The Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model as it relates to Outputs. The Congruence Model recognizes �Outputs� as existing at the individual, group and organizational levels. How does this apply to Wal-mart. Be thorough and specific.
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[order_calculator]Application: Developing Creativity, Finding Humor, and Encouraging Alternative Solutions
Research indicates that virtually all people have the capacity to develop their creativity, especially when it is defined as the ability to respond to a need or a problem with innovative approaches and alternative solutions. Similarly, humor �liberates creativity and provokes such higher level thinking skills as anticipating, finding novel relationships, visual imaging, and making analogies� (Costa & Kallic, 2008, p. 35). As you can see, creativity and finding humor are mutually supportive habits of mind.
For this activity, complete the following steps:
1. Develop a task or assignment that is designed to develop creative thinking in your students. The task or assignment must 1) relate to meaningful learning in your curriculum, 2) meet the guidelines presented in the �Habits of Mind: Creativity, Wonderment� media segment, and 3) allow students to develop alternative strategies for approaching the task. As you develop the task, consider how the use of brainstorming and/or metaphors might be incorporated to further cultivate student creativity.
2. Asking students to �think outside the box� can sometimes be more intimidating than when you provide specific guidelines for completing an assignment. As you develop your learning activity, consider how you might help students find humor in situations that could be potentially frustrating or in unsuccessful attempts to develop alternative solutions for problems. Similarly, think about how humorous ideas might lead to creative solutions.
3. Implement your learning activity with a group of students. As students engage in the activity, look for opportunities to help students find humor in any confusion or frustration they may experience as they attempt to solve the problem or complete the activity. Take advantage of any humorous ideas that might spark a creative solution. Be explicit in your efforts to help students understand the connection between humor and creativity.
4. After you have conducted the activity, ask students to reflect on the learning task and how they used creativity and humor to complete the assignment. Have some of your students share their reflections with the group.
5. Submit your completed assignment. Include the following in your submission:
o A description of your creative thinking task or assignment
o An explanation of how it meets the guidelines for developing assignments that allow and encourage students to think creatively
o An explanation of how students approached this task in a variety of ways
o A description of how you attempted to help students find humor in confusion or frustration they may have experienced as they worked through the activity and/or how you utilized humorous ideas to lead students to a creative solution
o A summary of students� reflections on the learning task and insights you gained from students� reflections.
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[order_calculator]Eight of the 15 articles must be research-based (e.g., a study which is qualitative, quantitative, descriptive, or longitudinal).
Hint: Begin your search for literature by utilizing the databases located in the Library. Contact your faculty member, the librarian, or library staff for additional researching tips and key word suggestions.
Preview each of the 15 articles chosen by reading the article abstracts and summaries.
Hint: Article abstracts and summaries provide a concise description of the topic, research outcomes, and significance of findings.
Hint: Refer to “RefWorks” and “Module 1: Checklist.”
Perform a rapid appraisal of each article by answering the following questions (one to two sentences are sufficient to answer each question):
1. How does each article describe the nature of the problem, issue, or deficit you have identified?
2. Does each article provide statistical information to demonstrate the gravity of the issue, problem, or deficit?
3. What are example(s) of morbidity, mortality, and rate of incidence or rate of occurrence in the general population?
4. Does each article support your proposed change?
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
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[order_calculator]Preview and utilize “Module 1 Checklist.” This resource will assist you in organizing your work and will provide additional information regarding the assignment.
Consider the clinical environment in which you are currently working or have recently worked. Collaborate with a leader or educator in the clinical environment to identify a problem, issue, or educational deficit upon which to build a proposal for change.
In a paper of no more than 800 words, describe the nature of the problem, issue, or educational deficit. Include the following in your discussion:
1. The setting and/or context in which the problem, issue, or educational deficit can be observed.
2. Detailed description of the problem, issue, or educational deficit.
3. Impact of the problem, issue, or educational deficit on the work environment, the quality of care provided by staff, and patient outcomes.
4. Gravity of the problem, issue, or educational deficit and its significance to nursing.
5. Proposed solution to address the problem, issue, or educational deficit.
Prepare for the capstone project by listening to the audio interview, “Capstone: Planning Your Project” located at https://zwebassets/capstone.php.
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[order_calculator]So far in this Advanced Financial Management course, we’ve offered you an assortment of tools designed to enhance your ability to value a business. You’ve learned how to assess a business through the lens of several competitive advantage frameworks. You’ve learned numerous ways to quantify the value of a stock. And, you’ve become familiar with the thinking behind valuing a company’s fixed income. Now, as you might have suspected, it’s time to implement some of this new-found knowledge.
Here’s the assignment. Pick a publicly traded company of your choosing ( I choose Yum brands.). It should be one you’re familiar with, one that sells a product that you’ve used or seen, and one you would like to understand better. Then, we’re going to ask you to evaluate the company closely. You should go about doing this using any materials you can get your hands on, including:
Financial Statements
Investor Presentations
Industry Reports
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
Consumer Reviews
Etc.
Once you’ve gotten a firm hold on the company, it’s financial standing and it’s competitive positioning, we want you to use the tools we introduced in the first four lectures to evaluate the company from a variety of different angles. The successful assignment will include all of the following:
Write a 4 page paper in which you:
• Analyze the company’s competition advantages, including the Sellers framework.
• Analyze the company’s stock value. This will include analysis of a company’s present P/E, PEG, P/B, and P/S multiples versus competitors in the industry and versus historic multiples going over the past 1, 3, and 5 year periods. You are expected to offer an opinion as to the current priciness of the company’s stock. You are also welcome to perform a DCF analysis utilizing appropriate growth rates and discount rate, but this is not required.
• Assess the company’s fixed-income make-up. Please identify the bonds that the company has issued, the amounts of those bonds, their structure, their various due dates, and their various interest rates. You may also want to identify their market values versus par values, but it is not required.
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[order_calculator]1) What is the objective of the Great Game of Life (GGOL) program?
2) Should Simmons implement the GGOL? Why or why not? Give at least two reasons based on the case study for your position.
3) How did the Charlotte’s Pride video influence your position on the use of GGOL to change Simmons?
4) Assuming the GGOL will be implemented, regardless of your position, what steps would you take to ensure positive results? Include at least three steps and stages of implementation.
5) How might the GGOL program affect the managerial or employee culture of Simmons?
6) How can the emotional elements associated with change be managed and or leveraged? Support your position.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
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20.0 % Thesis Development and Purpose Paper lacks any discernible overall purpose or organizing claim. Thesis and/or main claim are insufficiently developed and/or vague; purpose is not clear. Thesis and/or main claim are apparent and appropriate to purpose. Thesis and/or main claim are clear and forecast the development of the paper. It is descriptive and reflective of the arguments and appropriate to the purpose. Thesis and/or main claim are comprehensive. The essence of the paper is contained within the thesis. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
10.0 % Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use) Surface errors are pervasive enough that they impede communication of meaning. Inappropriate word choice and/or sentence construction are used. Frequent and repetitive mechanical errors distract the reader. Inconsistencies in language choice (register), sentence structure, and/or word choice are present. Some mechanical errors or typos are present, but are not overly distracting to the reader. Correct sentence structure and audience-appropriate language are used. Prose is largely free of mechanical errors, although a few may be present. A variety of sentence structures and effective figures of speech are used. Prose is free of mechanical errors. A variety of sentence structures and effective figures of speech are used; transitions are effectively employed. Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
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[order_calculator]Please write an essay based on a questionnaire that i will upload regarding an older person. in the questions the old person answered the issues and concerns related to ageing. please draw these issues and relate to ageing process, with a centred person care approach, reflect on it as a nurse and support these from high quality evidenced based practice literature with not exceeding 10 years old references. please use its harvard referencing that i will upload.
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[order_calculator]The following are a needs assessment tool and its scoring guide plus a timely article on twenty-first century education and professional development:
21st Century Schools. Professional development needs assessment. Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Professional_Development_Needs_Assessment.pdf
The scoring guide for this needs assessment is available here: http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Scoring_Guide.pdf
21st Century Schools. What is 21st century education? Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm
Media:
The following are websites that you must view for this lesson. You will find that they contain information and resources that will be useful to you in the next lesson also.
21st Century Schools Professional Staff Development
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Professional_Development.htm
21st Century Schools. (Producer). (n.d.). Assessing professional learning needs. [Webinar].
http://www.learningforward.org/learning-opportunities/webinars/assessing-learning-needs
ACTIVITIES / ASSESSMENTS
1. After doing the required reading and after thinking carefully about the professional needs in your setting, prepare a professional development needs assessment plan (see below for suggested resources). Your plan should incorporate the following elements:
• Select one grade level or subject area.
• Be sure that your needs assessment plan includes formal and informal data (surveys, interviews, emails, etc.) and test data. Your plan should not be just the needs assessment alone.
• Conduct the needs assessment survey in your own setting using the chart on page 7 of the required text by Speck and Knipe to guide your analysis of the results. Your analysis should focus on Speck and Knipe’s questions: “Where Are We?” and “Where Do We Want to Be?” Then analyze the results.
• Choose one need in your setting that is related to student achievement. You must identify that one need and set one specific, measurable goal that your professional development plan will address.
2. Write a 5-page paper in which you discuss and analyze your needs assessment findings and explain your choice of one need, the model that you have decided to use for your professional development plan, and the strategies that you have decided to use in that plan.
The following website will be extremely helpful as you design your plan. This site and the others below are intended to offer you examples and to give you some ideas for your own plan.
http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/grants/needs.pdf
The following sample needs assessment surveys may prove useful as well:
http://prodev.dadeschools.net/Surveys/SurveyPD.htm
http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3513
https://sites.google.com/site/erusdbtsaprogram/newsfeed/participatingteacherspdneedsassessmentsurveyonline
NOTE: The following websites link to a needs assessment tool, its scoring guide, plus a timely article on twenty-first century education and professional development. You will find them useful in your needs assessment assignment.
21st Century Schools. Professional development needs assessment. Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Professional_Development_Needs_Assessment.pdf
The scoring guide for this needs assessment is available here: http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Scoring_Guide.pdf
21st Century Schools. What is 21st century education? Austin, TX: 21st Century Schools.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm
Lesson 8
READINGS
Reeves Text: Chapters 7-12, Appendices A and B
Speck & Snipe Text: Chapters 3 and 4
National School Board Association. (n.d). Planning professional development.
http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/PlanningPD.html
National School Board Association. (n.d.). Professional development.
http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/ProfDev.html
Wallace, M., et al. (n.d.). Smooth science. ASCD Express 2(208).
http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol2/208-wallace.aspx
Media:
The following website has a number of excellent webinars that you might want to view:
http://www.learningforward.org/learning-opportunities/webinars/components-of-a-comprehensive-plan
This is the one webinar that you must view for this lesson:
Learning Forward (Producer). (October 27, 2010). Components of a comprehensive professional development plan. [Webinar].
http://www.learningforward.org/learning-opportunities/webinars/components-of-a-comprehensive-plan [Homepage]
http://www.icohere-meeting.net/WebConference/RecordingDefault.aspx?c_psrid=E053D88689 [Webinar]
ACTIVITIES / ASSESSMENTS
1. Using your one goal, your professional development model, and the strategies that you have selected to meet that goal, design a 3-year staff development plan for your school district or department or grade level that addresses that one need. Be sure to take into account student achievement data, changes in staff, new teachers hired, veteran teachers retiring, etc. Include the possible implications for payment of trainers, payment of teachers during out-of-contract time, new instructional materials, etc. Beware of being too ambitious here. Limit your planned professional development to one specific, achievable goal even though it might be one out of many related goals.
2. Write a 2 page paper in which you explain the identified need, the professional development model you have chosen, and the activities you have selected to deliver your professional development experience.
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[order_calculator]Why and what do you like and hate about each one, also:
what you took to be the most interesting or important idea covered that week. In your entry you should (a) summarize the issue, (b) say why you find it interesting.
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[order_calculator]Describe one of the two dances that you talk about in paragraph 1. As you did in the Lesson 2 Discussion Forum, you should write 2 general sentences that describe the entire dance, and then 2 sentences that each describe a few seconds of choreography that stand out to you including 3 component descriptions, and that support your general sentences. Your last sentence of this paragraph should relate to your thesis statement.
Paragraph 3
Do the same as above for the second dance you have chosen.
Paragraph 4
Discuss in greater detail how you came to the conclusions that you make in your thesis statement. You could address other movement qualities that you observed, or additional aspects of the pieces such as music, costumes, lighting, title, etc. Make sure that any observations you make about the pieces support your thesis statement.
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