...examining both viewpoints, and evaluating my own stance once I have more information. While the real topic is very broad and covers quite a few disciplines, many people now lump several issues into one big talking point called “Common Core”. As a father of two young children this issue has a very real outcome for me, and I wanted to examine why this issue was so polarizing. As defined by www.corestandars.org, Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. To take this issue to its simplest point, Common Core achieves its goals through standardized testing. This concept was born of the desire to benchmark American students against others. I found the need to search outside of my normal newsfeeds and websites to find an article to rebut. When I found Six ways the Common Core is Good for Students featured on the neaToday website I knew the six points were thinly veiled propaganda. It had six well defined reasons that Common Core was going to do all that it promised to do, and gave examples as well as testimonials from educators who were finding that Common Core was working. Interestingly enough, several times in the article the point was made to distance Common Core from No Child Left Behind. Bush’s NCLB and Obama’s Race to the Top programs can really be thought of the beginning stages of the Common Core standardized...
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...To U.S. Department of Education April 26,2015 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington D.C. 20202 Dear Mr. Secretary Duncan, This letter is to inform the necessary reasons of why physical education needs to be a part of state schools common core. SHAPE America (2014) highly recommends students participate in physical activities to become well rounded healthy individuals. Teaching students the importance of physical education can help better them as a whole. Three learning domains known as cognitive, affective, and psychomotor play key roles in students learning development. Cognitive learning through physical education is triggered by having the children solve multiple problems and concepts to figure out in the daily physical activities they participant in. This suggest that the movement involved is what’s important (Sibley, Etnier; 2003). Trial and error affects the way children can figure out what “skills” are needed to complete the curriculum and units that are assigned to them. Which gives the students an insight on how to perfect these skills that can translate into their daily life routines and lifestyle relationships. Focus more on the “whole children” rather than just the physical aspects of them. The body and the mind work together and is one entity (Sibley,2003). Attitudes and feelings can be expressed in physical education causing an affective learning ...
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...a broad range of issues with human development. Thirdly, pediatric neurologists treat any condition of the brain. Finally, psychologists diagnose and treat issues with behavior and emotions. It should be noted that the treatment of this issue entails a team effort. As such, it implies that anyone who wants to get treated should visit a broad range of medical care professionals to get healed. Treatment involves applied behavior analysis, parent training and education, cognitive behavioral therapy, speech-language therapy, and social skills training. Firstly, applied behavior analysis is one of the best techniques that entail the encouragement of communication and positive social skills (Cassidy et al., 2014). As such, it should be noted that it discourages any behaviors that should not be in patients and are not common for humans. It should be pointed out that the therapist deploys several methods of positive reinforcement, like praise, to get the required results from the practice. Secondly, parent training and education are suitable for children. As such, it is vital to learn about the child who is suffering from this condition to enable the development of the required social skills in him or her. On a positive note, some families may need to contract a counselor to assist in dealing with the problems that may arise from the life one may lead when suffering from this condition (Brosnan & Mills, 2016). Thirdly, cognitive behavioral therapy assists patients to alter their thinking...
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...Essay #1 Compare and contrast the perspectives of diverse peoples/populations. Diversity can be defined as people coming together from different races, nationalities, religions and sexes to form a group, organization or community. A community that is diverse is a community that values different types of people. It is aware that people with different types of backgrounds, skills, attitudes and experiences bring different ideas and perceptions to the table. Most people view diversity as a good thing because it gives the chance to experience different things outside of what they normally accustomed to. Diversity in this country is openly viewed as a beneficial bacterium, so many backgrounds and not knowing which ones are good and which ones are bad. Studies show that the lack of unity between races, sexes and cultures is due to mistrust, stereotyping, are more within culture conversation and language problems. Being cultural aware provides an opportunity to stand back and consider that there are certain backgrounds, personal values, beliefs and upbringing that shape the things we all do. Something that is considered inappropriate behavior in one culture may be perfectly appropriate in another. The first thing to acknowledge about diversity is that it can be difficult and the key to understand the positive influence of diversity is the concept of informational diversity. When we as human are brought together to solve problems in groups, diversity plays a big part because we would...
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...Virtually every human activity – ranging from obtaining an education to starting a family – is carried out within an organization. According to Bolman and Deal, everyone unconsciously forms frames or mental models which they use to understand and negotiate the organizations that they belong to. These frames can be compared to tools; using the right tool correctly speeds up an activity while using the wrong tool may get in the way and cause complications. The Bolman and Deal model suggests that all organizations can be analyzed through the structural, human resource, political and symbolic frames. The structural frame revolves around roles, policies and technology environment of the organization. The human resource frame focuses on the needs, skill and relationship between the people and the organization. The political frame focuses on power, conflict and competition within the organization while the symbolic frame deals with the organization’s culture, rituals and symbols. Although the frames offer distinct viewpoints, I think they sometimes can and should be combined to gain a more complete overview of the organization. Teamwork is a very important concept to many organizations today and the Bolman and Deal model considers teamwork from different frames. The model defines a team as a small number of people with complementary skills who have a common purpose and a set of performance goals (111). While the structural frame proposes that the success of a team depends on the way...
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...Education for Health, Vol. 16, No. 3, November 2003, 318 – 327 COMMUNITY-RELATED ISSUES A Conceptual Model for Empowerment of the Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal SARALA SHRESTHA Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal ABSTRACT Context: The existing top-down approach of the training is not appropriate to empower the community health volunteers to produce a sustainable change in their performance. Objective: To propose a conceptual model that relies on Freire’s theory of empowerment education and the participatory action research methodology to empower the female community health volunteers (FCHVs) to increase their consciousness, competence and confidence in performing their job responsibilities. Method: The model explains the empowerment phenomenon as a process and outcome. As a process it occurs in the form of repeated reinforcement cycles with alternating activities of action and reflection and includes developing awareness, skills and confidence among FCHVs through small group activities. As an outcome, it results in the change in FCHVs’ performance in increasing contraceptive acceptance among the rural women of reproductive age group. Conclusion: It is hoped that empowerment of FCHVs will bring sustainable change in their performance and will consequently produce notable improvement in the health of women and children in particular and in the community in general. KEYWORDS Empowerment, community health volunteer, participatory...
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...------------------------------------------------- The Business Edge Program – giving employers what they want The development of employability skills, commonly referred to as key, core or generic skills, in business graduates is of increasing importance to employers worldwide. This focus on fostering skills, attributes and knowledge which better prepare students for the workplace is not a new concept but one recognised in both education and industry as now being a pivotal element of business undergraduate education. In 2002, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry [ACCI] and the Business Council of Australia [BCA] developed a national framework for employability skills (Department of Education, Science and Training [DEST], 2002), see table below. In line with changing global and national business environments, a more contemporary employability framework is needed to first, reflect evolving industry requirements and second, to provide the Business Edge (BE) program with a clear set of program outcomes. As a core component of the Bachelor of Business, BE is based on a framework which captures and reflects current employer preferences and priorities (see table below); ensuring that ECU business graduates meet the expectations of today’s employers. 2002 Employability skills framework1 | ECU Graduate Attributes | 2010 BE Employability Skills framework2 | Communication | Ability to communicate | Communicating effectively | Teamwork | Ability to work in teamsCross...
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...accelerating circulation of people, the increasingly dense and frequent cross-cultural interactions, and the unavoidable intersections of local and global knowledge. A 'profound leadership system' consists of two elements: core value and competence subsystems. The conclusions of this selective analysis are compared with the contents of a training package for leadership and human motivation that has been developed and deployed in both Japan and Denmark. The contents of the training package focus on a number of core values and competencies. It is concluded from this comparison that the core values identified from these two sources are in essential agreement, a testimony to core values immutable over many millennia and across cultures which can contribute to attainment of business excellence. Systemic leadership deployment for business excellence demands transformation of our mental models. This requires a profound understanding of so-called core values (intangibles) and their relation to the traditional tangibles (goals and core competencies). Often these core values are not clearly identified, and they are seldom deployed with the same enthusiasm as the goals and core competencies needed for business excellence. It is assumed here that if core values are neglected in the policy deployment process, it will never be possible to achieve business excellence. While it may be difficult to assess the motivations behind a leader's or a people's decisions or behaviour...
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...contribution of this writer to your thinking in the light of the course material you have studied and your reading of other authors. Due Date: Email Sent: I certify that this assignment is my own work. STUDENT’S SIGNATURE: Parker Palmer has made a significant contribution to my understanding of teaching in a Christian community. Through access to his published works “To Know As We Are Known, The Courage To Teach” and “Let Your Life Speak”, I have been enriched by Palmer’s viewpoints and themes on teacher’s, teaching and community. In many instances I found his viewpoints and philosophies insightful, exciting, challenging, daunting and confronting. In some instances I found his position unrealistic to my experience of teaching while also finding myself disagreeing with what I would see as being his liberal approach to theology. Other author’s including Frisken, Hekman and Van Brummelen, compliment many of the themes explored by Palmer while importantly providing another viewpoint. The key ideas that I have found to be personally insightful are explored in this essay and in brief include; the identity and integrity of the teacher, the concept of selfhood and the undivided self, the nature of the teacher and teaching and the...
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...| Role | Expertise | Nursing Educator | Will evaluate the new system’s usability compared to the old system. Will also be responsible arranging training sessions for all staff. | RN with MSN in Education. Ability to train all staff will make the system change successful | IS manager | Manages the staff that will implement the new system. Must make sure all tech support has proper training | BS in Informatics. Training his staff to effectively help users with technical issues are imperative to system’s success | Chief Nursing Officer | Will be the voice of the nursing staff, bringing concerns to the table. | Determining if the usability of the system from the viewpoint of the nurses (the largest number of users) is imperative. | Chief Medical Officer | Will be the voice of the physicians, bringing concerns to the table. | Determining if the usability of the system from the viewpoint of the doctors is imperative. | Project Committee Interoperability The National Alliance for Health Information Technology defined interoperability as the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, to exchange data accurately, effectively, and consistently, and to use the information that has been exchanged (Olaronke & Rhoda, 2013) Interoperability is important because it enables medical organizations to operate much more efficiently; it makes it easier for staff to manipulate information quickly; it enhances safety and the quality...
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...of school. As a result of these factors, urban graduation rates have decreased. Some students see no realistic option other than dropping out; some are deliberately pushed out or fail the tests. Either way, these young people are much more likely to end up in trouble or in prison. ("How Testing Feeds the School-to-Prison Pipeline") According to Peter D. Hart, a research associate for the Association of American Colleges and Universities, standardized tests unfairly measure students’ intelligence and academic performance. Therefore, the tests must be changed drastically or abandoned completely. Educators and parents have vocalized their view on the rising number of standardized tests the government has implemented in efforts to improve education in American schools. In light of the No Child Left Behind legislation under President George W. Bush, the government administers more and more tests to children, predominantly in lower grade levels ("Standardized Testing"). Along with No Child Left Behind, opponents have shown their disapproval of these "mindless" and "artificial" tests through Fairtest.org, a campaign against standardized testing (Henry). Experts made their stance clear, but are standardized tests truly useless? A Standardized test, defined as, "...any objective test, or combination of objective and performance tests, that yields the same score for the same performance, no matter who is doing the scoring" (Hirsch), the...
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...International Management 375 Assessment 1 - Individual Portfolio Portfolio questions: week 3 1. Discuss how the Internet and culture interact. Which most affects the other and how? Give some examples. Internet has now become an integral thing from the viewpoint of organizations and society and it is now emerged as a technology which is creating effectiveness for these aspects from different angles (BEREND AUTOR WIERENGA, 2000). There is a considerable difference found among internet and culture and the interaction of both of these aspects are not easy, as there are certain countries and environment and cultures wherein the utilization of internet is not easy because of the backward thinking of the people living in this region. The thing that affects the most to the people is culture not the internet (Chernev, 2012). If the culture and tradition of the country is effective and clear then the utilization of the same is also effective which will affect over the position of the people. Some of the examples are of African and European region countries in which the stance of utilization are totally change with each other. 2. Discuss the types of operational conflicts that could occur in an international context because of differences in attitudes towards time and individualism. Give examples relative to specific countries. Organization is a name wherein people belong to different demographics and mindset work together merely for the achievement of a single and pre-specified...
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...change is likely not going to happen. Change involves stakeholders, their visions, and the leader’s visionary skills for change to occur. Change lead by efficient leaders is inevitable and important for progress in schools and without change unproductivity occurs. Stakeholders need to be involved in the decision-making about change because it creates a trusting and supportive environment conducive to change (Gurr, Drysdale, & Mulford, 2006). Module 7 lecture (2012) states there are steps to follow for applying change so it is successful. First, you need to diagnose the need for change. Why is change necessary. Next, collect data. Then communicate to staff and stakeholders the possibility of problems associated with change. Listen to all viewpoints. Examine the data for understanding the consequences of change. Synthesize the data to form direction and develop goals. Apply the change process in clear, measureable objectives. Lastly,...
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...Shorter Grand Canyon University: EED-475 Curriculum, Methods, and Assessment: Reading April 17, 2016 The Poem I, Too, by Langston Hughes, is a literary classic. It illustrates the societal struggles America has been through and reflects a common perception about a class of people in that day. Students can use this poem to learn about social issues and societal norms of 1925 while also developing an opinion about how to treat other people in everyday life. Middle school students have the mental capacity to understand conflicts and racial indiscretion. These activities can help the students to create a resolution in common problems they may face in life as well. Langston Hughes, "I Too" is a Common Core reading from Appendix B. “Hughes, Langston. “I, Too, Sing America.” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Knopf, 1994. (1925)” (Common Core, 2016). —From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), p. 46. Platform Strategy | Activity | Reading Supplementary Texts"Practitioners can use lyrics from popular music as supplementary texts to engage students in a discussion about race, gender, religion, politics, etc." (UNC- Chapel Hill School of Education, 2016). Using accessible supplementary materials will help to open the understanding of the students and provide then with a more analytical perspective of the poem. The song is essentially a poem. Students can reflect on the meaning of the song...
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...Childhood Education: 1. Beginnings and Beyond - Chapters 1 and 2. 2. As you read, ask yourself the following questions: a. Why is the past important? b. How have the beliefs and ideas of great educators influenced early childhood programs? 3. The Lecture Notes and Power Point Presentation found in Course Documents under Lecture Notes Last modified: Wednesday, December 31, 1969, 07:00 PM · Homework Assignments--Chapters 1 and 2, due May 28th (online)[->1] Portfolio Assignment: After reading and studying Chapters 1 & 2 in Beginnings and Beyond, complete the following assignments for each Chapter. As a suggestion, as you complete your work, add the page number where you located your information. The page will be easy to find again if you need to prove the veracity (or accuracy) of your work. · Chapter 1 1. Define and be able to explain Key Terms. (pg. 36) 2. Complete Review Questions #1&4 (pg. 36) 3. Define pedagogic creed and then complete Learning Activity #2. (pg. 37) · Chapter 2 1. Define and be able to explain Key Terms. (pg. 71) 2. Complete Review Questions # 1 thru 4. (pg. 71) Chapter 1: KEY TERMS 1) Professionalism – the competence or skill expected of a professional; in early childhood education, this includes a sense of identity, purpose to engage in developmentally appropriate practices, a commitment to ethical teaching and to child advocacy, and participation in the work as a legitimate livelihood. 2) Early childhood education – Education...
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