Education

This week, please consider a work-related decision that will need to be made soon at your educational organization. It should not be: A decision that involves personal, family, confidential, or non-education-related matters. A decision that only involves a yes/no answer or simple alternatives such as whether to hold next year’s play day outside or in the gymnasium. A decision that only involves you or very few people. A decision that can be made quickly. A decision that is not a major concern and has no consequences or only minimal consequences. It should be: A decision you will need to make while working in education or a decision that an acquaintance who works in education will need to make. A decision where there are multiple options being considered. A decision that will involve multiple stakeholders like administrators, teachers, parents, the community, etc. These are just suggested stakeholders. A decision that will take significant time to make successfully. A decision that is a major concern to all involved because it will have consequences in areas such as staffing, finances, ethics etc. These are just suggested areas. As you have learned thus far, professional standards, knowledge, skills, and attitudes will have a direct reflection on your area of specialization. Understanding the intricate details of these in your specialization will help you manage and address specific problems in diverse educational organizations. Does your discipline have a professional organization that sets standards for it? Go online to this organization’s website, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. and find examples of professional standards that apply to your discipline as well as knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Fill in the professional standards chart with your findings. Be sure to cite all the websites that you used in proper APA format. If you are not employed in education, you should use the area of education that an acquaintance works in and look up the professional standards, knowledge, skills, and attitudes for that area using appropriate websites and proper APA style. Length: 1 completed decision-making chart and 1 completed professional standards chart. References: The decision-making chart does not need references as it is a personal item. The professional standards chart requires you to give a reference for each website, Facebook page, LinkedIn page, etc. where you found information about the standards used in your area of specialization. Decision-Making and Professional Standards in Education Decision-making in education is complex because it is a diverse environment with many stakeholders, and decisions must sometimes be made on the spot without all the facts being immediately available. For example, an online university must decide whether to offer a new degree program without knowing for certain how popular it will be with students. The university would have the marketing team prepare a comparison of similar programs at competitors; a forecast of the employment outlook for graduates of that program; a financial analysis of the number of new full-time and adjunct professors needed, and a timeline to obtain approval of the program from the accreditor, market the program, and create the new courses. This will require meetings with all potential stakeholders so that no group is blindsided by a decision that may affect it. Just as you should always write an outline before composing a paper, so too should you create a diagram as you work on a multi-faceted decision. You may already be used to writing down your choices to help clarify the process; or, using imagery to visualize helps you reach a decision. It really depends on your learning style. Perhaps you have a system for managing your time. You might write a to-do list or make a graphic organizer showing upcoming events and the level of priority in different colors. To assist you in making the decision-making process easier, a prebuilt decision-making chart is being provided this week. You are familiar with the idea that professions have standards for the ethical conduct of their members – for example, in the practice of law, there are strict ethics and codes of conduct for how lawyers should behave in court, deal with money held in trust, maintain confidentiality, etc. In education, the purpose of finding professional standards is so that a school district looking to hire a new leader to bring about school improvement might have a ready-made checklist of desirable skills and attitudes that the successful candidate should possess. A teacher might refer to the website of a national organization like the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to find guiding principles, content standards, process standards, and resources. This week you will explore the professional standards that correspond to your area of specialization. You may even wish to follow the relevant professional organization’s posts or tweets on a regular basis. Be sure to review this week’s resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

Think about the following: What is the environmental issue? What impact does it have on wildlife? What should be done to solve the environmental issue? Be sure to use formal written language.

This literature review needs to be only with sources such as books, articles and journals; also I need it to be with no plagiarism because it is going to be send through URKUND, I have attached the outline with the topics to be included

A. Identify a research topic about something of historical importance in education. 1. Create a title that directly relates to the topic selected in part A.   B. Create a detailed outline for a research paper based on the topic from part A that includes the following: • a thesis statement • the main points • supporting details   Submit outline with the finished paper.   C. Develop the paper by doing the following: 1. Provide an effective and captivating introduction. 2. Provide a thesis statement that defines the paper topic. 3. Develop supporting points for the thesis statement in a sequence of organized paragraphs in the body of the paper. 4. Provide scholarly evidence for each supporting point, using specifically cited examples from works read on the topic.   D. Create a conclusion in which you do the following: 1. Restate the thesis. 2. Summarize the paper. Use this to make an outline of your paper   Paper Topic:____________________________________________________ Audience:__________   I. Introduction Possible ideas for the introduction : _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ Thesis Statement (Usually the last sentence(s) in the introduction): ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________   II. Body (A paper may have a few or many main points; decide how many your paper will need) Main Point: ___________________________________________________________________ Examples/Details/Explanations: a. ______________________________________________________________________ b. ______________________________________________________________________ c. ______________________________________________________________________ Main Point: ___________________________________________________________________ Examples/Details/Explanations: a. ______________________________________________________________________ b. ______________________________________________________________________ c. ______________________________________________________________________ Main Point: ___________________________________________________________________ Examples/Details/Explanations: a. ______________________________________________________________________ b. ______________________________________________________________________ c. ______________________________________________________________________ Main Point: ___________________________________________________________________ Examples/Details/Explanations: a. ______________________________________________________________________ b. ______________________________________________________________________ c. ______________________________________________________________________     III. Conclusion Reworded Thesis (Usually found near the beginning of the conclusion): ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Other Ideas to Conclude: ________________________________ ________________________________ Clincher Ideas: ___________________________________________________

After reading La Morte text Chapter 1, write a research paper on the topic of Due Process (including a discussion of procedural and substantive due process) and Equal Protection clauses of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Consider the broad impact of these clauses as they relate to school administration i.e. discipline, hiring practices, policy development, finance, school safety, student records, attendance, instruction, special education. Be sure to cite all research (at least four sources) and use APA formatting. Be reminded that scholarly research is written in 3rd person with evidence to support contentions.

An OpEd is an opinion-based article published in a newspaper by a person not on a newspaper’s staff. The op-ed page in a newspaper is seen as an educational forum to air diverse and challenging viewpoints—allowing readers to consider alternative perspectives on a topic. OpEd articles can be provocative and should be persuasive, well-reasoned, as well as supported by compelling evidence. Your OpEd will be based on a higher education topic of your choice. This OpEd assignment is an opportunity for you to express your opinion on an issue and persuade others through your writing. The Op Ed will be written with a broader audience in mind and will incorporate your perspective along with appropriate evidence. General Components of an OpEd (and essential items to adhere to): Title: Catchy title that captures your perspective in the OpEd Lede: Introductory Section of an Article that Draws in Readers  Thesis: Your Position on this Issue (explicit or implicit) Arguments: Based on Evidence, evidence can be statistics, news, reports, first-hand experience, expert quotes, and research. At least 2 or 3 points of evidence.  To Be Sure:  Preempt possible critics by acknowledging flaws in argument and address counter arguments.  Conclusion:  Provide a specific call to action and tie back to lede Issues in higher education include, but not limited to: access, inequality, cost, retention, social class and race in admissions, education desserts, falling enrollments, student debt, declining state funding, rankings, graduation rates, gender inequality, campus climate, college choice, student activism, academic dismissal, drop-out rates, etc.  Optional Opinion article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/opinion/coronavirus-college-reopening.html  or  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/opinion/buzz-bissinger-college-football-change.html  Can find article on your own, but must use an opinion piece from one of the following three sources: www.nytimes.com, www.bbcnews.com, or http://www.washingtonpost.com  Please note per Argument portion under general components, this means that 2-3 additional sources to support argument/point being made.

individual student will chose a topic(s) of interest and do a brief synthesis of the major quantitative research related to the topic(s). A research question or series of questions will be developed which can be answered with quantitative, non-experimental, survey data from a convenience sampling of individuals (e.g., students, teachers, parents, or administrators). The student(s) will develop a numerical survey which attempts to answer the research question(s). The survey will then be administered, the data entered into a SPSS dataset, and the results analyzed using SPSS, and reported. All of these components will be incorporated in a paper approximately 20-25 pages in length.

Part 1: (3 pages) As you are thinking of ways that action research can be used in your own setting, investigate and diagnose the problem you plan to study for your action research plan. Action research has four stages—planning, acting, developing, and reflecting. For this part you will focus solely on the first step of the planning stage: identifying the problem. Problems you can use: 1. Classroom size 2. Poverty gap 3. Technology 4.Parent Involvement 5. Student health (specifically obesity and removing of daily physical education class). Be sure to include a cover page and references page (not included in final page count) and adhere to APA formatting guidelines: -Provide a brief introduction to the study. -Describe the study setting and explain why the setting was chosen for this study. -Describe the problem, including the impact of diversity on the problem. -Describe the purpose of the proposed study. -Identify and describe who might benefit from the findings of the study and why. -Describe the baseline data and information you have gathered to inform the development of the study. Part 2: (3 pages) Start to narrow down some of your ideas about your action research study, and think about how you will carry out the proposed research. -Restate your topic with an introduction, including the purpose of the study (from Part 1). -Outline the research questions being asked; be thoughtful of whether these are qualitative or quantitative and how they directly tie to your study purpose. -Describe your population and the chosen sample and sampling approach. Who you will be collaborating with? -Discuss the instruments/assessment tools you will use to collect data and how will they be shown to be valid and reliable. -Discuss some alternative ways of capturing this information. Include at least one other method than those you have planned that you could use to gather the same information. This could either be through a qualitative interview instead of a survey (or vice versa) or different instruments. Justify your chosen approach using citation support and comparison of other methods. -Describe how technology will be integrated to enhance the research. Will you use technology via the application and/or the assessment and potential outcomes? -Describe the role diversity plays in the problem and how your research and intended changes will improve learning for diverse student populations. -Determine the known risks or unintended consequences of the study. How can you be sure to address ethical considerations and protect your sample from any harm? -And finally, looking at the purpose of the study, think about what your desired change is. What is your vision of how the situation should look after Part 3: (5 pages) – Locate a minimum of eight articles and online resources related to best practices for your proposed topic. These articles must have a publication date within the last 5 years. The majority of these resources must be empirical articles. An empirical article is one in which the author has conducted a study about a particular instructional practice and is reporting the results. – Organize your literature review into sections that present themes or identify trends, including learning theories, theoretical or conceptual frameworks, instructional strategies, and trends related to your proposed topic. These are just examples. – Remember, articles must have been published within the last five years and must be research studies (empirical work).

Discuss your experience with the school and their receptiveness to your plan. What you would do differently next time?  Discuss what you have gained from this course and make any recommendations for improving the learning experience. School is Palm Beach State College

For this assignment, you are going to continue to assume the role of VP for new business development in your company. You are to assume that you are in the process of preparing a quarterly report for the CEO. For your report, you have promised to provide the CEO with an update regarding your analysis of the current structures and climates in relationship to innovation and entrepreneurialism. You also promised to articulate some potential challenges and gaps that may need to be addressed as well as a brief summary of some potential solutions. Therefore, for this assignment you are to author this quarterly report and should include the following components: Component 1: Culture & Systems: An analysis of the current culture and systems for innovation and entrepreneurialism in the organization. Component 2: Best Practices: An exploration of best practices in these areas in terms of what ultimately the organization should be striving for. Component 3: Gap Analysis: A gap analysis between where the company is currently performing in terms of the development of a culture and systems for innovation and entrepreneurialism and actual institutional practice. In articulating this work it would be helpful for you to identify some potential gaps. In other words, don’t make the organization you are working in as a VP seem like nirvana. There should be some problems and/or some things in the culture that do not meet best practice expectation.