As we discuss special populations this week, we are going to approach it through the lens of being a Student Teacher in a Special education classroom. Also, we will explore other resources to assist in better understanding Special populations when developing curriculum & assessments.

Read the article When in Rome…: Influences on Special Education Student-Teachers’ Teaching.
Now shift gears from being a student-teacher, to that of a Cooperating-Teacher and address the following:
What did the article suggest was important in helping teachers prepare for instructional planning when including Special Populations?
What do YOU believe is important to consider that may not have been included in the article that is otherwise based on your experience or another source?
Conduct some research and locate an academic resource that you feel brings value to understanding special populations and designing assessments with them in mind. Share the resource you find within your response

How can data provide information to evaluate quality patient outcomes? Give an example of data which can reflect poor quality in care. How can quality improvement be a daily task in patient care? Why does continuous quality improvement need to be associated with change?

As nurses, we are constantly collecting and analyzing data. For example, we do this in taking a blood pressure reading and looking at the values over the past day or year.

How can data provide information to evaluate quality patient outcomes? Give an example of data that can reflect poor quality in care. How can quality improvement be a daily task in patient care? Why does continuous quality improvement need to be associated with change?

“Ethics of Public Service”  Please respond to the following. Note: Online students, please respond to two (2) of the following three (3) bulleted items.

From the first and second articles of the e-Activity, review three to four (3-4) codes of the ASPA Codes of Conduct from 1994 and 2013. Appraise the significance of changing the ethical guidelines in order to ensure that they match the current social context. Provide a rationale for your response.
From the text and the third article of the e-Activity, use the theory of ethical relativism and the Center for American Progress report to consider the recent bans on foreign law. Propose two (2) advantages and two (2) disadvantages of using foreign or international law in legal disputes. Provide a rationale for your response.
According to the text, the Hatch Act defines prohibited activities of public employees. Analyze the significance of these prohibitions with regard to an individual’s political actions. Provide a rationale for your response.
Analyze the key ethical challenges of privatization. Take a position on whether the private sector should be responsible for program outcomes of a public program or service. Provide a rationale for your response.

Reading Responses to a Poem Select one poem from this week’s assigned readings, and identify at least three elements in the poem that you found interesting or engaging (e.g., form, language, content, and/or other literary elements). Then, assess how these elements affected your response to the poem, in its entirety. (e.g., Did these elements affect your opinions on (or reaction to) the content of the poem? Did they cause you to focus on one aspect of the poem over others?) Assignment Requirements

· Length: Your paper should be two to four double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference page)

· Sources: Support your reflections with textual details and analysis from at least two scholarly sources.

· APA: Your draft must be formatted to APA (6th edition) style.

· Separate Title Page: Must include an original title

· Separate Reference Page

· Proper Citations: All sources must be properly cited, both within the text and in a separate reference page.

· Elements of Academic Writing: All academic papers should include these elements.

· Introduction with a thesis statement

· Supporting paragraphs

· Conclusion

The paper must be two to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference page), and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least two scholarly resources (at least one of which can be found in the Ashford Online Library) other than the textbook to support your claims and subclaims. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page

Poem:

Dover Beach

Matthew Arnold (1867)

The sea is calm tonight, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

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Sounds of the incoming waves; succession of sounds”i

Listen! you hear the grating roar

Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

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Cadence: Rhythm, modulation of sounds”i

With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Ægæan, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought,

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Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

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The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear

Onomatopoeia: “Roaring” sound’i

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true

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To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

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And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

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