summary needs to address the following items only: the study’s participants, strategy (meaning the independent variable), and findings.

The evidence-based strategy does not have to be specific to an exceptionality. In other words, the evidence-based strategy can apply across students who have been identified with the various categories of disability that are listed and defined in the IDEA. Conversely, it is okay if the strategy has been investigated with only one student population, such as students with autism.

It is very important that you get the assistance you need to understand how to put this assignment together, properly, since (a) its format is unique and (b) we want to be certain that you learn as much as possible from it.
Once you have read all of the instructions and have agreed to it I will send the articles. This is a graduate class so the writing must be as so.

Article:1 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10883576050200040401

Article 2: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019874290903400402

Article 3: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019874290002500307

Article 4: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24827523?seq=1

Article 5: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00405841.2011.534935

Article 6: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10983007050070030301

Article 7: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-009-0693-8

Article 8: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10983007070090020501

Article 9: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0034654313498621

EEX 6051 – Evidence-Based Practices Assignment

This assignment is designed to help you become familiar with journals and current research in the field of special education with a focus on a critical analysis of an educational strategy. It is also designed to help you further develop your skills of analyzing and synthesizing research, concise writing, and APA formatting.

 

Assignment Steps

 

1. Select a research-based instructional strategy designed to serve students with exceptionalities and conduct a review of the professional, peer-reviewed literature using the UWF library databases. You must select a specific strategy and not a comprehensive program or broad group of strategies.

a. Your text is a great resource for selecting a strategy. Note that you must get your instructor’s approval regarding which strategy you will investigate.

 

Non-Example/Example

· Inappropriate topic (too broad) – “Effective communication techniques”

· More appropriate topic (more specific, but still needs to be refined) – “Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). (NOTE: PECS is off limits; please choose other strategies.)

· When I searched “PECS” in the library database for peer-reviewed articles, I had 100 results (too many). I added “speech” to narrow the focus and locate articles that researched PECS to improve speech (results were 24 articles). While this is better, I still narrowed by adding “autism” (results were 22 articles). After reviewing the returns, I noticed that there were 4 articles that were meta-analyses (reviews of multiple studies). I decided to narrow my topic to ”the use of PECS to increase speech for individuals with autism”. I could focus on the 4 meta-analyses and include other appropriate research articles, as needed, to support my thesis and main discussion points in the synthesis matrix (which is explained below).

 

2. Develop a thesis and 2-3 main ideas based on the peer-reviewed articles related to your strategy. You may use meta-analyses and comprehensive literature reviews to support your thesis. However, research articles must be used to support your main ideas. Specifically, the research articles must be a report of an experimental research design.

a. A thesis is more than just a presentation of the professional literature about the topic. It is a one-sentence statement that is an argument or claim about the research findings on the strategy based on a thorough level of analysis of the professional literature. Before finalizing your thesis, be sure that there is enough research in the professional literature to support it.

b. Your main ideas are two to three ideas, or conclusions, represented across the studies you have reviewed. It is also appropriate to focus one of your main ideas on critical gaps, or points of disagreement, in the research. Each main idea must be supported by four studies.

3. Complete the synthesis matrix using the format presented below. This synthesis matrix includes:

a. Information describing the findings in each research article that support your main ideas (thus supporting your thesis). This is content you will put in the tables. You are to write this information in your own words so that you can avoid plagiarizing the authors’ works.

b. Summary paragraphs written in your own words describing the support for each main idea. In your summary paragraphs, which will be placed beneath the tables, you should avoid summarizing each article separately. Your goal is to identify common themes/conclusions across articles related to your main ideas and, if appropriate, to identify any points of disagreement across articles.

Submission guidelines:

· Your assignment must be formatted in the Synthesis Matrix Template (provided at the end of this document)

· Your strategy description and summary paragraphs must be written in APA 7th edition format (formatting, in-text citations, and a references page).

· Use peer-reviewed articles from the library databases to support your thesis and main ideas.

· NO direct quotes allowed. Summarize in your own words.

· Submit your assignment to the appropriate assignment links in the course.

 

Synthesis Matrix Template

 

Student Name:

 

Strategy Name and Description:

· Indicate the specific strategy for which you are conducting this research review and describing the strategy (e.g., specific steps, process, etc.) in paragraph format. Be sure to use in-text citations within this paragraph(s) to credit ideas to the authors of the works you used.

Thesis:

· Write your thesis here. This is a specific claim or argument related to research findings on the strategy, and it should be written as a one-sentence statement. It can be based on a peer-reviewed meta-analysis or comprehensive literature review.

 

Main Idea #1 (required)

 

Write your main idea here as a complete sentence. Remember, this can either be a common conclusion across articles or a point of disagreement across articles.

Source A

Source B

Source C

Source D
You must have 4 research studies to support your main idea. You are to address each study in a separate column in this table (i.e., one study in the column titled, “Source A,” one in Source B, etc.).

 

Specifically, describe the findings in each research article that supports your main idea (thus supporting your thesis).Note the participants, strategy, and findings.

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 

 

Summary Paragraph(s) for Main Idea #1:

 

You are to write a summary paragraph that begins with your main idea and includes the research findings from the professional literature that supports the identified main idea. Be sure you are synthesizing the information you have found (discussing common ideas across articles instead of discussing each article individually).

 

Main Idea #2 (required)

 

Write your main idea here as a complete sentence. Remember, this can either be a common conclusion across articles or a point of disagreement across articles.

Source A

Source B

Source C

Source D
You must have 4 research studies to support your main idea. You are to address each study in a separate column in this table (i.e., one study in the column titled, “Source A,” one in Source B, etc.).

 

Specifically, describe the findings in each research article that supports your main idea (thus supporting your thesis).Note the participants, strategy, and findings.

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 

 

Summary Paragraph(s) for Main Idea #2:

 

Follow instructions from above (Summary for Main Idea #1)

 

Main Idea #3 (optional)

 

Write your main idea here as a complete sentence. Remember, this can either be a common conclusion across articles or a point of disagreement across articles.

Source A

Source B

Source C

Source D
You must have 4 research studies to support your main idea. You are to address each study in a separate column in this table (i.e., one study in the column titled, “Source A,” one in Source B, etc.).

 

Specifically, describe the findings in each research article that supports your main idea (thus supporting your thesis).Note the participants, strategy, and findings.

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 Include same type of information as

Source A

 

 

 

Summary Paragraph(s) for Main Idea #3:

 

Follow instructions from above (Summary for Main Idea #1)

 

 

References

These should be on a separate page and written using APA 7th edition formatting.

Articulate strategies of self-leadership and self-management.

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Refer to the Major Assignment 3 attachments for details on completing the assignment.

Prepare the written portion of this assignment according to the guidelines 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.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following general education competencies:

University Foundations

GED1C3: Articulate strategies of self-leadership and self-management.

Effective Communications

GED2C1: Construct logical, cohesive, and persuasive arguments.

GED2C3: Exhibit proficiency in Standard American English for academic purposes.

Critical Thinking

GED3C1: Demonstrate clarity and logic in asking relevant questions and acquiring knowledge.

GED3C2: Apply appropriate critical inquiry strategies (e.g., inductive and deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis) to issues and questions.

GED3C3: Make informed decisions based on historical, current, reliable, and valid information.

Global Awareness, Perspectives, and Ethics

GED4C4: Use knowledge of the past to develop understandings concerning the present or future.

Christian Worldview

GED5C2: Analyze the impact of the Christian worldview as it relates to human value and dignity.

Excel Grading Sheet

Major Assignment 3 Excel Grading Sheet
Rubric Category (% weighting for assignment) Requirements for full credit (optional for student use) Did you meet the requirements? Possible Points Your Points % Score for Rubric Category Rubric Score
Project Budget (15%) You have entered your full name in the field provided. (Note that entering your name on this sheet is required in order to complete the assignment.) 2
You have listed at least 8 budget items total with at least 1 item in each category. 8
You have entered the number of times purchased and purchase amount for each item, and at least 3 items are purchased more than once. 8
Your Total Cost for each item is a formula multiplying the number of times purchased by the purchase amount, using appropriate cell references. 8
Your Subtotal formulas are correct for each of your 4 sections. 8
You have explicitly formatted your Cost Per Purchase, Total Cost, and Subtotal cells to display as Currency with the $ sign and 2 decimal places of precision. (1/2 point each) 10
Subtotals 44 0 0.00% 1
Budget Summary and Analysis (11%) You have transferred your Subtotals from the Budget to the Summary and Analysis section, using formulas with cell references. 8
Your Budget Total is correctly calculated from your Subtotals as a formula using cell references. 2
Your Percentage of Total formulas are correctly calculated from the Subtotals and Budget Total in the Summary section, using cell references. 8
Subtotal and Budget Total cells are formatted as Currency showing the $ symbol and with 2 decimal places of precision, and percentages are formatted as Percentage with 1 decimal place. 9
Subtotals 27 0 0.00% 1
CPI Values, Slope, Y-Intercept, and Cost Projection (16%) Your month and year entries are correct following the first (generated) values. 10
Your CPI values are correct for the months and years given. 6
Your slope and y-intercept formulas are correct and use the appropriate Excel functions. 4
The year number to use for your CPI projection is correct, and you have brought your Budget Total forward using an Excel formula with appropriate cell reference. 4
Your formulas to calculate the projected CPI value, 5-year inflation rate, and 5-year budget projection are correct. 6
Your formatting is correct for all cells: your CPI values are formatted as number with 3 decimals of precision; your 5-year inflation rate is formatted as a percentage with 2 decimal places; and your 5-year budget and budget projection are formatted as currency with the $ symbol and 2 decimal places. 12
Subtotals 42 0 0.00% 1
Funding – Inputs (5%) Your interest rates correctly match the corresponding entries from the table for the years and months given. 6
Your 5-year projected budget total is brought forward from the Project Budget and Projection sheet, using an Excel formula. 2
Your interest rates are formatted as percentages with 2 decimals and your budget total is formatted as currency using the $ symbol and 2 decimal places. 4
Subtotals 12 0 0.00% 1
Sponsorship, Fundraising, and Loan Payment Calculations (12%) For your Sponsorship calculation, your number of compoundings and time inputs are correct, and your principal amount and 5-year sponsorship amount are correct Excel formulas using appropriate cell references. 7
For your Fundraising calculation, your number of compoundings and time inputs are correct, and your 5-year fundraising total calculation is a correct Excel formula using appropriate cell references. 5
For your Loan calculation, your number of payments and time inputs are correct, and your additional amount and monthly payment calculations are correct Excel formulas using appropriate cell references. 7
All cells with dollar amounts are explicitly formatted as Currency using the $ symbol and with 2 decimal places. Cells with n or t entries are formatted as Number with 0 decimal places. 11
Subtotals 30 0 0.00% 1

Project Budget and Projection

1 Enter your full name here. If your full name is less than 10 letters long, add additional letters ‘X’ at the end until you reach length 10 Assignment Advisory: You must use the latest desktop version of Excel for Microsoft 365 for this assigment. (This is provided free by GCU; contact the Help Desk for more information and help installing the software.) Using an earlier version of Excel or a different spreadsheet program may result in missing or corrupted template elements. Copying cells from or into this template may likewise result in corrupted data.
Legend
If a cell is shaded You should
Blue Enter a text response
Green Enter a number
Gold Enter an Excel formula
Any other color Make no changes
Budget Summary and Analysis
Budget Category Subtotal Percentage of Total
Personnel Costs $1,000.00
Administrative Costs
Outreach Costs
Project Budget Program Costs
Personnel Costs Budget Total
Budget Item Quantity needed Cost Per Item Total Cost
Costs of your time (per week) 1 $1,000.00 $1,000.00 Budget Cost Projection
Subtotal: $1,000.00
Administrative Costs
Budget Item Quantity needed Cost Per Item Total Cost
Subtotal:
Outreach Costs Year Number CPI Value Month Year
Budget Item Quantity needed Cost Per Item Total Cost 1 Your full name entry must be longer Your full name entry must be longer
2
3
4
5
Subtotal: 6
Program Costs
Budget Item Quantity needed Cost Per Item Total Cost
Slope (m)
Y-Intercept (0, b)
Subtotal:
The Year Number to use for your further 5-year projection (If you project forward another 5 years from year 6 in the chart above, what year will you be at then?)
The projected CPI value for that year
The 5-year inflation rate based on the last CPI value in the table and the projected CPI value
Your Budget Total (brought forward from above)
Your 5-year Budget Total Projection

2a Below, you will develop a budget for your project, including entries for personnel costs (for yourself, other paid individuals, legal or consulting services, etc.); administrative costs (rents, fees, utilities, insurance, IT costs, office supplies, travel, etc.); outreach costs (advertising, recruitment, fundraising, etc.); and program costs (supplies for use in assistance, cash distributions, payments for direct services to recipients, etc.). You must enter at least 8 budget items in all. Each category must have at least one budget item. For at least 3 budget items, your expense quantity must be greater than one. Format all costs as Currency with 2 decimal places. To start, modify the cost of your time as appropriate.

3a Below, you will generate a 5-year projected cost for your budget, starting with your budget total. You will base your projection on CPI values that you look up. Use this procedure to look up the CPI value: 1. Go to Bureau of Labor Statistics page link https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?cu 2. Check the box to the left of text “U.S. city average, All items – CUUR0000SA0” 3. Press the “Retrieve Data” button at the bottom of the list. This should take you to a CPI table for about the last 10 years. First, fill in the CPI value for the given month and year. Then, fill in the CPI values for the next 6 years, advancing exactly one year for each value. For example, if you start in February 2011, your next CPI value will come from February 2012. Format your CPI values as Numbers with 3 decimals of precision.

2b Here, use Excel formulas to transfer the subtotals and total from your budget into this table, and then calculate the percentage of the budget total represented by each category. Format the costs as Currency with two decimal places and the percentages as Percentage with one decimal place.

(CPI Values)

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?cu3b Now, from the year number and CPI values, find the slope and y-intercept of the best-fit line for your CPI values.

3c Finally, project the CPI forward an additional 5 years using your slope and intercept; calculate the 5-year inflation rate from your year 6 CPI value and the calculated value; and apply the inflation rate to your budget total to find a 5-year budget projection.

Funding

Your name (brought forward from the Monthly Budget sheet): 0
APR Year Your full name entry must be longer Your full name entry must be longer Your full name entry must be longer
APR Month Your full name entry must be longer Your full name entry must be longer Your full name entry must be longer
Interest Rate
Bring your 5-year projected budget total forward from the Project Budget and Projection sheet
6 Sponsorship (invest a fixed amount for 5 years with annual compounding) 8 Loan payment (determine the monthly payment required for a 5-year loan to cover the remainder of the budget costs)
Percentage of your Budget Total to invest Complete the first interest rate entry in section 4 above The additional amount you need to cover your 5-year budget costs (P)
Principal amount to invest (P), based on your budget total and the percentage in B29 Your APR (r) Complete the third interest rate entry in section 4 above
Your APR (r) Complete the interest rate entry in section 4 above Number of payments per year (n)
Number of compoundings per year (n) Number of years (t)
Number of years (t) The monthly loan payment (PMT)
Your 5-year sponsorship total
7 Fundraising (invest monthly donations for 5 years with monthly compounding) Legend
Monthly contribution amount (PMT) Complete the second interest rate entry in section 4 above If a cell is shaded You should
Your APR (r) Complete the second interest rate entry in section 4 above Blue Enter a text response
Number of compoundings per year (n) Green Enter a number
Number of years (t) Gold Enter an Excel formula
Your 5-year fundraising total (Hint: use the “future value of periodic payments” formula in the assignments instructions) Any other color Make no changes

4 On this sheet, you will consider how to cover the projected cost of your Project Budget. In particular, you will calculate the 5-year balance for a percentage of your projected cost assumed to be invested at a given interest rate with annual compounding; the 5-year balance for a given monthly donation amount invested at a second interest rate; and a monthly loan payment required for a 5-year loan to cover the remainder of your 5-year projected cost, using a third interest rate. Start by looking up rates to use as APRs in the following historical table of 30-year fixed mortgage rates: http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html

5 Now, perform each of the calculations indicated. Recall that the loan payment formula for the amount PMT that must be paid n times per year for t years to pay off an initial principal amount P, assuming interest accrual at a rate of r, is given by PMT = P*(r/n)/(1 – (1 + r/n)^(-n*t)) Format all amounts as Currency with the $ symbol and 2 decimal places, and all n and t entries as Number with 0 decimals.

(Mortgage Rates)

http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.htmlEnter these items as percentages or decimals; for example, a value of 4.03 in the table would be entered here as 4.03% or 0.0403. Also format each rate as a Percentage with 2 decimal places.

Benchmark – Social Studies And The Arts Integrated Unit Plan

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Throughout

Social Studies Unit Plan

Grade:

Week 1 Monday

 

 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Lesson Title          
Summary and Rationale          
State/National Social Studies and Arts standards

(can include more than one standard per lesson)

          
Learning Objectives

 

          
Vocabulary and Academic Language          
Instructional Strategy

· Direct instruction

· Indirect instruction

· Collaborative learning

· Experiential learning

· Independent study

· Interactive instruction

 

          
Summary of Instruction and Activities

 

          
Differentiation          
Materials, Resources, and Technology Needed          
Formative Assessment Strategies Planned

 

 

          
Summative Assessment

(this should be a short description of the summative assessment)

  

 

 

 

 

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this course, you have had the opportunity to research and implement a learning activity that is cross-curricular with social studies and the arts, along with appropriate instructional strategies, questioning strategies, and differentiation.

Part 1: Social Studies Unit Plan

For this benchmark, you will plan a weeklong unit using the “Social Studies Unit Plan.” The unit plan should include social studies integrated with the visual arts and require students to research a country of their choice. You may adapt any previous assignments and lesson plans in the creation of this mini-unit plan, as long as the lessons form a planned cohesive unit. The unit plan will focus on government and economics of the selected country, U.S. and world history (comparing the selected country to the U.S), and geography and social studies of the selected country.

Use the “Class Profile” for background information on your students in order to differentiate to meet the diverse needs of students.

Design the unit plan so that it:

Develops students’ abilities to make informed decisions in a culturally diverse democratic society and interdependent world.

Integrates visual arts to promote communication, inquiry, and engagement.

Incorporates responsible use of media, digital tools, and resources, including:

  • Virtual pen pal options with students from the selected country.
  • Safety measures for using the Internet in the classroom.
  • Research of performance and visual arts of the selected country.
  • How students can communicate and collaborate with students of other cultures.

Part 2: Rationale

Along with the unit, submit a 250-500 word rationale that explains the reasoning behind your instructional strategies and choices. Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice.