SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp

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2. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Entire Course SPE 300 Week 1 DQ 1 How can teachers, support staff, and administration make time for the planning needed to have effective collaboration at a school? How can you ensure that all team members are committed to the team process and are held accountable • SPE 300 Week 1 Individual Assignment Reflection Paper • SPE 300 Week 1 DQ 1 • SPE 300 Week 1 DQ 2 • SPE 300 Week 2 Individual Assignment Disability Presentation • SPE 300 Week 2 Assignment Flow Chart of Referral Process • SPE 300 Week 2 DQ 1

3. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 1 DQ 2 SPE 300 Week 1 Individual Assignment Reflection Paper Write a 350- to 700-word reflection paper on your experiences and beliefs as a student in a classroom with diverse learners. Address the following questions: How was diversity addressed when you were in school? • Explain the process for pre-referral by the general education teacher. • What role does documentation play in this process? Provide examples of documentation.

4. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 2 Assignment Flow Chart of Referral Process SPE 300 Week 2 DQ 1 Define the different types of disabilities according to IDEA? How might having a student with a disability affect your classroom environment? • Create a flowchart showing the referral process in a local school for identifying students with special needs. • Include the steps from prereferral to no further action or to development of an IEP.

5. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 2 DQ 2 SPE 300 Week 2 Individual Assignment Disability Presentation Create a 5- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on the disability assigned to you by your facilitator. Describe the disability and its characteristics. Identify instructional strategies for working with students with this disability. • Describe five characteristics of a student with a learning disability, a student with Mild Autism, and a student with Speech impairment. • In your opinion, which of these characteristics is most challenging for the student?

6. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 3 Assignment Adaptation Chart SPE 300 Week 3 DQ 1 How might you identify: characteristics and needs of gifted and talented learners characteristics of the emotional and behavioral disorders and the attributing factors associated with these conditions? What strategies and interventions might you use to help them be successful in school? • Discuss the disability that each team member presented in Week Two. • Choose a grade level and a content area as a team. • Develop a chart that shows how students with each of these disabilities could be accommodated in the area.

7. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 3 DQ 2 SPE 300 Week 3 Individual Assignment Classroom Observation Resource: Classroom Observation and Teacher Interview Guide, located on the student website Observe a general education classroom in which there are students included for at least part of the day who have IEPs, who are gifted and talented, or who are culturally or linguistically diverse. • What related services are available for students with special needs? • Identify possible interventions each related service may use to support these students. • How can these providers serve as a resource to the entire school staff?

8. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 4 DQ 1 SPE 300 Week 4 DQ 2 Define the different types of disabilities accor How can a teacher use pre-assessment data to develop meaningful instruction? How might using the rubric strategy for assessment be beneficial for meeting diverse learners’ needs in a general education classroom ding to IDEA? How might having a student with a disability affect your classroom environment? • You are a second-grade teacher with 28 students in your class. One of your students cannot read or write more than his name. • What would you need to do to develop instructional sequences for this student, and what instructional

9. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 4 Individual Assignment Pre-IEP Outline SPE 300 Week 5 Instructional and Management Plan Create an instructional and management plan based on a classroom scenario. Scenario: You teach in a regular education classroom of 25 students. Among them are: one student who has a learning disability, two students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), one English Language Learner (ELL) student, and one gifted student. • Resource: Psychological Report • Prepare an outline for an upcoming IEP meeting based on the information contained in the : Psychological Report. • Include the following in your outline

10. SPE 300 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp SPE 300 Week 5 Learning Team Evaluation of Student SPE 300 Week 5 Learning Team Response to Learning Team Response to Intervention Paper Research a school district’s policy for supporting struggling learners. Write a 1,050- to 1,500-word paper in which you compare the district’s policy and the Response to Intervention (RTI) model. • Choose one of your Learning Team member’s lesson plans that include accommodations for a special needs student or specific disability category • Create an 8-10 slide presentation on alternative assessments and adaptations you might use

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