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Assignment Steps Identify a business problem or opportunity at a company where you work or with which you are familiar. This will be a business problem you use for the individual assignments in Weeks 3-5. It should be a problem/opportunity for which gathering and analyzing some type of data would help you understand the problem/opportunity better.  […]

Constructing Meaning through Critical Literacy

Select a grade level and research critical literacy instructional strategies (looking at both reading and writing).  Chose a text from Appendix B of the Common Core standards.  From your selections and research, create a chart that includes 10 strategies that you can use to help your student construct meaning through critical literacy using the text […]

Instructional Strategies

Based on the students in the “Class Profile” grade levels and the informational text you chose, select two of the six main instructional strategies to be utilized within the lesson plan that you began in Topic 1. Utilize strategies that facilitate the development of critical thinking and problem solving. Provide opportunities for active inquiry, collaboration, […]

Marketing and the Environment 4/3

case study titled Ecuador and Chevron/Texaco Dispute Oil Damage that discusses the legal and moral implications of petroleum exploration and subsequent collateral damage. Although the developed world pays a great deal of lip service to the concept of finite petroleum-based resources and continues to beat the drum of alternative energies such as wind, solar, and nuclear power, […]

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respond to the following question I  agree that comprehension strategies help students develop good reading skills.  I have worked with struggling readers for years now and they sometimes fight their own learning.  Do you think that this is just a defense so that they do not have to show their struggles?

Preventing and Addressing Problems

Problems in human services organizations do not arrive in labeled packages with clear instructions on how to solve them. It is up to human services administrators to identify problems and strategies to address them. It is important to consider the steps or actions those human services administrators can take to address problems. It is also […]

Re: Discussion Question

This week’s discussion is the effect of Media on diagnosis and intervention. Diagnosis and the description of mental health issues have recently become ubiquitous in the media. One of the reasons for this new emergence of the topic of mental health in the mainstream media is because of worldwide traumatic events. Many tragic events covered […]