For this assignment, you will explore and critically interact with linguistic or language acquisition theory

For this assignment, you will explore and critically interact with linguistic or language acquisition theory. 

First, choose a topic related to these categories (suggestions below): a current or seminal/significant article, a school of linguistic theory, an approach to language acquisition, or an influential linguistic or development theorist. For example if you are primarily interested in pedagogy, you may wish to look at an article about a practical approach to language acquisition in the classroom. If you are more interested in linguistic theory, you may choose to research the transformational/generative school of linguistics or an article by Noam Chomsky. 

After completing your research, you will create a multimedia presentation in which you will summarize and analyze this topic. Remember to connect your presentation to the course and to be creative! Your presentation should have both audio and video elements, such as a video presentation, a narrated Powerpoint, or a Web site with embedded video.

The following examples represent three different approaches that previous students have taken to this assignment. Don’t simply imitate these examples, but feel free to refer to them as successful model presentations.

1. A narrated Powerpoint presentation on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: Presentation Student Sample 1, Sapir-Whorf.pptx Click for more options

2. A website on Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction and Of Grammatology:http://derridaproject.weebly.com/

3. A Prezi presentation on “The Universal Grammar”:https://prezi.com/8l4_cql2nfsx/untitled-prezi/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Language Structure and Acquisition Theorists, Theories, and Topic Suggestions for presentation:

(Suggestions only)

-Noam Chomsky

-Ferdinand de Saussure

-Jacques Derrida

-George Lakoff

-B. F. Skinner

-Lev Vygotsky

-Structural Linguistics

-Transformational/Generative Linguistics

-Cognitive Linguistics

-Prescriptive/Traditional Linguistics

-The “universal grammar”

-Behaviorism

-Social Interactionism

-Relational Frame Theory

-Chunking

-Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Linguistics 

-Corpus Linguistics

-Signed Languages 

-The Reading Wars

-Schema Theory 

**Please refer to the rubric attached for what is expected of presentation

**Please include scholarly references in presentation

 
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Memo To Successor

According to Bolman and Deal (2017), “Successful change requires an ability to frame issues politically, confronting conflict, building coalitions, and establishing areas for negotiating differences into workable pacts” (p. 376).

For this 1 page discussion, write a memo to the imaginary successor for your position at the university. Describe in detail what it would take to thrive as a political leader at your university or in your school within the university. Be specific about working within the organizational system and with particular colleagues. What is the source of political power in your organization? Is the political environment in your organization a positive or negative force?

 
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Assignment: Final Reflection

Throughout this course, you have explored the use of various forms of literature to understand areas of women’s life experience. Consider how each author achieved a piece of a social change vision through her work.

Looking at the topics and literature collectively, how will you regard women’s literature after this course has ended? Are you eager to explore the works of a particular author further? When reading literature in the future, you might consider intentions or outcomes related to social change.

To prepare for this Assignment:

  • Consider the form and style of the literature you have been exposed to throughout this course.
  • Review literary techniques in the “Glossary of Terms and Techniques for Literature and Creative Writing” document, located in this week’s Learning Resources. What techniques have been particularly appealing to you as a reader?
  • Review assignments throughout this course. What insights have you gained from the readings, the Discussions, and the Assignments with regard to women’s literature and social change? What resonated deeply and why?

The Assignment:

Write a literary piece in a form used in this course (essay, personal narrative, short story, poem, song lyrics) that summarizes your learning from the readings, research, Assignments, and Discussion activities in this course. Address the following items in your work:

  • In light of the resources you have been exposed to throughout this course, in what ways is women’s literatureimportant to efforts for social change?
  • Consider why the medium of literature will continue to be important for women to express social issues and concerns. What future trends do you foresee in women’s literature?
  • Include three new insights you gained from this course.

The Reflection must be a substantive piece of literature 1–2 pages in length.

 
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Domain 3: Instruction And Communication

Teachers who excel emphasize the importance of learning and the significance of the content. The components in this domain relate to the engagement of students with content such as:

Communicating Clearly and Accurately
Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques
Engaging Students in Learning
Providing Feedback to Students
Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness

Review:

Review the information on effective instructional strategies provided at the following link:

https://www.robeson.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01000307/Centricity/Domain/53/Marzanos%20High%20Yield%20Instructional%20Strategies.pdf

Additional Readings:

Read the attached documents on Instruction.  All of these should be used for response questions and the following assignments for this module.  They are also great resources for techniques to use in the classroom for student engagement.

Attachments

· Blooms_Taxonomy_Action_Verbs.pdf

· Bloom_s_Taxonomy.doc

· Backwards_Design_and_Unpacking_Standards.ppt

· Questioning_Strategies.doc

· Involvement_Strategies.doc

· Cooperative_Learning.doc

· DOK_Chart.pdf

· Student_Engagement.ppt

· Instructional_Strategies.ppt

· Essential_Nine_Instructional_Stategies.docx

Videos and Media

Video One:

Hook/Activator Stations

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/hook-stations?fd=0

Video Two:

Moving around Vocabulary Activity

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/kick-me-making-vocabulary-interactive?fd=0

Video Three:

Learning through Songs

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/say-it-with-a-song?fd=0

Video Four:

Keeping Engagement through Self-Reflection

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/student-engagement-in-language-arts?fd=1

Video Five:

How Your Body Language Draws Them In

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/body-language-engage-motivate?fd=1

Video Six:

Differentiation – MUST!

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/new-teacher-survival-guide-differentiating-instruction?fd=1

Response Questions – COMPLETE

Response Question One: Summarizing and Notetaking

Summarizing and Notetaking: How is that working in your classroom? What is working well, and what could be improved? Do you have advice for others? Is there anything you want others to give you tips on? Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.

Response Question Two: Language of the Standards

When teachers need to speak the language of the standards, but provide instruction that is accessable to the students, how can that gap be bridged, and what hurdles do you face in doing so? What strategies do you find helpful? Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.

Response Question Three: Differentiation of Lessons

Differentiation of lessons is essential to accommodate all multiple intelligences within the classroom.  Differentiation to the beginning teacher, however, can be a difficult and daunting skill to master. What techiniques have you found effective in the classroom to meet the requirements of component 3c, while accommodating all learning styles? Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.

Response Question Four: Marzano’s Instructional Strategies

Discuss the nine instructional strategies that Marzano presents in the attachment above. For each of the nine strategies, explain how you personally incorporate this into your teaching, or plan to incorporate it now. Explain your desired outcomes from utilizing the strategies. Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.

Assignments – COMPLETE

Assignment One:

Write a two-page reflection using the attachments you read above on Depth of Knowledge levels and Bloom’s Taxonomy that shows how you could frame an entire unit for your subject area creating questioning activities on all levels of the D.O.K. wheel and the sections of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Explain what your students would be actively doing in the classroom to meet the appropriate levels of mastery on each question. Using the D.O.K. levels and Bloom’s Taxonomy along with the tiering and scaffolding you learned about for differentiation is one of the most effective methods teachers can use in the classroom for reaching ALL students at the appropriate levels. Attach your response here or upload a word document using your last name as an identifier.

 
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