How effective assessment practices guide students toward their individual learning goals.

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Elementary teachers frequently develop and implement unit plans designed to enhance students’ learning in English language arts. Successful unit plans consider a broad range of needs, including literacy skills, standards, text selections, students’ unique learning abilities and backgrounds, and sound instructional strategies and assessments.

In this course, you have created three lesson plans that together comprise the basis for a unit on the literature you selected.

For this assignment, create a 500-750 word assessment plan for your unit that includes formative and summative assessments, as well as technology and differentiation.

Include the following in your plan:

  • Describe formative assessment strategies that would be used in each of the lessons you created to gauge student understanding and inform instructional planning.
  • Create a summative assessment activity for the unit that helps students apply their developing ELA skills of reading, writing, speaking, viewing, listening, and thinking to many different situations, materials, and ideas.
  • Discuss the use of digital tools in assessments to promote effective communication, collaboration, and support interactions to meet diverse learning needs.
  • Describe how the formative and summative assessments can be differentiated to meet the diverse learning needs.
  • How effective assessment practices guide students toward their individual learning goals.

In addition, write a 250-500 word reflection on the process of creating a literature unit and explaining how you plan to use research on teaching, professional ethics, and resources available for professional learning to improve student learning in your future professional practice. Cite the “COE Professional Dispositions of Learners,” and the “Model Code of Ethics for Educators” as appropriate.

Support your findings with 2-3 scholarly resources.

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

Discuss the positives and negatives of organizational change.

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Discuss the positives and negatives of organizational change.

This assignment will focus on organizational change and the challenges associated with change. For this assignment you are speaking to an audience and must create a PowerPoint Presentation that addresses the following questions:

  • Discuss the positives and negatives of organizational change.
  • Discuss approaches managers should use with employees to get them to embrace change.

Your presentation should consist of six slides. A seventh slide should be added for references if citations are included in the presentation.

To complete this assignment:

  • Create the following PowerPoint slides. Please note that you are not required to place any images or record any voice narration on your slides.
    • A title slide.
    • An introduction slide that welcomes your listeners and includes what you plan to discuss on slides 3, 4, and 5.
    • A slide listing the potential positive impacts of organizational change.
    • A slide listing the potential challenges to organizational change.
    • A slide for approaches managers may use to help employees embrace change.
    • A summary slide addressing the key points of your presentation.
  • Include comments that you plan to say to your audience in the Notes section below each slide, beginning with your title slide.
  • Include a reference slide as an additional slide if you used any citations.
  • Ensure the total file size is no large than 9 MB to allow it to be uploaded to SafeAssign.

Discuss the theoretical perspectives for understanding families as outlined in Chapter 3 of Hanson & Lynch,

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  • Discuss the impact of disability on family life as outlines in Chapter 5 of Hanson & Lynch, Understanding Families.  Be sure to discuss the facets of family life that you did not originally expect to be impacted by disability.  Next, read the case study on page 107-108 in Hanson & Lynch.  Research and discuss 2 local (local to you) programs and/or supports that may of assistance to this family.

 

  • Describe what a family is, based on your own experiences and preconceived notion of the definition of family.  Then compare this to some of the discussed families in Chapter 1 of Hanson & Lynch, Understanding Families.  Chapter 2 outlines diversity in contemporary families and highlights many of the complex issues that may be easily overlooked.

 

  • Discuss the theoretical perspectives for understanding families as outlined in Chapter 3 of Hanson & Lynch, Understanding Families.  Compare and contract the perspectives presented.  Which theoretical perspectives can you imagine utilizing more often? Least often? Why?

Leading With Purpose: Beginning With The End In Mind

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Part of being a leader is to look critically at yourself to identify your strengths and areas of opportunities for growth. In the last topic, you reflected on your professional dispositions as a leader. You will now reflect on your experience in performing the roles and responsibilities of a successful school leader.

Perform a self-assessment using the rubric portion of the “Instrument for Measuring Leadership Effectiveness.” Referencing your self-assessment, write a 250-500 word narrative discussing the following:

Three or more individual professional leadership skills from the self-assessment that you would like to develop further as you prepare for a career in educational leadership, explaining why you selected them.
The professional requirements in your state for becoming a licensed school administrator and your expected timeline for achieving them. (NOTE: If you are in the Educational Leadership program and not seeking licensure, please explain this in your narrative and you may exclude the licensure requirements and steps.)
Two or more professional organizations or journals you would like to join or subscribe to (or have already joined/subscribed) to help you with your ongoing professional development as a school leader.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. 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. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.