ELSE 6073 Educational Procedures for Individuals with Moderate to Profound
Disabilities
Assignment: Executive Summary and Reflection
Overview:
The purpose of the executive summary is to hone skills in reflection and evaluation, apply
supporting literature, synthesize and summarizing readings in a clear concise manner. A
reflection differs from an executive summary in that the “now what” of the reflection is pertinent
to the writer; the now what of the executive summary is pertinent to others as well as the writer.
The Executive Summary should be no longer than the equivalent of two pages double-spaced,
with references included.
An executive summary is quite simply a summary of summaries. In other words, an executive
summary provides a concise summary of each of your assigned chapters. More specifically, it
should communicate the key points/insights/findings/suggestions from the following chapters:
1. Introduction
2. Analysis (explain/dissect)
3. Recommendations
4. Implementation
5. Reflection
Guidelines
Criteria Related Question(s)
What? What did I learn/what was the chapter about/what is important?
Include ideas (not quotes) from the chapter.
So What? Why is this information important to the graduate candidate (you)
and the special educator?
What Else? What else is important related to this information? Use another
reference to give an additional perspective.
Now What? What implications does this information have for graduate
candidate, special educators, and others (i.e., parents, other
educators, medical staff, etc.)?
Executive Summary Attributes:
1. The executive summary should be able to stand independently as an informative
document. In other words, I should be able to grasp your broad summary without having
to read the full chapter. The executive summary provides a summary of the entire
chapter(s).
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Disabilities
Assignment: Executive Summary and Reflection
Overview:
The purpose of the executive summary is to hone skills in reflection and evaluation, apply
supporting literature, synthesize and summarizing readings in a clear concise manner. A
reflection differs from an executive summary in that the “now what” of the reflection is pertinent
to the writer; the now what of the executive summary is pertinent to others as well as the writer.
The Executive Summary should be no longer than the equivalent of two pages double-spaced,
with references included.
An executive summary is quite simply a summary of summaries. In other words, an executive
summary provides a concise summary of each of your assigned chapters. More specifically, it
should communicate the key points/insights/findings/suggestions from the following chapters:
1. Introduction
2. Analysis (explain/dissect)
3. Recommendations
4. Implementation
5. Reflection
Guidelines
Criteria Related Question(s)
What? What did I learn/what was the chapter about/what is important?
Include ideas (not quotes) from the chapter.
So What? Why is this information important to the graduate candidate (you)
and the special educator?
What Else? What else is important related to this information? Use another
reference to give an additional perspective.
Now What? What implications does this information have for graduate
candidate, special educators, and others (i.e., parents, other
educators, medical staff, etc.)?
Executive Summary Attributes:
1. The executive summary should be able to stand independently as an informative
document. In other words, I should be able to grasp your broad summary without having
to read the full chapter. The executive summary provides a summary of the entire
chapter(s).
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