Describe FERPA and what is considered protected information. Explain how FERPA violations could be considered unethical behavior. give specific examples. How can educators avoid FERPA violations?

Week 8: Discussion Question 1 – FERPA

Describe FERPA and what is considered protected information. Explain how FERPA violations could be considered unethical behavior. give specific examples. How can educators avoid FERPA violations?

Guided Response: Choose two peers to respond to. Include your thoughts regarding their examples. Share with your peers at least two additional ways they can avoid FERPA violations.

Discuss how following these principles will help an educator avoid violating the rights of others and possible legal action. Evaluate the relationship between the law and its effects on the staff, school, and students.

Week 8: Assignment – Ethics and Impact of School Law

Assignment Prompt

Throughout this course, we have discussed the rights of students and teachers and related legal cases.

After reviewing the Code of Ethics from the NEA, discuss how following these principles will help an educator avoid violating the rights of others and possible legal action. Evaluate the relationship between the law and its effects on the staff, school, and students.

Throughout this course, we have discussed the rights of students and teachers and related legal cases.

After reviewing the Code of Ethics from the NEA, discuss how following these principles will help an educator avoid violating the rights of others and possible legal action. Evaluate the relationship between the law and its effects on the staff, school, and students.

Review the NEA Code of Ethics, http://www.nea.org/home/30442.htm and choose 3 points from

Principle I: Commitment to the Student and 3 points from Principle II: Commitment to the Profession.

You will then review the cases discussed in this course and match one case to each of your chosen principles and explain the connection. Then evaluate the relationship between the case, the Principle, and our current education system.

The NEA Code of Ethics Written Assignment must include:

Introduction
1-2 well-developed paragraphs for each chosen Principle and corresponding case

Conclusion

Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date Submitted

Must be a total of 8-9 pages in length (not including the title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style.

Must include at least 4 scholarly sources in addition to the course text.

Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style.

 Discuss each case and what protections a teacher may have related to each issue. Are the teachers exercising their legal rights in a valid way? Which right(s) may they be covered by if they are?

Week 7: Discussion Question 1 – Protests and Walkouts

This week we had two videos to review. Each video showcases a disputed issue related to teachers’ rights.

Discuss each case and what protections a teacher may have related to each issue. Are the teachers exercising their legal rights in a valid way? Which right(s) may they be covered by if they are?

Guided Responses: Choose two peers to respond to. In your response, please share your opinion of your peers’ response as well as your opinion on each video.

Choose two peers to respond to.Find one scholarly source or education reference that would support their response. Explain why this resource would further your peers’ posts.

Week 7: Discussion Question 2 – Applying Current Cases

Choose a case from this week’s readings or choose one of your own that relates to this week’s topics that would be relevant in our classrooms today.

Summarize the complaint and verdict and then explain how it would be useful for today’s teachers to be aware of it.

Guided Response:

Choose two peers to respond to.Find one scholarly source or education reference that would support their response. Explain why this resource would further your peers’ posts.

READINGS-

Lecture – Teacher Rights and Employment

Essex: Ch. 10, 2

Supreme Court Ruling Delivers a Sharp Blow to Labor Unions (NY Times)

Teachers’ Rights: Tenure and Dismissal (Findlaw.com)

Supreme Court Lets Stand the Dismissal of a Teachers’ First Amendment Suit (legaldigest.com)

Court Sides with Oregon Principal in Teacher Misconduct Case (US News)

Court Turns Away Teacher’s Facebook Comments Amid ‘Grave Concerns’ About Free Speech Rights (Law.com)

Here are the Reasons Why 76 Teachers lost their N.J. Licenses Last Year (New Jersey, 2018)

Length: At least 200-250 words, not including references
Citations: At least one high-level scholarly or educational reference in APA format

Choose a legal issue in education from this course (i.e. racism, free speech, teacher rights, student rights, etc.). Interview an educator asking questions about their knowledge and experiences with the chosen issue.

Week 7: Key Assignment 3 – Case Studies

Choose a legal issue in education from this course (i.e. racism, free speech, teacher rights, student rights, etc.). Interview an educator asking questions about their knowledge and experiences with the chosen issue.

In your paper include examples of at least 3 legal cases, a description of the law or Constitutional right being addressed, a summary of your interview, and a reflection on how you will protect yourself from possible legal action.

Length: 4-5 pages (not including title and reference pages)
Style: APA style with a title page and reference page with at least 3 references (include references of legal cases)

Choose five chapters from the textbook that were particularly meaningful to you. For each of the five chapters, provide a brief annotation of the chapter (minimum one paragraph) and then a detailed summary (minimum two paragraphs) of how you plan to implement what you learned from the chapter, such as a strategy or idea, in your classroom.

Project Based Teaching: How to Create Rigorous and Engaging Learning Experiences

Description

Choose five chapters from the textbook that were particularly meaningful to you. For each of the five chapters, provide a brief annotation of the chapter (minimum one paragraph) and then a detailed summary (minimum two paragraphs) of how you plan to implement what you learned from the chapter, such as a strategy or idea, in your classroom.

Identify your orientation to learning theory and what you understand that orientation to mean. Include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.

LINKING THEORY AND PRACTICE: TRADITIONAL LEARNING THEORIES

Overview
By completing this assignment, you will explore your personal orientation to teaching and learning.

You will identify this orientation with traditional learning theories and clarify it by imagining learning tasks aligned to it.

Instructions
Start by completing this week’s Interactive Learning Module: Connecting Traditional Learning Theories to Practice, if you have not yet done so.

In this activity, you will make choices within specific situations and will be shown how your choices align with traditional learning theories.

You will also reflect on your results and propose learning tasks for each of the scenarios. Use the results of the activity to frame your approach to this assignment.

You may wish to download your results and the transcript for the activity to reference as you complete the assignment.

For your assignment, write at least one well-developed paragraph for each of the categories of learning activities presented in the Connecting Traditional Learning Theories to Practice module, identifying and explaining your choices and the representative learning tasks you imagined.

Also, in these paragraphs, identify your orientation to learning theory and what you understand that orientation to mean. Include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.

Additional Requirements
References: Support your assertions with references to current, scholarly resources.

You may use your texts as additional references.
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting:

Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. See Evidence and APA.
Length: 2–3 typed, double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

What strategies have you observed that have hindered or helped students to generate meaningful questions that develop their mathematical thinking?How will these observations affect your future practice?

ANSWER STUDENTS RESPONSE FROM TOPIC 2 DQ1 AND TOPIC 2 DQ2 WITH 100 WORDS AND ONE SCHOLAR REFERENCES. THESE ARE SEPARATE ASSIGNMENTS AND SHOULD HAVE THERE OWN REFERENCCES PAGE. YOU MUST INCULDED THE TITLE IN THE TOPIC SO I CAN INDENTIFY THE ASSIGNMENT . WHEN RESPONSING TO STUDENTS SAY HELLO AND USE THE STUDENT NAME.

Topic 2 DQ 1 SPD–570
Through your field experiences in this program, what strategies have you observed that have hindered or helped students to generate meaningful questions that develop their mathematical thinking?How will these observations affect your future practice?

Describe how to generate questions for students while addressing a variety of levels and capabilities of mathematical thinking in an inclusion setting. Explain your choices.

Discuss any challenges the student may face or errors that may be made during these activities. How will you use students’ errors as an opportunity for learning?

Part A
Return to the Virtual Field Experiences from Week 1, titled Voices in the Field: Diversity in Ms. Ramos’s Class (VF1) and Ms. Ramos’s Class: Virtual Field Experience (MR1).

(videos have been uploaded)Select three children and describe what you think their learning strengths and multiple intelligences are based on your observations.

Use specific examples from the videos and support your analysis with information from the resources.

Use the time reference method discussed in Week 1 to support your responses.

Part A recommended minimum length is 1page.

Part B

Review the following second-grade Common Core standard in literacy: English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Literature » Grade 2 » 2

Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Select any two multiple intelligences. For each intelligence selected:

Describe the intelligence and propose an activity that would allow students with strengths in this area to show they have achieved this second-grade standard.

Reflect on how two different activities might allow students to use their strengths to master the same standard. (At least one of these strategies should support or expand learner expression in speaking, writing, or other media.)

Discuss any challenges the student may face or errors that may be made during these activities. How will you use students’ errors as an opportunity for learning?

Discuss the technology tools (if any) that would support this activity.

Support your analysis with information from the resources.

Part B recommended minimum length is 3 pages.