Education
Professional learning community
Submit the assignment by 11:59 PM PT Sunday of Module 1.
In this assignment, you will create and survey a target audience in an educational setting of your choice using two types of needs assessments – one to determine professional development needs and the other to determine readiness for collaborative participation in a professional learning community.
Create a 4 to 5-page paper (not including title and references pages) in a Word document for your response.
Use APA format for the paper, title page, references page, and in-text citations.
Develop an introduction and conclusion for your paper.
Follow the directions to submit your final Word document.
Determining Needs and Readiness
Selecting a Target Audience
Select and introduce a target audience in an educational setting to survey and determine (1) professional learning needs and (2) readiness for participation in a collaborative professional learning community. Identify the type of educational organization, the number of staff members surveyed, and their roles in the organization. NOTE: The target audience for your needs assessment may be an entire staff, department, or small group of coworkers. Summarize your purpose for administering the survey.
National State Learning Standards
A large part of a teacher’s responsibility is lesson plan development. The practice of being prepared with well thought out lessons can support learners in meeting learning outcomes.
For this assignment, use the grade level PRE-K. Develop a lesson plan using the “COE Lesson Plan Template” that prepares students for learning and is meaningful and appropriate. Consider your field experiences as you develop your lesson plan. I used Standard LDC 12e, which are standards for the state of South Carolina. LDC 12e: Demonstrate an interest in learning the alphabet.
The lesson plan must focus on a minimum of one standard LDC 12e within any selected content area. Include differentiated instruction for above average and below average students, and the use of assistive technology for the instruction and assessments. Additionally, include an engaging homework practice activity to continue learning at home that involves the children’s families. Ensure the pre-assessment data was ethically utilized to determine appropriate content area, standards, and differentiated needs for instruction provided.
Disabilities Education Act
When submitting your original contribution, you should also include a summary of the project. Describe the logistics of the plan (when, where, how, for whom it was designed, etc.) Also describe why you chose this particular project and how it is connected to your ACE coursework.
The original contribution, an open-ended project, demonstrates your ability to create a unique product to support your field of study. No pre-approval is required.
Your planning should be original for you. Though it may contain 25% of a previously completed course assignment, the product should exhibit significant expansion of the initial idea.
Examples:
Conduct a professional development training session for your school/city/professional organization (documented with agenda/PowerPoint/evaluations as all three are required).
Create a professional multimedia presentation and share your work through an online platform or comparable form of communication/media.
Create your own blog or webpage to post your contribution (your name must be posted as the author).
Integrating technology in learning
For the final project, design an instructional lesson plan incorporating all of the learnings and emerging technologies you have explored in this course. Keep in mind the students that you will be teaching this lesson to and how best to engage them in the learning of your content.
Choose any content that you are interested in teaching and choose any grade level. Focus on the skill or concept and design the lesson integrating the technology. Refer to the technology project and the emerging technology assignments and incorporate them into your lesson.
The lesson plan should include details and should be between 5-8 pages. Spelling and grammar are of utmost importance.
Instructional Lesson Plan Components.
Design for a blended learning model – face to face and/or virtual. Include the content, grade level and time span. Include details on technologies students need to have access to for the course. (1-2 pages).
Describe how you plan to teach the lesson and how students will navigate through the learning. You can choose to create a table to provide details of the interactivity and timeline. (2-3 pages).
Include audio/visual media that you have created to support teaching and learning. Describe how you plan to use it in your lesson plan. (1 page).
Plan for an assessing student learning – quiz, project or visuals. (1-2 pages).
Aligning Professional Learning
In this assignment, you will work from the topics identified in the proposal (Module 2) to plan a customized professional learning experience for the target audience. As a part of the planning process, you will research the vision and mission statements of the educational organization and use them as models to compose vision and mission statements for professional learning.
Create a 6 to 8-page paper (not including title and references pages) in a Word document for your response.
Use APA format for the paper, title page, references page, and in-text citations.
Develop an introduction and conclusion for your paper.
Follow the directions to submit your final Word document.
Part 1: Aligning Professional Learning, Vision, and Mission
As a part of the planning process for a customized professional learning experience for the identified target audience, locate the vision and mission statements for the educational organization.