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Supporting Diversity through 21st Century Teaching and Learning

This assignment re- introduces you to the framework of 21st century skills that you will consider each week as you work to redesign prior coursework for your ePortfolio. Note that a similar format is followed for each of the assignments in this course. You will upload this assignment to the course for evaluation and to your ePortfolio. (i can upload it myself, once you done)

Specifically, after reviewing the Framework for 21st Century Learning  http://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21 , you will redesign or modify a prior assignment from one of your courses in the master’s program that represents your mastery of your programs learning outcomes (MAED or MASE). An assignment you may want to redesign could be in the form of a lesson plan or teaching unit you previously created for a course. Your redesign of the assignment must show a representation of 21st century learning through incorporation of student outcomes and support systems, which are defined as follows:

  • Student Outcomes: Learning and Innovations Skills (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity), Core Subjects 3Rs and 21st Century Themes, Information, Media, and Technology Skills, Life and Career Skills.
  • Support Systems: Standards and assessments, curriculum and instruction, professional development, learning environments.

When selecting an assignment to redesign, think about how the assignment should consider the diverse strengths, differences, cultures, and communities of students while offering a safe, collaborative, engaging, and inclusive learning environment. If you do not have previous work to use for this assignment, please contact your instructor for guidelines on how to proceed. As needed, refer to your program learning outcomes (PLOs) list (MAED, or MASEPreview the document).

NOTE* Before you select the PLO’s you will highlight in this assignment, be sure to read the final assignmentPreview the document for this course to ensure that you will cover each of your programs PLOs adequately.

In your paper,
Create your assignment to meet the content and written communication expectations noted below.

Content Expectations

The Redesign expectations explain what you are required to do with the prior coursework you choose to redesign. The Summary expectations are for the separate written portion of this assignment.

  • Redesign – Outcomes (2 Points): Redesign of the lesson plan or teaching unit includes at least one component of the following 21st Century Student Outcomes: Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes, Learning and Innovation Skills, Information, Media, and Technology Skills, and Life and Career Skills.
  • Redesign – Support Systems (1 Point): Redesign of the lesson plan or teaching unit includes at least one component of the following 21st Century Support Systems: 21st Century Standards, Assessment for 21st Century Skills, 21st Century Curriculum and Instruction, and 21st Century Learning Environments.
  • Summary – Introduction/Conclusion (1 Point): A one paragraph introduction to the summary that concisely presents the scope and organization of the summary writing, as well as a one paragraph conclusion that recaps your summary’s key points.
  • Summary – Modification (1 Point): For each revision, summarize in a paragraph how you revised the activity to address the components of 21st Century Student Outcomes and 21st Century Support systems. Explicitly state how your redesign assignment provides evidence of mastery of at least two PLO’s from your master’s program. .
  • Summary – Reflection (1 Point): In one page, reflect on your experience with the redesign in terms of challenges you encountered and how you overcame those challenges, including any difficulties experienced in revising to address the components of 21st Century Student Outcomes and 21st Century Support systems.

Written Communication Expectations

  • Page Requirement (.5 points): Three pages, not including title and references pages.
  • APA Formatting (.5 points): Use APA formatting consistently throughout the assignment.
  • Syntax and Mechanics (.5 points): Display meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics such as spelling and grammar.
  • Source Requirement (.5 points): Reference three scholarly sources in addition to the course textbook.
 
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 Thematic Project Plan

For your Final Paper for ECE642, you will create a one-week thematic unit. “Thematic teaching supports children in forming connections among individual bits of information. These connections contribute to children’s concept development and are the most important reason to use themes/projects as part of your program” (Kostelnik, Soderman, Whiren, & Rupiper, 2015, p. 512). For this discussion, you will create your plan, in outline form, for that unit. The purpose of creating your outline early on is to elicit thinking about the content you will include and how you will organize your thematic unit. It is also important for you to choose a theme this early in the course. In the coming weeks you will be creating lesson plans to add to your thematic unit, and it is important that each lesson is based around the same theme for proper alignment in your summative.

Subsequently, a secondary purpose for this discussion is intentional collaboration with your peers. Each of you comes to class with various perspectives and ideas, and as such can provide valuable feedback.  While you do not have to implement feedback from your peers, you might find that working together will provide you with expanded ideas. You are highly encouraged to implement the feedback provided by your instructor in the gradebook.

Use the bullet points below to guide your plan for your Final Paper. Use each of the following bullet points below as your headings and under each what your plan is for addressing each:

  • Title:
  • Create a title that includes the theme of your unit.
  • Age/grade level:
  • Identify the age or grade level your unit will cover and why.
  • Standards:
  • Summarize how the standards align with your unit.
  • Overview:
  • Develop an overview of your unit. Include a rationale that describes how the theme you chose is appropriate for the age/grade level, how the theme will support learning and development in this age group, and why theme teaching is important.
  • Philosophy:
  • Explain how your unit aligns with your teaching philosophy.
  • Objectives:
  • Create one objective for each developmental domain included in the unit (i.e., self-regulation, social/emotional, cognitive, physical, and language domains).
 
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“Historical Foundations of Curriculum” Please respond to the following:

  • Review the historical foundations of curriculum and then discuss two movements that had a significant impact on high school curriculum in the 1800s and continue to have an impact today. Speculate on the reasons the movements had and continue to have an impact.
  • Review Table 3.4 “Overview of Curriculum Theorists, 1918—present.” Considering that the textbook claimed that Tyler “…summed up the best principles of curriculum making for the first half of the 20th century,” discuss two theorists that you believe have made a significant contribution to curriculum development. Provide reasons and examples to support your response.
 
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DQ 1: What assessments can be used to assess problematic social behaviors of children? For at least one assessment, describe the age groups it is used with and what the results are intended to demonstrate. Should academic achievement and intelligence be formally assessed at the same time social behaviors are assessed? Why or why not?

DQ 2: Writing behavioral goals for students must be meaningful and teach the desired replacement behavior to help the student reduce misbehavior or disruptive behaviors.

Consider the following scenario:

Jimmy is a five-year-old student in a kindergarten class who has been diagnosed with ADHD. He is often impulsive and shouts out during instruction. When you, the special education teacher, is in the classroom he pulls on your shirt for attention, changes learning stations before time and without permission, and is often off task due to easily being distracted, forgetting that there are classroom rules in place. You have decided to write one measurable behavioral goal for Jimmy to help with classroom behavior. Justify how your goal will help him by including a desired replacement behavior in the goal.

 
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