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Observable Learning Outcomes Your first major task in our class is to create five observable learning outcomes from each course in your degree plan. You will use these outcomes to guide your internship activities and the development of major projects for this class. The key goal of this course is for you to apply what you have learned over the course of your degree program and demonstrate your application of self-developed learning outcomes through your internship and your course projects. As often as possible, you should create observable learning outcomes that you can actively apply to your internship environment. If a course that you have taken does not match with your internship environment (for example, a course that is focused on infant/toddler or school-age children will not apply to a preschool environment), then an observable outcome for that course could include a research paper or compiling a resource file about a related topic. Our course will provide plenty of examples and resources to help you meet your self-created learning outcomes and demonstrate your mastery of observable outcomes for your instructor. To begin the task of creating your own observable learning outcomes, you need to consult the syllabi for all of the courses that you have taken up to this point in your degree program. Please consult the Central Texas College Course Syllabi page where you can read and download all the syllabi you will need for this assignment. Consulting these syllabi, carefully and in detail, will help you identify what you need to master in terms of applied, observable outcomes in this course. Below, you will also find a list of courses and the specific learning outcomes that apply to each of the courses required for the AAS degree in Child Development. Look back at all of the courses that you have taken for your degree program and develop five observable learning outcomes based on each course you have taken. As you develop the learning outcomes that will guide your progress and processes in this course, remember that your goal will be to demonstrate, with evidence, that you are meeting these outcomes in observable, visible, applicable ways. You will have to show your instructor how you meet each of the learning outcomes that you develop for yourself. To successfully complete this assignment: Write five observable learning outcomes that apply to your degree program, based on the content of each course listed below. These learning outcomes will be the driving force of your processes and practices in this course.Please write your learning outcomes by drawing on the language and formatting of the course outcomes listed below.Use word processing software and compile your learning outcomes in one list that you will submit to your instructor.Save a copy for yourself, as you will use these outcomes many times throughout the course.Please submit this assignment for instructor review before proceeding. Courses Taken for the AAS degree in Child Development CDEC 1311/TECA 1311: Educating Young Children CDEC 1313: Curriculum Resources for Early Childhood Programs CDEC 1319: Child Guidance CDEC 1359: Children with Special Needs CDEC 1358: Creative Arts for Early Childhood CDEC 1354/TECA 1354: Child Growth and Development CDEC 1318/TECA 1318: Wellness of the Young Child CDEC 1303/TECA 1303: Families, School and Community CDEC 1356: Emerging Literacy for Early Childhood CDEC 1321: The Infant and Toddler CDEC 2326: Administration of Programs for Children I (or CDEC 2328: Administration of Programs for Children II) CDEC 2307: Math and Science for Early Childhood

For Discussion Forum 2, please address any of the questions below. As always: you are required to make a minimum of THREE (3) posts per module. At least one of your three posts should be your own original comment; at least one – should be a response to or comment on something another classmate has posted; the third post can be either your own original post or a comment on a classmate’s post. Keep in mind that your response should NOT simply be a summary of the assigned reading. A higher grade will be awarded to posts that demonstrate student’s ability to provide an original interpretation of the topic while also applying relevant concepts, issues, and theories covered in the module.1. The Leningrad - Seattle spacebridge features a dialog between American and (still) Soviet citizens at the very beginning of Mikhail Gorbachev perestroika. Did any of the questions (or answers) that the spacebridge participants brought up surprise you? To your mind, what was the most memorable moment of that bridge? Keeping in mind that, obviously, Soviet television was not going to invite dissidents to such a program, did you get a sense that Soviet citizens were generally happy and content with their lives? Did you get a sense of antagonism towards Americans? (alternatively, did you get a sense of antagonism towards the Soviets from the Seattle crowd?). Give specific examples from the video. What questions do you think would have been discussed (and why) if a dialog of this type happened between Russians and Americans today?2. In this module you have read quite a bit about the Gorbachev era that ultimately ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Did any of the readings or video materials you have seen so far illustrate (or contradict) anything that you read about the Soviet Union of that time? Give specific examples.3. As you now know, after Gorbachev rose to power in the Soviet Union in 1985, the reforms that he put into place dramatically changed the lives of Soviet citizens. Watch this brief video clip (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (length 6:32, excerpts from Robin Hessman's 2010 documentary My Perestroika) in which several Russians describe their personal experiences during that turbulent time. In your opinion, which of the new freedoms enjoyed by Russians was the most important? Why? Why do you think one woman in the video called this period a “really confusing and difficult time for our country”?4. Tapping into your imagination here (please do base your answer on what you have learned in this module). If you were born in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s and were about 17 or 18 during the beginning of perestroika, what changes do you think you personally would have welcomed most? What would have been most difficult to adapt to? If you were the Soviet leader in 1980s and your goal was to improve the existing regime, what policies or reforms would you recommend? Which policies and reforms that Gorbachev implemented would you have stayed away from? (E.g. would you have introduced the anti-alcohol campaign? etc.). Although this is a "what if" type of question, make sure to provide detailed answers backed with facts and data from this module's materials.5. For Russian / Soviet people of my generation, Gorbachev's perestroika (and then the collapse of the Soviet Union) was definitely a profoundly life-changing event on every possible level. What events would you identify as the key political events for your own generation? Why did you pick this particular event? If you choose to answer this question, make sure to explain how are these events similar to / different from what Soviet citizens experienced in the late 1980s.