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EDU 675 Innovation is Our Tradition

• EDU 675 Entire Course (Ash)
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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
• EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the
  Professional Learning Community
• EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking
  Questions

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EDU 675 Innovation is Our Tradition

• EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment Professional
  Development and Research (Ash)
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• 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.

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• EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional Learning
  Communities (Ash)
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• 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.).

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• EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture and
  Differentiated Instruction (Ash)
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• 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?

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• EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the
  Professional Learning Community (Ash)
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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?

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• EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking
  Questions (Ash)
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• 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.

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• EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Strategies to Build
  Culture (Ash)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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?

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• EDU 675 Week 3 Assignment Using Assessment and
  Feedback (Ash)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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.

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• EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 2 Graphic Organizers (Ash)
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• 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.

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• EDU 675 Week 4 Journal Personal Reflection (Ash)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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?

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• EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 2 Managing Change (Ash)
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• 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.

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• EDU 675 Week 5 Journal Teacher Leadership (Ash)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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.

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