terms and acronyms is critical to being successful in the education profession. This assignment will familiarize you with these important terms and lesson plan formats.

Part 1: Understanding Educational Terminology

For this assignment, review the educational terminology included in the “Understanding Educational Terminology” template. For each term in the template, include the following based on the resources in the topic materials and any additional resources

• A brief explanation/definition for each educational term  in your own words.
• One example for each term’s purpose in the planning, instruction, and assessment process.

Part 2: Examining Different Lesson Plan Formats

For the majority of your program, you will use the “COE Lesson Plan Template” for assignments. Review the “COE Lesson Plan Template” and the “Additional Lesson Plan Template.”

In a 250-500 word analysis, compare the “COE Lesson Plan Template” with one other format. In your comparison, address the following:

• What core lesson planning components  are in both templates?
• What are at least two similarities and two differences in the terminology between the formats?
• What are at least two similarities and two differences in the organization between the formats?

  Ethics in the Community

Post on at least three separate days. There is only one discussion  this week. The prompt is below the list of requirements. The  requirements for the discussion this week include the following:

• You must begin posting by Day 3 (Thursday).
• You must post a minimum of four separate posts on at least three  separate days (e.g., Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, or Thursday,  Friday, and Sunday, or Thursday, Saturday, and Monday, etc.).
• The total combined word count for all of your posts, counted together, should be at least 600 words, not including references.
• You must answer all the questions in the prompt and show evidence of  having read the resources that are required to complete the discussion  properly (such as by using quotes, referring to specific points made in  the text, etc.).
• In order to satisfy the posting requirements for the week, posts  must be made by Day 7 (Monday); posts made after Day 7 are welcome but  will not count toward the requirements.
• Be sure to reply to your classmates and instructor. You are  encouraged to read posts your instructor makes (even if they are not in  response to your own post), and reply to those as a way of examining the  ideas in greater depth.
• All postings (including replies to peers) are expected to be thought  out, proofread for mechanical, grammatical, and spelling accuracy, and  to advance the discussion in an intelligent and meaningful way (i.e.,  saying something like “I really enjoyed what you had to say” will not  count). You are also encouraged to do outside research and quote from  that as well.
• For more information, please read the Frequently Asked Questions.

Discussion: Ethics in the Community

In Chapter 1 of your text, you saw how moral reasoning involves  moving back and forth between general, abstract ideas like principles  and values and particular concrete judgments about what is good or  right, and seeking to find a kind of agreement or equilibrium between  those.

In Chapters 3, 4, and 5, you were introduced to utilitarianism,  deontology, and virtue ethics. Each of these ethical theories represents  different ways of reasoning about ethical questions, based in different  account of the principles, values, and other conceptions that inform  the “abstract” side of the dialectic.

In this course, and in much of life, the “concrete” ethical issues  that receive the most attention are frequently those that elicit  passionate responses and widespread debate, affect large numbers of  people, involve matters of deep significance like life and death or  fundamental rights, and so on. However, as important as these issues  are, there is often a limit to how much impact most individuals can have  on such matters; instead, the place where ethics and moral reasoning  have their greatest impact is in one’s local community. Thus, in this  final discussion board, you will demonstrate your grasp of the relation  between the abstract ideas in one of these theories and a concrete  ethical issue or social problem in your local community.

• Engage the community:
  • Begin by finding an ethical issue or social problem that currently  impacts or has recently impacted your local or regional community (such  as your neighborhood, town or city, county, school district, religious  community, or something of similar scope to any of these).
  • Briefly summarize the issue or problem, and provide a link to a news  article, video, or some other resource that documents the issue or  problem so that your fellow students can learn more about it when  formulating their responses to you.
• Apply the theory:
  • Next, choose one of the ethical theories and discuss how the moral  reasoning of the theory might be used to address or resolve the issue or  problem.
• Evaluate the reasoning:
  • In evaluating the application of the moral theory you may, for example, consider one or more questions like:
    • Does this differ from the way this issue is currently being addressed?
    • Does it present a better response than another ethical approach would?
    • Does the theory present an adequate response to the issue, or does it leave significant aspects of the issue unresolved?
    • Does applying the theory to this issue raise other problems or concerns?
    • In light of this issue, are there ways the principles or values of  the theory might need to be modified from the form that we studied in  class?

                                 Reflective Essay: Individual Learning Plan-

Reading Literacy

To help prepare:

· Use SAMPLE to Review Dispositions Survey 2 for this module’s Discussion and compare both your initial and current survey ratings.

· Review your Individual Learning Plan Part 1 and assess your progress in completing the activities you had planned.

Compose a Reflective Essay that includes the following two parts: 3 pages APA style and Other References.

Essay Part 1: Accomplishments

1. Explain the activities you implemented from your      initial Individual Learning Plan Part 1 for each of the      three sections:
   1. Professional Dispositions
   2. NBPTS
   3. Technology Proficiencies.
2. Include specific information that illustrates how these      activities have contributed to your professional learning and growth.

Essay Part 2: Plan for Continual Improvement

1. Explain the activities from      your Individual Learning Plan Part 1 that you have not      yet completed. Include why these activities have not been completed and      new timelines and/or revisions to the activities you had initially      planned.
2. Compare your new survey results      with your initial results. Explain your perceptions of how you initially      rated your knowledge and skills compared to your current ratings. What new      insights did you gain when comparing the two results?
3. What additional areas do you      now want to target for continuous improvement in each of the three      sections that were not included in your Individual Learning Plan      Part 1 (Professional Dispositions, NBPTS, and Technology      Proficiencies)?
4. Select one new area from each      section (professional dispositions, NBPTS, and technology proficiencies)      and create SMART goals for      each.