Category: Education

Grade 6-8.  My content area is M.A.T. with a concentration of Elementary Education.   As of right now, I don’t work with kids in that specific grade level.  I want to continue to work in the education field though.  It is imperative to educate students about stories that are embedded in historical context.  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an intriguing novel for people to be actively engaged in.  
 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  It covers the key aspects of literary jargon by introducing perseverance, challenges, and determination for people during a turbulent time period.  The book that I have chosen is appropriately used within my licensure program, due to the commonalities of profession, as a middle/high school child-care provider.  It is profound to attain knowledgeable skills as a reader, whether it involves education or not.  It is necessary for to also note that this book introduces elements of realism, that every person can take away from.  
Text Evidence:
CommonLit | Book Pairings – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. (2016.). CommonLit. https://www.commonlit.org/en/book-pairings/the-boy-in-the-striped-pajamasLinks to an external site.
Teachwire. (2020, February 25). The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – 9 of the best resources for KS2 and KS3 English. Teachwire. https://www.teachwire.net/news/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-resources-ks2-ks3-english

TEXT BOOK – Transdisciplinary play based Assessment
1 PAGE FOR EACH CHAPTER – just answer the questions and it does not have to be lengthy. The questions are below for each chapter and page of the assignment. videos will be sent as an attachment.
PAGE 1
Read Chapter on Sensorimotor Domain
Watch video attached and answer the questions.
Answer the questions below to explain how sensorimotor difficulties impact a child’s functioning.
In what ways are posture and muscle tone critical to a child’s development of skills?
What is Motor Planning and Coordination? How do problems with Motor Planning and Coordination impact a child’s development?
What is Sensory Integration? What does “Low Threshold” and “High Threshold” mean?
Provide concrete examples of how high and low threshold for sensation would impact a child’s: (a) emotional regulation, (b) activity level (c) attention span.
How can these difficulties be managed to improve a child’s functioning? Other than the child going to OT services, discuss 3 SPECIFIC CLASSROOM / TEACHER strategies that can help a child with Sensorimotor difficulties reach their potential.
PAGE 2
Read Chapter on Social-Emotional Domain
Watch video attached and answer questions
What does “Regulation of Emotions and Arousal states” refer to? Describe how a poorly regulated child’ may behave, giving specific examples, using the guidelines on pages 117-120.
Video: Discuss Edric’s social interaction with his sibling/parent in terms of his (a) emotional expression, (b) social interactions, (c) play skills, and (d) emotional style. How does this interaction differ from the brothers in the video: “Kids Wooden Building Blocks”?
Discuss 3 SPECIFIC educational strategies a teacher can use to help a child improve their Social-Emotional skills.
PAGE 3
Read Chapter on Communication domain
Watch video attached and answer the questions.
What are Pragmatics (aka social communication skills)? Discuss the different areas of pragmatics that comprise this skill. Refer to your textbook and the videos below.
3. The videos “Restroom Manners”, “The Imitation Game” and “Talking Twins” illustrate either pragmatic deficits or strengths.
(a) Discuss the pragmatic deficits and strengths that are being demonstrated in each video.
(b) Discuss how social communication (deficits and strengths) impact a child’s social development.
4. How can poor oral motor development impact the development of speech (pages 238-240)? Refer to video “It’s just like a miracle” and explain the condition that impacted that child’s speech and language production.
PAGE 4
Read Chapter on Cognitive domain
Watch video attached and answer the questions.
Cognition is made up of MANY distinct skills that overlap with other areas of development. Let’s narrow it down and look at just 3 areas: (a) Attention (b) Working Memory (c) Problem-Solving.
Give examples of how a typically developing child uses these skills.
How would deficits in these areas diminish a child’s cognitive potential?
3. Why is imitation critically important? What role does it play in Social Cognition and learning?
4. Discuss 3 SPECIFIC classroom strategies a teacher can use to help a child with learning issues reach their potential.

Focused on the highest quality, Snake River Farms is part of a family-owned business that raises American Wagyu Beef. They first bred Japanese Wagyu with high quality American cattle in the late 1980s and have been mastering that prized combination ever since. Where “East Meets West” results in American Wagyu Beef with deep flavor and sublime marbling. It’s work that takes precession, genetic mastery, and a dedication to unending refinement and innovation. They control their entire supply chain, from ranch to table, and take great pride in the quality products they produce. In an essay of 300 to 400 words, please share what The SRF Experience means to you and how would you convey it to others.

Write a three page paper on How principals improve schools . Include information from the article provided . Essay format is APA . Sources cited in apa format.

PART A:_____ The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many ways we normally communicate with the interprofessional team and patients. Respond to the following questions: • How has communication with patients changed? Provide examples. • What are you doing to better communicate with patients and families? • How has communication among the interprofessional team changed? • What needs to happen to make interprofessional communication better?___________________PART B:______ In a Microsoft Word document of 3-4 pages formatted in APA style, describe the process of forming a team. You have been asked by your nurse manager to establish a scheduling team for your nursing unit. • As you begin to think about developing this team how would you begin this process? • What steps would you take? • What would you need to consider in building this team • Assess your strengths and skill gaps as a leader of the team. • When selecting members of the team – what specific characteristics/skills would you look for in team members? • Knowing the stages of team development, how would you plan your first meeting? • What would you need to consider Support your responses with examples and information from library resources, textbook___APA FORMAT. FILES ATTACHED!!

Instructions: For at least five different PEER-REVIEWED articles, provide:
A correctly formatted reference entry (e.g., APA, MLA or Chicago style) and
Annotation (approx. 150-200 words)
Guidelines:
Each source should be related to your field of study (being the topic “Does the belief in God’s existence and adherence to monotheistic beliefs, as well as their association with a religion, correlate with happiness in contemporary society? ” The audience to this research are happy and successful people of religion vs happy and successful atheists. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of ones belief on life quality and happiness ) and use social science research methods/design (Qualitative!!!!!) . ***PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE LINK TO EACH ARTICLE***
These entries can all be on one method, or a variety of different methods, but should be on a single subject (interviews ).
Annotation should focus on connecting data collection/analysis procedures with results/implications.

To do: Read chapter 17 to the conclusion chapter from “America Anonymous” and discuss with your classmates anything that you read in these chapters. For example: what did you find interesting or controversial? what did you agree or disagree with and why? what did you learn? what questions are raised? what does the research tell us about what you read in these chapters?
To do: Respond to this student’s post:
Hello Classmates,
This is my response to the question in Forum 3
It was interesting to see how a natural disaster as Hurricane Katrina could accomplish such an impossible feat of making New Orleans a drug-free zone. The prevalence of drug use pre-Katrina ranged from 82% then went down to 18%. (Kessler, 2016) However, many people such as Sean, who was in treatment, were displaced or homeless, and many hospitalization rates for substance abusers increased ER visits. (Moise, Ruiz, 2016) Sean has struggled with many relapses with his addiction and although the DSM-5 decided not to include sex addiction in its fifth edition, many felt this was controversial. Many argued that, although it did not meet sufficient diagnostic criteria and pathology, sexual addiction can have dangerous ramifications, proponents of its inclusion argue that without a formal catagorization system, people may not seek the help they need .Many fear without proper catagorization of this disorder, that insurance companies will not pay benefits for treatment. While both sides make an argument, the connection between mental health and this addiction is that 88% of those addicted to sex have key mental illnesses that play a role. (Karila, 2014) Many believers in a sex addiction diagnosis point out that for many years, doctors and psychiatrists similarly dismissed alcoholism, refused to accept that it was a serious problem in itself. (Denizet-Lewis, 2009) Most believers in sex addiction diagnosis believe the same about compulsive sexuality, that it can become a life-threatening, primary illness and that in the future, large-scale studies of sex addicts, including brain scans, will prove that sex addiction is real (ibid, 2009)
According to the late James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, who claimed that addiction is not a destructive medical conditon or disease, and believed that it does no good to accept anything other than yourself for your own weaknesses, and root causes. (Frey, 2006) An addict himself, I disagreed with him when he lied about his recovery and the 12-step program with fabrication and exageration of his stories and book. This memoir , once included in Oprah WInfreys book club was exposed, and went against what true recovery is about, honesty for the millions of Americans working on recovery in the 12-Step program, With regard to the 12-step program, studies have shown a strong relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and drinking/drug use outcomes, following a variety of treatments. As noted by Bandura, people who have both the necessary skills and strong coping mechanisms are likely to mobilize the effort needed to succcessfully resist situations of drinking or drug use. (Bandura, A., Locke, E.A., 2003)
According to Matthew Torrington, an addiction doctor, believes that we can eventually eradicate addiction-I disagree with him, as addiction cannot be cured, but treated like a chronic condition such as diabetes or heart disease. Addiction is a life-long struggle, and a person must learn how to manage their disease and realize risk of relapse is ever present. Dr. Walter Ling, author of Mastering the Addicted Brain believes we wil make tremendous progress to treat addiction, however never eradicate it due to the nature of its complications. (Ibid, 2009)
The first step in any 12-Step recovery program requires a person to admit that they are powerless. Admitting one is powerless is a fundamental component of healing. I learned that by admitting powerlessness encourages acceptance and the first step towards the journey from addiction. Although the concept of powerlessness can often be hard to grasp, it does not show a sign of weakness or helplessness. All the addicts in this book have suffered their share of abuse and trauma, and although many have suffered their share of pain and challenges, they all share the tenous desire and hope to have life that is worth living. Like the poem Janice read from Portia Nelson, it speaks of walking down a street with a deep hole, and continuously falling in, until you realize you can walk around it. Like addiction, Looking beyond the chaos of addictive behavior, is only through self-awareness and responsiblity and help that one can choose to not fall in the hole that they can walk around.
References
Bandura, A., Locke, E.A., (2003) Negative Self-Efficacy and goals Journal of Applied Psychology Prentic Hall, Englewood Cliffs
Denizet-Lewis, Benoit (2009) America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in search of a Life Simon and Schuster New York
Karila, L., (2014) Sexual Additon or hypersexual disorder? Natonal Library of Medicine
Moise, I.M., PhD, MPH, Ruiz, M.O. PhD (2016) Hospitalizations for Substance Abuse Disorders before and after Katrina http://dx.doi.org/10.588/pcd13.160107
**You do not have to read all of those chapters. Just skim 1-2 chapters and write something about it and then respond to that student’s post. Here is the link to the book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Pv_MpYms5kYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Please cite one research article. I am a health education major and this is a black board discussion post so you don’t have to go crazy. Deadline:
Posted first message: 11:59pm on March 28

Use the Powerpoint answer question 1,2 and do Exit Ticket, please provide charts
This lesson includes 2 videos. After the lesson: 1. Share one or two interesting thoughts about the lesson, the videos, or the Exit Ticket questions 2. Consider the needs of your students from diverse groups and perpectives.
3. Exit Ticket
a. Explain the importance of knowing statistics as a special educator. If you didn’t understand statistics, what are some problems you might encounter as a special educator?
b. What are the measures of central tendency? Explain their importance in special education.
c. What does variance mean? How does it differ from the standard deviation?
d. Draw the normal curve and label all of the percentages associated with it.
e. Create a small data set. Graph it. Calculate the mean, median and mode.

Instructions: For at least five different PEER-REVIEWED articles, provide:
A correctly formatted reference entry (e.g., APA, MLA or Chicago style) and
Annotation (approx. 150-200 words)
Guidelines:
Each source should be related to your field of study (being the topic “Does the belief in God’s existence and adherence to monotheistic beliefs, as well as their association with a religion, correlate with happiness in contemporary society? ” The audience to this research are happy and successful people of religion vs happy and successful atheists. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of ones belief on life quality and happiness ) and use social science research methods/design (Qualitative!!!!!) . ***PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE LINK TO EACH ARTICLE***
These entries can all be on one method, or a variety of different methods, but should be on a single subject (interviews ).
Annotation should focus on connecting data collection/analysis procedures with results/implications.

To do: Read chapter 17 to the conclusion chapter from “America Anonymous” and discuss with your classmates anything that you read in these chapters. For example: what did you find interesting or controversial? what did you agree or disagree with and why? what did you learn? what questions are raised? what does the research tell us about what you read in these chapters?
To do: Respond to this student’s post:
Hello Classmates,
This is my response to the question in Forum 3
It was interesting to see how a natural disaster as Hurricane Katrina could accomplish such an impossible feat of making New Orleans a drug-free zone. The prevalence of drug use pre-Katrina ranged from 82% then went down to 18%. (Kessler, 2016) However, many people such as Sean, who was in treatment, were displaced or homeless, and many hospitalization rates for substance abusers increased ER visits. (Moise, Ruiz, 2016) Sean has struggled with many relapses with his addiction and although the DSM-5 decided not to include sex addiction in its fifth edition, many felt this was controversial. Many argued that, although it did not meet sufficient diagnostic criteria and pathology, sexual addiction can have dangerous ramifications, proponents of its inclusion argue that without a formal catagorization system, people may not seek the help they need .Many fear without proper catagorization of this disorder, that insurance companies will not pay benefits for treatment. While both sides make an argument, the connection between mental health and this addiction is that 88% of those addicted to sex have key mental illnesses that play a role. (Karila, 2014) Many believers in a sex addiction diagnosis point out that for many years, doctors and psychiatrists similarly dismissed alcoholism, refused to accept that it was a serious problem in itself. (Denizet-Lewis, 2009) Most believers in sex addiction diagnosis believe the same about compulsive sexuality, that it can become a life-threatening, primary illness and that in the future, large-scale studies of sex addicts, including brain scans, will prove that sex addiction is real (ibid, 2009)
According to the late James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, who claimed that addiction is not a destructive medical conditon or disease, and believed that it does no good to accept anything other than yourself for your own weaknesses, and root causes. (Frey, 2006) An addict himself, I disagreed with him when he lied about his recovery and the 12-step program with fabrication and exageration of his stories and book. This memoir , once included in Oprah WInfreys book club was exposed, and went against what true recovery is about, honesty for the millions of Americans working on recovery in the 12-Step program, With regard to the 12-step program, studies have shown a strong relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and drinking/drug use outcomes, following a variety of treatments. As noted by Bandura, people who have both the necessary skills and strong coping mechanisms are likely to mobilize the effort needed to succcessfully resist situations of drinking or drug use. (Bandura, A., Locke, E.A., 2003)
According to Matthew Torrington, an addiction doctor, believes that we can eventually eradicate addiction-I disagree with him, as addiction cannot be cured, but treated like a chronic condition such as diabetes or heart disease. Addiction is a life-long struggle, and a person must learn how to manage their disease and realize risk of relapse is ever present. Dr. Walter Ling, author of Mastering the Addicted Brain believes we wil make tremendous progress to treat addiction, however never eradicate it due to the nature of its complications. (Ibid, 2009)
The first step in any 12-Step recovery program requires a person to admit that they are powerless. Admitting one is powerless is a fundamental component of healing. I learned that by admitting powerlessness encourages acceptance and the first step towards the journey from addiction. Although the concept of powerlessness can often be hard to grasp, it does not show a sign of weakness or helplessness. All the addicts in this book have suffered their share of abuse and trauma, and although many have suffered their share of pain and challenges, they all share the tenous desire and hope to have life that is worth living. Like the poem Janice read from Portia Nelson, it speaks of walking down a street with a deep hole, and continuously falling in, until you realize you can walk around it. Like addiction, Looking beyond the chaos of addictive behavior, is only through self-awareness and responsiblity and help that one can choose to not fall in the hole that they can walk around.
References
Bandura, A., Locke, E.A., (2003) Negative Self-Efficacy and goals Journal of Applied Psychology Prentic Hall, Englewood Cliffs
Denizet-Lewis, Benoit (2009) America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in search of a Life Simon and Schuster New York
Karila, L., (2014) Sexual Additon or hypersexual disorder? Natonal Library of Medicine
Moise, I.M., PhD, MPH, Ruiz, M.O. PhD (2016) Hospitalizations for Substance Abuse Disorders before and after Katrina http://dx.doi.org/10.588/pcd13.160107
**You do not have to read all of those chapters. Just skim 1-2 chapters and write something about it and then respond to that student’s post. Here is the link to the book: https://books.google.com/books?id=Pv_MpYms5kYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Please cite one research article. I am a health education major and this is a black board discussion post so you don’t have to go crazy. Deadline:
Posted first message: 11:59pm on March 28