This week you will begin working on your Exceptional Learning and Inclusion Project

This week you will begin working on your Exceptional Learning and Inclusion Project. This project will consist of four miniprojects representing the knowledge you have gained throughout the course, demonstrating your mastery of the course learning outcomes. Just like children have different strengths for displaying their understanding of concepts they learned, so do you as university students. Additionally, we want your work in this course to be applicable to your future career. Therefore, for your Exceptional Learning and Inclusion Project, you can choose various project options to showcase your knowledge! For the first part of your project, focus on the history of special education and laws, policies, and procedures that have helped shape the current state of inclusion presented in Week 1 of class.
To prepare,

Read Chapter 2: Teaching Children in Special Education.
Choose the project you will create to demonstrate understanding of the first course learning outcome (CLO) from the options below:

Content Focus
Project Choices: Choose one Option
CLO 1: Historical Influences
Choose one project to create that answers the following question:
How will historical influences inform your current practices for creating learning environments for children with exceptionalities?
Paper: Write a 2–3-page paper that fully addresses the question.
Creative Art: Utilizing CanvaLinks to an external site. or Adobe CC ExpressLinks to an external site., create a 1–2-page visual resource that fully addresses the question.
Colleague Resource: Develop a 4-6 (not including title and reference pages)-slide professional development presentation for your colleagues that fully addresses the question.
Parent Resource: Develop a 2–3-page newsletter for families that fully addresses the question.
Submission Requirements
Whatever format you choose, your delivery of the project must conform to the following requirements:

If you developed your project with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or as a PDF, upload your assignment file to Waypoint.
If you utilized a web-based tool such as CanvaLinks to an external site. or Adobe CC ExpressLinks to an external site. to develop your project, download the project as a PDF and upload the PDF to Waypoint for grading.

Additional Requirements
The Exceptional Learning and Inclusion Project Part 1 assignment,

Depending on your chosen project format, must adhere to the following:

Paper: 2 to 3 pages (not including title and reference pages)
Presentation: 4 to 6 slides (not including title and reference slides)
Creative Tool: 1 to 2 pages
Parent Newsletter: 2 to 3 pages

Must be formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper in bold font

Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.

Student’s name
Name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Due date

Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

For assistance on writing Introductions