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2. EDU 675 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment Professional Development and Research EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional Learning Communities EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture and Differentiated Instruction EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the Professional Learning Community EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking Questions EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Strategies to Build Culture

3. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment Professional Development and Research For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Professional Development and Research. Search the University Library databases for two articles discussing the benefits of a professional learning community to school culture and examine Figure 2 of your text, Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision. Using this research, design a professional development plan for your school that will positively impact school culture. In a three- to five-page paper, discuss the following:

4. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional Learning Communities For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Professional Learning Communities. A significant part of differentiated instruction implementation is created through professional development. Complete the “Creating and Sustaining a Professional Learning Community” checklist in Chapter 1 of Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision (2nd ed.). How

5. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture and Differentiated Instruction For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com School Culture and Differentiated Instruction. View the video, Transforming a School into a Professional Learning Community. Considering your required readings and this video, what effects do differentiated instruction and professional learning communities have on school culture? How does differentiated instruction reflect the attitudes and values of a school building? How can

6. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the Professional Learning Community For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Implementing the Professional Learning Community. Consider the benefits of the activities proposed in your discussion of professional learning communities. How can you implement these activities in your organization, or how will you implement them in a future position that you will hold within an organization? Why would these benefit your organization or a future organization? What do you feel will be the outcome of this collaboration?

7. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Critical Thinking Questions. After reading Chapters II-1 and II-2 of Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice: Training, Implementation, and Supervision, you will answer the following reflective questions that will require you to think and respond critically. In a two- to five-page paper, address the questions below, using specific examples from your professional experience, and cite the book when possible.

8. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Strategies to Build Culture For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Strategies to Build Culture. Select a strategy that can be used for building relationships within an educational or work setting. After selecting this strategy, use the University Library databases to locate two articles that focus on using this strategy in either the classroom or in a professional development setting. In a three- to five-page paper, not including title and

9. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job Embedded Learning For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Job-Embedded Learning. How does your school or workplace use job-embedded learning? After reading Chapters II-1 and II-2, discuss two strategies that you would offer to your administrator or supervisor to increase engagement in job-embedded learning. How will these strategies increase the effectiveness of job-embedded learning at your school or workplace? Discuss your rationale for choosing these two strategies.

10. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 2 Four Corners For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Four Corners. What is the purpose of the Four Corners strategy? How could it be used in a classroom? How could it be used in a professional development setting? Conceptualize and summarize how the Four Corners strategy may be used to develop a concept of interest to you, keeping an intended audience in mind (i.e., students or colleagues). Include various leadership aspects and incorporate differentiated instruction techniques into your concept. For example,

11. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 2 Journal Encouraging Team Building Throughout the Year For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Encouraging Team Building Throughout the Year. Identify three ways in which you feel you can encourage team building throughout the year. Assume that you are an administrator or a teacher leader at a school. What additional managerial tasks could you use in order to maintain the effectiveness of this team building? How would these tasks encourage growth and collaboration between teachers throughout the year?

12. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 3 Assignment Using Assessment and Feedback For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Using Assessment and Feedback. Using ProQuest or other online sources, compile at least five references related to assessment and feedback strategies for differentiated instruction in a gifted classroom. Assume that you are a teacher in a gifted classroom with students who exhibit multiple intelligences represented among your students. In a three- to five- page paper, select and discuss a pre-assessment and post- assessment that would differentiate instruction to support your

13. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 1 Multiple Intelligences For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Multiple Intelligences. Review the information on the Multiple Intelligences interactive chart and click on the “Take a Test” tab. Complete the test and view your results. Share your results with your classmates. How will the results impact your own choices for learning? Do you believe your education would have been improved if your own teachers had differentiated instruction based on your multiple intelligences? What influence do the theories of multiple

14. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 2 Assessment Strategies For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Assessment Strategies. Analyze the assessment strategies presented in your reading and within your research on differentiated instruction. Identify two assessment strategies that may be used to differentiate instruction in a low-performing school. How do these assessment strategies benefit a high-performing student in a low-performing class? Would you use the same assessment strategies in a high-performing class that contained one or more low-performing students? Provide rationale for your answers.

15. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 4 Assignment Critical Thinking Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Critical Thinking Questions. After reading Chapters II-5 through II-8 of Differentiated Instructional Strategies in Practice, you will answer the following reflective questions that will require you to think and respond critically. In a two- to five-page paper, address the following questions using specific examples from your professional experience and cite the textbook or other scholarly resources.

16. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 1 Adjustable Assignments, Compacting, and Grouping For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Adjustable Assignments, Compacting, and Grouping. How are adjustable assignments, compacting, and grouping used in differentiated instruction? Provide a brief summary of, as well as a strategy for implementing, each technique discussed in the reading. Imagine that you are providing professional development on these topics. Which strategies from your reading would you use? Which strategies would you omit if time constraints did not permit you to use all of them?

17. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 2 Graphic Organizers For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Graphic Organizers. Chapter II-6 of your text discusses several graphic organizers that can be used for student success. Which of these have you used with students? Of those you have not used, which would you try in a classroom? How can you differentiate instruction with graphic organizers? Discuss a concept that is important to you. Which graphic organizer would you use to teach this concept to your coworkers?

18. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 4 Journal Personal Reflection For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Personal Reflection. Critically reflect on your work thus far. What have you learned about the uses of differentiated instruction in both the classroom and in professional development? How will you use what you have learned to benefit your organization or an organization that you will work for in the future?

19. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 5 Assignment Critical Thinking Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Critical Thinking Questions. Research three articles that focus on teacher/school leadership. Answer the following reflective questions that will require you to think and respond critically. In a one- to two-page paper, address the following questions, using specific examples from your professional experience and cite the three articles you found throughout the paper. a. What is a teacher leader? How can you lead your organization through your individual capabilities? What leadership principles would you draw on?

20. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 1 Implementing Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Implementing Change. Review Figure 80 in your reading. Describe a situation in your past experience where you implemented change or could have implemented change. How could you use this chart to increase the effects of this change? Was this change process a success? Based on your readings, how could you have increased the likelihood of success in this

21. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 2 Managing Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Managing Change. Change can be difficult for some people. Think about a change you would like to see in your educational or work environment. How would you implement this change? Consider and discuss the possible resistance that you may encounter from your professional community. How would you support people throughout the change process? How would you overcome any resistance to the change?

22. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 5 Journal Teacher Leadership For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Teacher Leadership. Read the required article, “Asking the Right Questions” (Reason, C. & Reason, L., 2007). Reflect on what you have learned about teacher leadership. How can you implement change within an organization? How do you manage this change outside of a designated leadership position?

23. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 6 DQ 1 Supporting Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Supporting Change. How does your work setting sustain morale and commitment from employees in times of change? Is the current support for change in your workplace successful? What strategies for supporting change in your work environment would you provide to your administrators? Why did you select these strategies? Support your discussion with references from the required reading.

24. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 6 DQ 2 Managing vs. Supporting Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Managing vs. Supporting Change. Identify a change that is presently occurring in your organization and provide your classmates with a background for the rationale behind this change. If you were assigned to support and manage this change, how would you do this? What would you do differently in managing and supporting this change? Provide rationale for your decisions based on the reading and one additional source.

25. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 6 Final Paper Differentiated Instruction Research Papera For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Differentiated Instruction Research Paper During each week of this course, you will research and analyze differentiated instruction and the leadership principles necessary to implement effective professional development for understanding differentiated instruction. Using the assignment in Week Five as the foundation for your Final Paper, identify an area in need of

26. EDU 675Competitive Success/snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through Professional Learning Communities For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through Professional Learning Communities

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