Education
Rich home-learning environments
A valuable means for parents to become involved in their child’s education is to provide a rich home-learning environment supporting academic achievement. Increasingly, students navigate among multiple domiciles, with varying levels of academic support. Moreover, research consistently shows the negative impact of absentee fathers on children.
Use the below prompts to guide an original post and responses to at least two classmates.
How do/can you, reach out to parents and help them create rich home-learning environments, while minimizing the action of parents doing work on a student’s behalf?
How do/can you include parents of the non-custodial home to support student academics and/or behavior (e.g., manage school-to-family connections for children dwelling among multiple households)?
Attach your module 4 presentation file or link to your initial prompt response. Request feedback from peers; you may provide a brief one-sentence overview of the presentation.
Interdisciplinary Studies
The purpose of this assignment is twofold:
1. To help you develop a way of explaining “Interdisciplinary Studies,” and
2. To encourage you to develop an identity as an interdisciplinarian.
What To Do
To complete this assignment you will write a short autobiography. It should be about 5 paragraphs long. It should be written in proper academic language with careful attention to writing mechanics. Each paragraph should be fully developed with proper structure: a topic sentence, body sentences, and a concluding sentence.
Here’s is a basic formula of what the autobiography needs to include:
1. A good definition of Interdisciplinary Studies. For this, you MUST refer explicitly to Chapter 3 of your text and to this article here: https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/2017/the-interdisciplinary-life/ (Links to an external site.). Use proper APA or MLA formatting for in-text citations and references. This chapter refers to 2 types of interdisciplinarity (critical and instrumental). Your definition must clearly explain each.
Theories of intelligence
1)Chapters 4 prepares you to understand learners differences through current hierarchical theories, including multiple theories of intelligence. Please discuss three of the guidelines to consider when interpreting IQ tests.
2) The use of labels to describe exceptional children has both positive and negative consequences. Discuss those consequences in terms of their impact on the students and the regular classroom teacher.
U.S. Brain-Gain cities
Read “America’s Top Brain Gain Cities”
Conduct a web search for and read at least one article containing additional information on U.S. Brain-Gain cities and the people migrating to them
Post 1: What Have You Learned?
Citing/referencing the 2+ articles you read on Brain Gain/Brain Drain:
What is brain-gain and what cities are affected?
Do you have a brain gain city in your state?
What type of businesses recruit in brain gain cities?
What cities are losing because of brain gain?
And finally, would you consider moving to a brain gain city? Why or why not?
2. Your initial post (your response to the topic) must contain a citation. It is your ideas supported by research.
Personal philosophy of educational leadership
An effective educational leader has developed a personal philosophy of educational leadership that extends the philosophy they developed as a teacher and can evaluate his or her personal philosophy of education through the contextual lens of history and politics of K-12 education. An understanding of the major historical events, political issues, and trends influencing education in the last 70 years should be reflected in this leadership philosophy. This philosophy influences how the leader manages the strategic planning process and the outcomes of the plan, as well as how the leader integrates diverse philosophies brought forward by stakeholders.