Describe the culture of your organization and whether cultural differences exist within the various units of your organization.What is your role within the organization and how is this different from your actual job description?

EDUC745-Discussion Thread: Using the Cultural Theories Lens

Questions

Describe the culture of your organization and whether cultural differences exist within the various units of your organization.

How does your organization develop consensus on mission, tasks, and goals?

What is your role within the organization and how is this different from your actual job description?

Critically evaluate different theoretical approaches to language and communication development.

Critically evaluate different theoretical approaches to language and communication development.

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Discuss your personal epistemology (epistemic cognition) and how this has influenced your teaching practice (30%); (b) Critically evaluate your teaching practice and identify measures to enhance this, supporting your answer with evidence from educational literature (70%).

Discuss your personal epistemology (epistemic cognition) and how this has influenced your teaching practice (30%); (b) Critically evaluate your teaching practice and identify measures to enhance this, supporting your answer with evidence from educational literature (70%).

What did the evidence suggest based on the interactions between the instructor and the home daycare kids and the anticipated outcomes?

Strategic Mentoring Plan

What did the evidence suggest based on the interactions between the instructor and the home daycare kids and the anticipated outcomes?

What type of learning experience and teaching will allow the instructor and the home daycare kids to achieve their objectives?

What type of learning experience and teaching will allow the instructor and the home daycare kids to achieve their objectives?

What resources are required to meet the requirements of both the instructor and the home daycare kids?

Were are the new techniques that were applied effectively?

Was there any change as a result of the outcome?

What are some other concerns that may be addressed to improve the situation?

What are the adjustments that must be made?

What will be the distinction?

What will happen if the home daycare kids do not achieve their objective?

What will happen if do not achieve my goal?

Brief description of two court cases about parental rights and students’ educational rights such as FERPA, IDEA, or rights of students in public charter schools or private schools:Discuss?

Special Education Law Presentation

Use the “Special Education Law Presentation Video Template” to outline the video. Your video presentation should consider the parental/guardian audience, be clear, and follow the “Professional Dispositions of Learners.”

Include the following in your video:

Brief history of special education before the 1970’s and from the 1970’s to present day  referencing appropriate judicial decisions.

Brief description of two court cases about parental rights and students’ educational rights such as FERPA, IDEA, or rights of students in public charter schools or private schools:Discuss?

At least 3-4 recommended resources including at least one from the state in which you will teach(New Jersey) to stay up-to-date with current legal trends in special education

What types of activities or problems require divergent thinking? What activities or problems require convergent thinking?How would you explain the “creative process” to the families of the children you teach?

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What types of activities or problems require divergent thinking? What activities or problems require convergent thinking?

How would you explain the “creative process” to the families of the children you teach?

What are the four Cs that children gain from creative activities?

What skills will children need in the 21st century and why?

Why is it important for teachers to have the “sense of wonder” that is identified in the video, The Importance of Wonder

What could Riverbend leadership do to improve the strategic planning processes that enhance cultural understanding among stakeholders and the community?

Case Study: Riverbend

Write a 5-7 page analysis describing how a case study reveals the five disciplines and systems archetypes, as well as the relationship between cultural context and the organizational change inquiry processes.

How do organizations use research to gather and record data in ways that extend organizational learning and communication?

How do organizations employ interpretive processes to understand data and analyze the way the data reveals organizational features and patterns?

How do learning organizations use research to plan and implement practical solutions to problems?

Using the lens of one or more of the four core disciplines (personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision), analyze the extent to which each discipline reveals organizational dynamics and contributes to organizational learning or to the organization’s problems.

How could the four disciplines be fostered to have a more beneficial impact on the organization?

Analyze the organizational disabilities and systems archetypes present in the case.

Explain and map at least one example of a systems archetype that can be seen in the case. Include at least one systems map as part of your explanation.

Explain how the four-stage change process could be applied to the case.

What could Riverbend leadership do to improve the strategic planning processes that enhance cultural understanding among stakeholders and the community?

Provide a set of specific practical recommendations about how the CEO should proceed in a way that furthers the goals of supporting increased cultural understanding among stakeholders and the community.

Explain how an action research inquiry cycle that incorporates the recommendations could be planned, implemented, and evaluated for the next phase of organizational improvement.