Reflect on the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on you and your students or the students in your neighborhood school. Write a 2- to 3-page response to the following:

Is your socioeconomic status similar or different from the students’?
In what ways is it similar or different?

How do you ensure that your perceptions and assumptions do not impede student learning?
Does the difference affect the way you teach your students? If so, how?
If someone were to visit your classroom or neighborhood school without knowing anything about the school, would the visitor be able to easily identify your students’ SES? Yours?
In what ways might this be possible?
How does your classroom and teaching materials reflect the backgrounds of your students and honor their real-life experiences?

Note: If you are not currently teaching or you do not identify a difference in socioeconomic standing between yourself and the students at your school, you may either opt to reflect on the materials that were available to you as a student or to complete a Google search for resources you feel would be excellent additions to a particular age/content area classroom.

Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style

Based on this week’s Required Studies, develop material that weaves the following concepts as well as others you have gleaned from your studies this week:

• How do the social identities (culture, ethnicity, and race) impact you, your students, and your school?
• What assumptions do we make about people from different races, ethnicities, and cultures?
• Pose your own answer to Sichel and Bacon’s (2015) question, “Why is there a dichotomy—where some students achieve and some students do not?” (p. 207).
• Why is it important to develop equity in your classroom?
• How will this perspective affect what you teach, and how will you teach it?

  You may elect to show your learning in one of the following ways:

• • Write a 2- to 3-page reflection paper
  • Create a narrated Prezi or PowerPoint
  • Make a video of yourself discussing the prompts or a narrated video that uses graphics

Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

Introduction: Setting the Stage

Set the stage by introducing your advocacy plan components with your classroom/teaching/professional context. This will include information on your learners’ backgrounds (race, culture, SES, language, special learning needs, etc.) as well as your geographic location. Also address any particularly “hot button” issues or current events in your local community that have the potential to inform your students’ classroom experiences (e.g. you live in an area where police/community relations are strained).

Part 1. The Educator’s Impact

Section One: This section is comprised of your personal reflection on your life experiences that inform your background that you bring with you to the classroom/educational setting. These topics will vary depending on who you are and where you live but may include things like your race, your childhood experiences in school, your geographic location as a child or adult, your family’s history with schooling, and so on. Be sure to consider how these issues do or could impact your teaching/educational leadership and make these connections explicit for the reader. (9i InTASC)

Section Two: Reflect on your own strengths and challenges as an educator committed to equality in the learning environment. What areas do you still need or want to learn more about to improve your practice with students/learners? Identify at least two resources or experiences that you need to have/use to address these gaps. Present a short rationale for your choices and your action plan to engage in that work. (9e InTASC)

Part 2. Educational Norms/Professional Interactions (3L InTASC)

One of the challenges in the classroom/educational setting can be effective communication that works well for a variety of learners and variety of messages. One strategy to help you ensure that your communication strategies are responsive and supportive is to develop classroom/educational setting norms that can guide your work as a community of learners.

In this section, develop a set of norms for communication that are appropriate for the age/content that you teach or lead. Be sure to identify exactly how you believe these strategies support the context you described in the introduction to your advocacy action plan. Your choices need to be attentive to the cultural dynamics that are present in your classroom/setting.

Part 3: Peer-to-peer Relationships (3o InTASC)

How do you model and encourage effective peer-to-peer relationships? Describe and explain how you will teach a strategy to your students that encourages relationships that are accepting and responsive to student diversity. Target the choices you make to the age/content that you teach. If you teach adolescents, you might focus on the power of language to include or exclude. If you teach young children, you might focus on strategies for learning to include others in games at recess. Choose one idea and develop it well, ensuring that you are detailing both why you have chosen it and how you would enact it.

Part 4: Family/Student Support (3a InTASC)

You will write this piece of your advocacy action plan as a recommendation to your administration or school grade level team to support family/community collaboration to meet student learning needs. If you work in an educational setting outside of a school, please adjust the audience of your piece accordingly (you might write this for a manager or supervisor instead of principal).

Reflecting on the resources and community supports that you identified during the course readings and activities, identify three effective ways to involve or include families in your students’ learning experiences. Address how these will provide opportunities for family engagement that may not be typically present in your school/educational setting (do not just report on what currently exists in the school site). Be sure that these are approaches that foster collaboration with families and can or would be supported by your school/educational site.

Part 5: Identifying your Role as an Educational Advocate for Students

After completing this course, you have developed a set of skills and understanding that deepens your understanding about your students and their lives and the impact that your teaching has on their experiences. What are you going to do with this knowledge? Educators are advocates for their students by default – you can choose to be proactive with this knowledge and work in areas/issues that are particularly meaningful for you. What role do you choose to take? How do you intend to advocate for your students? Identify at least two ways that you believe you can be a voice for your students and discuss how you envision yourself taking on this role.

**Please submit the entire advocacy action plan as one Word file with clear headers to identify each part of the plan. Please be sure that you are including appropriate in-text citations and references at the end of each section (not at the end of the entire plan) to support your ideas.

Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

Essay must be (1) original, (2) grammatically correct, with proper spelling, and (3) headed by a standard cover page. The body of the paper must at least three pages of double-spaced text, although a one-page appendix/reference can be added to your paper. You need to use at least three sources for references from journal articles and books (APA style for the reference is preferred). Online resources can be used but please cite the website in the reference.

Topic

you need to cover the following three issues:

1.Identify one American firm which operates oversees. What are the differences of their policies practiced here in the United States and overseas?

2. Identify which managerial (economics) decisions make them successful and what managerial (economics) decisions make them unsuccessful.

Text Book Required: Mark Hirschey, Managerial Economics, 12th ed. ISN: 9780324588866

3. Focus on how different social and political background, different market and cultural structures, and different geographic locations could influence managerial and economics decisions.

Now that your superintendent reviewed your first submission and provided feedback, you will make the suggested revisions. You will also complete this section of the white paper. You will justify your topic selection and its relevance to the school district’s goal of improving its assessment results.

Note: Refer to the Overall Scenario of Assignments 1-4 by clicking here.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

Revise Assignment 1 using the feedback that the superintendent provided. (The revision of the previous assignment is not included in the page count for this assignment).
Describe the relevance of your assessment topic in terms of meeting the K-12 assessment goals in your chosen school district as it relates to the specific focus you identified in Assignment 1. Provide specific examples of assessment goals that the school district currently uses to support your rationale.
Explore at least three (3) key reasons why you selected the topic in question. Highlight the fundamental aspects of the topic that make it fit into either traditional or alternative assessment research. Justify your response.
Suggest three (3) strategies that educators could employ in order to utilize technology within the classroom and thus aid your chosen school district in meeting its K-12 assessment goals. Provide relevant examples of these strategies to support your response.
Provide at least three (3) additional reliable, relevant, peer-reviewed references not previously used published within the last 5 years.

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:

Analyze traditional theories of assessment.
Apply new advances and current thought in the field of educational assessment.
Evaluate alternate forms of assessment for special populations.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in educational assessment.
Write clearly and concisely about educational assessment using proper grammar and mechanics.

There are two Assignments to complete.

Assignment #1: Management Planning and Organizing

As part of management planning, companies starting up need to define their vision, their mission, and their company goals that they will endeavor to meet both in the short and long term. These vision and mission statements are typically found on corporate websites.

Once the company goals are determined, management addresses organizing to delineate the tasks and responsibilities of employees to accomplish the goals. For this Assignment you will be using the “Tim’s Coffee Shoppe” scenario from the Final Project. This business simulation will be referenced throughout this course as you work on various aspects of your Assignments.

Access Tim’s Coffee Shoppe here. After viewing the scenario address the following checklist items concerning planning and organizing in an eight (8) slide PowerPoint presentation:

Checklist:

View the Assignment #1 rubric. Submit your response in a short Microsoft PowerPoint slide presentation consisting of a minimum of eight (8) slides which includes a title slide and references slide (at the end) using APA citation style. Submit your presentation to the unit Dropbox. For details on using the Dropbox, please click the Academic Tools tab above, then the Dropbox Guide

Assignment #2: Journal Assignment

Topic: The Four Functions of Management and Motivation Theory

Part A: Apply the four functions of management to your workplace or a past workplace.

Checklist:

Part B: Review Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy and Alderfer’s ERG Theory here:

Maslow stated that people needed to satisfy one level of need at a time beginning at the base with physical needs (here we use a tree, Maslow used a pyramid). After these are satisfied, people will go on to the next level of needs and so forth. Eventually when all other needs are satisfied, people will look for self-actualization (at the top of the tree as seen here) to fulfill themselves.

Checklist:

View the Assignment #2 rubric. To complete this Assignment, go to the Journal tab, go to your name, and then add entry. Your posting will only be visible to you and your instructor. Complete your response in APA format and citation style in your Journal in a minimum of 350 words.

 Project – Identify a Financial Issue

 

Introduction of Project:

 

As a healthcare provider, you may or may not be responsible for financial and budget tasks, but you will encounter situations and issues, which will relate to financial management. Your project in this course is a threaded project and will provide you with an opportunity to better understand the literature on financial management in the healthcare setting. Each week you will work on an aspect of this project.

 

Click here to view the Project schedule.

 

Ensure that you save a copy of this course project after you have submitted it at the end of this course. You are expected to resubmit this project along with the other course projects at the end of the RN to BSN program. FTP details will be provided in the Capstone course.

 

identify a patient care problem with an impact on budget as a financial management issue in your workplace. Conduct a search for a minimum of two peer-reviewed articles that discuss the issue you have identified. Write a 2-3 page paper summarizing the literature you have found and describe how the literature helps to provide insight into the problem you have identified.  Provide a short analysis of the role of the nurse in relationship to this problem as described in the literature.

 

Cite all sources in APA format.

In order to complete this assignment, refer to the Case Study titled “Sales at Syntec Corporation” found in Chapter 8 of your Reeves textbook.

Based on the Case Study, write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

Compose a sexual harassment policy for Syntec Corporation that would address harassment issues for all employees. Next, select three (3) elements of this policy that you believe would have the greatest impact at Syntec Corporation. Justify your response.
Give your opinion as to whether or not you believe that men and women should have equal treatment in sexual harassment issues. Defend your answer with two (2) examples that support your rationale.
Suggest four (4) ways that businesses can balance the need for increased productivity with the needs and concerns of the employees. Support your rationale.
Evaluate the significance of the way Megan handled Mark’s actions. Next, propose three (3) alternative methods Megan could utilize when dealing with an employee’s actions. Justify your response.
Given your personality, hypothesize three (3) ways that you would handle the situation depicted in the case study if you were Mark. Provide support for your methodologies.

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:

Explain the present realities of women leadership roles.
Explain the law and gender in business.
Analyze the manager’s role in developing women leaders.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in women leadership.
Write clearly and concisely about women in leadership using proper writing mechanics.

Should the MOE continue or stop conducting such an overseas learning journey programme?

1.From the Organic Vegetable Factsheet（http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/EM097E/EM097E.pdf）, pick two of the 6 vegetable crops and answering the following questions:

1. Use gross revenue per acre values in the Production and Sales Trends section and costs from Appendix 1 to estimate profit per acre for both crops.  Do you feel like the market average or grower average value for gross revenue per acre is more relevant (there is no right answer on this)?
2. Are the histograms in the Profitability and Risk section approximations to cumulative distribution functions or probability density functions?
3. How does the histogram for gross revenue per acre change how you interpret the average values for gross revenue per acre reported in the Production and Sales Trends section?
4. Using the cost estimates from appendix 1, what is the break-even price and break-even yield for each crop using the market average values.
5. From d, based on the histograms from the Profitability and Risk section, what is the probability of observing the break-even price and yield (may need to use the red bars for price)?

22.T2.the Excel spreadsheet “CleElumMonthlySnowHistorical.xlsx” provided on Blackboard lists the total snowpack in inches near Cle Elum, WA for a day in the month of March for each year going back to the 1930’s.  Given that snow accumulation is the primary determinant of whether irrigators get their full allotment it is important to understand the distribution of snow totals.  Using this data set do the following tasks:

1. Calculate the expected value (mean), standard deviation, and coefficient of variation for this data series.
2. Construct a cumulative distribution function and probability density function (pdf approximated using a histogram) using 10 inch intervals (0, 10, 20,…etc.).
3. Imagine you are a farmer that relies on irrigation, do you think the PDF or CDF is more informative for assessing curtailment (curtailment refers to when water diversions to farms are not allowed because there is not enough water from snowmelt in the summer)?
4. Consider a scenario where another farmer offers you a contract that states the following.  If the snowpack total for the last day of March is less than 10 inches then you will not plant your field and will transfer your water to their farm.  For doing this you will be paid $500/acre for each acre that you fallow (fallow means you don’t plant).  This means, however, that you cannot plant a perennial crop that generates higher profit per acre.  You have determined that if you accept the contract you will plant a lower value annual crop that generates $400/acre in profit.  If you refuse the contract you will plant a high value perennial crop that generates $800/acre in profit when snowpack is greater than 10 inches but only $100/acre when snowpack is less than 10 inches.  The lower profit total occurs due to the fact that yields are reduced because the crop is water stressed.  Using a decision tree determine whether your expected profit is higher from accepting or refusing the contract.

 

1. Create a line chart of snowpack total over time.  Do you think you are justified in assuming that this data series is identically distributed over time?  Justify your answer.