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Discussion questions will be posted each module/week. Threads in response to the questions must reflect critical thought, relate the course content to real-world applications with biblical perspectives, and cite any sources used.

Define critical infrastructure. Evaluate the importance of 2 critical infrastructure sectors. Consider CIP and CIA in your analysis. What presidential directives apply?

1. Start with the end in mind. Consider the goals you want to achieve as an early childhood professional. What are your highest aspirations for serving children and families? Write two long-term goals in the appropriate “Part One” of the Professional Development Worksheet that reflect NAEYC standards for professional preparation.
2. Consider where you are now in relation to your long-term goals and aspirations. Reflect on your current knowledge, skills, and experience. Think about your areas of strength and areas for growth, including areas of study and professional interaction that have been most interesting and inspiring to you. Consider this information within the context of each of the following core areas of the early childhood profession:
   • Safe and Healthy Learning Environments
   • Physical and Intellectual Development
   • Social and Emotional Development
   • Relationships With Families
   • Program Management
   • Professionalism
   • Observing and Recording Behavior
   • Child Growth and Development
3. Record your areas of strength, areas for growth, and areas of interest and inspiration for at least three of these areas on the Professional Development Worksheet.
4. With these areas in mind, formulate three very specific and clear near-term goals—measureable goals that you will achieve in the next 6 months to 1 year. List them on the worksheet. These will be the goals that drive your Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP).

Part II: Research to Inform Professional Development

Each of the near-term goals you identified on your Professional Development Worksheet is impacted by the broader landscape of the early childhood field. For example, you may have a goal of initiating advocacy efforts in an area in which new sources of funding are being made available at a national level. Or, it may be an area in which funding is being withdrawn. Understanding how your goals are influenced by current research, policies, issues, and trends can help you to be more strategic in deciding where to focus your professional growth and learning.

Consider each of the near-term goals you identified on your Professional Development Worksheet. In “Section Two” of the worksheet, summarize the larger context at the community, state, national, and/or global levels as follows:

1. Describe at least three examples of current research, policies, issues, and/or trends that inform your near-term goals. Explain how the current research, policies, issues, and/or trends support or impede your ability to reach your goals.
2. Explain how you can apply your learning about the research, policies, issues, or trends to advance toward achieving your goals.Attaining your goals requires far more than identifying what you would like to achieve. You also need to identify specific strategies and resources for achieving each goal, a timeline for completion, and progress measures. These are the components of an Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP). Your IPDP serves becomes the cornerstone of your professional development. It serves as a guidepost for your professional development, providing pathways for translating your goals into concrete action steps.

   Based on the information you gathered in your worksheet, complete the IPDP Template to create your Individual Professional Development Plan. An example of how to fill out each column is provided in the first row of the template.

   After completing the IPDP, choose two action steps from your plan to implement. Provide evidence to demonstrate that you completed the action step and attach it as an appendix to your IPDP. Examples of evidence might include such items as a certificate of attendance from a professional conference, interview notes, and/or photographs.

Complete the VARK Assessment in the Readings and Resources. Based on your preferred learning style as identified from the VARK Assessment, and what we have learned about adult learning theory (Andragogy) principles, how could your personal learning style and learning preferences most influence your training design? Share some pros and cons – how might they be effective and how might they limit a good design?

1) Module One: Choose one of the following prompts:

1. Reflect on the lectures and your readings. Describe what you learned and illustrate at least three topic points from the module resources by explaining their relevance.
2. Describe international threats from both political and religious perspectives.
3. Explain the meaning and uses of the term “terrorism.”

2) Module Two: Choose one of the following prompts:

1. Reflect on the lectures and your learnings. Describe what you learned and illustrate at least three topic points from the module resources by explaining their relevance.
2. Describe the concept of terrorism by examining the structure, strategies, and goals of international terrorist groups.
3. Choose one of these concepts and explain its meaning, history, and applications of theory:
   1. The Face of Terrorism
   2. Terrorist Organizational Models
   3. Terrorist Planning Cycles

3) Module Three: Choose one of the following prompts:

1. Reflect on the lectures and your learnings. Describe what you learned and illustrate at least three topic points from the module resources by explaining their relevance.
2. Explain the philosophical concepts associated with the will to harm individuals in large numbers.
3. Identify the multiple theoretical approaches to defending against international threats and explain their historical significance to past events.

1. Describe a work activity on a project (one with which you are familiar, and which might be from a case study or textbook) that had a positive influence, and then describe a work activity that had an influence of a negative nature.
2. Which typical strategy would you, as the project manager, use in addressing each risk event?
3. Support your positions with at least one current (no older than five years) scholarly source, beyond the course materials and textbooks.

Vessing (2011) states, “a society needs a variety of social institutions in order to function adequately. However, it does appear that not all citizens have equal access to participation in them, and that one’s social class and ascribed characteristics may limit one’s ability to benefit from them. This disparity results in unequal access to all that the institutions have to offer” (p. 197). Review the various social institutions discussed in Chapters 10 and 11 of the text, Sociology: Beyond Common Sense.

Based on what you have read in the text, describe at least two institutions that do not provide equal access? If you were asked to implement changes from a sociological perspective, what changes would you suggest? Support your answer with detailed examples.

According to conflict theorists, the persistence of social class inequality can be linked to the educational institutions in the United States. Although education is asserted to be a social equalizer, many argue that the educational system is a mechanism of social reproduction that maintains social inequality rather than ensuring equality of opportunity. For this discussion, you will read Chapters 10 and 11 of the text, Sociology: Beyond Common Sense, and review the article, Foundations of Educational Inequality.

Answer the following questions:

• What factors influence the quality of education that an individual receives?
• How is social class reproduced through the educational system?
• How is this continuing educational inequality impacting other social institutions?

Complete your treatment plan template for Eliza based on the previous assignments findings and any feedback received from your instructor. Additionally, write and submit a 700-1,050-word essay that includes the following:

1. The treatment theory you would use and why.
2. A description of how you would address any mental health, medical, legal, and substance use issues that the client exhibits in the case study through the lens of your counseling theory of choice.
3. Include at least three scholarly sources in your paper.

Identify a preschool setting that provides educational programs for 3- and 4-year-olds. Arrange to visit and interview a teacher and to observe in his or her classroom for at least two hours. Use the “Interview Guide” document to inform your questions during your scheduled interview.

Keeping in mind all you have learned about the context of the preschool program and the standards that inform its curriculum, plan three learning experiences around a central theme chosen in collaboration with the teacher you interview. Use the template provided in the “Learning Experience Plan Template” document.

Taken together, the learning experiences must include all content areas addressed in the Rubric (literacy; math, science, and technology; health; and the arts) and must address all domains of development (cognitive, social, emotional, and physical). Remember that, because your learning experiences are designed around an integrated theme, multiple content areas and domains of development will be represented within each learning experience.

Write a 7- to 10-page narrative analysis of your Learning Experiences Plan that includes a brief description of the central theme and explanations of the following:

1. How the learning experiences, taken as a whole, reflect at least three indicators of effective curriculum
2. How the learning experiences reflect appropriate learning standards and the goals identified by the early childhood teacher you interviewed
3. How knowledge of the children and families informed the learning experiences
4. How the learning experiences promote language and literacy
5. How the learning experiences promote math, science, and technology learning
6. How the learning experiences promote learning in the arts
7. How the learning experiences promote social, emotional, and physical development
8. How the assessment strategies used in the learning experiences informed your understanding of children’s learning and development
9. How play is incorporated into your learning experiences and why this is a vital component of the early childhood curriculum
10. How the learning experiences you planned can be differentiated to meet the needs of individual children, including those with exceptionalities (Note: Include a description of at least two strategies.)
11. How you collaborated to develop the learning experiences, including:
    • An explanation of the value of collaborating in the curriculum planning process
    • A description of any challenges you experienced
    • An example of ways you compromised, demonstrated respect, and/or shared responsibility to develop the learning experiences

Elementary teachers are often times involved in curriculum decisions for language arts. How do students develop communicative competence using the six language arts? Find one peer-reviewed journal article to support 1 of the 6 language arts to support your response and the module readings.