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An important part of being an educator is reflection. Reflection is a learning process through which you use your experiences and knowledge to guide you in the future. Each week you will have the opportunity to use your journal to reflect on the content you have learned in this course and throughout your degree program. Specifically, you will reflect on the connections you see between each case study and two to three topics from the Program Comprehensive Exam. This week we will be focusing on assessment and planning for instruction.  Take a few minutes to think about how the case study addresses these topics.  Additionally, read the article Frameworks for response to intervention in early childhood: Description and implications.

In this week’s readings, we looked at the relationship between assessment and instruction and how the combination of these two support children’s learning and development. A common trend in education that supports the relationship of assessment and instruction is Response to Intervention (RtI). By providing specific, targeted interventions for children, we are able to support their areas of strength and opportunity.

The questions below may spark some ideas regarding assessment and planning for instruction. You do not need to address all the questions; instead, write down your thoughts as they unfold. Reflect on the following in your journal:

• • What were three main ideas that you learned from the article regarding RTI?
  • Based on the case study, what elements of RTI do you think Mrs. Ashland is using with her students? Explain your thinking using justification, supporting details and critical thinking.
  • What experience do you have using RTI with children? Explain how you use RTI.  If you do not have any experience with RTI, what are your thoughts on using RTI with assessment and instruction

• What role do you see RTI playing in your future work with children?

Persuasion: Who, What, To Whom

In your textbook, Feenstra (2013) states, “In evaluating persuason we need to take into account where the message comes from, what the message contains, and the intended audience.” (p. 167).

For your assignment this week, construct a paper that provides an in-depth analysis of the three parts of persuasion. Address the following points in your paper:

1.   Who – Describe the Characteristics of the Persuader: What influences our ability to become persuaded by someone? What specific characteristics must this person possess? Be sure to address the impact of credibility, physical attractiveness, and likeability in your response. Why do we respond well to those who possess such characteristics? Would we respond the same to an unattractive, angry, or non-credible person? Why not?

2.   What – Discuss the Characteristics of the Message: What attributes are inherent in persuasive messages? How are we influenced by the emotion, framing, narratives, and rational appeals in the messaging we receive? What is the significance of the sleeper effect?

3.   To Whom – Examine the Characteristics of the Audience: Why do different audiences perceive messages in different ways? What is the role of culture, gender, and self-esteem in this process? How does the elaboration likelihood model help to explain the relationship between the persuader, the message, and the audience?

4.   Review the excerpt from p. 156 of your textbook, Social Psychology in Depth: Word of Mouth and Persuasion. How does the e-word of mouth phenomena illustrate the concepts above? Please be specific in your response.

Include an introduction, thesis statement, and conclusion. Your completed assignment must be three to four pages in length (excluding title and reference pages), and must follow APA guidelines include a minimum of three APA references.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 tools (file sharing, cloud-services, etc.) provide ways for us to connect with individuals and share information in almost real time. Describe how you use these tools in your life today. How do you think these tools will work in the future? How will they impact major societal concerns like education, jobs, or the economy?

 

must be in words about how i use this in everyday life I want above and beyond what disscusion asks for and great detail all questions answered

1. What aspects of the ethical theories discussed in the text do you see in your organization? Discuss at least two examples.

Your response should be at least 250 words in length.

2.What is cultural responsiveness? Identify an example of cultural responsiveness that you have observed in your personal or employment experiences.

 

Your response should be at least 250 words in length.

 

3. Discuss the components of an ethical culture. Explain how ethical leadership is critical to an organization’s culture and ultimate success.

 

Your response should be at least 250 words in length

 

4. Why is multicultural leadership even more critical today than it was 10 years ago? What conditions do you think will perpetuate the need for effective multicultural leadership?

 

Your response should be at least 250 words in length.

For this assignment, you will choose an organization to analyze. This organization can be one you are personally familiar with, or one you have observed to be an effective organization, You now become a newly appointed senior leader in that organization.

As a new leader, you must prepare a report for the CEO that assesses the organization’s overall alignment between its vision, mission, values, and strategy. This report should consist of the following sections:

 

1. An analysis of the strategic cascade of the organization

   This includes assessing the organization’s strategy and market position. Use the framework implied in Michael Porter’s (1997) article “What is Strategy.” When describing the business strategy of your organization, consider the following questions:

   • What is the target market (target customer)?
   • What is your organization’s value proposition (How does it deliver value that satisfies the target’s wants and needs?)?
   • How is your product or service positioned in the market (What specific features and attributes define the product/service and how is its value reflected in its pricing, distribution, marketing communications, etc.?)?
   • How is your organization sustainably different from your competitors (What is the source of uniqueness and how sustainable is it from being diminished by competitors?)?
2. A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis

   A SWOT analysis is a strategy planning tool that examines both internal and external environments for factors and trends that should shape planning and operations over the next five years. Environmental factors internal to the company are classified as strengths (to be leveraged) or weaknesses (to be mitigated), while external factors are classified as either opportunities (to be pursued) or threats (to be monitored and responded to).

   Some primer questions for the SWOT analysis include the following:

   Strengths

   • What advantages does your organization have?
   • What do you do better than anyone else?
   • What unique or lowest-cost resources can you draw upon that others cannot?
   • What do people in your market see as your strengths?
   • What factors mean that you “get the sale”?
   • What is your organization’s unique selling proposition (USP)?

   Weaknesses

   • What aspects of your product or service could you improve?
   • What market segments or competitive areas should you avoid?
   • What are people in your market likely to see as weaknesses?
   • What factors can make you lose sales?

   Opportunities

   • What good opportunities can you spot?
   • What interesting trends are you aware of?Useful opportunities can come from such things as the following:
     • Changes in technology and markets on both a broad and narrow scale
     • Changes in government policy related to your field
     • Changes in social patterns, population profiles, lifestyle changes, and so on
     • Local events

   Threats

   • What obstacles do you face?
   • What are your competitors doing?
   • Are quality standards or specifications for your job, products, or services changing?
   • Is changing technology threatening your position?
   • Do you have bad debt or cash-flow problems?
   • Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your business?
3. A summary of the internal environment, including the organization’s values and the key elements of the organization architecture that influence worker behavior.

   Include the following characteristics when analyzing the internal environment:

• Structure: This includes the ways the organization assigns formal roles and responsibilities, decision-making authority, expertise and skills, and work tasks. Think of the organization chart and how its implied structure directs the decision making, resource allocation, and workflow of the organization. Is it consistent with the strategy?
• Systems: This comprises the information flows that coordinate activities between groups and across the organization structure while helping direct worker behavior, including performance management, financial management, operating, forecasting and planning, and other regulating mechanisms. How do these systems help align workers and their actions with the strategy?
• Culture: This consists of the unwritten rules and norms that govern worker behavior and help coordinate the activities across structural boundaries. Is the organization culture an enabler or impediment to the corporate strategy? What specific behaviors embedded in the culture support the strategy? What specific behaviors block the strategy?

A synthesis of the information evaluating the ability of the organization to implement the strategy using Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices (for example, modeling the way) as a framework.

Include answers to the following:

• Company Culture
  • Describe the values and culture of your organization.
  • What are the values of your organization?
  • How are they reflected in the behaviors you see at work?
• Employee Behaviors
  • Describe the behaviors in your organization.
  • Are these behaviors consistent with the business strategy?
  • Where do they conflict with the strategy?
  • What new behaviors are required to align with the strategy?
• Leadership
  • How might you and other leaders create new behaviors to support the strategy?
  • What specific actions would you implement to communicate, motivate, model the way, coach, inspire the vision, challenge the process, and encourage the heart?

Your response to each part of the assignment should be approximately three pages.

Your final product will be in a word document and be approximately 10–12 pages in length and utilize 4–7 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

 

 

Develop the project scope statement and the project charter.

Construct the work breakdown structure (WBS) in Microsoft® Project® 2007.

Design the communication plan.

 

Identify the key stakeholder groups and their project information needs.

Create a table in Microsoft® Word summarizing what information will be produced during the project lifecycle, including

 

status and issues reports.

the target audience for each type of information.

when each type of information will be available.

how the information will be communicated.

who is responsible for producing the information.

 

Week Three

 

Develop the project schedule in Microsoft Project 2007.

Explain the rationale behind time and cost estimation methods and why you chose one method over another.

Determine the project budget.

 

Week Four:

 

Develop the risk management plan.

 

Identify at least five specific risks that are applicable to the Riordan project.

Create a risk assessment matrix table in Microsoft® Word. For each risk identified

 

quantify the likelihood and probability of the risk occurring.

identify the effect of the risk.

provide an overall risk assessment score.

estimate when the risk could occur.

explain how you would mitigate each risk.

 

Develop the change control management plan.

 

Describe how changes to the project scope, timeline, and budget for the Riordan project will be requested, reviewed, approved, reported, and communicated.

Identify who will be responsible for managing the change control process, reviewing and approving the change requests, and communicating the approved changes to project stakeholders.

Explain the role of change control management and discuss how changes to the project schedule and project budget will be managed.

 

Week Five

 

Include the following sections of the Project Execution, Monitoring and Control Paper in your final project:

 

Identify the steps taken to assemble, develop, and manage the project team.

Explain how you will manage project execution.

Explain the importance of project sponsorship and project leadership during project execution.

Identify the method of measuring and reporting project progress and performance.

 

Explain the rationale for your choice of method.

 

Week Six

 

Submit your final project.

 

Incorporate project management deliverables into a comprehensive project plan.

Include additional sections describing the project retrospective process and the project closedown process that was followed for the project.

Determine how the project retrospective process and the project closedown steps relate to each other and to the overall project structure.

Submit comprehensive project management plan as a Microsoft® Word document.

Develop a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation of no more than 10-slides illustrating the main points from the Riordan Manufacturing Project Management Plan.

Select a publicly traded company to research and evaluate its Human Resource (HR) and business strategy, HR department job positions, and ways it markets its company regarding human capital. Some company Websites that provide this information are listed below:

• Marriott: http://www.arubamarriottcareers.com/JobDescriptions.html
• Allstate: http://www.jigsaw.com/id209321_d40/allstate_insurance_human_resources_business_contacts.xhtml
• State Farm: http://www.statefarm.com/about/retirees/news_articles/hr_serv_assist.asp
• Ford Motor Company: http://corporate.ford.com/careers/career-paths/human-resources?&ccode=US

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Propose how you would ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy.
2. Describe the HR job positions and the responsibilities listed for that HR department.
3. Determine which HR job positions you would prefer and explain why.
4. Analyze how the selected company can establish HRM strategies to improve competitive advantages.
5. Propose three (3) ways that the company can increase diversity.
6. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Examine the role of human resource management (HRM) in organizations and how it supports the organization’s business strategy.
• Evaluate human resource strategies and how these strategies align with business strategies.
• Create a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
• Formulate HRM strategies and policies to recruit, select, place, and retain the most efficient and effective workforce.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic human resource development.
• Write clearly and concisely about strategic human resource development using proper writing mechanics.

In Assignment 1(FedEx Company), you investigated data analytics and the utilization of data analytics in business. In this assignment, use the company or industry that you selected in Assignment 1(FedEx Company),. Use the Internet to explore the relationship between information management and data storage techniques.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

 

1. Ascertain the importance of information management for the company or industry that you have chosen.
2. Analyze the fundamental impact of IT architecture or enterprise architecture on information management for your chosen company or industry. Determine if IT architecture impacts the effectiveness or efficiency of information management and vice versa.
3. Suggest at least two (2) data storage methods regarding database, data warehouse, and / or date mart for your chosen company or industry. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Determine the optimal data storage method between the methods that you suggested in Question 3. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Compare and contrast the strategic and operational use of data management systems.
• Summarize the complexities of information technology and practices.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems and technology.
• Write clearly and concisely about topics related to information systems for decision making using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.