Participating in an interview with a center director is a required step in obtaining a teaching position. During an interview, a center director is very likely to ask you about lessons you have planned or developed to meet the learning needs of young children.

Part 1: Lesson Plan:

For the first part of the Final Paper, you will submit the literacy lesson plan that incorporates a piece of children’s literature that you have been working on throughout the course.

To prepare for Part 1,

• Using instructor and peer feedback from previous weeks, modify your lesson plan.
• Review the Week 5 Lesson Plan Assignment Templatethat you will use to complete this assignment.

In your lesson plan

• Include the contents from Week 1: standard, goal, lesson.
• Include the contents from Week 2: materials, introduction, lesson procedures, guided practice.
• Include the contents from Week 3: independent practice, differentiation, closing, assessment.
• Upload the lesson plan to Waypoint.

Part 2: Written Interview Answers:

Before any interview, you need to formulate answers for many questions an interviewer may ask. In this portion of the Final Paper, you will prepare written answers to 10 interview questions that you might be asked in the interview quiz.

To prepare for Part 2,

• Read Final Paper Helpful Hints.
• Review the Interview Answers template that you will use to complete this assignment.
• Locate two credible sources (in addition to the course text) to support your answers.

In your paper

• Answer the interview questions provided on the template.
• Upload the completed template to Waypoint.

For each question, you should

• Illustrate your response with detailed classroom examples relating to the interview question.
• Communicate critical thinking and analysis of interview questions in each response.
• Use at least one credible source to support each answer. (You may use one credible source for more than one answer.)

The Final Paper is submitted in two parts.

The Part 1: Lesson Plan

• Must be two to three pages in length.

The Part 2: Written Interview Answers

• Must be five to six pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
• Must use at least two credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ash