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EDU 675 Entire Course For more classes
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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
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EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment Professional
Development and Research For more classes
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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
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EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional Learning
Communities For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.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
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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
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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?
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EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking
Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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.
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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
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EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job Embedded Learning For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Job-Embe
dded 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.
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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,
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EDU 675 Week 2 Journal Encouraging Team Building
Throughout the Year For more classes
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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?
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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
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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
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EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 2 Assessment Strategies For
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nt 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.
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EDU 675 Week 4 Assignment Critical Thinking
Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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.
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EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 1 Adjustable Assignments,
Compacting, and Grouping For more classes
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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?
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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?
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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?
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EDU 675 Week 5 Assignment Critical Thinking
Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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?
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EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 1 Implementing Change For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Implemen
ting 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
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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?
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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?
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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.
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EDU 675 Week 6 DQ 2 Managing vs. Supporting
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om   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 For more classes
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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
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EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through
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6 Journal Leadership Through Professional
Learning Communities
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