PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

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1.Acquiring effective professional communication skills is very important. Identify one skill that is very important, and explain its importance in your career. 200 words

2. How can assessing a receiver’s knowledge help the sender overcome word choice as a communication barrier? Provide examples to support your viewpoint. 200 words

3. Although John and Manuel are separated by several other desks and employees, they occasionally make eye contact, tap the face of their watch, hold up a cell phone, and, around noon, one will signal with his right hand toward an exit by which both leave for lunch. Discuss their communication relationship. What is good about their communication? What problems might arise? 500 words

3-4 pages

Argue Essay

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You can start with the page that on the file

First, make an executive decision as to the direction of the paper. You need to decide what debate and relevant essays/readings you’d like to focus on for the sake of this assignment and the longer paper. Consider the following options:

Continue to wade into the Zinczenko/Balko debate. You can use your in-class assignment to help you develop the paper. However, you will have to summarize BOTH Balko and Zinczenko as writers who have different perspectives on the debate about food and health. You will also have to develop an original response (you can’t use the hypothetical one you assumed in producing the summaries), and to begin to thinking about how you will support that response in the paper.

Each of these debates revolves around a topic of social importance, and the essays that I’ve provided represent different perspectives on that topic. Use the essays (2-3) within those debates as the basis of your paper. You will need to read carefully and become familiar with the essays that you choose so that you can produce an effective summary and response.

Wade into a debate beyond the material that I’ve provided. This will require a bit of independent work. You should identify a debate that revolves around an issue of social importance (the gun control debate, the transgender bathroom debate…., or an issue that is personally or professionally important (related to a class or academic field) to you. You must find at least 2 pieces of writing (articles in a reputable magazine or journal, articles within an anthology (see the library collection) that help you to establish the “debate” and the different perspectives that some have. You must produce an effective summary of these perspectives and respond to them by staking out your own original perspective.

Second, in 2 pages, begin to develop your response paper. How do you do this? See the guidelines below:

Summary: Accurately summarize the debate into which you’re entering. Summarize the positions of the 2-3 writers you’ve read and use quotes (with proper leads and explanation) to support that summary. As you summarize the 2-3 writers, make sure you’re connecting their different positions: e.g. “Whereas Zinczenko argues that… Balko claims that…”; “In contrast to… this writer says…”

Response: Produce an original response. The response is your personal contribution to the debate. It should reflect one of the “modes” that we went over in class. Generally speaking the response should come after the summary paragraphs and should not only state whether you agree/disagree with others, but also, to begin, briefly explain why.

Support: Consider how you will support your response. Later we will talk about how to use outside sources to help support/establish your position. But for now, especially if you’re writing about a topic of social importance (college, technology, gender, food, etc.) I encourage you to begin to support your response with personal experience. Consider what, within your realm experience, you can use to make your case and begin to organize your essay around that.

Works Cited: Your last page should be a “works cited” that conforms to the model we looked over in class. It should list the pieces of writing you referenced in your essay using one of the reference styles (MLA, APA, etc) that we looked at in class.

Cultural Diversity

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Use resources from the required readings or the GCU Library to create a 10-15 slide digital presentation to be shown to your colleagues informing them of specific cultural norms and socio-cultural influences affecting student learning at your school.

Choose a culture to research. State the country or countries of origin of your chosen culture and your reason for selecting it. Include sociocultural influences on learning such as:

  • Religion
  • Dress
  • Cultural Norms
  • Food
  • Socialization
  • Gender Differences
  • Home Discipline
  • Education
  • Native Language

Include presenter’s notes, a title slide, in-text citations, and a reference slide that contains three to five sources from the required readings or the GCU Library.

GCU format is required for essays only. Solid academic writing is always expected. For all assignment delivery options, documentation of sources should be presented using GCU formatting guidelines, which can be found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

PREZI Presentation

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Philosophy of Multicultural Education

Create a Prezi presentation in which you propose a short training demo for new teachers, selecting one (1) philosophical approach to multicultural education as described by the author. Use multicultural resources of your choice to support your examples.  Create a fifteen to thirty (15-30) slide Prezi presentation in which you:

1.Create a section (five to ten [5-10] slides) in which you:

a.Compare and contrast three to five (3-5) diversity approaches, focusing on their application to a classroom environment. b.Analyze key instances in which you have experienced each diversity approach in action in your own life, focusing on events that took place in a K-12 environment. c.Provide between three to five (3-5) images that demonstrate diverse classrooms in each instance discussed in the question above.

2.Create a section (five to ten [5-10] slides) for multicultural approaches in which you: 

a.Design a unit that relates to your grade level and area of instruction that focuses on the approach to multicultural education you have selected. b.Choose resources that could be used to deliver this unit. Consider the use of any appropriate adaptive learning technologies as well as incorporating International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). c.Recommend at least three (3) strategies that teachers can choose from to integrate multicultural techniques into their classrooms.

3.Create a section (five to ten [5-10] slides) for philosophies of multicultural education in which you:

a.Create a diagram that demonstrates your personal philosophy of multicultural education and its major applications to a K-12 curriculum. b.Determine which evaluation criteria you would use to examine the effectiveness of a multicultural curriculum.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

· Follow APA for formatting guidelines. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

· Include a cover slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover slide and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.