Author: chris

HOMEWORK 1 due 10/6 at 8pm

Reflect on the connection between reading and writing. What are some potential barriers to facilitating extended discussions of text meaning and interpretation?  How will you overcome them?

 

What is critical literacy? How is it important outside of the classroom?

 

HOMEWORK 2 10/7 at 9pm

Select a grade level and research critical literacy instructional strategies (looking at both reading and writing).  Chose a text from Appendix B of the Common Core standards.  From your selections and research, create a chart that includes 10 strategies that you can use to help your student construct meaning through critical literacy using the text to illustrate the strategy.

Describe an activity to be used with each strategy on your chart.

1)  Have the Bush and Obama administrations gone too far in the exercise of executive power? Why or why not?

2) Does the modern bureaucracy excessively undermine the separation of powers, or is it necessary to govern a complex nation?

 

In the online lectures in Module 3 and your textbook readings (“Training and Development”, Leadership”, and “Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Job Involvement”) you learned about the importance of training your employees.  However, training is only effective when employees can retain the information and incorporate what they learn to improve their job performance.

You have just learned that your company is looking for ways to cut back expenses.  One of the cost cutting measures being considered is to terminate the training department, as the company considers this an expense and they do not believe training is contributing to the profitability of the company.  As the head of the training department it is your job to defend the value of the department.  You realize that well trained employees perform their jobs more efficiently and consequently can contribute to higher productivity and profits for the company. One way to show the value of training is to have tools that will allow a manager to track the performance of an employee both before and after they have received training.

1. 1. Report

      Write a report that will be shared with senior management on why training is a very important part of the company’s overall financial success.  Discuss the advantages of having well-trained employees.

 

1. Evaluation Tool

   Using what you have learned about transfer training and the evaluation of training programs create an evaluation tool which can be used to evaluate how effective any given employee training program is in terms of:

• • Increasing the level of transfer of knowledge (knowledge retention)
  • Monitoring the effectiveness of the skill performance in the job performance improvement
  • Include common attributes in your evaluation tool which could be applicable to most employees at the organization such as: employees showing concern for saving the company money or consistently turning in error free work.  Your training tool should contain a minimum of 10 evaluation criteria.

Your training evaluation tool must be included with your report defending the value of the training department.  You know that your report will be shared with senior level managers and eventually to the board of directors.  However, you are uncertain whether or not you will be allowed to present your work at a later time or in a different manner.  Therefore it is important that your report is well written and professional.

Report Details

The report should be 5-7 pages in length and include:

• Executive Summary highlighting all the factors in the scenario.
• Justification of the importance of retaining the training department in the company and explanation of how the training department is important to the overall success of the company.
• Training Evaluation Tool to evaluate knowledge retention and job performance improvement (10 criteria minimum).
• Explanation of how the evaluation tool will be implemented.
• Describe how the evaluation tool will help evaluate the level of transfer of knowledge and skill performance for current training programs as well as, monitor and improve planning for future training effectiveness.
• Summary and conclusion of tool’s effectiveness.

Learning or Cognitive Personality Theories Podcast

Your instructor will assign each team a learning or cognitive personality theory.

 

Imagine you are creating a lesson on your specific theory and you need to provide a supplemental audio file to support your lesson.

 

Record a 5- to 10-minute informational podcast on your assigned theory, including the following:

• Describe the main tenets of the theory and how they affect behavior.
• Provide an example of a situation that demonstrates the relationship between the theory and the behavior.
• Explain the example situation according to a different learning or cognitive theory, and explain how this differs from the assigned theory.
• Outline the strengths and limitations of the assigned theory.

Submit a transcript of your podcast and a reference page, along with the audio file.

Include a minimum of two to three peer-reviewed sources.

Format your reference page consistent with APA guidelines.

For this milestone assignment, you will be using what you have learned this week to examine how the system development life cycle applies to your final project scenario. You will be using the Milestone One section of the template to complete this assignment. Refer to the Sharpe Style scenario for details on the current state of the company and the business owner’s goals.

 

Begin by restating the context of your assignment as an intern at Sharpe Style. Describe why your task is relevant given the role of information technology in business management.

 

Next, describe the system development life cycle approach and how it can help document and inform IT business decisions in this case. Use your Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document and the Final Project Template to help you. Discuss the appendices required for your business report and when they are developed in the life cycle. Include considerations on what information you were given in the scenario that applies to the life cycle and what you will need to research further.

 

Develop a Quality Management Plan. Review the goals of your project and determine the anticipated deliverables for each milestone.  Consider what trade-offs may need to be made to ensure project success.  Describe each deliverable and determine a quality rating (A,B, C, or D) for each.  Explain your rationale for the trade-offs you make in deliverable quality.

The assignment continues about Starbucks and branches off the literature review you completed.

 

1. Design a 10-question questionnaire based on your proposed research problem. The questionnaire must contain an introduction that explains the purpose, an approximate time frame for completion, and a statement on confidentiality/anonymity. There should be at most two open-ended questions. Please review the guidelines located in Chapter 15. You may also refer to Appendix 15A for wording on the most common research topics.

   Your response should be at least 200 words in length, unless otherwise specified. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

 

2. Evaluate each question that you included in the questionnaire. Explain how the question will help meet the objectives of the research. Please be specific and provide justification.

   Your response should be at least 200 words in length, unless otherwise specified. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Question #1 (250 word + essay) APA format with references

Discuss the bombing campaign the RAF and the USAAF conducted against the Third Reich. How did the two differ in objectives and why? What resistance impediments did the campaign experience? What was accomplished by the bombing campaign?

 

Question # 2 (250 word + essay) APA format with references

Outline the factors which resulted in the choice of Normandy as the site of D-Day. What other options did the Allies contemplate, and where these alternatives sites ruled out? Describe the military events which composed D-Day on the beaches of both Omaha and Utah. Finally, what was the German reaction the D-Day and why?

 

Question # 3  Place the events below in correct chronological order.

1) Following Hitler’s suicide, his German successors surrender to the Allies

2) Allies met at a conference in Portsmouth to determine the fate of a cross channel invasion (D-day)

3) The Tehran conference ended the debate concerning OVERLOAD

4) At the Casablanca Conference the Allies determined POINTBLANK must be a critical element of any invasion of Germany

 

5) A group of both German citizens and generals unsuccessfully attempt the end the Nazi regime through a foiled attempt on Hitler’s life.

Essay topic: Reflecting on the concepts you have studied in the course, discuss the legal and ethical issues surrounding Solyndra, the California based solar panel manufacturer.  You will need to research the company through the American Military University library. Your essay should include the following: