Should coaches/administrators provide constructive feedback or additional support during an observation? Explain your answer.

As a principal, a key responsibility is to promote shared accountability for each student’s success. Principals who provide supportive coaching to teachers help them develop their professional skills and demonstrate that shared responsibility promotes trust and collaboration. The basic coaching cycle includes three stages: 1) pre-conference, 2) classroom observation, and 3) post-conference.

After viewing and reading this week’s topic Resources, research the teacher coaching and development process. Compose a 500–750 word  summary answering the following questions on teacher coaching and the development process :

Inquiry into Teaching and Learning: Observation Pre-Conference

• What aspects of the pre-conference is different from what you have experienced as a teacher?
• What questions do coaches/administrators ask teachers during the pre-conference? Provide specific examples.
• How could teachers’ responses indicate their level of planning and preparation for the lesson?

Assessment of Teaching and Learning: Classroom Observation

• When observing a lesson, what are components a coach/administrator might look for? Explain your answer.
• What types of feedback should coaches/administrators provide teachers after viewing the lesson? For instance, classroom management, pedagogy, and lesson components could be areas to observe. Is one of these an area that an administrator should focus on more or less? Why?
• Should coaches/administrators provide constructive feedback or additional support during an observation? Explain your answer.

Assessment of Teaching and Learning: Post-Observation Conversation

• When watching the post-observation videos, what did you notice about the opening comments by the coaches? How does this set the tone for the post-conference?
• Did the coach use specific evidence during the post-conference when giving the teacher feedback? What effect did this appear to have on the discussion?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the coach’s/administrator’s ability to provide positive feedback. In your opinion, did the coach validate the strengths of the lesson? Explain.
• When a coach/administrator provides constructive feedback, it is sometimes phrased as a question. Why is this a good strategy when asking the teacher to reflect on areas of the lesson that need refinement?

Provide a minimum of three scholarly resources to support your summary.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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Discuss the role of leadership/management strategies that will help others respond to workplace challenges.

Competency

• Analyze how human resource standards and practices within the healthcare field support organizational mission, visions, and values.
• Evaluate human resources strategies, practices, and tactics for achieving optimal workforce performance within the healthcare field.
• Assess the implication and relevance of theoretical concepts and theories of leadership within healthcare settings.
• Apply selected leadership skills through problem solving , roleplaying, and simulations relevant to healthcare organizations.
• Create human resources and organizational development strategies that enable healthcare leaders to respond to opportunities and challenges in workforce and organizational development.
• Critique self-assessment leadership, communication, conflict management, and team-building theories and practices within the healthcare field.

Student Success Criteria

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Scenario

You are the Vice President of Human Resources at a local hospital. There has been a lot of turmoil in recent years due to leadership changes and downsizing accompanied by layoffs. The downsizing and layoffs were the result of an increase in uncompensated care due to a lack of health insurance. The layoffs have caused a decrease in morale and many department leads have also noticed a decrease in employee performance. The Board of Directors, the hospital’s CEO, and the entire executive team are in agreement that there is a need for major changes within the institution. You have been tasked with presenting a plan of action at the next board meeting.

Instructions

The three deliverables are:

Deliverable 1

• Create an employee satisfaction survey that will be distributed to all hospital employees.
• a. The survey should contain a minimum of ten questions.
• b. At least two questions should focus on leadership/management.
• c. At least two questions should focus on communication.
• Include a justification for each survey question from 1a and a description of what leadership can expect to learn from the question.

Deliverable 2

• Write an executive summary that describes the impact of leadership on employee performance and satisfaction, as well as communication challenges that leaders face, and challenges associated with trying to increase employee motivation, teamwork, and collaboration.
• Examine the literature relating to motivation, teamwork, collaboration, and conflict management.
• a. Discuss the role of leadership/management strategies that will help others respond to workplace challenges.
• b. Discuss the critical leadership skills needed to implement change.
• c. Recommend human resources strategies and practices that hospital department leaders could use to achieve optimal performance from employees.

Deliverable 3

• Create a voiceover PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the major challenges that leaders have in keeping employees motivated.
• a. Based on prior readings, identify one theoretical framework that you will use to guide your presentation.
• b. Include a minimum of three challenges that leaders have in keeping employees motivated.
• c. Include a minimum of one recommendation for each challenge identified in section 3b.

What are biometric access controls? How are they better than passwords?

Few organizations would develop an application in-house or pay another company to develop it if a similar application can be licensed. Why most organizations prefer to buy a licensed application?

The major hardware and software makers, such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, derive an increasing portion of their revenue from outsourcing contracts. Analyze and explain why they focus more of their efforts in this direction.

You are the CIO of a large manufacturing company. A software vendor approaches you with an offer to have your company serve as a beta site for a new human resource application. What would you consider before making a decision?

What is an RFI? What is the difference between an RFI and an RFP? The ideal response to an RFP is one that can be easily transformed into a contract. Why?

Assume that you are charged with developing an application to record basketball performance statistics. What limits would you include to ensure that the information entered is reasonable?

What are the goals of security measures for ISs? Explain.

What is a firewall, and how does it work?

What are biometric access controls? How are they better than passwords?

What is the purpose of business recovery plans? A growing number of companies have implemented business recovery plans, but many still have not developed such plans. What may be the reasons for that?

What might cause a client to ask to renegotiate a long-term outsourcing contract?

-Define cultural imperialism. Give three examples of cultural imperialism. 

Why do you think your examples reflect cultural imperialism?

-What are the “nationalities” of the following corporations? Consider nationality to be the country where the corporation is registered:

SAP (software) 

BP (gasoline) 

CheckPoint (security software) 

LG (electronics) 

Corona (beer) 

Heineken (beer) 

Goodyear (tires) 

JVC (electronics) 

Braun (small appliances) 

Siemens (electronics) 

Nokia (mobile telephones) 

Business Objects (software)

In your opinion, if a company has its headquarters in Bermuda, is it a “Bermudan” company? If so, in what respect? If not, explain why not.

– What are the implications of different time zones for global supply chain management systems?

– Manufacturers and retailers have used product bar codes for many years. What information does the 13-digit European Article Number (EAN) contain that the 12-digit Universal Product Code (UPC) did not, and why is this information important?

-Using software for automatic translation of webpages into other languages for local audiences saves much labor cost and time. If you were an executive for a company that maintains a multilingual website, would you settle for software-based translation only? Why or why not?

What is a GIS? What purpose does it serve?

What is the purpose of an expert system? How can it serve as a competitive tool?

How could an ES be used to detect probable fraud committed by a bank employee?

The travel industry uses DSSs for yield management. What is yield management, and what is the output of a yield management DSS? How does it affect revenue and operations?

DSSs use models to process data. Explain what a model is. Give an example.

What is the purpose of employee knowledge networks?

Explain dimensional databases and the rationale behind their name. What is their use?

What is the advantage of using a dimensional database rather than on-the-fly processing in OLAP?

What is OLAP, and why is it often associated with visual cubes?

The web is a huge resource from which almost any organization could derive knowledge, yet few do. What is the major challenge?

SDLC is usually recommended for developing an IS that interfaces with other ISs. Give two examples of an IS that is interfaced with at least two other ISs.

Systems developers often use the term “application development” rather than “systems development.” Why?

Why are agile methods so helpful when users cannot define system requirements?

As part of their IT planning, many organizations decide to standardize. What does standardization mean in this context, and what are its potential benefits?

The emergence of the web, social media, and mobile devices as vehicles for business increased the need for systems integration. How so?

What might cause a client to ask to renegotiate a long-term outsourcing contract?

Write a minimum 2 page report summarizing them, plus research further the objective of building customer loyalty and also how top management can drive the organization’s service culture.

Watch the following videos carefully – 

Write a minimum 2 page report summarizing them, plus research further the objective of building customer loyalty and also how top management can drive the organization’s service culture.

What do you know now that should have been included in the induction plan?

As a future leader on a school campus, it will be important to support new teachers. You will want to create a new teacher induction that is supportive and relevant. New teachers will benefit from feeling welcomed, being introduced to the school culture, and learning about school policy and procedures.

Allocate at least 3 hours in the field to support this field experience.

Begin this field experience by reviewing the induction plan and materials used by the school to onboard new teachers. Collaborate with your principal mentor to identify a new teacher who is willing to provide feedback about his or her teacher induction process. If you and your principal mentor are unable to identify a new teacher, locate a teacher with less than three years of teaching experience.

Include the following questions in your interview with the new teacher:

• What did your induction include?
• How beneficial was the induction in:
  • Setting up your classroom
  • Getting ready for and starting the first day
  • Managing your class and students individually
  • Understanding the school culture, mission, and vision
  • Getting to know other faculty and staff
• What went well?
• What could be improved?
• What do you know now that should have been included in the induction plan?
• Ask at least two more questions of your choice.

Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the principal mentor and, provided permission, seek opportunities to observe and/or assist the principal mentor.

Complete a 250-500 word reflection on your experiences. Incorporate PSEL Standards 6 and 7 into your reflection, along with any additional PSEL standards you see fit, and describe how you will apply what you have learned to your future professional practice.

APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, but solid academic writing is expected. The PSEL standards should be referenced using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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Do you agree with the author’s main argument or claim? Why/Why not?

Break down a journal about ‘“I wake with wonder”: A Crowdsourced Poem of pandemic Pain and Hope (Kwame Alexander).  Answer each question separately.   

1) Background about the author (You will need to conduct research)

2) An explanation of the author’s central thesis and most important points

3) An evaluation of evidence the author uses to support the thesis

Some questions to consider when preparing your presentation:

– What is the central thesis of the reading? Did the author have a clear thesis?

– What evidence did the author provide to support his or her thesis?

– Did the author achieve the intended purpose?

– Do you agree with the author’s main argument or claim? Why/Why not?

– What questions/repercussions did the author leave unanswered?

Explain all the stages of development 

Erikson’s Theory

Explain all the stages of development 

10 paragraphs 

250 words each paragraph 

Plag less than 15%

Put references

Do you agree or disagree with drug offenders being pardoned for previous drug crimes?

Congressional researchers recently published an explainer on the implications of marijuana being classified as a Schedule I drug under federal law and options for Congress to change that.

The report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) was released the day after President Joe Biden issued a mass cannabis pardon Links to an external site. for Americans who’ve committed federal marijuana possession offenses and directed an administrative review of cannabis scheduling.

Do you agree or disagree with drug offenders being pardoned for previous drug crimes? Why or why not? Comment to 2 peers for full credit. Be respectful.

1 paragraph 

Explain how risk register are used in reviewing and monitoring the risk management process. 

Chapter 19: Communicating RiskInitial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1. Identify the levels at which review and monitoring of the risk management program can occur.
2. Explain how risk register are used in reviewing and monitoring the risk management process. 

[Your post must be substantive and demonstrate insight gained from the course material. Postings must be in the student’s own words – do not provide quotes!]


Title: Managing Project Risks ISBN: 9781119489733 Authors: Peter J. Edwards, Paulo Vaz Serra, Michael Edwards Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 2019-08-13