Outline a specific plan for addressing the discipline or guidance scenario. Explain how your plan would support the teaching approach/setting.

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Children’s Story

Knowing how to address a variety of situations in the early childhood setting and effectively partnering with parents to do so are important skills for all teachers and caregivers. For this assignment, you will choose one of the following scenarios:

  1. Shane has a difficult time separating from his mother each morning. At drop off, he clings to her and screams uncontrollably. After she leaves, Shane continues to scream and cry until you are able to soothe him.
  2. Lisa often gets frustrated when trying to play with other children. She takes toys from their hands and even hits children with the toys.

Next, address each of the following points according to the teaching approach/setting that best reflects your style in your desired classroom setting (e.g. Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, traditional preschool, etc.):

  1. Outline a specific plan for addressing the discipline or guidance scenario.
  2. Explain how your plan would support the teaching approach/setting.
  3. Describe how you will create an effective partnership with parents to address the discipline or guidance scenario.
  4. Describe one or two possible obstacles you might encounter when implementing your plan.
  5. Discuss how you will address these obstacles.

The paper should be three to four pages in addition to the title page and the reference page. Use at least two scholarly sources in addition to your text. Your paper should also be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Describe your plan for needs assessment, including culturally sensitive strategies for conducting the assessment. Identify ethical standards that apply to program evaluations, and discuss how you will ensure they are met.

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In your role as a consultant who has been hired to evaluate a clinical mental health counseling program, you will describe the hypothetical program you will be planning to evaluate. Because this course project is a simulation, you will not actually be evaluating a program; instead, you will create a fictitious but plausible program with hypothetical stakeholders, clients, interventions, and measures. It may be similar to one in your community, or it may be one that you would like to design someday.

For this assignment in Unit 4, use the template linked in Resources to write an introduction and a description of the program to be evaluated, including the vision and mission, clinical interventions, stakeholders, and short- and long-term outcomes of the program. You will need to:

  • Establish your research base for the program evaluation by reviewing published evaluations and relevant research. Critique how the research and the program evaluations inform the practices of similar programs. This is the basis of your literature review.
  • Select, justify, and apply a model of evaluation you will use in your program evaluation.
  • Describe your plan for needs assessment, including culturally sensitive strategies for conducting the assessment.
  • Identify ethical standards that apply to program evaluations, and discuss how you will ensure they are met.

Requirements

To achieve a successful project experience and outcome, you must include the following sections for Part 1:

  • Title Page.
  • Introduction and Description of Program (approximately one page).
  • Literature Review (approximately two pages).
  • Program Evaluation Model Selected (approximately one page).
  • Needs Assessment (approximately one page).
  • Ethical and Evaluation Standards (approximately one page).
  • References.

Additionally, your paper must:

  • Be a total of 5–7 pages of text (excluding the title page and the references page).
  • Include scholarly references to support your ideas about research on the kind of program you are evaluating (population, clinical focus, counseling approach), and program evaluation procedures (program evaluation model, needs assessment, ethical and cultural considerations).
  • Be free from errors that detract from the message.
  • Be written in third person.
  • Use current APA style and formatting throughout.
  • Be in Times New Roman, 12-point font.

Review the Learning Resources for this week and think about how social psychology theory and research explains the responses that people have when they hear prejudiced comments.

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People often use jokes to test the boundaries of what is considered offensive. Under the guise of humor, the joke teller can attempt to minimize any offense taken by defending the humor as “just a joke.”

Clearly, an attempt to belittle or demean others as a form of humor is distasteful. And in every culture, one can encounter humor that, to be understood, relies on prejudice—whether that prejudice be about race, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, or nationality. What others might find funny, some find tasteless and indefensible. Simply because an offensive statement is clothed as a joke does not make the joke funny nor does it mean that the joke teller cannot be confronted by someone who finds the comment offensive or inappropriate. Even so, confronting someone about an inappropriate joke can present a social risk; the person being called out is likely to feel defensive and retaliate against whomever exposed them.

For this Discussion, you will draw on your own experience and social psychology theory to examine responses to prejudiced comments.

 

To Prepare

  • Review the Learning Resources for this week and think about how social psychology theory and research explains the responses that people have when they hear prejudiced comments.
  • Recall a time when you have been present when someone made a racist comment or “joke,” and no one confronted the joke teller.

Post a time when you have been present when someone made a prejudiced “joke” or comment, and no one confronted the joke teller. Were you offended by the joke? How can a decision to stay mute be explained by social psychology theory?

Provide an overview of the handbook and its potential use by your chosen audience.  Introduction to the Major Topics (200 to 300 words) Provide an introductory summary of the six topics listed below and discuss any careers in psychology specifically related to at least one of them:

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Week 6 – Final Project        Learning and Cognition Handbook                                       Video TranscriptPreview the document    The primary goal of the Learning and Cognition Handbook assignment is to integrate concepts from the discipline of learning and cognitive psychology into a usable and professional guide that is designed for a specific audience based on your career goals. The purpose of this handbook is to share helpful strategies and apply what you have learned from the course to six major topics in the field. You will incorporate your findings from required sources and the relevant sources you researched in the Week 2 Discipline-Based Literature Review, as well as those from the Week 3 Assignment: Choosing Your Focus.  To complete this assignment, you may utilize the Learning and Cognition Handbook templatePreview the document or create your own using the template as a guide. Your handbook should include the sections listed below, incorporating a minimum of one visual (e.g., table, figure, or image (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) with a maximum of five visuals per section. Each image must be retrieved and cited based on current copyright laws. You may wish to use the Where to Get Free ImagesPreview the document guide for assistance with accessing freely available public domain and/or Creative Commons licensed images.  Handbook Sections:  Table of Contents List all sections and subsections included in the handbook with the applicable page numbers.  Preface (100 to 150 words) Provide an overview of the handbook and its potential use by your chosen audience.  Introduction to the Major Topics (200 to 300 words) Provide an introductory summary of the six topics listed below and discuss any careers in psychology specifically related to at least one of them: •Traditional learning theories: Operant and classical conditioning •Traditional learning theories: Behaviorism and social learning theory •Attention and memory •Decision-Making •Language acquisition •Organizational and lifelong learning  Describe how one or more of these areas may be connected to your future career goals.  Major Topics (1 to 2 pages for each major topic) Communicate the extent to which the six major topics of learning and cognition affect related sub-topics by synthesizing the course learning principles and/or theories. Consider how these sub-topics may be related to your future career goals. For instance, if you intend to become an applied behavior analyst, behaviorism and related technique for learning may be directly connected to your future role. For each major topic, apply basic research methods and skeptical inquiry to explain the theoretical perspectives and empirical research that substantiate the relationship between the topic and at least two related sub-topics. In your review, consider how these topic and sub-topics are directly connected to evaluations and interventions in psychology practice in various fields. Focus on the areas most related to your future area of practice, paying particular attention to how theories are examined in research studies. The following are some sub-topics to consider: •Comprehension •Operant and classical conditioning •Behaviorism •Social learning theory •Problem solving •Memory development/retention •Lifelong learning •Individual and group learning •Organizational learning •Mentorship •Apprenticeship models of learning •Effects of demographic differences (e.g., gender, socioeconomics, religious affiliation, race) on learning  Although creative liberties are encouraged, all information incorporated should be supported and professionally presented through the consistent application of ethical principles and adherence to professional standards of learning and cognition psychology as applied to the chosen audience.  Conclusion (200 to 300 words) Summarize the importance of the topics within the learning and cognition domain and their applicability within the psychology profession for the chosen audience.  Attention Students: The Masters of Arts in Psychology program is utilizing the Pathbrite portfolio tool as a repository for student scholarly work in the form of signature assignments completed within the program. After receiving feedback for this Learning and Cognition Handbook, please implement any changes recommended by the instructor, and go to Pathbrite (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to upload the revised Learning and Cognition Handbook to the portfolio. (Use the Pathbrite Quick-Start GuidePreview the document to create an account if you do not already have one.) The upload of signature assignments will take place after completing each course. Be certain to upload revised signature assignments throughout the program as the portfolio and its contents will be used in other courses and may be used by individual students as a professional resource tool. See the Pathbrite (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website for information and further instructions on using this portfolio tool.  The Learning and Cognition Handbook •Must be 12 to 15 pages in length (see instructions and rubric for each section and sub-topic) following the Learning and Cognition Handbook templatePreview the document as a guide. Although a handbook differs from a written paper, all citations and references must be formatted according to APA style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. •Must include a title page with the required information from the handbook template: ◦Title of handbook ◦Student’s name ◦Institution’s name ◦Course name and number ◦Instructor’s name ◦Date submitted  •Must use at least six scholarly sources in addition to the required resources. ◦The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.  •Must include the sections and subsections required as indicated in the handbook template. •Must address the topics with critical thought and substantiated assertions. •Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. •Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..