Education week 3 assignment

This week you will continue working on your Exceptional Learning and Inclusion Project. This project will consist of four miniprojects representing the knowledge you have gained throughout the course, demonstrating your mastery of the course learning outcomes. Just like children have different strengths for displaying their understanding of concepts they learned, so do you as university students. Additionally, we want your work in this course to be applicable to your future career. Therefore, for your Exceptional Learning and Inclusion Project, you can choose various project options to showcase your knowledge! For the second part of your project, focus on fostering inclusive learning environments through collaboration with families, presented in this week of class.

To prepare,

• Review Chapter 1: What Is Special Education?
• Read Teacher-Parent Collaboration for an Inclusive Classroom: Success for Every ChildLinks to an external site..
• Choose the project you will create to demonstrate understanding of the third course learning outcome (CLO) from the options below. You may choose the same project option you did in your Week 2 assignment or choose a new format:

Content Focus

Project Choices: Pick One Option

CLO 3: Collaboration With Families

Choose one project to create that answers the following question:

How will you utilize collaboration with families to foster inclusive learning environments?

Paper: Write a 2–3-page paper that fully addresses the question.

Creative Art: Utilizing CanvaLinks to an external site. or Adobe CC ExpressLinks to an external site., create a 1–2-page visual resource that fully addresses the question.

Colleague Resource: Develop a 4-6 (not including title and reference pages)-slide professional development presentation for your colleagues that fully addresses the question.

Parent Resource: Develop a 2–3-page newsletter for families that fully addresses the question.

Submission Requirements

Whatever format you choose, your delivery of the project must conform to the following requirements:

• If you developed your project with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or as a PDF, upload your assignment file to Waypoint.
• If you utilized a web-based tool such as CanvaLinks to an external site. or Adobe CC ExpressLinks to an external site. to develop your project, download the project as a PDF and upload the PDF to Waypoint for grading.

Additional Requirements

The Exceptional Learning and Inclusion Project Part 2 assignment,

• Depending on your chosen project format, must adhere to the following:
  • Paper: 2 to 3 pages (not including title and reference pages)
  • Presentation: 4 to 6 slides (not including title and reference slides)
  • Creative Tool: 1 to 2 pages
  • Parent Newsletter: 2 to 3 pages
• Must be formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site.resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper in bold font
    • Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
  • Student’s name
  • Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Due date
• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
  • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site.tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.