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EDU 675 Entire Course(Ash) For more course
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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(Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Prof
essional 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(Ash Course) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Professiona
l 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.).
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EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture and
Differentiated Instruction(Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Scho
ol 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?
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EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the
Professional Learning Community(Ash Course) For
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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(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.
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EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job Embedded Learning(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.
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EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 2 Four Corners(Ash Course)
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m     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).
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EDU 675 Week 2 Journal Encouraging Team Building
Throughout the Year(Ash Course) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.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?
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EDU 675 Week 3 Assignment Using Assessment and
Feedback(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.
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EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 1 Multiple Intelligences(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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?
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EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 2 Assessment Strategies(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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?
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EDU 675 Week 4 Assignment Critical Thinking
Questions(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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(Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Adju
stable 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.
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EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 2 Graphic Organizers(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.
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EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 1 Implementing Change(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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 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(Ash Course)
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m     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(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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(Ash
Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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
Change(Ash Course) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.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.
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EDU 675 Week 6 Final Paper Differentiated
Instruction Research Paper(Ash Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Diff
erentiated 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.
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EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through
Professional Learning Communities For more
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675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through
Professional Learning Communities    
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