Explain two professional learning goals (from The First Days of School) that will improve teaching and planning for instruction.
Assignment 3
· Part 1 – Describe your classroom factors (physical features, technology resources, parental involvement, and grouping practices).
· Part 2 – Describe how you communicate assessment expectations, results, and feedback to students. Also, include how students monitor their own progression of learning.
· Part 3 – Describe how you differentiated learning for students. Cite evidence from your lesson plan.
· Part 4 – Discuss how you used formative assessment data to make modifications to instruction. Cite evidence from specific student work.
· Part 5 – Analyze the effectiveness of your instruction on this unit or activity. What worked? What needs improvement? Cite student data in your analysis – what percent of students met expectations, exceeded expectations, or did not meet expectations? How will you address the needs of your students in each of these three categories?
· Part 6 – Explain two professional learning goals (from The First Days of School) that will improve teaching and planning for instruction.
Note: I teach 8th Grade U.S. History in Mississippi
Describe how each organization’s mission supports global health.
Session 1
Overview:
In this assignment, you will prepare a short written response about global health organizations to the prompt below.
“Instructions:
- Select three organizations reporting global health data.
- Describe how each organization’s mission supports global health.
Session 2
You learned about global health data, statistics, and reporting. For this activity, you’ll take a closer look at vital statistic data and craft a meaningful visual to display your findings.
1. Create a visual deliverable of your choice (infographic, PowerPoint, video, etc.) that communicates the information below.
a) Find the vital statistics for the United States (hint: you might look at CDC.gov)
b) Compare the vital statistics for the US to Indiana.
c) Compare the statistics to Allen County (hint: you might look at in.gov/health)
2. Please see the following optional resources on creating Infographics:
a) “How to Make an Infographic in Word” (Infographic Website):
b) “How to Make an Infographic for Free with PowerPoint” (MUO website)
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/longform-create-free-infographics-powerpoint/
c) Video: Make an infographic from word or PPT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXMLXxjGqI
3. Please submit your completed infographic through jpeg (picture) and pdf
do you agree that looking at an aged photo of yourself will motivate you to save more? Why or why not?
Look at the video below:
Here, Goldstein argues that one of the reasons that 2/3 people don’t save for old age is that it is hard for us to connect between our present self and our future self.
“You are basically two persons: your present self and your future self”, according to Goldstein. Your present self listens to the here and now, wants to satisfy his needs immediately. Your future self also wants to live and would like your present self to be a little wiser. So, opposing interests. The power of Now vs the importance of Future.
Here are a couple of written articles that relate to Goldstein’s research:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/the-selfie-that-could-make-you-a-rich-retiree.html (Links to an external site.) this selfie could help turn things around
Question: the last article above, “this selfie could help turn things around”, suggests that using virtual software such as FaceApp (or Oldify or AgingBooth) to produce an aged photo of yourself 40 years from now will motivate you to save more for retirement. Thinking about yourself, do you agree that looking at an aged photo of yourself will motivate you to save more? Why or why not?
what three things did you find most valuable to your current teaching assignment?
Unit 3: Discussion Question
· After reading the text, what three things did you find most valuable to your current teaching assignment? How are they going to help you with your current students? What did you find most beneficial from the text? Refer to specific quotes from the text and specifically discuss how they will help you with current issues from your classroom. Cite evidence from the Wong text within your writing and as a reference.
How would the actual observed inflation affect world wheat prices looking forward (in the future), ignoring other factors in the wheat market such as the war in Ukraine?
Assignment 1 (FRE 501) Name & Student ID:
Instructions: i. Data for the questions are provided in the accompanying excel file
ii. Please submit the following on Canvas: o Your typed answers as a PDF file o Your completed excel file o Your class participation record (Lectures 1 to 4)
Question 1: (23 marks total)
a. Plot world wheat prices from Jan 2015 to July 2022. (1) b. On the same graph, plot inflation rates over the same period and on the secondary axis
(view example on the excel file). (1) c. What is the relationship between the two? Run a regression to show the relationship
statistically, wheat prices as the independent variable and inflation as the dependent variable. (2)
d. State the month when inflation really begins to take off (increase)? (1) e. Now re-run the regression in two parts, first for the period from Jan 2015 to Dec 2020;
second from Jan 2021 to July 2022. Explain your results. (3) Background Information:
Use Canada as an example of a wheat producer/exporter. Note that the production of wheat each year requires farmers to decide in March-April which crops they will grow. If they wish to produce more wheat, they will allocate more of their land to wheat and away from the alternative crop they would otherwise be growing (e.g., canola). In anticipating their wheat production, they will have to acquire adequate supplies of fertilizer and other farm inputs, typically making purchases also in those early spring months. The wheat price will be determined by the world supply and demand. Some supplies of wheat will be determined even earlier if there is planting of winter wheat or an earlier growing season.
f. Describe the process by which inflation will affect Canadian wheat prices. (3) More information:
Suppose inflation in wheat producing countries starts to rise in (Canadian data follows) July 2021, jumping from 3.1 to 3.7%, and only begins to rise seriously in Jan 2022 (monthly inflation hits 5%), rising each month to June (8.1%). By planting decision time, inflation is running at annual rate of 5-7% (year over year, calculated each month.
g. How will that affect wheat prices over the period from January to July 2022 that we have so far observed? Putting this differently, if there was no significant inflation in 2021 through to date, how would this have changed the observed rise in global wheat prices? (3)
h. How would the actual observed inflation affect world wheat prices looking forward (in the future), ignoring other factors in the wheat market such as the war in Ukraine? (2)
i. Assume that fertilizer input costs account for 30% of total revenues. If fertilizer costs doubled, and if wheat prices increased by 50%, we wish to calculate the net effect on profits and planting decisions (these are roughly realistic numbers for spring 2022).
i. Calculate the effect on net profit or earnings before taxes for “Wheat-Hard Red Spring” (The relevant financial data can be found on Page 4 of the following document: https://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/farm- management/production-economics/pubs/cop-crop-production.pdf) (3)
ii. What is the effect on farmer’s planting decision from this change in profit? i.e., will they increase wheat plantings, given both an increase in fertilizer costs and an increase in the wheat price? (2)
j. Now show how this example of the long term effect of inflation will likely affect wheat prices (for late 2022, 2023)? (2)
Question 2: (9 marks total)
a. Plot the relationship between agricultural commodity prices (Farm Product Price Index) & retail food prices (Food CPI). Do this for Jan 2020 through to July 2022. (1)
i. What is the relationship between the two? (1) b. Conduct regressions and interpret the corresponding R Squared values
i. Food CPI in period t-1 (Independent variable) on Farm Product Price Index in period t (Dependent variable). (2)
ii. Farm Product Price Index in period t-1 (Independent variable) on Food CPI in period t (Dependent variable). (2)
iii. Contemporaneous effects, Farm Product Price Index in period t (Independent variable) on Food CPI in period t (Dependent variable). (1)
c. Give some economic arguments for why one direction of causation would be more plausible than another (comparing i. with ii.)? (2)
Question 3: (8 marks total)
a. On excel, convert the monthly Farm Product Price Index & Food CPI data into a quarterly series. (1)
b. Create 2 new data series that depicts the quarterly change in both Farm Product Price Index & Food CPI. (2)
c. Plot the quarterly percentage change in Farm Product Price Index & Food CPI from Q2- 2000 to Q1-2022. (1)
i. Comment on the relationship between the quarterly percentage change in Farm Product Price Index and Food CPI. (1)
ii. Provide reasons for the difference in volatility between the quarterly percentage change in Farm Product Price Index & Food CPI. (3)https://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/farm-management/production-economics/pubs/cop-crop-production.pdfhttps://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/farm-management/production-economics/pubs/cop-crop-production.pdf
What is the difference between market capitalization and enterprise value? What do each of these variables measure?
Assignment grades will be based on 50% completion and 50% accuracy. Please show all work, including cell references if you are using Excel.
Using the Excel File “MCD vs. WEN Annotated_v2” uploaded on Canvas, find the following variables in 2017 to 2021 for Wendy’s. All questions are worth 5 points each.
1. Find the Current Ratio
2. Find the Quick Ratio
3. Find the Cash Ratio
4. Describe the trend of the above ratios from 2017 ~ 2021
5. In 2021, which firm, in general, has more safety in terms of meeting obligations over the next 12 months?
6. Find the Total Debt ratio (use textbook definition debt = liabilities)
7. Find the Debt to Equity ratio (use textbook definition debt = liabilities)
8. Find the Equity Multiplier (use textbook definition debt = liabilities)
9. How is the debt situation looking like for Wendy’s in years 2017 ~ 2021?
10. In 2021, which firm is using more debt proportionally?
11. Find the Asset Turnover ratio
12. In 2021, which firm is using its assets more efficiently?
13. Find the Net Profit Margin
14. Find the ROA
15. Find the ROE
16. Describe the trend of the above ratios from 2017 ~ 2021
17. Which firm is more profitable?
18. Is the ROE meaningful in this case? If yes, describe what it measures. If no, describe why it’s not meaningful
19. What is the difference between market capitalization and enterprise value? What do each of these variables measure?
20. Go to Key Stats spreadsheet for each firm and scroll down to the current capitalization section. Which firm is larger? McDonald’s or Wendy’s? Why?
21. Bonus: Stay on the Key Stats spreadsheet and scroll all the way down to Valuation Multiples based on Current Capitalization. You should be able to find the P/E ratio for each firm in row 79. Which firm has a larger P/E ratio in 2021 (1 pt)? Explain one potential reason why this company would have a larger P/E ratio (4 pts).
Discuss the differences and similarities between quantitative, qualitative and mix methods research studies.
Discuss the differences and similarities between quantitative, qualitative and mix methods research studies.
Explain how evolving demographics and emerging technologies transform organizations.
Explain how evolving demographics and emerging technologies transform organizations.
500 words
According to George and Jones (2020), a company’s stance on social responsibility is the way its managers and employees view their duty or obligation to make decisions that protect, enhance, and promote the welfare and well-being of stakeholders and society as a whole. This includes the way the company handles changing demographics and emerging technologies.
Global Environment
Consider the forces in the global environment and your professional experience when responding to the following questions:
- What are some of the implications of demographic forces for the industry you work in or aspire to work in?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of technological change?
- How can information technology lead to beneficial changes within the workplace in the industry you work in or aspire to work in?
Social Responsibility
Consider your professional experience when responding to the following questions.
- What do you consider to be the top three benefits to social responsibility?
- How does your organization implement social responsibility initiatives? If they don’t, what considerations should be made?
What are the implications for you when you are given responsibility to run your own projects?
Consider the profile examples on project leaders Sir John Armitt and Jim Watzin from the chapter. If you were to summarize the leadership keys to their success in running projects, what actions or characteristics would you identify as being critical? Why? What are the implications for you when you are given responsibility to run your own projects?
APA format
400 words
Discuss in what sense this statement is true.
Leadership and the Project Manager
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- The chapter stressed the idea that project management is a leader-intensive undertaking. Discuss in what sense this statement is true.
