For this assignment, reflect on how your practice aligns with Program Learning Outcome (PLO 2): Describes and applies scientific inquiry principles for observing, assessing, documenting, and interpreting childrens development. Use your draft document to create a well-written final assignment.

Using

PLO Statement: In a minimum of 500 words, describe the characteristics and purposes of formative and summative assessments of young children and how to apply assessment results to inform planning and learning experiences. This section should be at least one paragraph and refer back to relevant texts and readings. APA citations are required.

Artifact Selection and Rationale: Choose an artifact that demonstrates how you interpret basic assessment findings from formative and summative assessments with the PLO, following the prompts below. Accompany this with a 100-word rationale explaining the context and significance of the artifact, detailing how it aligns with the PLO.

Include specifics about the following:

• Develop responsive learning goals and teaching strategies, in collaboration with families and other professionals, to support individual children.
• Establish communication systems to share the results of childrens developmental assessments and outcomes with relevant stakeholders. Ensure that these communication systems align with the policies and practices of a specific early childhood setting.

Reflecting on your own educational experiencesas a student, educator, or observerwhat academic or instructional challenges have you personally experienced or seen that relate to supporting the needs of diverse learners or creating an inclusive learning environment?

If you were to suggest one specific way schools could improve in helping all students succeed, what would it be and why? Consider strategies that increase student learning, engagement, or access to instructional opportunities.

Feel free to include a Bible verse or link to another video to support your thoughts. Your thread must be at least 300 words.

This assignment requires writing an approximately 14-page essay that includes a literature review, with references formatted according to APA (7th edition). More information will be provided privately.

The Structural Frame provides insight into getting organized, organizational structure and restructuring, and the role of teamwork and types of teams. Each discussion board is developed around a central tenet found in the readings. The writing prompt expects you to demonstrate your mastery of the material and the ability to apply concepts to an example of your choosing from your professional experience.

Writing Prompt

Relying on your professional experiences, you are asked to select an organizational structure and apply MIntzberg’s five-sector model and structural configurations to describe and analyze this organizational structure. You should compare the organizational structure to Mintzberg’s model, determine if all five elements are present, discuss any strengths and weaknesses you identify, and place the organizational structure into one of the structural configurations.

It is likely that the organizational structure you select may not “check all of the boxes” of Mintzberg’s five-sector model or fit neatly into one of the structural configurations. This does not mean the organization and its structure you selected are wrong because most organizations may be lacking in one of these areas, i.e., available financial or human resources or a structure defined by law or policy, for instance.

Be concise in your response to the writing prompt. Think paragraphs and not pages. The response to the writing prompt should be written in a scholarly voice, direct quotes from the readings should be appropriately attributed, and the assignment should be single-spaced.

Please do not use the name of the organization you select.

Introduction

The readings and video in Module 4 are intended to “stir things up” in how you may view organizations. If you did not know the publication date for Peter Drucker’s article, you might have thought it was very recent. Michael O’Malley describes the necessity for organizational development to evolve with institutional practices, which complements the Drucker article. Jimmy Hemmerling’s TED Talk is about organizational transformation, its consequences, and the importance of people.

Writing Prompt

Select one major organization/organizational development theme from one of these three resources. Please describe the theme, explain why you selected it, and why you think it is important.

As always, there is no one correct answer.

Chapter 3 Knowledge Check & Reflection

After reading Chapter 3: Go to page 234 in your Ravid text. Complete Chapter 3 Study Guide (questions 3.1- 3.12). Feel free to use your text and other resources as a guide. After completing the assessment, check your responses using the answer key.

List the questions that you missed (example: question 3.2, questions 3.7, etc…). Only list the questions that you missed. Use the honor system here.

Provide a simple reflection (just a handful of sentences) based on your current comfort level with this material.

Assignment Instructions:

You are on a committee to determine if the local community would support a bond referendum to increase taxes for your school. You need to gain an understanding of the temperature or overall feelings of the community. Write a 1,000-word essay on the sampling procedure that you would follow to assess the situation. Use your local school as an example and in your write up, include the following areas:

• Describe the makeup of your school and community (include cultural description and rough population #’s)
• How could you address this issue using: simple random sample, systematic sample, stratified sample, convenience sample (briefly describe the process that you could use for each).
• Of the options listed above, what would be your best choice and why?
• What is the ideal sample size?
• What sample bias will you have to guard against?
• Include an APA appropriate title page, the body of your essay, and an APA appropriate reference page.

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