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Collaborative relationships

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Being able to build collaborative relationships within a Learning Community is important for an educational leader. It is also important to apply research based academic theory regarding relationships with stakeholders including the school board, faculty, and staff of the school. In this assignment, you will articulate the theoretical foundations related to collaborative relationships and connect theory to practice in a K-12 educational system.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for specific guidelines related to doctoral level writing. The Manual contains essential information on manuscript structure and content, clear and concise writing, and academic grammar and usage.
This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

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Cybersecurity College Program

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Prepare a two-page report for the president of a small university (chose one that does not have one) detailing the pros and cons of starting a cybersecurity undergraduate or community college program. Recommend how they might find people to teach and work with students.

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Professional development workshop

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Imagine that your principal has come to you and stated that the district is interested in hosting a professional development workshop for educators to help them broaden their cultural competence, improve their family-teacher relationships, and enhance educational experiences for all students. The district is proposing using the materials from “A Class Divided” and “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” for the workshop. Both of these resources are dated, but are often used in schools to introduce faculty to social justice issues that affect educators.

Your principal has asked you to submit a 500-750 word persuasive essay either in support of or against the use of the material in these resources. In your essay, include specific examples that discuss whether the materials could be used to help individuals broaden their cultural competence, build stronger relationships, and create more relevant educational experiences. If you argue that the materials should not be used, offer reputable alternatives for your principal to consider. Be sure to include links and descriptions of the alternative resources.

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Educational experience

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1- Tell us what characteristics of Loma Linda University are particularly attractive and meaningful to you and why you have chosen to apply for advanced education. (500 words)

2- Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experience have influenced and been integrated into your daily life. (500 words)

3- Tell us the desirable qualities that you see in yourself that you believe would aid us in considering your application. (500 words)

4- LLU believes deeply in integrating spiritual values into the educational experience. As a result, religion courses and chapel attendance are part of the curriculum. Tell us why you believe such a faith-based education would be of special benefit to you. (500 words)

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Early childhood educators

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Early childhood educators often face challenging situations in the workplace, and it can sometimes be difficult to know how to proceed. When you encounter a tough situation, the first question you should ask yourself is, “Does this issue concern right and wrong, rights and responsibilities, human welfare, or individuals’ best interests?” If you answer yes to this question, you are facing an ethical issue.

How you respond to an ethical issue depends on whether the issue is an ethical responsibility or an ethical dilemma. Ethical responsibilities are mandates that are clearly spelled out in the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct: they describe what early childhood educators must and must not do. It is important to remember that when you encounter a situation that involves an ethical responsibility, you must follow the Code’s clear directions. Then you can be confident that when you have done the right thing, the Code is there to back you up. You can rely on it to help you explain why you made a difficult or unpopular decision.

When you determine that a situation involves ethics and that it is not a clear-cut responsibility, it is likely to be an ethical dilemma. A dilemma is a situation in which the legitimate needs and interests of two or more individuals or groups are in conflict with one another. Resolving a dilemma forces you to choose between two or more morally justifiable courses of action, each of which has some benefits but also some costs.

Instructions:

Below are two situations. For this discussion, select one of the situations. Address the five questions below, using the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct (Links to an external site.)

Identify the problem and discuss why it involves ethics.
Identify which, if any, of the Code’s Core Values (from page 1) apply to this situation.

The teacher often has conflicting responsibilities. What does she owe to the child, the family, or the center where she works? (In doing an ethical analysis, it can be helpful to summarize the conflicting responsibilities as a choice between alternatives: “Should the teacher do _________ or should she do _________?”)
Look for guidance in the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct. Carefully review its Ideals and Principles, particularly those that apply to responsibilities to children and families. List three relevant items in the Code and indicate how you prioritized their importance.
Based on your review of the Code and using your best professional judgment, describe what you think is the most ethically defensible course of action for the teacher.

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Role of education in society

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In our previous essays and class discussions, we’ve examined how our personal circumstances (age, race, sex, socioeconomic status, etc.) all affect how we view the world around us. Similarly, the way in which we view the world, which we might generally refer to as our personal ideology, influences how we interact with the world, which in turn changes the world, albeit usually in relatively small ways; thus, our subjective view of reality and objective reality are interactive in nature, each altering the other in sometimes hard to predict ways.

For this module, we have read or will have read Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” (from The Republic), Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister,” and Newman’s The Idea of a University (selected passages). We also will have watched The Matrix in class. Although we can discuss these works in a variety of contexts, each one touches upon the themes of education and indoctrination, either directly or indirectly.

Directions:

Keeping our readings/discussions from this module and the preceding paragraphs—as well as your own experience as a student—respond to the following prompt:

In a well-developed, argumentative essay, examine the role of education in society. What role does education play in modern society? What distinctions do you draw between education and indoctrination? Does education always include an element of indoctrination? If not, how can one differentiate between the two? Explain.

For this essay, you must cite three of our four core readings from the reality/education modules of the class (Plato, Marx, Woolf, and Newman); in addition, you must use the film The Matrix in a central way, probably as an allegorical representation of education and/or indoctrination.

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING

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THIS IS A TEAM ASSIGNMENT, AS A LEAD I AM TO WRITE THE THESIS, INTRODUCTION, CONCLUSION, ALSO COMPLETE LEVEL 1 OF THE KIRKPATRICK MODEL TRAINING. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I MUST CREATE A LEVEL ONE EVALUATION FORM.

OUR TEAM TOPIC IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING

Training evaluations are important to determine if the selected training solution was effective and provided the appropriate return on investment.

Discuss as a team the last training program you attended (at work, school, other).

Select one of your team members’ experiences and design a training evaluation form.

Write a 525- to 700-word description of the training program selected by the team.

Provide an explanation of how you would evaluate the training program. The Kirkpatrick Model for the Effectiveness of Training is to be used for the evaluation. There are details on the model below and on the discussion thread,

Steps of Kirkpatrick Model

There are four levels to Kirkpatrick’s Model that look at training effectiveness in different time frames and areas.

Level one – (this is the level you should focus on the most in the week three assignment). This level is done immediately after the conclusion of training and measures the immediate reaction of participants at the conclusion of the training. This is most often done with a survey or interview and should cover the if the learning objectives were met, the learning environment, the instructors performance, the delivery methods used and the content of the course. The survey or interview will give the designer or instructor an opportunity to make quick course adjustments.

Level two – is used to determine if learning occurred during the course. In other words do the participants know or can do more after the course than they could do before? This can be done with a pre and post assessment which should be the same instrument. The pre assessment measures what KSA’s the participants came into the course already having developed. The post assessment measure what they know after the course is completed. The goal is to compare the pre to the post assessment and see progress has been made in the participants KSA’s.

Level three – this step measures if learning is transferred from the training environment and applied in the work place. Training is only effective if it is applied. This is done around two months after the training is completed by observation, a survey or interview. Data can also help in this step.

Level four – The Return on the Investment. This step is done by converting the costs of doing training and the savings or benefits realized from the training. The costs of doing training are compared to the outcomes to determine if the ROI is positive or negative.

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Improving Reading

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Imagine that your school’s administrators recently reported disappointing results on the state standardized test.

What techniques will you recommend to the grade level team to support children’s automaticity, speed, prosody, and high frequency word knowledge? Provide examples.
What are some specific strategies you might use to scaffold reading comprehension? What are some things you are already doing in your classroom that reflect evidence-based practices for teaching comprehension? Explain and provide specific examples to support your response.
What are some ways that you would suggest to increase the students’ vocabulary?

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Terrestrial ecosystems

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Describe the effects of temperature, moisture, length of photosynthetic period, and nutrient availability on net primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. Give examples in your explanations.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

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Professional Portfolio

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PROMPT:

Compile professional documents specific to a post-undergraduate program or job application and set personal goals. In order to fulfill this, you will first need to find either a specific post-undergraduate program, a potential job listing, or an internship. Then, depending on the application requirements, you will construct either a résumé or curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose or letter of interest.

Furthermore, to demonstrate your understanding of the text What the Best College Students Do and basic rhetorical concepts we considered throughout the semester, write a Book and Goals Reflection that answers the prompt: What piece of advice stood out to you most in Ken Bain’s book? Was it presented in a convincing manner? How does it relate to your future goals?

PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS:
Résumé or Curriculum Vitae (page length dependent upon form): This should demonstrate your many skills, be well-worded, and use formatting creatively.
Statement of Purpose or Letter of Interest (1-2 pages single-spaced): For whichever of these you end up writing, refer back to your personal narrative or your correspondence letter and draw from the skills you developed on those projects.
Book and Goal Reflection (2 pages double spaced): Your reflection should be written as a mini-essay. There should be a clear thesis, analysis of evidence from Bain’s book, and a discussion of a major goal (or goals) that you have.