...Improving Instruction for ELLs According the Echevarria, Vogt, and Short (2013), the 44 states that implemented the Common Core Standards these states are working “to ensure the required standards are included and the U.S. Department of Education (USED) is requiring participating states to revise their NCLB assessments” (p.8). While this alignment of standards promotes a unity between states and helps to promote college preparedness (p.8), it fails at considering the needs of English language learners. Some states, like Illinois and Arizona have created standards that help teachers to understand ELLs and consequently develop instruction that can be differentiated for their various proficiency levels. No two ELLs enter school at the same proficiency level or with the same experiences. This diversity makes it quite challenging for teachers to accommodate every learner. Consequently, teachers can use the Arizona English learner standards to supplement the Common Core Standards in an attempt to differentiate instruction for their ELLs. The standards address all proficiency levels, including pre-emergent, emergent, basic, low intermediate, high intermediate, and proficient. Obviously, the strategies that are adequate for general education students and proficient ELLs would not suffice for those at the pre-emergent or even the low intermediate stage. Therefore, differentiation is absolutely necessary. Differentiation would vary at the different stages as well as take into consideration...
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...Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize your emotions, understand what they're telling you, and realize how your emotions affect people around you. Emotional intelligence also involves your perception of others: when you understand how they feel, this allows you to manage relationships more effectively. Lefty’s has been serving the same products, to the same customers for years and has been very successful doing so. Their employees are young and most not of legal age. Management has decided to make some changes to the menu which will impact many of the underage employees. Adding alcoholic beverages to the menu may cause a large percentage of employees to no longer be able to continue with their current position with the company. The news may stir up many emotions in the staff, even some emotions that staff might not be so proud of. As a good manager one must have empathy, which is “the ability to identify with and understand the wants, needs, and viewpoints of those around you” (Mindtools.com, 2014). There are Four Branches of Emotional Intelligence which can be used by management to help diffuse the angry staff members. 1. Perceiving Emotions: The first step in understanding emotions is to accurately perceive them. In many cases, this might involve understanding nonverbal signals such as body language and facial expressions. 2. Reasoning with Emotions: The next step involves using emotions to promote thinking and cognitive activity. Emotions help prioritize what...
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...Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is a scientific concept that gives machines the ability to copy and complete human tasks. It was a term that first came into use in 1955 and has come quite a long way since then. According to Stanford University in California, this type of intelligence is created by studying and simulating human actions, not human intelligence, to complete tasks. The actions are then programmed into a computer to allow the computer to complete the same task.It does not actually resemble human intelligence at all. Only in the movements and processing and fina l product or accomplishment. The computer should solve all the tasks with its own methods, similar to the methods in which a person with computer knowledge and know how would use. Artificial intelligence will never possess a creative side such a write an original thought, create an intelligent though or compose anything that has not already been thought or entered into its programming. The science of artificial intelligence is the part of the complex computer sciences, and the technology created by humans. The aim of the science is to create answers and solutions as well on the basis of calculations and artificially made intelligent machines. Artificial intelligence is aimed to make the human life easier and do all the difficult tasks and provide people with acceptable solutions to any problems. The main problems with Artificial Intelligence include...
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...Emotional Intelligence has become a vital part of how today's hr meets the significant challenges it faces. And in the middle of the "Talent War", especially at the highest levels in organisations, emotionaly intelligent employees ie who have the capacity to grasp, appreciate and discerningly manage emotions in relationship to oneself and others , can give organisations a competitive edge.. "...success at work is 80% dependent on emotional intelligence and only 20% dependent on IQ," HR magazine, November 1997. As a consequence, emotional intelligence quotient, or EQ, has become more and more relevant to important work-related outcomes such as individual performance, organizational productivity, and developing people because its principles provide a new ways of understanding and assessing behavious, management styles, attitudes, interpersonal skills, and potential of people. It is also an increasingly important consideration in human resource planning, job profiling, recruitment interviewing and selection,and learning and development The hr proffesionals worldwide have not only started including the measurement of eq as a part of their recruitment strategies but are also discovering and creating more and more ways of training their employees to become emotionally intellegent Interestingly, Goleman in the year 1955 proposed the idea that three organizational Factors-leadership, hr and the organisational climate and culture t are interrelated. Each of these influence...
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...National Geospatial-Intellegence Agency (NGA) Research Paper Table of Contents... Title Page...............................................................................Page 1 Table of Contents..................................................................Page 2 Thesis.....................................................................................Page 3 History....................................................................................Page 3 Past Operations.....................................................................Page 4 Present Operations...............................................................Page 5 9/11......................................................................................Page 5-6 Bibliograpy.........................................................................Page 7-8 The National Geospatial-Intellegence Agency is a critical agency in the protection of the United States and its people and for the use of imagary intellegence. This paper will delve into the history of the National Geospatial-Intellegence Agency, some past and present operations and focusing on their successes and failures, and its importance post 9/11. After WW1, aerial photography became a large asset to battlefield intelligence, by using stereo viewers, photointerpreters assesed thousands of images, with many of those images being of the same target just a a different angle or time, giving rise to what became modern imagery analysis...
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...Intelligence-Practical or Emotional Cynthia Ward PSY/201 March 24, 2013 Kathy West Intelligence-Practical or Emotional General intelligence has been defined in different ways but is a trait to have that is important. What is intelligence? Intelligence is defined as “the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations (2) the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2013). Within intelligence there are different types and two of them are Practical Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence. Practical Intelligence is “the ability to adapt to, shape, and select everyday environments. To put it into lucid terms, it means to have common-sense. Practical Intelligence in the knowledge acquired doing everyday activities through various means” (Singh, 2009). Emotional Intelligence is “the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions” (Definition of Emotional Intelligence, n.d.). The differences between Practical Intelligence is that it is using ones common-sense to acquire knowledge; knowledge to be able to live successfully and Emotional Intelligence is using one’s ability to get along with others and help to understand how someone is feeling and what they are experiencing. One is based on knowledge and the other is based more on feelings. Intelligence...
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...A HBR Book Review FINANCIAL INTELLIGANCE FOR HR PROFESSIONALS Human Resources professionals areoften viewed asonly having a policy and procedure role focusing mainly on compliance and legal issues or Henchmen for Top Management. They are considered as support functional team having little influence in the overall strategy of the company.HR like most other aspects of business, including marketing, research and development, and strategy formulation is at least partly subjective, a matter dependent on experience and judgment as well as data. But finance and Accounting? The numbers produced by these departments are objective, black and white, and indisputable. According to John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Company “If you’re going to be in business and you’re going to work in HR, then you better understand finance, To be blunt, everything that a business line manager should understand.”HR people should be able to read and understand their company’s income statement, balance sheet and that they should be able to deal with the whole budgeting process, capital investments so on. The art of accounting and finance is the art of using limited data to come as close as possible to an accurate description of how well a company is performing.The bottom line of the income statement is net profit.These are the numbers that senior managers use to gauge a business’s performance. They are the basis for many of the fundamental decisions a company’s leaders must make day in and day out...
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...Saikal Kushubekova BSAD 685 Professor Jeff Fahrenwald Book Report 30 October 2015 Daniel Goleman's “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” (1995) Emotional Intelligence, or its shorthand EQ, is a relatively recent behavioral model which rose to its prominence when in 1995 Daniel Goleman published his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ published (Goleman 2004). Undoubtedly, emotional aspect and social abilities play their role in contributing to person’s individual success. In addition, EQ is significant to organizational development as well as developing people’s corporate success. EQ is strongly influenced by personal qualities among which are major elements such as perseverance, self-awareness, communication skills, self-control, motivation and number of other personal abilities (Deleon 2015). The term “emotional intelligence” was originally coined by two psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey in 1990, however, it was Daniel Goleman who brought this concept to a wide business audience and further popularized it with his 1998 Harvard Business Review article (Goleman 2004). There is number of articles in the academic literature that connects emotional intelligence to high performing organizations that produce better business results. In other words, business environments that have employees with high EQ who are capable of working in teams and who have strong emotional skills mentioned earlier in this paper are...
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...University of Phoenix Material Remembering, Feeling, and Thinking Worksheet Part I: Motivation, Emotion, and Behavior Explain the relationships between motivation, emotion, and behavior. How does emotion affect motivation? Provide an example of a specific behavior, and the motivators and emotions that can be behind that behavior. Your response must be at least 300 words. Motivation, emotion, and behavior are all similar in the way that the more emotionally involved in something that motivates you the better your behavior towards it. For instance, you will eat more of a certain food if you like it and you will engage more in a behavior if you enjoy it. Motivation is affected by emotion in the way that motivation is something that makes a person want to work harder to achieve a goal to receive a much wanted reward. Emotions come up when the person is trying to reach that goal, it comes from the achievement or failure of the goal that the person was trying to reach. Emotion affects motivation in the way that people tend to try to reach goals that would lead to the happiness or satisfaction of the individual as a whole. Emotion can be the overall pro or con of the motivation. Part II: Theories of Emotion Summarize the four major theories of emotion. Identify which theory you think is the most valid. What makes this theory more valid to you than the others? Identify which theory of emotion you think is the least valid. What makes this theory less valid to...
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...Some people think teachers have a greater influence than parents in the development of a child’s intelligence and social skills. Do you agree or disagree? -- Nowadays it is standard practice for parents to send their children to school at a very young age. There has been much discussion around the issue of whether teachers have a greater influence than parents in the development of children's intellegence and social skills. In my view, parents should assume the major responsibility for their intellectual and interpersonal development. There is a saying that goes "Like father, like son." Reasearches have found that in the aspect of a person's intellegence quotient, interests and personality, genetic influences can not be ignored. Children inheriting talents tend to perform well the in same fields as their parents used to. Besides, it is an instinct of children to imitate what their parents usually do and say in a certain circumstance, and they learn things fast. A baby can figure out how to express its feelings and desires so naturally because it is part of life. More importantly, children may follow their parents' moves to get along with others. Parents with different educational levels and social status pass their own moral values and attitudes toward people, leaving a lifetime impact on their children. However, due to the fact that children spend most of their time at school, espacially in their teenage, school education can be vital, because it is an important period...
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...1. Think of a leader you admire. What traits does this person have? Are they consistant with the traits discussed in this chapter? If not, why was this person effective despite the presence of different traits? A leader who I admire is my mananger where I work. I am a head supervisor of the games/attractions department at Six Flags New England. Traits that this person has include intellegence, personable, calm, conscientous, understandable. These traits for the most part are pretty consistant with the triats from the chapter. Most of the traits fall into categories of the Big 5 triats in the chapter. He aslo displays triats like integrity which where from the chapter. Even though he does not display some of the traits that are represented in the chapter he is still an effective leader because he is knowlegeable in the business and displays excellent skills in guess service. 2. Can the findings of triats approaches be used to train potential leaders? Which traits seem easier to teach? Which are more stable? I think that all the traits can be trained to potential leaders. The traits that I feel are easier to teach is the “Openness” because it requires being yourself being to new ideas. 3. How can organizations identify future leaders with a given set of traits? Which methods would be useful for this purpose? Organizations can identify future leaders with a given set of traits by their personality, physical attributes and their intelligences. 4. What other traits can you...
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...The main business of Pioneer Foods is te production, distribution, marketing and selling of a huge range of food products and beverages for the consumption of human and animals alike. The organisation was formed in 1997, the result of two farming co-operatives, Sasko and Bokomo becoming one. After the merger the company embraked on a series of acquisitions and joint-ventures, as well as in-house product innovation. Within ten years after the successful merger between Bokomo and Sasko, the group trebled in size. The excellent growth and performance of the organisation over the years after the merger had ensured a variety of household brands across almost every food and beverage product segment. Being listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) was the obvious thing to do, given the potential advantages (the provision of a larger shareholder base). Pioneer Foods, one of the most significant players in Southern Africa’s food and beverage industries listed on the JSE on 22 April 2008. Today the business operates through its four main divisions. Sasko manufactures a range of affordable grain-based staple foods, including maize, rice, beans and lentil products. Bokomo produces some of South Africa’s best known bnreakfast cereals. The Agri business which produces poultry and animal feeds. The Ceres Beverage company which is one of the largest producers of fruit juices, soft drinks (ie. Pepsi). Pioneer Foods also have international joint ventures with the likes of...
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...our age before and know what to expect. This book takes place in a world where there is no learning or development happening, no learning from those who have gone before. It is even frowned upon to be able to obtain and retain knowledge and academic advancement. It says, "We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those years in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick." The way that they manage to keep this going is through their job assignment system. They don't support learning and developing, so this society puts those with the most potential into the jobs with the least amount of responsibility and intellegence involved. The main character of this story longs to go with the House of the Scholars but cannot because he is smarter than those around him and is curious about things that they can't yet explain. The society is so against diversity and individuality, that they send the smart people to the less skilled working jobs and give the more mentally challenged the jobs that normally are saved for scientists and college graduates. Because he is not allowed to go within the area of work where he would be best, he rebels against the rules of society and starts to experiment with his own potential. This leads to more and more things that lead him to discovering something, which is rejected in an unchanging world. They do not want to learn faster...
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...Journal Week #3 STUDY SKILLS This was my third week in this fantastic course named as “Study Skills”. On Monday, September 8th we did not get on the wrong foot but with an interesting topic by knowing our results related to “Multiple Intelligences”. Since I was curious about interpreting my scores, I was just looking forward to it and it was worth it. I got Intra and Inter intelligence and Linguistic as my highest ones. I was surprised because this means that I suit with careers such as teacher (that is what I really fancy) and my ability to cooperate in order to work as part of a group or on my own! This was pretty interesting as the descriptions of these intellegences fi ton me, every detail read was a reflection of me. After this, our Proffesor asked us to make teams of four or five people. We were assigned to do a research about topics related to internal and external factors that affect L2 Learning. Each team will be supposed to expose each class. We decided our turn to expose through a sort. My team got number 4 so we are exposing on September 22nd. Next class, which was on Wednesday, the first team shared their research with the class. They exposed about Age and Aptitude as keys that alter L2 Learning. Frankly, I did not like the way they introduced the topic; their develop was fair enough and the end quite poor in my humble opinion. However, I learned that the age and aptitude have a serious relation with the process of learning a new language. For instance, kids tend...
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...Trapped I woke up on the cold hard cement floor, my clothes torn, make-up smudged and bruises all over my body. Not sure how long I have been here, or where here even is. Why was I so stupid? I saw him in the coffee shop…this handsome man with dark hair and piercing blue eyes; he was smiling right at me. I had a sudden urge to talk to him, something that doesn’t happen very often. We talked for hours, and it seemed like we had known each other for years. We just clicked; I trusted him. He spoke with such intellegence and confidence that I was instantly smitten, lost in the words of this stranger. He then invited me back to his place for drinks. The last thing I remember was Zale and I, warm and cozy, cuddled together on his couch sipping on some wine he had brought for us to drink. Now, here I am sitting alone in this basement, it looks more like a cellar or dungeon than anything else. There are four walls, an old shower that only drips brown rusted water, not enough to even atempt to drink, a small cott and a camera in the corner of the room. The only door is made of steel, with a slot that looks an awful lot like a prison door. There is clearly no way out. Overwhelmed with fear I called out crying Zale’s name, “Zale, please help me!” The sounds of my cries echo in the chamber. A noise came from above, “shhhhhhhhhhh”, and then a familiar voice, his voice, “Tegan, there is no use calling out…no one can hear you”. I continuously scream. I can taste the copper...
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