Category: Psychology and Education

Define sexism. Explain gender as a social construction.
Define heterosexism. Explain how sexism and heterosexism function in similar ways.
Explain the relationship between heterosexism and heteronormativity. Provide of examples of how schools reproduce sexism and heterosexism.
Provide suggestions toward anti-sexist/heterosexist schooling.
Define hegemonic masculinity and explain how it functions.
Provide examples of how hegemonic masculinity is reproduced in schools.
Explain why we should consider “masculine” a performance rather than a state of being.

Chapter 7 in the Sensoy and DiAngelo

Explain the analogy employed by Frye (the bird cage) and how it is similar to Sensoy and DiAngelo’s presentation of how sexism manifests and gets reinscribed.

Watch a brief tampon commercial. How does this inform your understanding of gender as a “social construction”? What is hegemonic masculinity,” how is it “policed,” and how is it perpetuated both in and out of schools? How is heterosexism implicated in hegemonic masculinity?

Why/how might heterosexism be problematic for all students, not just LGBTQ students?
How could schools be made “critical” for LGBT students and, drawing on the experience of Jamie Nabozny, how could they be made safe?

When seeking a child care facility to which to entrust their children, families do extensive research to find a location that works best for them. Parents can use the handbook of a child care facility to learn about the procedures and expectations of the facility to assist them in selecting the best placement for their children.

For this assignment, you will create a handbook for a child care facility you plan to open. The purpose of the handbook is to provide prospective families with information about the center.

You may use information from any of your previous assignments in this course to assist you in building the content of your handbook (incorporating any constructive feedback you may have received from your instructor).

Include information for each of the following:

The review consists of a 2 page summary with your personal reactions/reflections to the information in the article. Include the title, source, author, and date of publication (Use APA format; publication date must be after the year 2000.

bibliographic information (title, author, source, and date

reaction/reflection to the article and how you can use the information as a teacher (Most Important Part

The course is in gifted education:

Book: Clark, B. (2013). Growing up gifted: Developing the potential of children at school and at home (8th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson. ISBN: 9780132620666

Read Chapters 9-10 in your textbook Growing Up Gifted.

Read the articles: Brulles, D. (2014). Identifying, serving, and supporting gifted students and their teachers: Paradise Valley’s comprehensive approach (Links to an external site.). Illinois Association for Gifted Children Journal, Winter, 54-58.

Youtube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRw3Qju__fg&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESnt-CFX1Q&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT2wftKNTzI&feature=emb_title

Document “RequiredArticles_3” is a list of articles that you must choose two from as citations.
Document “SPE588 L5 Video Transcript” this is the lessons transcript.
Document “SPE588_L5_Reading_Brulles_2014_pp” is the article required to read.
Document “EducationPlan_Rubric is a worksheet to help you with the educational portion.
Document “SPE588 Signature Assignment Rubric” is the rubric for the assignment.
Document “SignatureAssingmentInstructions” IS THE PAPER INSTRUCTIONS, FOLLOW!.
Document “SPE588 L6 Video Transcript” is the transcript for lesson 6.

Also included 4 other lesson transcripts start from lesson one to lesson 4.

Please follow the instructions “SignatureAssignmentInstructions”. Please cite the book, the required articles that I had uploaded. And numerous other citations.

Signature Assignment: Comprehensive Exam Section V

Write a three- to five-page essay to address the question below. Use APA format with references. Support your response with appropriate peer-reviewed research and educational theory.

You have heard from community members that bullying is a problem in your school. Address the following:

    Describe how you will involve staff in confirming the problem, conducting a needs assessment, setting priorities, and developing problem-solving strategies.
    Discuss how you will use needs assessment data and group process skills to build consensus among all stakeholders in addressing the problem.
    Explain how you will communicate and collaborate with family and community in addressing the problem.
    Discuss any legal and ethical principles that may apply to this situation.

The essay is split up into four questions, each question must be answered within a word limit of 630-770 words with in text citations. There is no limit to references, but it is a short essay so maybe they should be around 3-7 for a single question to leave room for personal interpretations.

Before answering the question, the question must be placed on top of it. The works cited page for a single question goes after every question.

The questions are as follows:

How are stress and depression possibly linked? Discuss clinical and experimental observations and suggested underlying biological mechanisms.

What is inflammation? Discuss the role of inflammation both in the periphery and in the brain in the development of depression.

What is cognitive bias? How do attentional biases differ in anxiety and depressive disorders?

Discuss the challenges faced by health practitioners in the diagnosis and management of affective disorders in a primary care setting.

Issues in early childhood are vast and constantly changing. Your task is to write a brief research paper designed to go into greater depth about either a topic already discussed in the course or the presentation of an issue in early childhood education not already discussed in the course. You will have to make an argument about why this topic is an issue and provide references for an outsider to access greater information. Your paper should be between threefive pages in length and include the following information:
Topic description. Provide current information about the topic you have chosen.
Issue argument. Discuss why the topic is an issue in early childhood what are the concerns/arguments that are currently in early childhood.
Current positions. Given your topic, what are arguments made on either side of the
issue.
Online references. Provide at least 3 online references that could be useful to an outsider reviewing this issue.
This paper will be turned in through Turnitin. This will ensure that you are not plagiarizing. Also, make sure you cite your statements. If you are unsure how to cite, please review APA referencing and citations (email your professor for more information if needed). You will be graded on grammar and spelling, so proofread your work.