Please address the following question and post to your reflection blog by Sunday, May 8.
After reviewing the reading material from this week that you can access within our eCollege course agenda, I would like for you to highlight the purpose and components of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 2006. I would also like for you to briefly research and discuss technical education programs that your local school district provides for students.
After reading Sections III, V, and VI of A Model Comprehensive, Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program for Texas Public Schools, that you can access via our weekly agenda, please address the following components and post response to your blog by Sunday, April 24.
1. Discuss the proper responsibilities of school counselors in effectively serving students.
2. As a school administrator, discuss how you would support the implementation of a comprehensive, developmental guidance and counseling program.
3. After reading Section VI, how would you evaluate your school's counseling program and why?
After reading A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students; address (a) whether or not you support the authors’ position in serving students with special gifts and talents and why, (b) which myths or truths revealed within this text caught your attention, and (c) whether you believe TEA's policies on serving students with special gifts and talents complement or contradict acceleration and why.
Note: You can access the two documents that I would like for you to read from our eCollege weekly agenda. As I addressed in the adobe presentation, I am not advocating one approach over another, but simply providing you with multiple perspectives.
Please utilize this week's resources within eCollege to address the following and post your response to your blog by Sunday, March 6.
Highlight the major components of Title I, and how policies have evolved through NCLB 2001 and ARRA 2009. Discuss measures that you believe can be taken as a school administrator to enhance academic outcomes for at-risk youth through Title I funding.
After completing this week's reading, please respond to the following reflection and post to your blog by Sunday, February 20. Please remember to paraphrase in your own words. Thank you
You are interviewing for a position within a local school district to where your primary responsibility as a newly hired candidate will be to revise this district’s alternative education program. Share with the interviewer (a) your definition and vision of an ideal alternative education program, (b) an example of how successful programs have positively influenced students, and (c) components and measures you believe are necessary towards not only building, but maintaining a best practices model.
I would like for you to address each of the following components and post to your blog by Sunday, February 6. Please write in essay format (avoid simple listing) and paraphrase in your own words.
1. Highlight the general components of P.L. 94-142, and how IDEA benefits students who receive special education services.
2. Walk me through the eligibility procedures in deciding whether a student would benefit from receiving special education services.
3. Discuss measures that should be taken by educators to effectively accommodate students who receive special education services.
4. Highlight the differences between mediation and due process, and measures that you as an administrator can take to resolve conflicts between your school staff and parents.
