Author: chris

This week we have discussed learning disabilities and communication disorders.  As you may have noticed, most students with these disabilities are in the general education classroom either part of, or most of, the school day. What is your comfort level with teaching students with learning disabilities and/or communication disorders in the general education setting?  What challenges do you think you might experience?  What actions can you take to mitigate these potential challenges?

Journal options:

 

1. Create a written reflection journal
2. Create a Jing reflection using a screencast
3. Create a Voki reflection using a talking avatar
4. Participate in a peer dialogue reflection, where you discuss the questions above with a peer or colleague and write a reflection based on your discussion

 

Week 2 – Assignment

 

Adapting Lesson Plans for an Inclusive Classroom

Using one (or more) of the free resources below, write a three- to four-page critique of three lesson plans (one Grade K-5 lesson, one Grade 7-8 lesson, and one high school lesson) in regard to addressing the needs of students with learning disability (LD) or communication disorder (CD).  Make sure to include at least one additional scholarly source beyond those listed below.  Your critique should address the following elements:

 

1. Determine the elements of each lesson that would be specifically helpful in addressing the needs of a student with LD or CD.
2. Generate ideas for adaptations that you might make to the lesson to more effectively support students with disabilities. Discuss research-based strategies that could be used to enhance learning in the lesson.
3. Identify and describe potential accommodations, modifications, or supplemental services within the context of the lesson that could support the needs of students with LD or CD.
4. Generate at least five ways that a teacher could leverage learning strategies, social interactions, and behavior supports within the lesson to address student needs.

During this week’s IP, you will submit a first draft of your Key Assignment from Weeks 1–4, as follows:

• Section 1: Information Security Management
  • This section will be used to describe the organization and establish the security model to be used by the organization.
• Section 2: Security Program
  • This section will focus on existing frameworks that can help in the implementation of a security plan and what a security organization should look like.
• Section 3: Security Policies
  • This section looks at security policies and their creation.
• Section 4: Assessing Risk
  • This section will focus on risk assessments and methodologies used to perform one.

The project deliverables for Week 4 are as follows:

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• IP1 through IP4 with total outline required>>>!!! Files provided to build outline per assighnment 4
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• Section 4: Assessing Risk
  • This week will focus understanding the risk that an organization’s information systems face. You will review the risk assessment methodology and understand some of the basic terms that are associated with risk.
    • Describe a methodology that can be used to conduct a risk assessment for an organization.
    • Describe the 4 methods for dealing with identified risk.
    • Describe the following terms:
      • Vulnerabilities
      • Threats
      • Exploits
    • Include a discussion about how they apply to a risk assessment.
  • This information should be 2–3 pages of details.
• Name the document “yourname_IT454_IP4.doc.”

 

Imagine you are part of a strategic planning group at a large corporation that is considering developing a new proposed product. The marketing director has asked your team to do a competitive market analysis to determine the product’s potential success. The analysis will focus on your primary competitor in the product’s market.

 

Select a potential competitive organization and a product in that organization

I’ve slected a car company and the product is electric car telsa
Write 200-500-word paper analyzing the current market conditions. Address the following topics:

 

• Factors affecting variable costs, including productivity and others that change the supply of and demand for labor
• Factors affecting fixed costs

 

 

 

 

You work for Centervale Apparel, a large clothing manufacturing firm. Centervale Apparel has budgeted $9.7 million for new technology initiatives in the coming year but the project requests currently in the queue for next year total about $15 million. Your boss, the executive director of operations, has asked you to put together a proposal for this project to replace legacy order fulfillment technologies by implementing a supply chain management (SCM) system. Your boss wants to ensure this project will be prioritized over other projects on the list and will be implemented in the coming year. Use the following data to prepare a proposal using a balanced scorecard approach to demonstrate the project’s value to Centervale Apparel.

Here is your brief:

Business Problem: The order fulfillment team has been using several legacy technology systems to manage inventory and distribution. The current systems do not work together, requiring redundant information input and processing. Because of the redundant processes, work is duplicated requiring multiple data entry points and sometimes results in inaccurate and irreconcilable data. There is a constant overage or shortage of supply due to the time it takes for data to get from one point to another. This causes unhappy customers and inventory carrying costs that could be avoided.

Project Description: Replace legacy order fulfillment technologies by implementing a SCM system.

Project Cost: The project will cost approximately $1.2 million including infrastructure and resources to complete the implementation and $250,000 annually to support and maintain the new system with a ten-year lifecycle for the system.

Project Benefit: It is estimated that the implementation of a supply chain management system will improve the order fulfillment processing time and reduce inventory-carrying costs. Implementing the SCM system will also enable the retirement of several legacy systems. Estimated annual cost savings are:

• Data entry staff reduced from 10 FTE to 8 FTE = $100,000/yr savings
• Reduction in inventory carrying costs = $300,000/yr savings
• Improved order fulfillment = 10–20% decrease in order to delivery time. This will improve customer satisfaction and retention
• Improved data accuracy
• Legacy system maintenance retirement savings = $100,000/yr

Using the information that details the primary business goals for the coming year, you will need to demonstrate how implementing the SCM system will help achieve the business objectives.

Note: Customers are retail companies who order from this clothing manufacturer. Assume a ten-year lifecycle for the SCM system.

Using the module readings and the Argosy University online library resources, research methods of developing proposals by applying the balanced scorecard approach. Select two scholarly resources for use in this assignment. You will use these resources to justify your recommendations.

The proposal should include the following:

• Describe the measureable value. This should include a cost-benefit analysis, such as payback period or ROI that relies on tangible measures of organizational value through cost savings, revenue enhancements, or improvements in the speed, quality, or efficiency of key processes that help achieve competitive advantage (note the difference between tangible and intangible measures in this proposal).
• Evaluate and choose alternatives. Make sure to identify any alternatives to the project implementation and provide a justification for each.
• Complete a risk assessment of all risks associated with implementing the project using an enterprise risk management (ERM) model.
• Describe total cost of ownership and include descriptions of implementation project and ongoing maintenance costs.
• Explain the benefits of the project, which include tangible and intangible benefits.
• Fully justify a recommendation with a compelling proposal that aligns to the business goals.

Search for 3 papers in Information Security that you think contain statistical analysis.

• What is the importance of statistical data analysis?
• What are the appropriate published literature in Information Security?

The purpose of the Final Paper is for you to culminate the learning achieved in the course by describing your understanding and application of knowledge in the field of employee training through the analysis of a scenario related to the creation of a training course.

Focus of the Final Paper

In the course, you have examined several areas of employee training. For this paper, you will be applying this knowledge by examining the creation of a cultural diversity training course.

Imagine that you are in training and development for a global organization. You have been tasked with the creation of a cultural diversity training course that all employees will be required to take. Before designing the course, you must consider the ethical and cultural issues of the task.

In an eight- to ten-page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), you must address the following:

1. Examine any legal implications in creating a training course that discusses culture. Identify what laws and regulations should be considered.
2. Explain how the demographic diversity of your employees affects discussions of cultural diversity.
3. Examine which ethical implications should be considered.
4. Examine if training can be standardized for all locations in a global organization. Analyze what media is best suited for training in a global setting.
5. Provide recommendations for implementing the training course.

Paper requirements

1. Must be eight to ten pages in length (excluding the title page, references page, exhibits, etc.) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
2. Must include a cover page:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must include an introductory paragraph with a clearly stated thesis or topic.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
6. Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
7. Must include a separate references page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Topic: Should Marijuana be legal for Recreational use?

 

Assignment # 1

 

Constructing a Deductively Valid Argument

 

	You must post to this discussion on at least four separate days of the week, and your posts must total at least 400 words as you address the questions. Your first post must be completed by Day 3 (Thursday) and the remainder of your posts must be completed by Day 7 (Monday). You must answer all aspects of the prompt at some point during the week. Also, reply to your classmates and instructor. Attempt to take the conversation further by examining their claims or arguments in more depth or responding to the posts that they make to you. Keep the discussion on target, and analyze things in as much detail as you can. The total combined word count for all of your posts for this discussion, counted together, should be at least 400 words. Answer all the questions in the prompt, and read any resources that are required to complete the discussion properly. In order to satisfy the posting requirements for the week, complete your initial post by Day 3 (Thursday) and your other posts by Day 7 (Monday). We recommend that you get into the discussion early and spread out your posts over the course of the week. Reply to your classmates and instructor. Attempt to take the conversation further by examining their claims or arguments in more depth or responding to the posts that they make to you. Keep the discussion on target, and analyze things in as much detail as you can. The topic of this week is deductive reasoning. Accordingly, in this discussion your task is to create a deductively valid argument for your position (the same position that you defended in the Week One discussion).
	Prepare: To prepare to respond to this prompt, make sure to read carefully over Chapter 3 and the required portions of Chapter 4. View the deLaplante (2013) video What Is a Valid Argument? as well as the other required media for the week. For more guidance about how to construct a valid argument for a controversial position, review the Constructing a Valid Argument video and the document How to Construct a Valid Main Argument. Based on the sources, create a deductively valid argument for the position you defended in the Week One discussion.
	Reflect: To make your argument deductively valid, you will need to make sure that there is no possible way that your premises could be true and your conclusion false. Your premises must lead logically to the truth of your conclusion. Make sure that your argument is sound that is in addition to being valid, make sure that the premises are true as far as you can tell. If your argument is invalid or if it has a false premise, revise it until you get an argument that you can stand behind.
	Write: Identify the components and structure of your argument by presenting your deductively valid argument in standard form, and explain how your conclusion follows from your premises.
	Guided Response: Read the arguments presented by your classmates, and analyze the reasoning that they have presented. In particular, if you believe that their argument is invalid, explain a way in which it would be possible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false. If you believe that their argument has a false premise, explain why a reasonable person might take it to be false. Finally, see if you can help them to improve their argument. How can they alter their premises so that all of them are true? What might they change in order to make their argument valid?

 

 

Assignment # 2

 

Deductive Logic

 

We have learned this week about deductive reasoning, including what it takes for an argument to be deductive. This discussion allows us to practice identifying and evaluating examples of deductive reasoning. Prepare: To prepare to respond to this prompt, read the instructor’s guidance and Chapters 3 and 4 (the required portions) of the textbook, and view required media for this week. Contemplate what it means to for an argument to bedeductive. Reflect: Having studied the concept of deductive reasoning, find sources of reasoning, be it a detective novel, a political blog, a newspaper article, a TV broadcast, or some other source, and identify three arguments that you take to be deductive. If you have a hard time finding all three from media sources, you are able to create one or two of your own deductive arguments, on whatever topic you wish. Write: Present each argument in standard from (with the premises listed above the conclusion). After you have presented each argument, provide an explanation of why the reasoning is or is not valid. If the reasoning is valid, explain how the truth of the conclusion follows from the premises; If the reasoning is not valid, show how it would be possible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false, and discuss what it might take to make the argument valid.

• In an international organization, which HR practice do you believe would be most useful to the employees? Please support your answer. (HR) 2-3 sentences

 

Write a 1,000- to -2,000-word that discusses how that organization can use distributed access control between partners and itself, both to and from its systems.

Identify two likely partners that would need access to its systems in this way and two where it is likely to need access to another system.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Because this is a virtual organization, research could be done on a example trucking company if needed. If you have any questions or need any assistance, I must be notified before midnight the say before it is due.

• Identify impacts associated with agriculture.
• Identify and discuss the effects a growing human population may have on that ecosystem’s resources, including loss or harm to populations of wild species.

• Include two outside references.

  Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

  this topic is about Yellowstone National Park Ecosystem  400-600 words