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• EDU 675 Entire Course
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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
• EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Strategies to Build
  Culture
• EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job-Embedded Learning
• EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 2 Four Corners

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• EDU 675 Week 1 Assignment Professional
  Development and Research
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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. 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
• a. Summarize your research and the research in
  Figure 2 (Joyce Showers, 1995).
• b. How is this research applicable to your work
  setting?

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• EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Professional Learning
  Communities
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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.). How
  many of the questions on this checklist are
  present in your current school or workplace?
  Based on the results of this checklist, identify
  and discuss in detail four activities that would
  create and sustain a professional learning
  community in your school or workplace.

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• EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 2 School Culture and
  Differentiated Instruction
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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? How
  can the development of a professional learning
  community and differentiated professional
  development benefit students? Identify two
  examples, one negative and one positive, in your
  school or workplace that affect school culture.
  Identify how a professional learning community

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• EDU 675 Week 1 Journal Implementing the
  Professional Learning Community
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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
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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. In a two- to
  five-page paper, address the questions below,
  using specific examples from your professional
  experience, and cite the book when possible.
• a. What are the benefits to the six-column
  framework for differentiated instruction? How can
  you use this framework in preparation for
  differentiated instruction? How might a leader
  use it to support change or improve instruction?

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• EDU 675 Week 2 Assignment Strategies to Build
  Culture
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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. In a three- to five-page
  paper, not including title and reference pages,
  describe the strategy and summarize the findings
  of the two research articles that you found.
  Discuss how this strategy may benefit the culture
  within your school or workplace to improve
  instruction. Include APA-formatted citations for
  appropriate references or links.

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• EDU 675 Week 2 DQ 1 Job Embedded Learning
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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
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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). Include
  various leadership aspects and incorporate
  differentiated instruction techniques into your
  concept. For example, you can develop a concept
  for teacher training, where leadership plays an
  important role in professional development.

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• EDU 675 Week 2 Journal Encouraging Team Building
  Throughout the Year
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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? How would

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• EDU 675 Week 3 Assignment Using Assessment and
  Feedback
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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. In a three- to
  five-page paper, select and discuss a
  pre-assessment and post-assessment that would
  differentiate instruction to support your
  students multiple intelligences. How would you
  use feedback from these assessments

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• EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 1 Multiple Intelligences
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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? Do you believe your
  education would have been improved if your own
  teachers had differentiated instruction based on
  your multiple intelligences? What influence do
  the theories of multiple intelligence have on
  differentiated instruction? Do you believe that
  learning improves when it is tailored to learning
  preferences, or does it just make learning more
  enjoyable?

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• EDU 675 Week 3 DQ 2 Assessment Strategies
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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? Would you use the same
  assessment strategies in a high-performing class
  that contained one or more low-performing
  students? Provide rationale for your answers.

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• EDU 675 Week 4 Assignment Critical Thinking
  Questions
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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.
• a. What is a successful lesson framework composed
  of? How would this framework vary between two
  different content areas?

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• EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 1 Adjustable Assignments,
  Compacting, and Grouping
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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. Which
  strategies from your reading would you use? Which
  strategies would you omit if time constraints did
  not permit you to use all of them? How would you
  assess the understanding and implementation of
  the training?

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• EDU 675 Week 4 DQ 2 Graphic Organizers
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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. Which graphic
  organizer would you use to teach this concept to
  your coworkers?

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• EDU 675 Week 4 Journal Personal Reflection
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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
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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.
• a. What is a teacher leader? How can you lead
  your organization through your individual
  capabilities? What leadership principles would
  you draw on?
• b. What type of change will you implement in your
  organization or in a future organization

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• EDU 675 Week 5 DQ 1 Implementing Change
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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? 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
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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. 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
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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
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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
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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 Papera
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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. In a paper that is
  at least eight pages in length, excluding title
  and reference pages, research the objectives,
  assessments, strategies, and implementation of a
  professional development plan to address this
  need. Make sure to include

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• EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through
  Professional Learning Communities
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• EDU 675 Week 6 Journal Leadership Through
  Professional Learning Communities

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