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This assignment requires you developing a personal classroom management/support plan

1. Develop your own classroom management and behaviour support plan. The plan you are writing is for you as a teacher and it needs to reflect your own beliefs and philosophies. Class year- 6 or 7 (age 10/11)-upper primary and uses the following template (2500 words).
2. Complete a personal reflection in relation to this assignment (750 words)

How to respond to each section of the plan:
Class – State what year level, age range, and any other demographics you think are important.

Clearly outline your 5 Principles – What are the key principles (e.g. “Students are responsible for their own behaviour”) that provide the foundation to your own personal classroom management practice? These are 5 beliefs, assumptions or philosophies, e.g. “Students are responsible for their own behaviour”, that underpin your classroom management practice. Keep these as succinct as possible.

The Behaviour Support Plan (800 words)
• Develop a classroom management support plan that is founded on your key principles. This plan must have 3 different levels to it: 1. preventative, 2. low level and 3. high level intervention. There needs to be strong alignment between the principles and your outlined plan.
• The preventative level is those things that you do to prevent behavioural issues from occurring
• Low-level interventions are those things you do to address low level behavioural issues e.g. calling out, disrupting class etc. Things that may disrupt the flow of your teaching.
• High level interventions are those supports you put in place to address more disruptive, aggressive unsafe behaviours or behaviours which occur at a very intense or extreme level.

• Models/ Theories/ Strategies: This is the first column of the management support plan. In this column, choose relevant models/theories/strategies that fit well with your identified principles. Identify throughout your plan key theorists or theories or models or approaches or strategies from the literature that inform what you believe your principles align well with. Reference explicitly.

Implementation: This is the second column of your management support plan. Provide details of how you plan to effectively implement the ideas eg. How you will introduce/establish, teach explicit skills, model and reinforce the models/theories/strategies. Practical implementation is an important aspect of the plan and in this section you need to demonstrate how the ideas would be implemented specifically. Give examples and describe what someone would expect to see happening in the classroom if they were observing.

Justification of chosen models/theories/strategies: (1200 words) Outline how the models/ theories/strategies you have chosen connect to your principles. You need to ensure that you demonstrate wide reading of the literature in this section using at minimum 5 relevant references.
Critical reflection:
• Critical reflection is an important aspect of this assignment and of the criteria sheet. Use the “Questions to Consider” section below to help you complete this aspect of the task. In your critical reflection you need to demonstrate personal growth – how has your reading impacted on what you have done/may do in the classroom? What areas of behaviour management might you struggle with and how might you overcome this? What strategies might you use to support your ability to implement effective behaviour management in the classroom. Critical reflection is in addition to the word limit for assignment 2 plan but should not exceed 750 words.

Questions to Consider when Completing the Management Support Plan for this Class:
The following questions are to help prompt your thinking as you complete the behaviour management plan to ensure you have considered everything that you need to when completing it. You do not necessarily need to answer each of these questions directly.
5 Key Principles:
• What do you believe about teaching and learning and the role of the students and the teacher in the classroom?
Ideas/Model/Theory/ Strategy:
• Identify what management ideas/ model/theory/strategy would be most beneficial to use in this situation.
• Identify what management devices sit well with your own philosophical approach to the classroom.
Implementation:
• How would you initially introduce and establish these ideas in the classroom?
• How might you model and reinforce these techniques?
• What are the key teacher jobs in ensuring that these ideas are implemented effectively?
• What might be measures of success or indications that the strategy needs to be reviewed?
• Have I clearly described what is being implemented e.g. What it would look or sound like in the classroom?
• Have I given examples of what the class teacher would say or do?
Justification of models/theories/strategies:
• Have I clearly outlined why I have chosen the models etc that I have?
• Have I made explicit links between my choice of models etc and my principles?
• Have I made explicit links between my choice of models etc and the literature?
Critical Reflection:
• How might this plan influence the social and emotional needs of the students?
• How are the issues in this scenario reflected in your own teaching? In relation to the issues discussed what do you need to work on or improve in your own teaching practice?
• If you have had no practical teaching experience yet, what do you think may be an issue for you given your personality and life experiences?
• How have your beliefs about teaching, learning and behaviour management been supported or changed as a result of your learning so far in this unit?

Can a moral absolutist defend her view against it?

This subject has been very difficult for me because the reading is very complex. I want the paper to be clear and to use words that arent as complex as the reading.

The criteria for the paper:

-Understanding of the issues;

–Quality of the argument;

–Structure of the essay;

–Independence of thought;

–Clarity;

–Appropriate use of source material;

–Relevance to set question;

–English expression;

–Referencing;

–Appropriate bibliography

Humanitarian interventions are often surrounded by heated debate and disagreement among politicians, policymakers, academics, and publics alike. Moreover, such debate has generally continued in the wake of such interventions, with ongoing disagreement as to nature, significance and overall success of past interventions.

Assignment 1 .From the type of plans nominated below explain their purpose, what information they contain, how they can be used and the advantages of the way information is displayed.

Survey plan, Contour plan, Floor plan, Plans of elevations, Site plan, Sectional plans

Assignment 2 From the supplied plans in the resource folder
(Cert 1V Plans) determined the number and type of doors and windows required.

Assignment 3 From the plans supplied in the resource folder (Cert 1V Plans ) prepare a detailed specification sheet and purchase order for the door furniture required

Assignment 4 From the set of Cert IV Plans within the resource folder determined the height of the timber framed wall, stress grade and member sizes.

Assignment 5 From the plans supplied in the resource folder (Cert 1V Plans ) determined what Australian Standards may influence the construction

Assignment 6 State what are the acceptable Scales to be used on the following Architectural Drawings (Floor Plans, Elevation Plans , Site Plans and Sectional Plans

Assignment 7 From the plans supplied in the resource folder (Cert 1V Plans) an extension is proposed (4.2mx3m) to the rear of the existing Rumpus room.

Your task is to determine and list scope of works, the type of labour required, and the type of materials required

Assignment 8 Explain in detail the roles and duties of the following personnel, Building surveyor, Structural Engineer, Draftsman, Architect and Quantity Surveyor may have with regards to the Orbit plans supplied.

Assignment 9: Study the Cert IV plans in the resource folder and make a list of the no- structural sanitary elements (baths, shower, etc), once you have gather this information produce a project specification (sheet)which includes make, model type size, and cost

Assignment 10 A client has requested a variation to their builder that they would now wish to have a timber floor on a timber sub structure in lieu of a concrete slab on ground as specified and as per approved plans and the builder has agreed to this request

Explain in your own words what procedures/actions would now /needed to be undertaken to make this variation to the project.

Background/Case Study

Congratulations! It is the year 2017 and you have just received The Young ICT Entrepreneur Award and your face is on the cover of New Scientist magazine!! This is for your digital innovation that exploited current and emerging technologies and created a new e-business/product/service/application/technology/business model that the world had not known about before and one that has delivered tangible benefits to users. You wonder why no-one had thought of the idea before; the media is amazed at its popularity and how quickly it was adopted.

Your task for this assignment is to go back in time to 2014 and write the Proposal/Business Plan for starting your proposed new company that won essential investor capital to commercialise your digital innovation. The Business Plan was presented to “Angel Investors”; very experienced business people who support only a small number of start-up companies based on a unique proposition. It was difficult to get an opportunity to present your Business Plan and even more difficult to convince them of the soundness of your idea. Typically the Angel Investors only invite back for further discussions one out of every 20 entrepreneurs who present to them.

Activity A: Journal (500 words)
Prepare a journal which records your activities and progress related to completing this assignment. In date order, list the following:
● Date of research activity/discussion/meeting
● Topic researched or discussed
● Time duration
● Brief description of research activity/discussion.
Submit this journal as an appendix to Activity B.

Activity B: Proposal to Angel Investors (3000 words)
Complete the requirements below by producing the written report that you presented to the CEO of Angel Investors in 2017.

Part 1: Your digital innovation
Write a summary of your proposed initiative addressing the following:
• What your innovation is about
• Current business/social/consumer problems your innovation will address/solve
• competitive products/services and why your initiative is different
• The key areas where your innovation is likely to have impact
• Who your customers will be, how large the market is, what will compel them to buy your innovation, how you will attract and retain them
• Problems and drawbacks of your innovation
• The future of your innovation.
• How you can measure the success of your initiative

Part 2: your company
Describe your proposed new company to commercialise your initiative in terms of the following:
• the industry (e.g. banking, healthcare, travel, airline etc) it operates within,
• its key products/services,
• corporate vision and mission,
• business strategy,
• corporate structure,
• major business processes, and
• relationship with external entities e.g. other organisations, government etc.
• The risks your proposed new company must consider and how these risks can be mitigated

Part 3: Technology requirements and infrastructure
Using relevant sections of the text book, describe and analyse how information systems could assist your company to service your customers, integrate your suppliers and provide operational efficiency, including
• Summarise the information systems requirements (applications)
• Describe the required IT infrastructure

Part 4: Conclusions: finance and key findings

Estimate figures based upon your research and produce an expected Profit & Loss statement for the first 3 years (you can find many examples on-line). Clearly state to Angel Investors how much you are asking them to invest and why; explain the anticipated return they will receive. Clearly state why you have a compelling case for investment.

Presentation of your report
Layout, professionalism, cover letter, Table of Contents, use of graphics or other ways to enhance readability and impact.

Overview

You have been hired as a GIS consultant to address one of the two real world issues facing the Royal National Park:
1) Mapping susceptibility to landslides, or
2) Identifying suitable locations for a whale watching lookout.
To earn your pay for the job (i.e., your marks for the major assignment), you need to produce a final report detailing the steps you took to solve the problem, your findings, and a discussion of the implications of those findings. You should include visuals (maps, charts, tables) where necessary to illustrate your results.

The Projects
Imagine that you have been hired by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) as a GIS consultant. Your study area is the Royal National Park (RNP), located on the NSW coast between Wollongong and Sydney. OEH has identified the two issues of concern noted above.
You must choose ONE of these issues, and design a GIS analysis to address it. You are provided with GIS data layers and decision rules, but you must determine what ArcGIS tools are needed to complete each project based on what you’ve learned throughout the semester. A good way to start determining what tools are needed is to draw a cartographic model diagram BEFORE you start your analysis in Model Builder. Once you have developed a plan for the analysis, you need to do the analysis, recording every step in Model Builder and produce results
Note that there are two parts to each project: required and optional. You must complete the required part to PASS the assignment. If you have time and are interested in earning a higher mark for the assignment, you can also attempt the optional part(s).
Below are descriptions of each of the two projects from which you can choose:

Option 1: Landslide Susceptibility

Landslides occur when a mass of rock, debris or earth moves down a slope, and are typically triggered by an external event such as such as intense rainfall, earthquake shaking, water level change, storm waves or rapid stream erosion (Dai et al 2002). The risk of a landslide occurring, therefore, depends both on factors that predispose a slope to failure (susceptibility) and on the likelihood of occurrence of trigger events. To assess the extent to which a landslide may damage the natural environment, human infrastructure and potentially cause loss of life, it is also necessary to estimate how large the slide will be and where and how far it will travel down slope (Dai et al 2002). Detailed quantitative assessment of landscape risk (susceptibility + likelihood of trigger events) thus requires considerable data and field work as well as complex statistical modeling, which is beyond the scope of this project.

However, it is possible to simplify the analysis to gain a general idea of the susceptibility of the RNP to the occurrence of landslides using freely available data in GIS. If warranted, this could then be followed by more detailed studies in future to further delineate susceptibility and risk across the RNP. For example, key factors that tend to be present when landslides occur include:
a) Slope greater than 10 percent,
b) Geologically recent (last 10,000 years) previous landslide activity,
c) Stream or wave activity undercutting or cutting into a bank, reducing the stability of the surrounding land,
d) The presence or potential for snow avalanches,
e) The presence of an alluvial fan (indicating vulnerability to the flow of debris or sediments),
f) The presence of impermeable solids (i.e., silt or clay) which are mixed with granular soils (i.e. sand and gravel).
Of these, (a) and (c) can be readily mapped for the RNP with available data in ArcGIS and as such can form the basis for a preliminary estimate of landslide susceptibility across the RNP.
Required:
1.1 Map the areas of the Park that are susceptible, moderately susceptible and highly susceptible to landslides (see landslide susceptibility decision rules below). Calculate the % area of the Park in each zone. Is there any spatial pattern to where the susceptible areas are located?
1.2 Identify the sections of sealed roads within the Park that fall within each susceptibility zone. What implications do you think this will have for evacuating visitors to the Park after a landslide if necessary?
Optional:
1.3 Flooding can trigger a landslide in a susceptible area. Find the percentage of all susceptible areas (susceptible, moderately susceptible and highly susceptible combined) that are also located near a water source.
1.4 Landslides can have long term impacts on vegetation. Find the average susceptibility level (defined as: not susceptible = 0, susceptible = 1, moderately susceptible = 2, highly susceptible = 3) for each vegetation type. Which, if any, vegetation types are on average moderately or highly susceptible?
1.5 Bonus question: use the scientific literature about landslides to determine the likely factors needed to estimate the trajectory of a landslide starting at a given point. Based on this, what data layers would you need, and what tools would you use in ArcGIS to combine them and how would you do it?
Decision Rules for landslide susceptibility:

1. Susceptibility to a landslide occurring is defined as:
 Highly susceptible = the presence of cliffs at risk from undercutting by water erosion (see #2 and #3 below).
 Moderately susceptible = if grid cell is steep enough to be considered a cliff (see #2 below), but not at risk from undercutting by water erosion (see #3 below).
 Susceptible = slope greater than 10 percent but not steep enough to be considered a cliff.
2. A grid cell is assumed to be a cliff if: slope is greater than 35 degrees).
3. A cliff that is deemed to be at risk from undercutting by water erosion is located within 50 m of a water source.
4. For question #1.3, ‘near a water source’ is defined as within 80 m.

Option 2: Suitable locations for a whale watching lookout

The Royal National Park is a popular destination for all sorts of recreational activities, including whale watching. Whales migrate every year moving along the entire NSW coast as they move between their hunting grounds in Antarctica and their breeding grounds in tropical Queensland. Their migration routes are within short distance of the coastline, making the Royal National Park a desirable location from which to observe them given the frequent vantage points from which the sea is visible within the Park. Your task for this project is to help Office of Environment and Heritage identify areas in the Park that would be suitable for the creation of whale watching platform.
Required:
2.1 Map the point locations in the park from where at least some view of the ocean is possible. Calculate the % of the points across the study area that these represent. Is there any spatial pattern to where these are located?
2.2 Map land areas that are unsuitable, somewhat suitable, suitable, and highly suitable for the installation of a whale watching platform (see Decision Rules below). Find the points identified in #2.1 that are located within the highly suitable areas and identify the top three based on the area of ocean that is visible from each site.
Optional:
2.3 Perhaps people would be willing to walk or bike along an unpaved trail to reach a whale watching platform. Accordingly, change Decision Rule #3 such that sites are suitable if they are located within 400 metres of any road, track or trail (rather than just paved roads and the highway) and recalculate your

answers for #2.2. How much of a difference, if any, does this make to how many highly suitable sites exist for the whale watching platform? Does it change which sites are ranked as the top three?
2.4 Map the areas that are visible from the highest ranked site (from #2.2). Explain why you think the top ranked site can ‘see’ the largest area of ocean. Also explain why you needed to use ‘demlandsea’ instead of ‘dem’ to do the analysis.
2.5 Bonus question: Assume that all forest types have a typical height of 10 metres and recalculate the visible areas from the highest ranked site (from #2.2). By how much area does the visible area shrink or grow compared to what you found for #2.4? Explain why you think this is the case. How might this change if you assigned a more realistic height to each vegetation type found across the RNP?

Develop an application based the research you wish to pursue (Computation, Motive Ecologies primarily focusing on sustainable architecture) ,stating why, to what benefit, what you seek to gain and for what end (i.e. what is it architecturally that you seek to answer or investigate). You may also add what you might bring to the table/add to the subject matter pursued.