As indicated in T1, each team member should serve as a team leader once before the semester’s midpoint (during Weeks 2-6) and at least once after the midpoint (during Weeks 8-13). The Team Leader will be responsible for setting up team meetings, running the meetings, managing and coordinating team tasks, communicating with team members and the course instructor (if necessary), and turning in any project-related deliverables on behalf of the team. The T5 requires that you write a self-reflection about your leadership experience on our class project. Request feedback from your team members prior to writing your self-reflection. Part 1 – ITP Metrics Peer FeedbackComplete the ITP Metrics Peer Feedback before Week 8.  Once all team members complete the assessment, a customized report will automatically be generated and emailed to each member. Part 2 – Request Specific Feedback Using the following questions as a guide, use class time in Week 8 to obtain feedback from your fellow teammates:  What am I doing that helps you complete your tasks? How can I better support you to complete your tasks (what could I do differently that would help you complete your tasks)? Am I providing enough guidance and information when delegating work?

 
As indicated in T1, each team member should serve as a team leader once before the semester’s midpoint (during Weeks 2-6) and at least once after the midpoint (during Weeks 8-13). The Team Leader will be responsible for setting up team meetings, running the meetings, managing and coordinating team tasks, communicating with team members and the course instructor (if necessary), and turning in any project-related deliverables on behalf of the team.
The T5 requires that you write a self-reflection about your leadership experience on our class project. Request feedback from your team members prior to writing your self-reflection.
Part 1 – ITP Metrics Peer FeedbackComplete the ITP Metrics Peer Feedback before Week 8.  Once all team members complete the assessment, a customized report will automatically be generated and emailed to each member.
Part 2 – Request Specific Feedback
Using the following questions as a guide, use class time in Week 8 to obtain feedback from your fellow teammates: 

What am I doing that helps you complete your tasks?
How can I better support you to complete your tasks (what could I do differently that would help you complete your tasks)?
Am I providing enough guidance and information when delegating work?
Were you happy with the autonomy/responsibility you were given to complete your tasks?
How prepared was I as a team leader?
Did I fairly and equitably allocate work?
Was I responsive to your concerns and questions?

Through this exercise, you will gain experience giving and receiving feedback, an essential skill.
Part 3 – Write your self-reflectionOnce you have received and reviewed the ITP Peer Feedback report and in-class feedback from your team members, write and submit a 3–5-page assignment that analyzes your team leadership effectiveness and answers the questions below.

How did your team members respond to your team leadership? To answer this question, specifically integrate the results and learnings from Parts 1 and 2. Make sure you identify and discuss both the positive and negative feedback you received and the specific feedback from each teammate.
Did the feedback you received surprise you? As you reflect on the behaviors/practices you used and your EI and personality assessment results, was the feedback consistent with your view of your leadership effectiveness?  Why or why not?  Please be specific in your response.
Based on the feedback and your effectiveness assessment, how can you improve your leadership skills? Specifically, what new behaviors and practices will you implement the second time you serve as team leader, and how will these changes improve aspects of your emotional intelligence?  Consider this your leadership plan for improving your skills.
What challenges do you anticipate in implementing these changes (e.g., resistance from the team, your ability to go outside of your comfort zone, etc.)? Please be specific in your response.
Identify one crucial lesson or critical takeaway you have learned about leadership from your experience and explain how you will apply it to other teams in the future (such as for other classes, sports or student organizations, and professional internships or jobs).

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Create a digital newsletter for families of ELLs to explain assessment practices. Consider how you communicate the information for non-native English-speaking families. Include the following in your newsletter: Description of each type of assessment (diagnostic, formative, and summative), including how and when each will be used to support English language instruction Explanation of alignment of the assessments to ELP and content standards and the use of assessment data to determine student progress in both language and content Description of testing accommodations for ELLs

Create a digital newsletter for families of ELLs to explain assessment practices. Consider how you communicate the information for non-native English-speaking families. Include the following in your newsletter:

Description of each type of assessment (diagnostic, formative, and summative), including how and when each will be used to support English language instruction
Explanation of alignment of the assessments to ELP and content standards and the use of assessment data to determine student progress in both language and content
Description of testing accommodations for ELLs
Discussion of how the data from assessments will be used to inform instructional decisions and planning, including enrichment and interventions
Identify strategies to communicate timely and meaningful feedback with students and families, including student self-reflection strategies

Support your newsletter with 2-3 scholarly resources.

Are you an Avocado or An Artichoke? The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your understanding of the two main philosophical approaches to the self. After completing your readings, write a  1-2 page paper comparing and contrasting the avocado/modernist idea of the self with the artichoke/postmodern view.  As you develop your response, you might find some of the following questions to be relevant: · What is the avocado idea of the self? What is your understanding of Plato and Aristotle’s belief that reason is the core essence of human beings? · What is the artichoke idea of the self? What is your understanding of the existential idea that our existence determines our essence?

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Week 2 Discussion

Are you an Avocado or An Artichoke?

The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your understanding of the two main philosophical approaches to the self. After completing your readings, write a 
1-2 page paper comparing and contrasting the avocado/modernist idea of the self with the artichoke/postmodern view. 

As you develop your response, you might find some of the following questions to be relevant:
· What is the avocado idea of the self? What is your understanding of Plato and Aristotle’s belief that reason is the core essence of human beings?
· What is the artichoke idea of the self? What is your understanding of the existential idea that our existence determines our essence?
· What do you make of the concern that the avocado idea of the self values reason over emotion? What are the implications of this view for women?
· Are you an avocado or an artichoke? Or do you find the non-Western views of the self to be more compelling?

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the article Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces: Translating Theory and Research into Evidence-Based PracticeLinks to an external site. and review the web pages Careers in Social and Criminal JusticeLinks to an external site., S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLinks to an external site., and Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.. There are many careers available to people with criminal justice degrees. These career options extend beyond the commonly recognized police officer or social worker roles. After reviewing the required sources for this week, visit the Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.Links to an external site. web page. Select at least two to three sources, and explain how you will use these sources in conjunction with your Social and Criminal Justice degree from Ashford University.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the article Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces: Translating Theory and Research into Evidence-Based PracticeLinks to an external site. and review the web pages Careers in Social and Criminal JusticeLinks to an external site., S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLinks to an external site., and Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.. There are many careers available to people with criminal justice degrees. These career options extend beyond the commonly recognized police officer or social worker roles.
After reviewing the required sources for this week, visit the Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.Links to an external site. web page. Select at least two to three sources, and explain how you will use these sources in conjunction with your Social and Criminal Justice degree from Ashford University. Additionally, provide a career goal based on your research, and select an additional source that you can use to help you achieve this goal. Consider this discussion board an opportunity for you to network with your classmates and help each other locate opportunities for future employment. Your initial post should be 100 to 150 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required materials and/or other scholarly and/or credible sources, and properly cite any references.

Consider a large clothing shop in Sydney. Suppose it is known that the number of business suits sold per day is normally distributed with a mean, ? = 23 and standard deviation, ? = 10.  Mr Wood is employed to sell business suits. The number of business suits he sells each day for 40 days is recorded and the mean number per day calculated.   What is the probability that Mr Wood’s average daily sales will be less than 19 business suits

Consider a large clothing shop in Sydney. Suppose it is known that the number of business suits sold per day is normally distributed with a mean, ? = 23 and standard deviation, ? = 10.  Mr Wood is employed to sell business suits. The number of business suits he sells each day for 40 days is recorded and the mean number per day calculated.  
What is the probability that Mr Wood’s average daily sales will be less than 19 business suits

What is structuralism and who was associated with it. Who were the functionalists? Describe three differences between structuralism and functionalism. What were Darwin’s five theses according to Ernst Mayr?

Part 1: You will be asked to answer one of these questions on Test 4. Not all students will be asked the same question. These are the actual test questions, but you do not know which one I will ask you. You should prepare an answer to each question ahead of time. Please write in complete sentences. ANSWER EACH 6-10 SENTENCES
What is structuralism and who was associated with it. Who were the functionalists? Describe three differences between structuralism and functionalism.
What were Darwin’s five theses according to Ernst Mayr? Do not just list them. Describe what they mean
Part 2: Answer study guide questions
Darwin and Evolution:
1. What did Thomas Malthus say and how did it influence Darwin? How did these ideas combine with the idea of “variation between individuals” to produce a new theory.?
2. Compare natural selection and artificial selection. What role does purpose and progress play in each kind of selection?
3. Give a factual example of natural selection at work. (explain how it works in this example).
4. What were Darwin’s five theses according to Ernst Mayr?
5. What is Social Darwinism. In what ways does it contradict Darwin’s theory?
6. What factors led to Darwin getting the lion’s share of credit for evolution rather than sharing it with Wallace?
James and Functionalism-American Psychology:
1. How did William James incorporate evolutionary theory into psychology?
2. What did Dewey mean in the reflex arc article when he said mental content (ideas) have to be understood in the larger context of adaptation.?
3. Compare James’ theory of emotion to the common sense theory.
4. What five adjectives did James use to describe consciousness?
5. What did G.S. Hall do first in psychology? (he did more than one thing first)
6. Who was Mary Whiton Calkins? Who did she work with and how was she treated by the Harvard administration.
7. What is the law of effect? In what way does it foreshadow behaviorism without really being behavioristic.?
8. Contrast Francis Sumner with Kenneth Clark. What role do they play in 20th century U. S. History?

Public health messaging is an important consideration in communicating health and disease facts and information.  Targeted messaging and communication are important aspects of promoting health and prevention, while at the same time, protecting the health of the public. This assignment is a culmination of the research you have done throughout this course related to a particular disease or health condition and requires you to create an evidence-based public health message in the form of a social media post.  Organize the facts and/or graphics that you plan to use in your social media post. Be sure to cite your sources! 2. Create the social media post, including at least one image.  Pay close attention to the grading rubric (see below). 3. Save the image as a jpeg or png format. If you are creating a  video, save it as a mp4 or mov.  

Public health messaging is an important consideration in communicating health and disease facts and information.  Targeted messaging and communication are important aspects of promoting health and prevention, while at the same time, protecting the health of the public. This assignment is a culmination of the research you have done throughout this course related to a particular disease or health condition and requires you to create an evidence-based public health message in the form of a social media post. 
Organize the facts and/or graphics that you plan to use in your social media post. Be sure to cite your sources!
2. Create the social media post, including at least one image.  Pay close attention to the grading rubric (see below).
3. Save the image as a jpeg or png format. If you are creating a  video, save it as a mp4 or mov.  
4. Now it is time to actually post the message to your own social media.  After posting, take a screen shot, save the image to a MSWord document and upload to this portal.

you will be discussing various aspects of writing a  Technical Object description. For this assignment, you will create your  initial post and then respond to two of your peers. In your initial  post, you need to answer the following questions in narrative form. What characteristics make the above items technical objects? What is the difference between a technical and a non-technical object? When  writing a description of a technical object, would it be more important  to use subjective language (big, short, ugly, beautiful) or objective  language (18 inches tall, painted red, square base?)

 
For your next major assignment, you will be tasked with writing a  technical object description for an audience who is unfamiliar with the  object, so you will need to think of items that might be considered  technical objects. Some good examples for  that assignment include a clock radio, a digital thermostat, a Roomba, a  CPAP or BIPAP machine, a blender for a food processor.
For  this discussion, you will be discussing various aspects of writing a  Technical Object description. For this assignment, you will create your  initial post and then respond to two of your peers. In your initial  post, you need to answer the following questions in narrative form.

What characteristics make the above items technical objects?
What is the difference between a technical and a non-technical object?
When  writing a description of a technical object, would it be more important  to use subjective language (big, short, ugly, beautiful) or objective  language (18 inches tall, painted red, square base?)
What  technical objects do you use in your work/life that you are familiar  with and could describe to someone who is not familiar with it?

Review your research problem statement from your last assingment to develop your research question. Consider the levels of measurement for your variables: nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. After reviewing your research question and considering the levels of measurement, analyze your classification for each variable. What was behind your reasoning for labeling the variables? How might the data be analyzed based on these labels?

To prepare:

Review your research problem statement from your last assingment to develop your research question.
Consider the levels of measurement for your variables: nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.
After reviewing your research question and considering the levels of measurement, analyze your classification for each variable. What was behind your reasoning for labeling the variables? How might the data be analyzed based on these labels?
Consider advantages and challenges that you might encounter in the statistical analysis of your proposed variables.

The assignment: Post your research question and describe the independent and dependent variables. Then, identify the level of measurement of both your independent and dependent variables. Provide a brief rationale for your classification of each variable. Be specific. Explain considerations of analyzing data related to each variable based on its level of measurement. Be sure to include any advantages or challenges that you might encounter in your statistical analysis of each variable and explain why. please include at least 3 references

Identify and elaborate on one or two lessons you have learned from our study of United States history that affect you today in your daily life and/or work. Provide advice to the next group of students who will be taking this course. How has this course affected you today in your daily life and/or work? What should incoming students be aware of regarding this class? What strategies did you use that they may find useful? What advice can you provide to help them earn an A?

CO: 1Examine change over time in migration and settlement that contributed to diversity within the United States.Explain socio-economic causes and effects based on geography and the environment of continental United StatesWeek(s): 1, 3, 4
CO: 2 
Explain socio-economic causes and effects based on geography and the environment of continental United States.Week(s): 1, 2, 3, 4,
CO: 3
Explain the influence of historical events on American culture and society.Week(s): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
CO: 4
Analyze America's identity from the founding of the United States to modern era.Week(s): 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
CO: 5
Assess change over time in economy and/or technology.Week(s): 3, 5, 6
CO: 6
Analyze America's domestic politics and foreign policy in the WorldWeek(s): 5, 6, 7, 8
CO: 7
Analyze the relationship and relevance of past events to current events in American history.Week(s): 1, 7, 8

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Review chapters as needed
Review lessons as needed

Instructions
For this activity, reflect on the course content and address the following:

Identify and elaborate on one or two lessons you have learned from our study of United States history that affect you today in your daily life and/or work.
Provide advice to the next group of students who will be taking this course.

How has this course affected you today in your daily life and/or work?
What should incoming students be aware of regarding this class?
What strategies did you use that they may find useful?
What advice can you provide to help them earn an A?

Requirements

Length: 2-3 pages (not including title page)
1-inch margins
Double spaced
12-point Times New Roman font
Title page