Cultural Competence in the Classroom

Nikhil Goyal is a successful high school student who, like many students his age, hates school. But unlike most students his age, Nikhil wrote a speech about it and delivered it to a global audience via a TEDX Youth (2012) presentation (please click here for a written transcript of the video). The central theme of the presentation is relevance and, specifically, how schools often lack relevance to the lives of their learners. The majority of Nikhil’s story focuses on Nick Perez, a boy who was marginalized in school and medicated to be able to adhere to the parameters of thought and behavior expected for participation in the school. As you view the presentation, you will learn how Nick became disillusioned by the lack of relevancy and interest in his studies and how his disenfranchisement eventually led him to drop out of school.

In this assignment, you will reflect on the story of Nick Perez and analyze it based on what might have happened differently if Nick’s education targeted the learning of 21st century skills through culturally relevant learning opportunities. Additionally, you will recommend a culturally relevant learning experience that might have been able to meet Nick’s needs in high school. Review the Instructor Guidance for this week for additional information and use the Ladson-Billing (1995) resource and Chapter 4 of Wardle (2013) to define a culturally relevant learning experience; apply this framework to the creation of solutions. Then, create your formal written assignment to meet the content and written communication expectations stated below.

Content Expectations

• Video Analysis (3 points): Address the following three guiding statements:
  1. According to Nick, “I was denied the right to exist normally.  My school had wasted my time until there was no time left”.  Based on the information presented in the video, describe the learning experiences and cultural competencies that you believe were valued at Nick’s school.  Then, using Nick’s interest in computers as a form of his cultural identity, describe cultural competencies and learning experiences that would be most applicable and interesting to Nick (think about the way that he described his life at home and at computer camp).
  2. Examine the 4C skills (a) creativity and innovation, (b) critical thinking and problem solving, and (c) communication and (d) collaboration that are presented in Learning and Innovations Skills. Determine which of these skills you perceive are most likely relevant to Nick’s current position as a programmer in an advertising firm and which of these skills you perceive are not adequately addressed in typical classroom environments today.
  3. Explain how the acquisition of learning and innovation skills through culturally relevant learning opportunities can lead to greater student success in the classroom and in the real world.

• Cultural Competencies References (1.5 points): Reference cultural competencies in your response to the Video Analysis guiding statements. Include examples using at least one of the following four characteristics:
  1. Awareness of one’s own cultural worldview (including biases)
  2. Knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews
  3. Positive attitudes and open-mindedness toward cultural differences
  4. Ability to work successfully with others from different cultures

• Culturally Relevant Learning References (1.5 points): Reference culturally relevant instruction in your response to the Video Analysis guiding statements. Reflect on strategies that align with this approach and include at least one of the following nine areas:
  1. Maximizing academic success through relevant instructional experiences
  2. Addressing cultural competence through reinforcing students’ cultural integrity
  3. Involving students in the construction of knowledge
  4. Building on students’ interests and linguistic resources
  5. Tapping home and community resources
  6. Understanding students’ cultural knowledge
  7. Using interactive and constructivist teaching strategies
  8. Examining the curriculum from multiple perspectives
  9. Promoting critical consciousness through opportunities to challenge predominant elements of the students’ social norms

• 21st Century Skills Framework (1 point): Reference 21st century skills in your response to the Video Analysis Questions to reflect the framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning.

Written Communication Expectations

• Page Requirement (.25 points): Submit three to five pages, not including the title and reference pages.
• APA Formatting (.25 points): Format your paper according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Syntax and Mechanics (.25 points): Display meticulous comprehension and organization of syntax and mechanics, such as spelling and grammar.
• Source Requirement (.25 points): Reference at least one scholarly source in addition to the Partnership for 21st Century Learning’s Skills Framework, Ladson-Billing (1995) resource, and Chapter 4 in Wardle (2013) to provide compelling evidence to support ideas. All sources on the references page need to be used and cited correctly within the body of the assignment.

Need get it done in 4 hours!!!

Post two observations and a question in response to the readings, it requires about 250 words.

1.Weekly introductory lecture; Daniels, entire; two of the immigrant (not the narratives of people born in the U.S.) narratives from The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans: As Told by Themselves, published in 1906, and available at: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_life_stories_of_undistinguished_Amer.html?id=qzNJAAAAIAAJ ;

2. sections from two of these manuscript census returns (choose from Mohave County 1900 in Arizona, Stearns County 1900 in Minnesota, Wasco County 1900 in Oregon, Philadelphia County 1910 in Pennsylvania, Natrona County 1900 in Wyoming) available at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cenfiles/ ;

3. at least three articles from the San Francisco News and the “20 views of the Manzanar War Relocation Authority Center available at http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html;

4. the video interview with Former Manzanar Committee Chair, Sui Kunitomi Embrey, available at http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org/2009/10/19/video.

Create a 15- to 18-slide PowerPoint® presentation including detailed speaker notes in which you include the following:

• Research the direction of monetary policy over the last 3-5 years. Has the money supply increased or decreased? Explain.  Have interest rates increased or decreased? Explain.
• Describe the impact of these monetary policies on the U.S. economy
• Describe the impact of these monetary policies on your team’s selected organization.
• Have events in the economies of other countries impacted the U.S. economy?  If so, explain.
• What are expectations regarding the strength of the U.S. economy in the next 2 years?
• How do changes in the value of the U.S. dollar impact your selected organization?
• Make recommendations for your organization regarding how to best compete in the expected global economy.

Include a minimum of 3 peer reviewed sources not including your text.

n Modules 1 and 2, you selected a type of criminal behavior that is of particular interest to you. Use the FBI’s UCR program to further investigate this behavior.

Using the information you have gathered in Modules 1 and 2, prepare a 2- to 3-page paper responding to the following using APA style:

1. Describe the typical perpetrator of this crime with regards to gender, race, age, and socioeconomic status. Compare and contrast the criminal and civil legal systems regarding penalties, burden of persuasion, and key players.
2. Using the information noted in step 1, explain the causes of this criminal behavior. Justify your answers by integrating at least one historical and two different contemporary psychological theories with your explanation.

Attached is the criminal behavior I did my paper on, please refer to it.

Please include a minimum of five scholarly peer-reviewed resources in your research.

Explain how O’Connor’s work is typical of what is labeled the southern grotesque. Southern grotesque means weird, odd, strange, or perverse, and could also be labeled dark comedy. Make at least 3 valid points about her work and its darkly humorous nature. You may use either story.   Also:                                                                                                     3 qoutes                                                                                                                                                        Double or 1.5 Space

2. Times New Roman 12 font
3. 400-750 words
4. Give your essay a creative title- do not italicize, bold, enclose in quotation marks, nor use crazy or larger fonts.
5. Present tense– write as if the story is unfolding right before your eyes. No past tense.
6. Write in 3^rd person only-   no ( I, me, my, us, our, you, your or any 1^st & 2^nd person) 
7. Include the MLA heading in the top left margin of the 1^st page only.
8. Insert page numbers and your last name as a header in the top right corner of your page.
9. Insert and Cite Quotes correctly in MLA.
10. Include a properly formatted Works Cited Page
11. Format work titles correctly

i need 2 pages answering these 2 qustions…

Write your answers to the following question in Short Essay Format: Question 1A. Question 1B should be done in a Table Format. Be sure to include reasons and facts as required to support your answers. Cite examples. Each student is responsible for submitting their own response to the following questions.

Number your answers for each question.

(45 points total) One way to manage today’s excessive municipal solid waste (MSW) output is to incinerate it. Waste incineration has two benefits: one is that landfills won’t fill and close as quickly, and the other is that burning the waste can produce energy. It is estimated that up to 90% (by volume) of waste can be kept out of landfills by incinerating it. Waste incinerators have been around for a long time, but were phased out in the 1970s due to pollution concerns and other negative effects on the environment. Today’s waste-to-energy facilities are making a comeback and it is due in large part to technological improvements that reduce the amount of pollution.

1. (25 points) Describe how waste can be used to generate energy from burning municipal solid waste and discuss the current ways of pollution control for landfills. Can the ash left behind from the burning operations be used, or should it be disposed of in a landfill?

2.  (20 points) Table Format. Suppose an incineration facility costs your city $42.5 million to build. The facility would be capable of burning 675 tons of waste per day producing 15 megawatts of electricity, which can be sold for $0.088 per kilowatt. It will cost nothing additional to take the waste to the facility, as opposed to paying $100 a ton fee to have it buried in a landfill. How long will it take for the waste-burning facility to pay for itself? Ignore operating costs. Assume the facility operates 24/7, 365 days a year.

An essay of human resource management course

Walmart is the largest retailer in the US (and other parts of the world) employing 1.2 million in the USA. In February 2015 Doug McMillon announced a series of employment changes, among other things raising minimum starting pay to $9/hr. with plans to further increase it to $10.hr. within one year.

http://cdn.corporate.walmart.com/a1/0e/6fec066e4cf48b9ec4b9f09bcd67/associate-opportunity-fact-sheet.2.pdf

He also announced increases in employee benefits (e.g. healthcare, 401k plan, educational support, etc.) and career development and promotion opportunities, etc.

http://cdn.corporate.walmart.com/a1/0e/6fec066e4cf48b9ec4b9f09bcd67/associate-opportunity-fact-sheet.2.pdf

Of course, these changes increased their costs substantially, and information on these (and future) cost increases was included in the announcements (or could be estimated by external analysts). Since January, Walmart’s stock price has declined substantially (approximately 30% by mid-September. When WMT announced their quarterly results, documenting their increased costs, the stock price fell more than 13% in just a few days! Note that these declines in the market value of Walmart’s stock are predominantly (if not completely) due to its Human Resource practices!

1)   How (Price, Quantity, Customization, Availability) does Walmart compete?

2)   Who are Walmart’s competition, and what changes have occurred in the past several years?

3)   Why did Mr. McMillon (His HR head, the Board, etc.) make such broad changes in Walmart’s employment practices?

4)   Why was the Stock Market’s reaction so negative?

5)   Do you believe Walmart’s employment strategy will produce positive results?

6)   When do you estimate those results will be recognized by investors?

an you have these done for me in 2 hours?? 200 words each…Please let me know asap!  Thanks

1)Prince George’s County Maryland Fire Department (PGFD) study determined�the�motives that are most often given by arrested and incarcerated arsonists.� List and briefly explain your thoughts on each motive given.� Which do you think is the most dangerous motive?� Why?

2)Comparisons of fire prevention programs in effect on this continent with those in other parts of the world reveal that there are probably as many differences as there are similarities.�What is the explanation for the differences and similarities?�What lessons can be learned from these comparisons to improve our fire prevention efforts?