Historical, Cultural, and Legal Influences on Specific Situations
2048.1.5 : Historical, Cultural, and Legal Influences on Specific Situations
Explain the historical, cultural or legal influences on specific situations within the currentschool context.
INTRODUCTION
Not all school settings are the same. Public schools, private schools, and charter schools each functiondifferently. No matter the type of school, a teacher must understand how historical, cultural, and legal influences affect how the school functions and addresses challenges.
In this task, you will explore a commonschool function or challenge (e.g., development of school calendar, procurement of resources, managementof class size, addressing chronic absenteeism, engaging parents) by examining the historical, cultural, and legal influences on a specific school setting.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and nomore than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased fromsources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be usedas a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria thatwill be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubricaspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unlessspecified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submittedas attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Select one of the following school settings:
• public school
• private school
• charter school
B. Describe one school function or challenge that commonly occurs in the school setting selected in part A(e.g., development of school calendar, procurement of resources, management of class size, addressingchronic absenteeism, engaging parents).
TASK OVERVIEW SUBMISSIONS EVALUATION REPORT
C. Describe how an example of each of the following influences informs the way in which the school settingselected in part A would address the school function or challenge described in part B:
• historical influence
• cultural influence
• legal influence
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, orsummarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
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