Briefly describe the relationship between the NCSS themes, National Social Studies Standards, and social studies standards for your state. Briefly explain the arts standards for your state. If your state does not have their own art standards, refer to another state or the national art standards. Explain how these resources affect planning and instruction.
Assessment Description
Educators use standards to guide the instruction they provide to students. Social studies and the arts are no different. These broad content areas have organized standards to help educators guide their planning and instruction. Understanding standards rationale and design allows an educator the ability to effectively plan and prepare instruction for social studies and the arts.
In preparing for this assignment, explore the national and state standards for social studies and the arts including correlating resources.
Briefly describe the relationship between the NCSS themes, National Social Studies Standards, and social studies standards for your state. Briefly explain the arts standards for your state. If your state does not have their own art standards, refer to another state or the national art standards. Explain how these resources affect planning and instruction.
Describe how social studies and the arts content are connected or can be connected.
Using the social studies and the arts standards, analyze how implementing these standards in the classroom is important to the individual student and society.
Explain three challenges of meeting all the social studies and/or the arts standards over the course of a school year in an inclusive classroom. Describe how to address these challenges as well as the value of teaching social studies and the arts in the inclusive classroom.
Support your arguments with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite Technical Support Articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.
There are so many potential careers in healthcare, choosing one that will make you happy means finding one that fits your personality as well as your goals. The earlier you plan for the career you want the more successful you will be in pursuing it. There are many things to consider when thinking about a career, of course, there are the skills and education you need to have, which we will discuss in depth in this course, but there are other questions to consider as well. What do you want to do every day? Would you like to sit at a desk, work with people one-on-one or would you rather work with groups?
Introduction
There are so many potential careers in healthcare, choosing one that will make you happy means finding one that fits your personality as well as your goals. The earlier you plan for the career you want the more successful you will be in pursuing it. There are many things to consider when thinking about a career, of course, there are the skills and education you need to have, which we will discuss in depth in this course, but there are other questions to consider as well. What do you want to do every day? Would you like to sit at a desk, work with people one-on-one or would you rather work with groups? Do you like teaching? For example, where do you want to work, a hospital, office, or community center? What kind of people do you want to work with, children, adults, or the elderly? Is there a specific segment of the population you enjoy working with such as veterans, special needs children, or handicapped? Do you want to travel or would you rather have a job that keeps you in one setting all day or in a residential facility? In this chapter, you should think about the aspects of your career that you want to shape your life and how you work. You will begin by analyzing your personality so you can narrow down career choices based on compatibility with your personality. By the end of this chapter, we hope you have a checklist of important things to make choosing a career easier for you.
Briefly, in one paragraph (no more), describe your feelings about your My Plan results. Specifically: How did you feel about the results? Were you surprised by any aspect of the results? Were some aspects what you expected? BE SPECIFIC about your feelings. Thinking back to the last module, when you submitted your initial thoughts on your chosen career, how well do the results align with your current career intentions? As a result of the career assessments, are you considering any changes to your career plans?
The results of the My Plan Personality assessment are ESFJ.
Emotional Focus:???? Extroverted (E)
Information Gathering:???? Sensor (S)
Decision Making:???? Feeler (F)
Structural Orientation:???? Judgers (J)
The top two career results of the MY Plan career interest inventory assessment are Conventional and Social.
Evidence can be grouped into categories involving the same color, size, model, brand, caliber, patterns, and other various descriptives. These items of evidence fall into groups of evidence having class characteristics, which display similarities but do not identify them as a match conclusively. List 3 items of evidence and what characteristics they might have that would be considered class characteristics. Relate why they fall into the category of class characteristics.
Evidence can be grouped into categories involving the same color, size, model, brand, caliber, patterns, and other various descriptives. These items of evidence fall into groups of evidence having class characteristics, which display similarities but do not identify them as a match conclusively.
Items that match conclusively indicate that a certain item of evidence made impressions from normal wear or defects that make it unique. Only that item of evidence could have made those impressions or markings or only that item of evidence can be compared to another piece of evidence, showing that the two pieces were one. Those items of evidence have individual characteristics and to the exclusion of all others rule out any other similar item matching them.
List 3 items of evidence and what characteristics they might have that would be considered class characteristics. Relate why they fall into the category of class characteristics.
List 3 items of evidence and what characteristics that they might have that would be considered individual characteristics and how they match to the exclusion of all other items of a similar nature.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Business valuation is based on many things, such as competition, growth potential, reputation, etc. Assume you are thinking of purchasing Columbia College, what value would you put on it? How did you arrive at that figure? What variables did you use to calculate your valuation of CC? Look at what other students calculated, do you agree with their final valuation, the variables they used, etc? Why or why not?
Business valuation is based on many things, such as competition, growth potential, reputation, etc. Assume you are thinking of purchasing Columbia College, what value would you put on it? How did you arrive at that figure? What variables did you use to calculate your valuation of CC? Look at what other students calculated, do you agree with their final valuation, the variables they used, etc? Why or why not?
Search the Bible (either the Old or New Testament) for verse(s) that would guide you in answering the Ethical/Social/Financial Issues (you may choose from topics from the Thompson textbook) that you have identified or that may be present in the firm and how this would guide strategic choice. Discuss this Bible verse(s) and your Christian worldview as theyrelate to your chosen Ethical/Social Issues questions.
Review the Thompson text and apply your knowledge of strategy/policy and your Christian worldview as you evaluate the firm used in the case study.
Search the Bible (either the Old or New Testament) for verse(s) that would guide you in answering the Ethical/Social/Financial Issues (you may choose from topics from the Thompson textbook) that you have identified or that may be present in the firm and how this would guide strategic choice.
Discuss this Bible verse(s) and your Christian worldview as theyrelate to your chosen Ethical/Social Issues questions.
A suggested format for this assignment is as follows:a. First section: Discuss a problem or key area identified in your research of the firm. What is the Ethical/Social/Financial Issues identified (from a strategy/policy perspective).b. Second section: State and discuss the Bible verse(s) that are relevant to the identified area. To properly address this section, it will require biblical research to put your verse(s) into context for the next section.c. Third paragraph: Discuss/analyze the importance of the Bible verse(s) in addressing your chosen topic from a Christian worldview perspective.
Describe how to apply professional use of self and leadership skills through the use of the technology standards to address and advance social and economic justice issues.
1400 words
The purpose of the assignment on advocacy, social action, community practice, and administrative practice is to create an innovative community-based initiative to address a social, economic, or environmental injustice. Social media tools are widely used to create instant communication and information sharing opportunities. Further, social media is used promote professional networking, personal connections, fundraising, political agendas, and community events. The traditional barriers of time, location, and resources have been reduced based on the low cost of the use of technology. Because of technology, messages are able to reach a wider array of people; technology allows for greater service to global communities in promotion of social justice.
By successfully completing this assignment, you demonstrate your proficiency in the following competencies and specialized behaviors:
Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior.
C1.SP.A: Apply professional use of self and leadership skills with colleagues, clients, groups, organizations, and communities.
C1.SP.B: Articulate and provide leadership in the application of the core values and ethical standards of the social work profession through an ethical problem-solving model to aid in critical thinking, affective reactions, and ethical decision making related to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to guide and inform ethical practice in the specialization of advanced generalist social work.
Related Assignment Criterion:
5: Describe how to apply professional use of self and leadership skills through the use of the technology standards to address and advance social and economic justice issues.
C1.SP.C: Integrate the ethical and effective use of technology at all levels of practice in the specialization of advanced generalist social work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criterion:
6: Describe how to promote community well-being through the ethical and effective use of the technology standards.
Competency 2: Engage diversity and differences in practice.
C2.SP.A: Analyze dimensions and differentiation in diversity and apply the influence of relationships, intervention techniques, and technologies with diverse clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criterion:
8: Analyze the dimensions of diversity and differentiation that influence relationships.
Competency 3: Advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
C3.SP.A: Apply leadership skills and technology to engage in collaborative practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to advocate for appropriate services, resources, and supports to achieve goals and foster positive change.
Related Assignment Criterion:
3. Apply a social media tool to develop, support, and sustain a local community initiative.
4. Promote community well-being through the use of the technology standards to address and advance social and economic justice issues.
7. Advocate for the identified issue.
10: Analyze how collaborative involvement promotes success.
C3.SP.B: Apply leadership behaviors by engaging in reflective and professional practices that address and advance social, economic, and environmental justice issues.
Related Assignment Criterion:
5: Describe how to apply professional use of self and leadership skills through the use of the technology standards to address and advance social and economic justice issues.
C3.SP.C: Analyze and respond to evolving leadership, technological, political, economic, social cultural, geographical, and environmental contexts to shape the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2: Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.
Competency 4: Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice.
C4.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and the use of technology to inform evidence-based research practice to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
Related Assignment Criterion:
1: Analyze a social or economic injustice in the local community that can be reduced through the use of social media.
Competency 5: Engage in policy practice.
C5.SP.A: Apply leadership skills and decision making as social change agents to collaborate with clients, colleagues, and identified stakeholders to advance social and economic well-being in the delivery of effective and technology-assisted social work services to individuals, families, and groups.
Related Assignment Criterion:
10: Analyze how collaborative involvement promotes success.
Competency 6: Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C6.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when engaging with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criterion:
9: Integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in advanced generalist practice.
C6.SP.C: Apply leadership skills and emerging technologies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice when engaging with individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities to promote systemic change towards client sustainability.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2: Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.
Competency 7: Assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C7.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when assessing individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criterion:
9: Integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in advanced generalist practice.
C7.SP.C: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and emerging technologies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice when assessing individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities to promote systemic change towards client sustainability.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2: Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.
Competency 8: Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C8.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criterion:
9: Integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in advanced generalist practice.
C8.SP.C: Apply leadership skills and emerging technologies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice when engaging with individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities to promote systemic change towards client sustainability.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2: Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.
Competency 9: Evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
C9.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Related Assignment Criterion:
9: Integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in advanced generalist practice.
C9.SP.C: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and emerging technologies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice evaluation with individuals, families, group, organizations, and communities to promote systemic change towards client sustainability.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2: Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.
C9.SP.D: Analyze and respond to evolving leadership, technological, political, economic, social cultural, geographical, and environmental contexts to shape the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2: Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.
Assignment Description
In this assignment, you will use the information and feedback you have gathered in the course to develop an advocacy and community practice proposal; specifically, the readings presented in the courseroom, the knowledge gained from the previous assignments, and the “NASW, ASWB, CSWE, & CSWA Standards for Use of Technology in Social Work Practice.” You will present this proposal to an agency, a community, an organization, an individual, or a group for its support.
In your proposal, you will develop a community-based initiative to bring awareness to, or educate about, the presence of a local social or economic injustice through the use of a social media tool. You will describe a plan that could be used to sustain or maintain a local community initiative. Discuss how you will create the social media presence, present a plan to maintain the social media tool, and ensure its alignment to the technology standards. For example, the social media tool may be the use of Facebook, Skype, Twitter, or a blog. It is recommended that you reference the technology standards in your proposal.
Assignment Instructions
For this assignment:
Develop a community-based initiative to eliminate or reduce the presence of a local social or economic injustice through the use of a social media tool.
Explain how to apply a social media tool to develop a local initiative. The social media tool may be the use of Facebook, Skype, Twitter, a blog, or others.
Describe the social or economic injustice you desire to eliminate or reduce in the local community.
Create a social media presence, including a plan to sustain or maintain the social media tool, and ensure its alignment to the technology standards.
Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to create an initiative to address an injustice and why it is important.
What population will the initiative serve?
How is the initiative different than others in the community?
Apply the social media tool used to promote the initiative and how you will promote community well-being through the use of the technology standards.
Discuss why this tool was chosen and its benefits for your initiative.
Discuss how you will create access to the social media.
Discuss how you will maintain and sustain the social media presence to promote the initiative.
Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in advanced generalist practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to the area of social or economic injustice you have identified.
Describe how to apply professional use of self and leadership skills through the use of the technology standards to address and advance social and economic justice issues.
Describe how you will promote community well-being through the ethical and effective use of the technology standards.
Explain the rationale for using a social media tool to respond to evolving leadership, technological, political, economic, social cultural, geographical, and environmental contexts and why it is important.
Analyze how the collaborative involvement of the agency, community, organization, group, or individual you are presenting to will promote the success of the proposed initiative that advocates for appropriate services, resources, and supports to achieve goals and foster positive change.
Articulate and provide leadership in the application of the core values and ethical standards of the social work profession through an ethical problem-solving model to aid in critical thinking and ethical decision making related to individuals, families, organizations, and communities to guide and inform ethical advanced generalist social work practice while conducting advocacy to the issue you identified.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.
Resources: A minimum of five scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.
Provide the name of the national or international union you are going to report on. In doing your report use Union Report outline with bullet point sentences under each report element. Pay particular attention to the History and Current Challenges portion of the report.
My Topic is: The National Education Association Labor union (NEA)
Provide the name of the national or international union you are going to report on. In doing your report use Union Report outline with bullet point sentences under each report element. Pay particular attention to the History and Current Challenges portion of the report. See attached Union Report outline to help you get started on your report. Do not rely only on the union website, Wikipedia or other encyclopedias for your report. Use other resources like Google, and the New York Times to find useful articles about the union you have chosen. Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley have excellent resources. Also, consider your sources. The Center for Union Facts has some useful information but it is a right-wing, anti-union organization. The Economic Policy Institute is a liberal think tank that is pro-union. The actual report is due at the end of lesson 8. See report outline below. Use bullet point sentences for your report.
Choose two theories of delinquency to compare and contrast. Identify the similar elements of the theories as well as the different elements of the theories. Explain the implications of each theory on the treatment of juvenile offenders.
1. For this assignment, students should choose two theories of delinquency to compare and contrast. Identify the similar elements of the theories as well as the different elements of the theories. Explain the implications of each theory on the treatment of juvenile offenders. Consider in this explanation, characteristics of the offenders such as gender, education, substance abuse, mental health issues, race, etc.
Chapter 9 and 10
Students should use outside resources to support their assertions in the paper. Personal opinions or anecdotal comments should not be included in the paper.
Pick one topic that has been covered in class thus far from the following options: deviance or poverty. Apply one theory to a discussion of how this topic is supported in politics, education and religion. Do these institutions support social solidarity on this topic, or do they promote social dysfunction?
Pick one topic that has been covered in class thus far from the following options: deviance or poverty.
Apply one theory to a discussion of how this topic is supported in politics, education and religion.
Do these institutions support social solidarity on this topic, or do they promote social dysfunction? Use evidence from the module readings and viewings to support your answer.
REFERENCE:
A cartoon from a Northern American newspaper of 1874 on the efforts of the White League in Louisiana to intimidate and disenfranchise Black voters https://quest.eb.com/search/140_1638616/1/140_1638616/cite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMk3Bk08NA&feature=youtu.be
Crime: Crash Course Sociology #20 .
How does management determine the order in which support department costs are allocated under the sequential method?
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Why are support department costs difficult to apply to products?
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Why does support department cost allocation matter to service businesses (such as colleges and universities)?
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How does management determine the order in which support department costs are allocated under the sequential method?
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How can support department and joint cost allocation affect production employee performance evaluations?
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Responses:
Damian:
1.) Because these costs are primarily indirect and don’t directly connect to the production of a specific product, they are challenging to apply to items. Instead of supporting specific products, they serve the corporation as a whole and many divisions, making it rather difficult to attribute them to specific items precisely. This lack of a distinct, direct cost driver and the inherent subjectivity of allocation techniques as a whole might cause inaccuracies in the knowledge about product costs. Despite this, there is no perfect approach, and the cost reporting and analysis depend much on the allocation method chosen.
2.) For service businesses like colleges and universities, allocating support department costs is crucial because it aids in efficient cost management, budget creation, accurate tuition and fee setting, performance evaluation of various support functions, efficient resource allocation overall, and transparency and accountability. These institutions may make better financial decisions and make sure they are using their resources effectively to accomplish their goals while clearly communicating their financial information to stakeholders by understanding how these varied support costs are dispersed across their operations.
3.) Because management typically follows a predetermined order based on the flow of support services within the company, this is how management determines the order in which support department charges are distributed under the sequential method. Costs are first assigned to the support department, which only works with other support departments, and then transferred to the production departments. The stepwise allocation process will end once all support department costs have been distributed. Before distributing expenditures to production departments, the sequence is defined based on the dependencies and interrelationships across support departments to ensure that services delivered from one support department to another are accounted for. This kind of methodology reflects the actual use of support services within the organization.
4.) As to how can support department and joint cost allocation affect production employee performance evaluations, well, because management usually follows a predetermined order based on the flow of support services within the company. The support department receives the costs, which are then transferred to the production department. Once all costs for the support department have been distributed, the stepwise allocation process will come to an end. Spending decisions are made based on the dependencies and interrelationships across support departments before distributing them to production departments. This kind of methodology reflects the actual use of support services within an organization.
Response (50-100 words):
Pedro:
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Support department costs are difficult to apply to products because applying them to individual or specific products is difficult. Instead, they benefit numerous departments across the entire company. For example, costs associated with administration, maintenance support several sectors at the same time. Because support departments frequently share their services, it can be hard to determine exactly how much of each support department’s costs should be allocated to each product.
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The cost allocation of the support department is essential for financial planning, budgeting, and program evaluation in service based organizations like colleges and universities. These types of organizations provide numerous kinds of academic services and programs, that each require a different number of resources. Accurately allocating support costs is important for determining the true cost of delivering various programs, maintaining fair tuition rates, and gauging the viability of particular courses.
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When allocating support department costs sequentially, management often chooses the order based on the causal connections and dependencies across support departments. Priority is given to costs from support departments that directly affect other support or production departments. Costs from support departments with less direct impact are then allocated. This arrangement provides a more accurate allocation of overhead costs
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Performance evaluations of production employees can be significantly impacted by the support department and joint cost allocation. If the costs are inaccurately assigned, it could lead to distorted cost metrics for production departments. This then influences the decisions on resource allocation and performance reviews.
Response (50-100 words):
