One Foot in Education Assignments Page - Synergetic Education Institute

To receive graduate credit, you must complete the following assignments outside of class time:

Textbooks:

For educators: School and Classroom Perspectives

Desautels, Lori (2020) Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline.

For school-based mental health professionals: Mental health Perspective

Dion, Lisa (2018). Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity.

Class posts
Developmental Perspective Action Research
Learning Tool Exploration
Developmental Perspective Paper
Listen to the 20 minute podcast called “How Trying to be Calm Gets in the Way of Regulation” and reflection paper
Perceive Challenges Reflective Writing Acitivity
Regulatory Focused Social-Emotional Behavior Plan

The course is Pass/Fail

To receive 1 graduate credit you must complete the following:
Points Received	Activity
10	3-5 Posts and responses on learning platform forum
25	Developmental perspective action research OR paper
20	Listen to LFPR podcast and reflection
25	Complete Regulatory focused social-emotional behavior plan
20	Class attendance and participation with completed quizzes for each class
Total points 100	Pass 75

To receive 2 graduate credits you must complete the following:
Points Received	Activity
20	6-10 Posts and responses on learning platform forum
25	Developmental perspective action research
25	Learning tool exploration
25	Developmental perspective paper
20	Listen to LFPR podcast and reflection
25	Perceived Challenges Reflective Writing Activity
25	Complete Regulatory focused social-emotional behavior plan
35	Class attendance and participation with completed quizzes for each class
Total points 200	Pass 150

If you have not yet registered for credit with CSU, you must do that. You can do so by clicking on the two following documents:

To turn in assignments, please upload to your goggle drive folder. The link was provided by your instructor.

SECTION 1: Foundational Information

Assignments

Class 1 Post: As you reflect upon your current or previous work with educators, now through the lens of being an SPT therapist first, what thoughts or new perspectives come to mind? Does using this lens impact your thinking and/or behavior? Post Due 9/14/22
Class 2 Post: The idea that “behaviors make sense” can be misinterpreted to mean that all behaviors are “acceptable” at school or in the classroom. How would you explain this concept to educators? And, why do you think some educators might perceive this statement in this way? What’s the set-up? Post Due 10/4/22
Class 3 Post: Using the timeline approach to interventions has benefits and challenges. What do you perceive as the greatest benefits and challenges? How might you work with the challenges you identified? Post Due 11/9/22

SECTION 2: Putting Theory into Practice

Assignments

Class 4 post: As you reflect upon your current or previous work with educators, now through the lens of a developmental perspective, what thoughts or new perspectives come to mind? Does using this lens impact your thinking and/or behavior? Post Due 11/30/22
Developmental perspective action research: Assignment Due 12/14/22
Class 5 Post: Using the concepts of Braindrops, Learning Tools, and somatosensory regulation has benefits and challenges. What do you perceive as the greatest benefits and challenges? How might you work with the challenges you identified? Post Due 1/4/23
Learning Tool Exploration: Assignment Due 1/10/23

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SECTION 3: Addressing Potential Obstacles

Assignments

Class 6 Post: It can be challenging to ask educators to look at their own dysregulation, or why a student might not feel a sense of safety in the classroom. As you think about having some of these conversations, what comes up for you? Get curios about what is being activated in you? Do you feel yourself getting stuck in “Am I ok?” as you wonder how to work with educators around these topics? Post Due 1/23/23
Developmental perspective paper: Assignment Due 2/14/23
Class 7 Post: Of the challenges we covered in class which have you experienced in your work with educators? How did you feel about it at the time? As you think about it now, do you have any new insights or ideas? Post Due 2/22/23
Listen to the 20-minute Lessons From the Playroom Podcast #118 “How Trying to be Calm Gets in the Way of Regulation” and write a short reflection paper. Assignment Due 3/1/23
Perceived Challenges Reflective Writing Activity: Assignment Due 3/7/23

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SECTION 4: Establishing Regulatory Approaches

Assignments

Class 8 Post: Creating regulatory spaces can feel overwhelming if you try to do it a certain way. How can you approach this from where you are right now, given only the resources you currently have available to you? And, how can you help educators see this concept from this perspective? Post Due 3/14/23
Class 9 Post: Given your specific role in working with educators or schools what roles is most appropriate for you in creating support plans? In what ways can you facilitate others in understanding what role they can play in this process? Post Due 4/26/23
Complete a regulatory focused social-emotional behavior plan. Assignment Due 5/9/23
Class 10 Post: How will you move forward in your work empowering educators? Post Due 5/17/23

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