...Description of Evidence Evidence 1: The first piece of evidence demonstrating the criteria related to critical thinking is a concept analysis paper written on the topic of Critical Thinking in Nursing, completed for NUSC 5003, Theory in Nursing, in the Spring Semester of 2015 (Appendix A). The purpose of this paper was to expand on the interpretations of critical thinking including the analysis of the characteristics or qualities of critical thinking in nursing based on selected literature reviews from multiple disciplines using the Walker and Avant model. Incorporates multiple perspectives in the advanced practice learning process (i.e. diverse ways of thinking, roles). In this paper, I analyzed diverse concepts of critical thinking by...
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...Planning and Decision Making Larry Calderon Herzing University Abstract Creating an academic paper has some legitimate aspects to be gathered to bring out a successful paper as output. The academic paper is considered to be the most common assignment assigned to each to know the depth of knowledge they have on the prescribed topic. With the discussion in flow, this paper would discuss the aspects that are necessary for developing an academic paper. I will cover steps involved in researching a topic and collecting data to formulate an academic paper. The item critical thinking with the aspect of decision making will be covered in this document. The academic paper is a presentation of real understanding of the subject, the amount of hard work offered during the research. The document is to be well formatted and organized so that readers can read and escalate the ideas mentioned. Planning and Decision Making Writing an academic paper, initial requirement is gaining knowledge of the subject which is then later researched a lot for better writing flow. An analysis is a next step which leads to a perfect output as an academic paper. There are few necessary steps to develop a good academic paper. The first step is to analyze the paper to be discussed, the analysis is something important which is followed by a sequence of collecting information about the writing through reading many posts, articles or blogs or through research. It is also important it is crucial for students...
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...435 Week 1 Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt EED 435 Week 2 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario Paper EED 435 Week 2 Visual Art Lesson Plan Template EED 435 Week 2 Visual Arts Integration Strategies Template EED 435 Week 3 Drama Lesson Plan Template EED 435 Week 4 Classroom Observation Reflection Paper EED 435 Week 4 Assignment Dance, Movement, and Music Integration Strategies Template EED 435 Week 5 Arts Personal Philosophy Paper EED 435 Week 5 Multicultural Unit EED 435 Week 5 Arts Integration Strategies Presentation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EED 435 Week 1 Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Arts Standards Scavenger Hunt located on your student website ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EED 435 Week 2 Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario Paper (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper based on the scenario you chose from the Co-Planning Arts Integration Scenario in Week One. Include the following in your paper: A description of the development stage and critical thinking skills of the children in the scenario you chose An explanation of how the developmental stage and critical thinking skills of the children relate to the unit in the scenario A description of how you would lead...
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...Personal Reflection Paper Maria Williams HUM/111 February 24, 2013 Stephanie Washington Personal Reflection Paper The subject of critical thinking is one that has broadened my thinking horizon by a lot and I am happy to share. Critical thinking is a “type of reasonable, reflective thinking that is aim at deciding what to believe or what to do”. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is true, sometimes true, partly true, or false. Critical thinking can be traced to the Western, thought to the Socratic method of Ancient Greece and in the East, to the Buddhist, Kalama-Sutta and Abhidharma. Critical thinking is an important component of most professions. It is part of the formal education process and is increasingly significant as a student’s progress through university to graduate education, although there is debate among educators about its precise meaning and scope, (wikepidia.com). The three most significant things I learned about critical thinking is that first off, it takes you wanting to think deeper for it to work and you cannot expect the answer to just appear in front of you or for others to answer questions for you. You have to do the job yourself in order to get the most out of it. I learned that not everybody appreciates critical thinking because they enjoy the quick answer method of getting things done and some people are too lazy to put some initiative...
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...Critical Thinking Memorandum PHL/320 June 13, 2016 Critical Thinking Memorandum This document will explain critical thinking. An example will be provided from personal experience regarding application of critical thinking in business decisions. Other points in this paper will cover importance, benefits regarding the example provided and how they relate. Before the conclusion is stated the last point in this paper will cover how critical thinking is used in my current position. Critical Thinking Explained Critical thinking is the introspectively and orderly method of cleverly and vigorously applying, synthesizing, analyzing, conceptualizing, and classifying information collected from, or produced by, reasoning, experience, observation, reflection, or communication, as a compendium to action and belief. In its ideal form, it is based on global intellectual principles that go beyond the matter of which a thing is formed: accuracy, clarity, consistency, precision, sound evidence, relevance, depth, good reasons, fairness, and breadth. Critical thinking also involves the exploration of these elements and or structures of understanding in all purpose, assumptions, concepts, problems, or question-at-issue, concepts, reasoning leading to conclusions, empirical grounding, consequences and implications, objections from alternative viewpoints; and frame of reference. Critical thinking is being proactive to different issues, purposes, and subject matter in which it is...
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...Summary Paper Teresa Nabors Southern Nazarene University Nursing Attributes, Leadership and Critical Thinking As many have found over the years, nursing is not a profession cut out for just anyone. The average person cannot juggle twenty things at once, expertly handle emergencies that would send anyone else in a panic frenzy, and all the while remain calm and composed, as an experienced nurse does on a daily basis. What many do not know is that this smooth performance is driven by the nursing attributes, skills, and concepts that are necessary components integrated in the nursing profession of great nurses today. I believe the values of critical thinking, flexibility, strong communication skills, emotional stability, interpersonal communication and advocacy are the hallmark ingredients that distinguish the great nurses from the rest. Nursing is about going beyond the task given and a successful nurse encompasses a degree of these core attributes, as well as understanding the essential knowledge of the necessary concepts of leadership and critical thinking. This paper will discuss the attributes and concepts that I think are necessary in setting nursing apart from just any profession and will reflect on the values and practices that I believe makes me the nurse that I am today . Being a nurse can be tremendously rewarding to the soul, but it also demands much of those who pursue it. Nursing is a highly honored, trusted profession that has been steeped in rich values...
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...Critical Reflection and Transformational Leadership Ivan F Rodriguez University of Phoenix Critical Reflection and Transformational Leadership This paper briefly examines the relevance of critical reflection practices in leadership development. Incorporating critical reflective practices in a leadership development program (LDP) helps closing loops assimilating the knowledge, updating reference frames and providing valuable feedback to the decision making and problem solving processes. It is my learned experience that using critical lenses to enable building on previous experiences and to incorporate new learning will perpetrate the transformational leadership (TL) process. The correlation between critical reflection and TL can be explained by the closed loop between outside world and inside world, it is though a reflective process how the leader encourages multiple perspectives that ultimately challenge his or her to excel in complex and uncertain environments. Leadership development practices depend on reflection-in-action. Advancing one step further, TL focuses on how leaders inspire and motivate followers to a higher moral level (Burns, 1978), its essence is inspiring follower’s commitment to achieve the vision of a desired future. TL conveys the “connection between the organization’s philosophy and shared values, and embeds those values in organizational rules and actions in order to communicate meaning and inspire followers” (Bennis and Nanus, 1985, p. 58). The...
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...CS113: Academic Strategies for the Business Professional Unit 6 Critical Thinking and Research Assignment Full Name: Two-digit Section #: Instructions: Download this document to your computer before filling it out. Save using “Save As” and add your name to the front removing the phrase “YourName.” All of the gray boxes below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 6 Dropbox. Please read through the following comments carefully to see why we are focusing on critical thinking and online research. Make sure to pay special attention to the two comments in highlighted in red: “The World Wide Web can be a great place to accomplish research on many topics. But putting documents or pages on the web is easy, cheap, or free, unregulated, and unmonitored (at least in the USA). There is a famous Steiner cartoon published in the New Yorker (July 5, 1993) with two dogs sitting before a terminal looking at a computer screen; one says to the other ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.’ The great wealth that the Internet has brought to so much of society is the ability for people to express themselves, find one another, exchange ideas, discover possible peers worldwide they never would have otherwise met, and, through hypertext links in web pages, suggest so many other people's ideas and personalities to anyone who comes and clicks. There are some real "dogs" out there, but there's also great treasure. Therein...
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...Critical Thinking Reflection Paper Michaela Lyons HUM/115 03/30/15 Amy Gordon Critical Thinking Reflection Paper Part A: What do you want to be when you grow up? A question that was continuously asked by our parents, our teachers and our families. Growing up our possibilities seemed endless, we could go from wanting to become an astronaut to a princess in the matter of a days. Slowly but surely time catches up to us and the daunting question of what you want to be suddenly becomes real. Initially attending college seems extensive, and at one point or another we all question the importance of the obligation put upon us by society. Will college really benefit my future? We all have the drive to pursue the quickest and the easiest route to success but it isn’t always what’s best for us. We need to cultivate our knowledge further to ensure the best future for ourselves. Based on economy and job projections calculated by Georgetown University, in 2018, approximately 63% of jobs will require some college education or a degree (Carnevale, 2010). Which means, in 2018 without an advanced education only %37 of jobs will be available to choose from. A 2011 Pew Research survey found that 57% of Americans felt higher education did not provide students with good value compared to the money spent (Pew Research, 2011). This may provide a good reason for a lack of motivation to attend...
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...Required: Ballenger, Bruce. The Curious Researcher (7th Edition) Williams, Joseph. Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (9th Edition) A portfolio. This should be a notebook with rings and paper you can move work in and out. Additional required assigned readings (on line or on E-reserve) This class is designed to introduce you to and allow you to develop and practice techniques and skills of writing. You’ll learn to develop ideas and clarify ideas, formulate questions and research them rigorously, and draft and revise until your writing reflects university level work. You will be asked to write in several different genres and conduct research in order to provide evidence and support for your work. In addition, and not least, you will work to create an engaging and credible authorial voice. REQUIREMENTS Active Class Participation: Attendance is mandatory. A writing class is a class designed around participation. You need to be prepared, having read and written what is required for the day, and you need to be engaged in discussing, creating, and revising. If you are absent or tardy you are not participating. You are expected to participate actively, respectfully, and qualitatively. GRADE F work is failed work. D work is inadequate. Poor effort, empty thinking, weak writing. The argument (or other purpose) is underwritten, riddled with careless mechanical errors. The thesis is missing or untenable. Propositions are undeveloped and unsubstantiated....
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...ek Resource: What Kind of Thinker Are You? assignment from Week One Review your week one assignment and reflect on what you learned about critical thinking during the course. Write a 700 word paper in which you reflect on the following questions: • Provide an introduction that includes a reflection on what you learned about critical thinking during the course. • What is critical thinking? • What are the three most significant things that you learned about critical thinking during this class? • How has your critical thinking changed since starting this course? • Reevaluate your stage of development in critical thinking and why you placed yourself in that stage. If your rating has changed since Week One, explain why you think this change occurred. • How do you plan to move yourself from your current stage of development in critical thinking to the stage of master thinker? • Provide a conclusion that is logical, flows from the body of the paper and concludes your paper. Format your paper consistent with Associate Level Writing Style Handbook guidelines. Post this assignment into your Assignment Folder located on your Student page!! | | |Suppose you are a newspaper columnist asked to address the issue of global warming and energy in the next editorial blog of your newspaper’s website.| | ...
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...| SUBJECT NAME : | Managing, leading, stewardship | | SUBJECT NUMBER : | 21937 | | Subject Co-ordinators lecturerstutors | Dr. Walter Jarvis Dr. Natalia Nikolova Dr. Stephen Wearing Management Discipline Group UTS B-School Dr. Walter Jarvis Dr. Natalia Nikolova tba | SUBJECT PRECIS An understanding of managing, leading and stewardship is foundational to the development of students as responsible and accountable leaders, managers, followers and stewards. This subject aims to prepare students to meet profession-like objectives and how to guide others to meet collective responsibility in morally challenging situations. To do so, the subject develops the concept of stewardship to help leaders to better understand how to promote and sustain the symbiotic integrity of business and society, i.e. where business serves society's needs for not just products and services but in ways that earn public trust and respect. The approach taken in the subject delivery and associated assignments is to encourage students to recognise the place of business in society and to cultivate a personal commitment toward earning and sustaining public trust in consideration of others in their business judgments and decision-making. SUBJECT PRECIS An understanding of managing, leading and stewardship is foundational to the development of students as responsible and accountable leaders, managers, followers and stewards. This subject aims to prepare students to meet profession-like...
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...Nursing the Client with a Mental Illness, the affective domain of learning is used to develop interpersonal competence, self-awareness, and self-reflection. The teaching technique used is an experiential exercise that asks students to create group mandalas using art materials on circular pieces of butcher-block paper. The mandala concept is derived from the Buddhist tradition and means “circle” or “center” in Sanskrit. Carl Jung introduced this technique to the United States and incorporated it into his therapy. As a creative, active learning strategy, the mandalas helped the faculty meet the clinical objectives for the course and the learning needs of a new generation of students. They also helped students learn about Eastern philosophy, group process, self-awareness, and Jungian therapy. F Received: June 20, 2002 Accepted: May 19, 2003 Ms. Marshall is Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas. Address correspondence to Margaret Cole Marshall, MS, APRN, BC, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, 7702 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7951, San Antonio, TX 78229; e-mail: marshall@uthscsa.edu. aculty in undergraduate education are finding the need to address teaching strategies that focus on students’ learning styles, technological expertise, and critical thinking abilities. Three domains of learning—cognitive, psychomotor, and affective—are used in undergraduate education, but the primary focus is often on...
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...Critical and creative thinking is regaining its popularity in the global education scene. This resurgence in popularity can be attributed to the demands of the evolving economic, political, social and technological world in the 21st century. The competitiveness of the global market demands corporations to constantly innovate. To do so, corporations need employees who are able to think critically and creatively. Barren of natural resources, Singapore depends on its human population for economic survival. Education then becomes a key instrument in promoting the state’s economic development. In 1959, the Ministry of Education issued a report, asserting that, ‘the government’s education policy is designed to equip the youth of the State with requisite skills, aptitudes and attitudes for employment in industry’, and it has not changed since then. So, as we move into the 21st century, the government has termed critical and creative thinking as skills that all students should develop within themselves. The education system acts an agent to instill such skills in the younger generation. The objective of this paper is to discuss the possibility of facilitating the development of critical and creative thinking among students in the current Singapore education system. So, we shall begin this paper by introducing the concepts of critical and creative thinking. Next, we shall study factors in the current Singapore education system that influence the development of critical and creative thinking...
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...HUM/114 07/05/2012 Personal Reflection Paper Justin Randall What is critical thinking? In this assignment I will discuss what critical thinking is and how I have developed as a person with my critical thinking skills. I will also reevaluate my skills and give a formal and concise reason behind why I decided to change my level of critical thinking. 1. What is critical thinking? a. Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. 2. What are the three most significant things that you learned about critical thinking during this course? The three most significant things I have learned about critical thinking are as follows: b. Clarify Your Thinking i. Be on the look-out for vague, fuzzy, formless, blurred thinking. Try to figure out the real meaning of what people are saying. Look on the surface. Look beneath the surface. Try to figure out the real meaning of important news stories. Explain your understanding of an issue to someone else to help clarify it in your own mind. Practice summarizing in your own words what others say. Then ask them if you understood them correctly. You should neither agree nor disagree with what anyone says until you (clearly) understand them. c. Stick to the...
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