...SPE-359 Characteristics of Learning Disabilities and Strategies to Teach Individuals with LD Benchmark Assessment and Rubric Targeted Essential Learning * Effective teachers utilize a variety of instructional strategies to adapt lessons that enhance the educational development of the learners with LD. (APTS 8, 9; INTASC 1, 2; CEC 4, 8) Assessment Tool Selected * Two Part Project a) Lesson Plan b) Essay Specific Performance/Task(s) Design and implement various effective instructional practices. (APTS 8.1) Differentiate instruction for exceptional children. (APTS 8.5) Evaluate and strategically select curriculum materials and resources that optimize student success. (APTS 8.3) Understand the characteristics associated with a variety of disability categories. (APTS 9.1) Adapt instruction based on student needs. (APTS 9.5) Select and apply evidenced-based instructional strategies to serve students with specific disabilities. (CEC 4.1) Select appropriate supports and adaptations to enable a student with disabilities to access and fully participate in the general education curriculum. (CEC 8.4) Relevancy of Task to Teacher Candidate * Special education teachers must have full knowledge of learners with LD and be able to implement lesson plans modified from research-based instructional strategies. Assessment: Student Prompts/Teacher Directions Individual: LD: The Puzzling Paradox (Benchmark Assessment) a) General practicum information: ...
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...organization is successful. Stefan Smolnik European Business School (EBS) Stefan.Smolnik@ebs.edu David Croasdell University of Nevada, Reno davec@unr.edu begin to identify instruments that can be used to operationalize these measures. Besides presenting some background on KM success, the paper also offers a series of perspectives on KM/KMS success. These perspectives were derived from an analysis of academics and practitioners’ definitions of KM/KMS success. 2. Background on KM Success After summarizing various definitions of KM, Jennex defined KM success as reusing knowledge to improve organizational effectiveness by providing the appropriate knowledge to those who need it when it is needed [13]. KM is expected to have a positive impact on the organization that improves organizational effectiveness. DeLone and McLean use the terms success and effectiveness interchangeably; one of the perspectives proposed in this paper does likewise in respect of KM [7], [8]. Jennex and Olfman summarized and synthesized the literature on KM/KMS’s critical success factors (CSF) into an ordered set of 12 KM CSFs identified from 17...
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...Personal Effectiveness A guide to understanding personal development and effectiveness of enlightened learning 1946 – 2006 1 Contents developing learning growing Roffey Park's approach to personal effectiveness Developing greater self-confidence Self-knowledge Self-awareness Learning through reflection Building relationships and working with others Final thoughts About Roffey Park 2 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 Roffey Park's approach to personal effectiveness Developing personal effectiveness is essential today. Increasingly we need to influence without formal authority and we cannot do this without confidence, clarity of purpose and the communication skills to fully express ourselves. Our roles as leaders or managers – in tough times, or during change – also require that we draw on who we are, as well as what we do to inspire and engage our people. And from coaching through to organisational development, the concept of using your ‘self as an instrument’ is at the heart of bringing about successful individual and organisational change. Roffey Park is a leader in the field of Personal Effectiveness having developed people in organisations for 60 years. Our approach is based on several important assumptions: • That ‘we’re all right as we are’ and that we have within us all that we need to grow and become more effective in the world. • We are naturally predisposed to learn, grow and change in order to maximise our own potential. 2 • We are willing to take responsibility...
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...Gibbs Reflective Assignment On Non-Verbal Communication With A Patient With Demenita Introduction This assignment is a reflective account of my first experience when assisting a patient to eat lunch. For the purpose of this assignment I will refer to this patient as Mrs C to maintain confidentiality and comply with the NMC code (2008). It will discuss the importance of non-verbal communication when providing effective nursing care to the elderly. Description Thoughts and Feelings Evaluation I felt this first experience was very rewarding and a big learning curve for me in caring for others. I was delighted that I had been able to support Mrs C to eat nearly all of her meal which she clearly enjoyed. The ‘protected mealtime’ policy ensured that I had time to dedicate to assist her and as she did not have the ability to feed herself, without my help she would have eaten very little or nothing at all. In order to communicate with Mrs C, I modified the usual rules of communication. I did not speak to Mrs C in an inappropriate way or use elder talk which may have damaged her self esteem and confidence (Argle 1994). I talked to her as I would address any adult but put more emphasis on non-verbal communication which according to Caris Verhallen (1999) is the main way in which humans communicate, in order for her to receive my message, extract the meaning and give me feedback. By holding Mrs C’ gaze I was maintaining communication and encouraging engagement and interaction...
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...Project Plan 7 Task 3: Reflective Piece 10 Effectiveness of My Research Strategy & Project Plan 10 Problems Faced and Learning: 10 Learned Time Management Skills and Reflection Skills: 11 New Learning during the Research Project: Reviewing a Case Study 11 Conclusion from the Case study 13 My Reflections on the Research Questions: 13 References 14 Abstract The point addressed in this research document is the Importance of Planning and Reflection Skills at Postgraduate Level and also an assumption that post graduate students acquire planning and critical reflection skills automatically during their post graduate studies. Planning, critical thinking and reflecting are the pillars of the postgraduate study, managerial work and continuing professional development (CPD). “It is not sufficient simply to have an experience in order to learn. Without reflecting upon this experience it may quickly be forgotten, or its learning potential lost. It is from the feelings and thoughts emerging from this reflection that generalizations or concepts can be generated. And it is generalizations that allow new situations to be tackled effectively.” (Gibbs 1988) Reflection is a key element in any successful planning. You are probably a successful graduate and already have many of the skills required for postgraduate study. But there are some skills that assessed more stringently at postgraduate level, like planning and reflection skills. Task 1: Development of a Research...
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...and outcomes of a service learning project conducted by a group of five students and engaged with a nonprofit organization are described in this paper. The processes and outcomes are evaluated with respect to the effectiveness of service learning as an educational means and the contribution to the nonprofit sector made by service learning initiatives. The findings include the benefit of the initial ambiguity of the service learning project and the benefit of the project outputs to the nonprofit agency. It is concluded that researchers may need to figure out the absolute relationship between initial ambiguity and the effectiveness of a service learning project and that between project outputs and the benefits received by the organization concerned. It is also concluded that researchers need to study how to keep participants’ passion towards the nonprofit sector after completion of their service learning project. KEYWORDS Service learning, volunteering, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises 1. INTRODUCTION The primary goal of this paper is to describe the processes and outcomes of a service learning project conducted by a group of five students and engaged with a nonprofit organization. The processes and outcomes are evaluated with respect to the effectiveness of service learning as an educational means and the contribution to the nonprofit sector...
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...(R) CIFS PYP Assessment Policy Assessment in the PYP PYP Definition: Assessment is the gathering and analysis of information about student performance. It identifies what students know(knowledge), understand(concepts), can do(skills) and feel(attitudes/action) at various stages in the learning process. It is the means by which we analyze student learning and the effectiveness of our teaching and acts as a foundation on which to base our future planning and practice. It is central to our goal of guiding the child, from novice to expert, through the learning process. (Primary Years Program Assessment Handbook, January 2000. © International Baccalaureate Organization) Assessment is an integral part of the PYP curriculum which is the sum total of learning and teaching in schools. It is made up of three closely interrelated components. The written curriculum or What do we want to learn? The five essential elements: knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes and action which the school identifies in the written curriculum. The taught curriculum or How best will we learn? The teaching strategies which will best support the types of learning that the programme seeks to promote. The assessed curriculum or How will we know what we have learned? Approaches to assessment, recording and reporting. (Making the PYP Happen: Figure 3, September 2000. © International...
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...Holistic Health and Wellbeing Describe what your role, responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher in terms of the teaching/training cycle Role, responsibilities and boundaries are evolving qualities within the teacher which are assessed and reflected upon using the teaching/training cycle; a cycle of assessment, planning and review. The main role of the teacher is to facilitate communication in such a way that all students are encouraged to enter into a wider debate surrounding the topic they have chosen. To ensure sessions’ aims and objectives are meaningful and applicable to students the teaching role incorporates ongoing administration and assessment. Assessing varying learning styles within a group and considering learner’s motivations and previous experiences helps identify various teaching methods that could be useful throughout the program. Sessions incorporating visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles ensures students have equal rights to learning and provide the opportunity to re-evaluate what is already known while exploring aims and objectives from a different perspective. I teach holistic health and wellbeing classes where motivations and previous experience constantly change as better health is experienced. My role is to create a safe learning environment to establish open and trusting relationships. Recording changes by completing relevant admin ensures records are up to date in order to evaluate changes to forthcoming aims and objectives. The...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Reflection on counseling 1 Reflection on counseling session recording Chua Ci Jie Introduction to Counselling James Cook University, Singapore Reflection on counseling Reflection on counseling Counseling is interpreted as a therapeutic practice of utilizing dialogue to assist clients in better understand and coping with their individual problems or health issues (Counseling, 2003). The individuality of the counselor has been extensively regarded as a vital tool in the provision of productive counselling sessions (Pieterse, Lee, Ritmeester & Collins, 2013) and has commonly introduced as “self as instrument” (Baldwin, 2000; McWilliams, 2004 as cited in Pieterse, Lee, Ritmeester & Collins, 2013). Therefore, the therapist’s application of self as instrument 2 affirm on the need for the counselor to have a satisfactory measure of self-awareness (Pieterse, Lee, Ritmeester & Collins, 2013). This essay attempts to enhance my individual self-awareness through reflecting on the counselling session, including the micro skills attempted as well as my strengths and weaknesses in conjunction with the micro skills. Biases and personal values are also identified. Counseling Session Opening I focused on trust building and goal setting in the opening section of counseling session to better facilitate the later session. Mutual trust between both the client and therapist is identified to be one of the significant elements to increase the effectiveness of the session...
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...EED 435 Entire Course (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com EED 435 Week 1 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario EED 435 Week 1 Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt EED 435 Week 2 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario Paper EED 435 Week 2 Visual Art Lesson Plan Template EED 435 Week 2 Visual Arts Integration Strategies Template EED 435 Week 3 Drama Lesson Plan Template EED 435 Week 4 Classroom Observation Reflection Paper EED 435 Week 4 Assignment Dance, Movement, and Music Integration Strategies Template EED 435 Week 5 Arts Personal Philosophy Paper EED 435 Week 5 Multicultural Unit EED 435 Week 5 Arts Integration Strategies Presentation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EED 435 Week 1 Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt located on your student website ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EED 435 Week 2 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario Paper (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper based on the scenario you chose from the Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario in Week One. Include the following in your paper: A description of the development stage and critical thinking skills of the children in the scenario you chose An explanation...
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...The organization that I have chosen from the choices that I have been given above is an educational institution. My main reason for choosing an educational institution is because, normally there is much cultural interaction that takes place in this kind of institution as far as the subject is concerned. An educational institution provides us with much cultural diversity as compared to other institutions or organizations like, companies, charitable organizations and even other government bodies among others. Every organization may have a culture, what varies is what type of culture the organization in question has (Davidson & Goldberg 2009). The culture may either be good or bad depending also on the organizational objectives and aim. The educational institution in context can be described to be having more of a good culture to happy staffs or employees. The culture depicted by the organization enables it to achieve its mission and visions. Its culture goes along with a number of criteria which it has adopted in order to achieve its aim. These criteria includes, being strategically relevant as the first point. It also is very strong so as to give the employees and the employers the culture to have the morale that is going to spearhead better performance. Other than the already mentioned, the organization in question in respect to its culture also has got an intrinsic ability that enables to adapt to the various changing circumstances. It should be considered that culture...
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...Team C Weekly Reflection Mgt/498 October 14, 2013 B. Scott Finnell PHD MBA Team C Weekly Reflection This week Team C will discuss comforts and difficulties in the different topics in the chapter reading for this week. We will cover how these topic are relate to application in our fields. After some discussion we have decided that objectives 2.1 measure an organizations internal and external environments using environmental scanning and objective 2.2, Determine relevant business competitive strategies are the easiest parts of the reading this week to understand. The team has decided that most difficult objective to understand is objective 2.4, choose measurement guidelines to verify strategy effectiveness. The team believes that objective 2.1 is easy to understand because it encompasses environmental scanning, this just takes a good look at the organization to help determine the strengths, weakness, and resources available internally. In the reading we began to understand that environmental scanning involves studying an organizations industry or business field along with opportunities and threats from an external perspective. Our team came to the conclusion that 2.1 is basically like the SWOT analysis. Companies should use this objective to scan its market for opportunities and make the essential adjustments or change to remain competitive. When the team analyzed objective 2.1, we had some question regarding how can an organization prepare for a new product,...
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...Critical Reflection and Transformational Leadership Ivan F Rodriguez University of Phoenix Critical Reflection and Transformational Leadership This paper briefly examines the relevance of critical reflection practices in leadership development. Incorporating critical reflective practices in a leadership development program (LDP) helps closing loops assimilating the knowledge, updating reference frames and providing valuable feedback to the decision making and problem solving processes. It is my learned experience that using critical lenses to enable building on previous experiences and to incorporate new learning will perpetrate the transformational leadership (TL) process. The correlation between critical reflection and TL can be explained by the closed loop between outside world and inside world, it is though a reflective process how the leader encourages multiple perspectives that ultimately challenge his or her to excel in complex and uncertain environments. Leadership development practices depend on reflection-in-action. Advancing one step further, TL focuses on how leaders inspire and motivate followers to a higher moral level (Burns, 1978), its essence is inspiring follower’s commitment to achieve the vision of a desired future. TL conveys the “connection between the organization’s philosophy and shared values, and embeds those values in organizational rules and actions in order to communicate meaning and inspire followers” (Bennis and Nanus, 1985, p. 58). The...
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...Department of Management Personal Effectiveness Certificate of Higher Education in Management/ Funeral Management Draft Module Outline (2015/16) Code: FFMN009H4 Term: Autumn and Spring Day – Autumn Term: Tuesday or Saturday (Bloomsbury) Day – Spring Term: Saturday (Bloomsbury) Time: Weekday Evenings 18:00 to 21:00; Saturdays 10:00 Time: Room(s): TBC Code: {{module code}} Term: {{term}} to 17:00 {{day/s}} 6.00pm to 9.00pm Room: {{room}} Lecturers: Ian Harrison Peter Hirsch Keith Mattacks V1:06/07/2015 Table of Contents Personal Effectiveness – Module Overview............................................................................................ 2 Aims and Objectives................................................................................................................................ 2 Learning Outcomes ................................................................................................................................. 2 Key Readings ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Required Reading................................................................................................................................2 Recommended Reading ...................................................................................................................... 2 Journal Articles....
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...Running head: LIFE STYLES INVENTORY PAPER – SELF-DESCRIPTION Life Styles Inventory Paper – Self-Description Keller Graduate School of Management Of DeVry University Abstract Taking the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) was a real eye opening experience for me. I didn’t think I would be so strong in the Aggressive / Defensive, or so weak in the Constructive categories. Thank goodness the styles are not permanent personality characteristics nor intractable; and can change because of new roles, environmental changes, and personal development efforts. According to LSI: The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) identifies the underlying thoughts and motivations that guide an individual's behavior. The quality of an individual's thinking and behavior contributes greatly to that person's work performance. The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is based around the Human Synergistic Circumplex, describing constructive, passive/defensive and aggressive/defensive behaviors. In the LSI, the feedback is normalized against how 9,000 individuals have described themselves (LSI 1) and how 5,000 individuals have been described by 25,000 others (LSI 2). (LSI Human Synergistic www.human-synergistic.com) Moreover, I can trace my results back to my family upbringing, the cultural diversity of my childhood neighborhood, and my career choice. Life Styles Inventory Paper – Self-Description Part 1: Identify your primary and backup personal thinking styles to include a limiting style Is this really me?...
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