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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
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EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment Professional
Development and Research  
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
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EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional Learning
Communities  
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
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EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture and
Differentiated Instruction  
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
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EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the
Professional Learning Community  
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,
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EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking
Questions  
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,
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EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job Embedded Learning  
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
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EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 2 Four Corners  
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,
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EDU 675 Week 2 Journal Encouraging Team Building
Throughout the Year  
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
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EDU 675 Week 3 Assignment Using Assessment and
Feedback  
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
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EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 1 Multiple Intelligences  
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
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EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 2 Assessment Strategies  
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
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EDU 675 Week 4 Assignment Critical Thinking
Questions  
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.
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EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 1 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
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EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 2 Graphic Organizers  
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?
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EDU 675 Week 4 Journal Personal Reflection  
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?
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EDU 675 Week 5 Assignment Critical Thinking
Questions  
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?
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EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 1 Implementing Change  
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 situation? Describe
a situation that you have encountered where a
supportive response may have increased your
adaptability to change.
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EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 2 Managing Change  
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?
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EDU 675 Week 5 Journal Teacher Leadership  
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?
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EDU 675 Week 6 DQ 1 Supporting Change  
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.
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EDU 675 Week 6 DQ 2 Managing vs. Supporting
Change  
  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.
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EDU 675 Week 6 Final Paper Differentiated
Instruction Research Papera  
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
professional development for differentiated
instruction at your worksite. In a paper that is
at least eight pages in length, excluding
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EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through
Professional Learning Communities  
EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through
Professional Learning Communities
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