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Critical Reading Note
Critical Reading Note
Each Critical Reading Note should be 2-4 pages, double-spaced. The main point of this assignment is to read critically, reflecting and analyzing the views and ideas offered by the writer. To help you do this, you will be using a specific approach to analyzing texts, Critical Discourse Analysis, to examine the spoken and unspoken assumptions, beliefs and messages that may be found in the reading or materials that you are analyzing. It is important to note that all writing, whether professional or otherwise, expresses a particular viewpoint or set of viewpoints that we might accept or reject depending on our own knowledge and training, experiences, social identities, and social locations, beliefs, and opinions. Analyzing a “text” in a systematic way using an approach such as Critical Discourse Analysis can help us become more aware of how language and images teach us how to “see” (and not see) and understand the world around us.
The Critical Discourse Analysis approach is presented and illustrated by the following three readings, which are available in Week 2 and the Assignments folders:
Van Dijk, T.A. (2001). Critical discourse analysis. In D. Tannen, D. Schiffrin & H. Hamilton
(Eds.), Handbook of discourse analysis (pp. 352-371). Oxford: Blackwell.
Park, Y. (2005). Culture as deficit: A critical discourse analysis of the concept of culture in
contemporary social work discourse. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 32(3), 11-33.
• Do not summarize the readings. We want to hear your voice. Outline, instead, your own ideas and observations about, and perspectives on, the views and positions presented in the readings.
• Do not dismiss a reading simply because you dislike the ideas or viewpoint offered. Conversely, do not simply accept a reading and its ideas because you like or respond positively to its viewpoint. Reading critically and engaging with the reading means (in this context) exploring, investigating, testing, and challenging your own responses to the reading, as well as the viewpoints and ideas presented by the writer.
• Whenever possible, connect your analysis of the text you are focusing on to other things that you have read or heard about in this course or in your other social work courses.
Integrating Writing
Integrating Writing
Assessment Description
Various strategies can be used to engage students in the writing process, including questions to activate students’ prior knowledge and higher-order thinking. Engaging students in taking ownership of their writing requires a great deal of creativity to involve students in the writing process.
*Part 1: Writing Lesson Plan
Using the “COE Lesson Plan Template” and “Class Profile,” design a standard-based lesson plan, that includes a writing activity.
In preparing the lesson plan, including the following:
Questioning strategies that activate students prior knowledge and higher-order thinking in writing and engage them in the learning process
Strategies to creatively engage students with various forms of writing, the writing process, and to expand student’s communication
*Part 2: Reflection
In 250 words, rationalize your instructional choices specific to the activity and aligning strategies. Be sure to address how your completed lesson plan is appropriate to meet the diverse needs of the “Class Profile” students and clearly focuses on creativity and student engagement.
Support your reflection with at least 2 scholarly resources.
Process of Leadership
Process of Leadership
Develop a written response from attached reading, to the assigned readings in the Learn section which addresses the following:
What specific barriers are present and unique to the field of healthcare? Would you add any additional barriers that weren’t discussed in your readings? Using your module resources and/or personal experience, what are some of the most effective strategies for running an effective meeting? Briefly describe the concepts of quality, cost, engagement and service. Why are they important to your intended or current field of study? Can you provide an example to illustrate your point(s)?