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U.S Government

1) What is the relationship between state departments of education and the Federal Department of Education? 

(Paragraph response 4-5 sentence, 1 scholarly resource)

2) How does a decline in education contribute to a nation’s decline?

(Paragraph response 4-5 sentence, 1 scholarly resource)

3) How does a lack of education contribute to national security concerns? 

(Paragraph response 4-5 sentence, 1 scholarly resource)

Benchmark – Clinical Field Experience D: Leading Leaders In Giving Peer Feedback Related To Teacher Performance

As an administrator, you may be charged with identifying and coaching other school leaders to promote distributed leadership across a school campus.

Allocate at least 4 hours in the field to support this field experience.

For this benchmark assignment, you will continue in the role of the school principal who is developing an instructional leader. Complete a coaching cycle of pre-conferencing, observing, and post-conferencing with a novice instructional leader who is completing the coaching cycle with a classroom teacher. Begin by meeting with the instructional leader and the classroom teacher for a pre-conference, then attend the observation, and follow-up with a post-conference. During each step of the process, evaluate the novice instructional leader on the quality of their feedback, specifically related to school culture and professional respect.

Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the principal mentor and, provided permission, seek opportunities to observe and/or assist the principal mentor.

At the conclusion of the clinical field experience, compose a 750-1,000 word summary and analysis of your experiences.

Include the following:

• Summarize your coaching experiences, demonstrating how you developed and supervised the staff’s instructional and leadership capacity.
• Describe how developing leaders within the school helps focus organizational time on high-quality school instruction and student learning.
• Explain the school’s distributed leadership structure and provide 1-3 recommendations to improve the structure or related policies.

Support your analysis, reflection, and suggested areas of improvement with 2-3 scholarly resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite Technical Support Articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.

Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form in the last topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.

Constitution Day Presentation

1. Create a PowerPoint with 13 slides, providing information about the United States Constitution. to educate a group of students or adults about the core tenets listed below for an upcoming Constitution Day celebration in a school setting
2. You may select a grade level 1-12, teachers, or parents as your audience. Please specify your intended audience and include other pertinent information within your notes. Your presentation should be engaging and appropriate for your chosen audience.
3. Provide slides on the following topics:

• Title Slide
• Basic Structure of the Constitution
• The Rationale to create the United State Constitution
• The Primary ‘Architect’ of the Constitution
• The Powers of Congress
• The Powers of the President
• The Powers of Judiciary
• The Concept of ‘Limited Government’
• Federalism
• The System of Checks and Balances
• The Bill of Rights
• The Constitutional Amendment Process
• Reference Slide

Clinical Field Experience E: Strategic Leadership And Management Functions In Practice

Allocate at least 2 hours in the field to support this field experience.

For this assignment, collaboratively discuss with your principal mentor and at least one other individual at the district or community level what strategies are utilized in obtaining and making the best use of the resources available to the school. This includes human resources, items the school budget pays for, and items that are donated.

Include the following in your discussions:

• Strategies that school administrators can use to maintain a presence in the community to understand its strengths and needs, develop productive relationships, and engage community resources for the school.
• The ethical responsibilities of school administrators in stewarding school resources, being transparent with school resources, and aligning the use of school resources to the schools’ mission and vision.

If possible, participate in a meeting that involves collaborating with the community to leverage resources for the benefit of the students and families your school serves.

Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the principal mentor and, provided permission, seek opportunities to observe and/or assist the principal mentor.

Write a 250-500 word reflection on your experiences. Incorporate PSEL Standards 2 and 8 into your reflection and describe how you will apply what you have learned to your future professional practice.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Applying Social Psychology To Education

answer one of the following questions 1 through 4, and then everyone answer 5.  When answering 1-4, please state the question first so that we all know which one you are answering.

1. What are some of the factors affecting student performance identified in the Dweck presentation? and identify 4 connections from Dweck’s presentation to concepts noted in the ASP chapter on education.

2. Discuss the role that the stereotype threat might play in the development of a social identity.  What are some suggestions from Dr. Steele on how the stereotype threat might be combated? 

3. In the article by Simoni and Drentea, why do you think that higher SES parents were more likely to medicate their  child with ADHD?  What explanation was given by the article? Also compare the concept of “academic self concept” from ASP to the concept “academic ethic.”

4. What are some occupations not sex segregated? (that is close to 50% male/50% female).  Does it hold true when you look into sub-specialties or specific jobs?  Is there an earnings difference?

5. Reflecting on your personal academic experience from grade school through high school, which material spoke to you/resonated the most  and why?  Please use discretion if you choose to discuss personal problems (e.g. failing in school etc).

Video 1: https://ed.stanford.edu/spotlight/live-webcast-feb-18-panel-identity-motivation-and-stereotype-threat

Video 2: https://youtu.be/ATCqh-OjSuw

Video 3: https://youtu.be/failylROnrY