Describe the controversial topic and cultural identifier. Explain the connection between the controversial topic, the cultural identifier, and the role of social justice.

The field of education is vast and complex with many stakeholders involved, sometimes controversies arise. These controversial issues usually begin with a single or a series of historical events. There also are usually arguments on both sides of the issue, both supporting and opposing. Since these issues may cause strife and division, federal and state policymakers, state and local administration, teachers, students, parents, and community members attempt to offer solutions to these controversial issues.

Relating to these controversial issues are cultural identifiers which can be defined as characteristics or conditions that make each individual unique. Usually, one or more cultural identifiers are at the root of controversial issues. Understanding both the controversial issue and the related cultural identifier can help stakeholders find the best, most equitable, and most ethical solution for everyone involved.

Throughout this course, you will be working on a 1,000-1,250 word assignment on a controversial topic involving a cultural identifier and the implications of the controversial topic on K-12 education. Your first draft of the assignment will be due in Topic 4, and you will be required to submit it to the peer review forum on day 1 in Topic 5, and your final version will be submitted in Topic 7.

Part 1

Select a controversial topic related to diverse cultures and communities currently affecting K-12 education. Potential topics could include body image, citizenship status, plastic/cosmetic surgery for teenagers, bathrooms for transgender students, ethnic curriculum/classes, religious clothing, prayer in schools, or other topics that involve a supporting and opposing side and at least one cultural identifier. Utilizing sources found in the GCU Library and the EDU-330 assignment Guide, complete a 500-750 word brainstorming assignment on your topic and address the following prompts:

Describe the controversial topic and cultural identifier. Explain the connection between the controversial topic, the cultural identifier, and the role of social justice.
Summarize the key historical events that have significantly affected your specific controversial topic.
Summarize the topic in the context of K-12 education, including the related cultural identifier and any associated controversies.
Identify current scholarly statements for the controversial topic, including at least one supporting and one opposing.
Describe how this controversial issue could affect future teaching practices and how it could affect future students.
Summarize related policies or methods that have been implemented at the local level including both districts and schools as a solution to the controversial issue.

Part 2

Begin conducting to support your opinion on the controversial issue. Collect a minimum of three scholarly resources from the last five years to support your rough draft due in Topic 4. Submit a 50-150 word summary for each of the three articles, including how the articles apply to your chosen topic.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

What are strategies you could use to support memory development for your students?

How would you define memory?
What does it involve?
What are strategies you could use to support memory development for your students?
Would your strategies vary based on age? school subject? Explain.
Conclude with what you feel the relevance of memory is.

What is the main difference between notes payable and bonds payable?

Why do corporations purchase and issue treasury stock?
What is the journal entry for recording the purchase of treasury stock?
How would you record the reissuance of treasury stock if the proceeds obtained are: at cost of the treasury stock? Less than the cost of the treasury stock? More than the cost of the treasury stock?
What is the main difference between notes payable and bonds payable?
What is the main difference between a bond and a share of stock?
What does it mean to issue bonds at: Par? At a Discount? At a Premium?
What is the difference between the contract (coupon) rate and the market rate for bonds?
What is the journal entry for recording the issue of a discount bond? What is the entry for recording interest and amortization?
What is the journal entry for recording the issue of a premium bond? What is the entry for recording interest and amortization?
What is the journal entry for recording the bond maturity?

Explain how you would go about identifying needs in your school and society, and its relationship to curriculum needs assessment.

Directions: After reading Chapter 7 from Developing the Curriculum by Oliva & Gordon, please answer the following question:

Explain how you would go about identifying needs in your school and society, and its relationship to curriculum needs assessment. Make sure you provide concrete examples and sources.

Directions: After reading Chapters 7 and 8 from Wiggins and McTighe:

Use the GRASPS worksheet below to help you develop a more complete authentic task for your Stage 2. Fill in the blanks for an authentic task that you can develop from the facets activity above. You do not have to fill in every blank, but use the stems to help you elaborate on the assessment. What is the goal of the assessment? What roles will the students play during the performance? Who is the audience for the results? What is the specific situation? What is the end product? Performance? What standards and criteria will be used to judge the success of the authentic performance?

G.R.A.S.P.S. (Grasps) Worksheet

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Go back to your lesson 1. Develop Stage 2 for your lesson unit. Make sure you include Stage 1 and Stage 2 together. Your GRASPS assignment (above) should help you develop the performance artifacts for your students. Do not forget to include the rubrics you will use to assess student’s performance tasks and your GRASPS (designed above).

Do not forget to include the rubrics you will use to assess students’ performance tasks
check comments about questions

describe how your project will integrate the insights from each of these disciplines to produce new knowledge.

Disciplinary Description Assignment

In your mid-term assignment, you will be crafting a defense of an interdisciplinary approach regarding a research question that interests you. Imagine that you are working on a specific research question in your field (perhaps you already have a suitable project in mind based upon your coursework). In a well-written essay of at least 10 pages, you will describe the disciplines you will employ to address this question and you will explain how you’ll integrate these disciplines in your project.

In order to complete this assignment, you will find primary texts in your areas of study (you need to draw from at least two areas)–texts like Introduction to Philosophy, The Basics of Engineering, etc.–and you will utilize Repko’s methodology of describing a disciplinary perspective to clearly specify your understanding of the fields. In addition to using those primary texts and the Repko text, you will need to refer to deeper texts in your field to demonstrate your rich understanding of how these fields work.

After describing the disciplines you utilize in terms of the disciplinary perspectives method (phenomena, method, concepts, etc.), you will go on to describe how your project will integrate the insights from each of these disciplines to produce new knowledge. This will take some imagination, as you can’t possibly know where a research question will take you.

To give you a better idea of what I’m looking for, I’ve provided two samples below. The first sample is a very rough version of this assignment that I created in the process of developing this final project (Links to an external site.) ,

Submit using good Chicago Manual of Style format. Next week, I’ll be providing further information on this project as well as a rubric, but this should be enough information to get you started.

What are the exploit vectors and vulnerabilities threat actors are predicted to take advantage of?

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) have been thrust into the spotlight due to their advanced tactics, techniques, procedures, and tools. These APTs are resourced unlike other types of cyber threat actors.

Your chief technology officer (CTO) has formed teams to each develop a detailed analysis and presentation of a specific APT, which she will assign to the team.

This is a team assignment, and the team members that were selected by the instructor in the previous assignment will work together. It is up to the team members to decide who is responsible for contributing to the sections of the paper. Remember, if a member fails to complete his or her part of the work, the team is still responsible for all sections.

Note that you are required to complete a peer review for yourself and for each member of the team. The peer review template is provided in the Activities folder.

Your team’s report should use the The Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Team Assignment Resources to cover the following five areas:

Part 1: Threat Landscape Analysis

· Provide a detailed analysis of the threat landscape.

· What has changed over the past year?

· Describe common tactics, techniques, and procedures to include threat actor types.

· What are the exploit vectors and vulnerabilities threat actors are predicted to take advantage of?

Part 2: APT Analysis

· Provide a detailed analysis and description of the APT your group was assigned. Describe the specific tactics used to gain access to the target(s).

· Describe the tools used. Describe what the objective of the APT was/is. Was it successful?

Part 3: Cybersecurity Tools, Tactics, and Procedures

· Describe current hardware- and software-based cybersecurity tools, tactics, and procedures.

· Consider the hardware and software solutions deployed today in the context of defense-in-depth.

· Elaborate on why these devices are not successful against the APTs.

Part 4: Machine Learning and Data Analytics

· Describe the concepts of machine learning and data analytics and how applying them to cybersecurity will evolve the field.

· Are there companies providing innovative defensive cybersecurity measures based on these technologies? If so, what are they? Would you recommend any of these to the CTO?

Part 5: Using Machine Learning and Data Analytics to Prevent APT

· Describe how machine learning and data analytics could have detected and/or prevented the APT you analyzed had the victim organization deployed these technologies at the time of the event. Be specific.

Notes

· Use additional sources of information but also describe the concept in layman’s terms.

· Use visuals where appropriate.

· While quality is valued over quantity, it is expected that a quality paper will result in a minimum length of 10–15 pages.

· You will be assigned an individual grade for this assignment based on your contribution to the overall project.

in what ways were the roles of African American men significantly different from the roles of African American women before the Civil War?

WPA American Slave Narratives Assignment – Prompt and Guidelines

In the 1930’s, different historians, folklorists, and others as a part of the Works Progress Administration, made a point to interview the aging population of black Americans who were alive before the Civil War and remembered slavery. They collected more than 2,300 narratives and memoirs called the WPA American Slave Narratives. They are available in their entirety on the Library of Congress’s website. I am providing you with 11 selections of men and women telling their stories about life before the Civil War. These selections can be found on the main Moodle course page titled “WPA Narrative” under this assignment.

Your assignment is to write a 3 page essay examining the narratives I have provided answering this question: in what ways were the roles of African American men significantly different from the roles of African American women before the Civil War?

There are many ways to approach this essay, but my recommendation is to approach the topic thematically. Pick 2-3 themes, like family, work, or health, etc., create an argument and use the sources to support your argument.

Students will be evaluated on their thesis, their ability to use the sources to support their thesis, their overall comprehensive approach to the topic, as well as their clarity of writing.

Explain how attachment theory defines and explains the cause of the problem.

Review the same case study you selected from last week’s Assignment.
Use the Analysis of a Theory Worksheet to help you dissect the theory. Use this tool to dissect the theory and employ the information in the table to complete your Assignment.
Review attachment theory and the following article listed in the Learning Resources: Foley, M., Nash, M., & Munford, R. (2009). Bringing practice into theory: Reflective practice and attachment theory. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, 21(1–2), 39–47. https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol21iss1-2id318

Write the assumptions of attachment theory.Identify the problem in your chosen case study to be worked on from an attachment theory perspective.Explain how attachment theory defines and explains the cause of the problem.Develop two assessment questions that are guided by attachment theory that you would ask the client to understand how the stress or distress, bond, and/or environment is affecting the client.Identify two interventions to address the problem. Remember, the theory should be driving the interventions. In other words, you would not identify systematic desensitization since this is not an intervention guided by attachment theory.Write one self-reflective question that is influenced by attachment theory that you can ask yourself to gain greater empathy for what the client is experiencing.

What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment? 

Complete and submit your Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation, including your differential diagnosis and critical-thinking process to formulate primary diagnosis.

Incorporate the following into your responses in the template:

Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding their chief complaint and symptomology to derive your differential diagnosis? What is the duration and severity of their symptoms? How are their symptoms impacting their functioning in life?
Objective: What observations did you make during the psychiatric assessment? 
Assessment: Discuss the patient’s mental status examination results. What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses with supporting evidence, listed in order from highest priority to lowest priority. Compare the DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for each differential diagnosis and explain what DSM-5-TR criteria rules out the differential diagnosis to find an accurate diagnosis. Explain the critical-thinking process that led you to the primary diagnosis you selected. Include pertinent positives and pertinent negatives for the specific patient case.
Reflection notes: What would you do differently with this client if you could conduct the session over? Also include in your reflection a discussion related to legal/ethical considerations (demonstrate critical thinking beyond confidentiality and consent for treatment!), health promotion and disease prevention taking into consideration patient factors (such as age, ethnic group, etc.), PMH, and other risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic, cultural background, etc.).

What are the levels of power? What is the importance of each level?

Homework Questions: Chapters 3-4

DIRECTIONS: Carefully read each question. All questions should be answered with the minimum of two paragraphs (5-7 sentences). Students should analyze each question using the terminology, principles, or theories from the chapter. Points will be deducted for incorrect grammar, punctuation, and if the question is answered with less than two paragraphs. Points will also be deducted if the question is not answered in its entirety.

Remember, plagiarism is not accepted. If additional sources are used to answer the questions, the sources should be cited using APA format.

1. What are the levels of power? What is the importance of each level? 2. Define the dominance theory. What are the pros and cons of this theory? 3. Define the pluralist theory. What are the pros and cons of this theory? 4. What is the difference between the medieval world and the modern world? 5. How has the Great Depression affected the U.S. economy? 6. What is liberalism? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this concept? Do you

agree with the concept? Why or why not?