Allocate 5 hours in the field on this field experience.

Teacher candidates will learn of development characteristics from a nurse, physical education teacher, sports coach, or other health specialist at the school and practicing special education teacher. In this block, your field experience must be completed outside of school hours when students are not present. 

Contact a health specialist and a special education teacher from secondary grades 6-12 and arrange separate interviews. Speak with your instructor about alternate professionals to interview, if necessary. 

Use the following points of discussion to guide your interview:

1. Discuss characteristics of adolescence.
2. What characteristics seem to change the most and why?
3. What characteristics seem to never change?
4. How does physical development influence the characteristics of adolescence?
5. How does cognitive development influence the characteristics of adolescence?
6. How do social and emotional relationships influence the adolescent?
7. What technologies are used to facilitate adolescent learning? 

In 250-500 words, summarize and reflect on your interviews.  Discuss the characteristics of physical and cognitive development during adolescence and the affect it has on the learning process for students. Explain the effect that social and emotional relationships have during adolescence.

Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected

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.

Document the hours and locations that you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.

Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form with the last assignment by the assignment due date. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.

Locate any report or periodical article that contains at least two different graphical representations of data or use one of the supplied articles. Interpret the graphs and present your findings in a brief PowerPoint presentation (6 slides). You may choose to explain the points in your 5-8 minute presentation with a recorded voice-over or include detailed presenter’s notes in the PowerPoint slides.

Business administrators and managers are often called upon to interpret data that analysts have provided to them. This requires an understanding of the data sources (when, where, and how data is collected; formatted or stored; and used), as well as what that data looks like and how it can be summarized. In this first assessment, you are asked to locate any report or periodical article used in a business context of interest to you that contains at least two different graphical representations of data. You will interpret the graphical data representations and present your findings in a brief PowerPoint deck, as if you were presenting during a company meeting.

In this assessment you will learn about the collection, formatting, and use of raw data, as well as graphical and tabular methods for summarizing it. You will also get started with the technology that you will use in this course: Microsoft Excel (including the Data Analysis ToolPak add-in).

Scenario

You are an analyst in a business. You may choose a real or fictional business of interest. Any business that has practical meaning for you is an appropriate choice for this assessment.

You have been given you a report containing some graphs and charts and must interpret and explain two of them at a department meeting.

Your Role

You have been invited to be one of many presenters at a departmental meeting that employees of all levels will attend. You have been allotted 5–8 minutes, and the purpose of your speech is to explain the two charts or tables that your analyst has given you.

Instructions

1. Select two graphical representations of data, such as pie charts, bar charts, scatter plots and trend lines, or tables.
   • You may use published articles, annual report graphics from publicly traded companies, or any published business report.
   • A list of appropriate articles has been compiled for this assessment. You may select one of the articles from the list in Resources or find your own article that meets the criteria.
   • If you cannot find any published data graphics, you may create them. 
2. Identify the business context, such as an online store, a brick-and-mortar business, year-end review, product kickoff, recently merged or new IPO company, or a family-owned business.
   • This company background information should help explain why the data is relevant. 
3. Interpret your chosen data representation in the context of the business situation. The following are typical questions an analyst would use to interpret the data:
   • What is being measured (the variables)?
   • What are the relationships among the variables?
   • What are the trends in the data?
   • How can the data be applied in the business context?
4. Create an effective 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that could be presented at a departmental meeting.
   • An effective PowerPoint presentation for this purpose typically includes:
     • 1 title slide, APA formatted.
     • 1 introduction slide explaining the business context.
     • 1 slide for each of the two graphics in your report.
       • You may insert or paste the charts and include an appropriate citation (2 total slides for this portion of the presentation).
       • Explain the meaning of each graphical data representation.
     • 1 conclusion slide in which you explain how the data may affect the business context or how each graph may be applied in your business context to inform decision making.
     • 1 slide with APA-formatted references, including the source of each graph.
5. Prepare a short speech that presents your analysis so that it is relevant to people of all levels of the company.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

• Assessment 1 Example 1 [PPTX].

Additional Requirements

• For each bullet point, use concise but complete sentences that are clear, easily understood, and jargon-free. Remember: you will be speaking to people of all levels within the company.
• Do not include too many bullet points on each slide (a maximum of 3 bullets per slide is a good guideline to follow).
• Include an APA-formatted references slide at the end of the presentation as well as APA-formatted in-text citations where appropriate.
• You may use a recorded voice-over of no longer than 5 minutes using Kaltura or detailed speaker’s notes to add necessary details to your presentation. Refer to the Campus tutorial Using Kaltura (linked in MBA Program Resources) as needed.
• Your written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.

Evaluation

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain how data management techniques and tools are used to support business decisions.
  • Introduce the business context.
  • Explain how the data can be applied to the business context.
• Competency 4: Present the results of data analysis in clear and meaningful ways to multiple stakeholders.
  • Interpret, or explain the meaning of, the two different graphical representations of data.
  • Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.
  • Present content clearly, professionally, and logically for the identified audience.

Your proposal will be 18–25 pages (not including the title page, table of contents, reference list, Appendix A, or Appendix B). The proposal will be constructed using APA, formatting. It should be in the following format:

1. Introduction: Tell the reader what the proposal is about and how the proposal is organized (you will write this after you have written the body of the proposal).
2. Theoretical Framework
   • Explanation of the theory of action research that includes at least 5 different sources, properly cited
   • Explanation of the theory of process consultation that includes at least 3 different sources, properly cited
   • Explanation of the philosophy of appreciative inquiry that includes at least 3 different sources
3. Practical Framework: Explain how you will conduct action research. Include the following elements:
   • Entry, Informal Data Collection, Micro-Diagnosis
   • Identification of Grand Objective
   • Identification of First Sub-Objective/Diagnosis
   • Planning Phase
     • How will you approach the problem within the confines of your organization?
   • Action Phase
     • Emphasis must be on how you will facilitate this phase as you employ appreciative inquiry and action research values.
   • Facilitation of the Reflection Phase
     • Identify the new knowledge created during the cycle (covering the “What? So what? Now what?” model), and employ the values of AI/AR.
   • Evaluation of Project
4. Facilitation
   • Discussion of self as instrument and how you will engage this construct of AI/AR, including at least 2 different sources
   • Discussion of systems theory, leading to a discussion of open systems theory and how you will include an awareness of systems theory
5. Overview of Organization
   • Overview of client system: Industry, history of organization, mission, vision (if any), geographic location, and number of employees
   • Roles: What are the roles and tenure of each of the 2–5 additional people who will participate in the cycles of AI/AR? (Create a pseudonym for each person.)
   • Presenting issue: Describe the issue or opportunity that will serve as a starting point for your work

This week we studied nutrition, making healthy food and portion choices, and managing stress effectively.

For your Unit 4 Complete assignment, write a narrative essay (minimum of 1000 words) in which you address and discuss the questions and statements listed below.  Use at least three scholarly sources and remember to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the READ and ATTEND sections in your essay.  Please make sure to cite your sources in APA format. 

• After perusing the information on choosemyplate.gov, describe in detail how your diet compares to the USDA dietary guidelines and explain if you feel as if you would or would not benefit from utilizing the tools designed to evaluate and track the quality of your diet over time with the MyPlate website.
• In his book, Mindless Eating, Dr. Brian Wansink presents a somewhat different approach to eating.   Based on his research, Dr. Wansink contends that subtle and almost imperceptible cues and prompts in our day contribute to a tendency to overeat.  His research on labels and containers led to the development of the 100-calorie snack packages.  He also advocates for eating with smaller plates and drinking from taller glasses since it tricks our minds into thinking that we ate or drank more than we did.  By better understanding cues that lead us to eat, we can set habits and environments that help us to eat less.  Rather than changing the foods we eat, the method of “mindless eating” focuses on how we can modify our perceptions of food to regulate intake.  Take a closer look at Mindless Eating on the internet to better understand the ideas.  Discuss whether you think this is a novel approach or just another fad diet and explain if you do or do not believe that this mental approach to weight control would help you better regulate your weight.
• The recent “Stress in America” report from the American Psychological Association provides insights about patterns and trends in stress.  Although sources and consequences of stress are similar for men and women, there are many key differences in how each gender reports and perceives stress.  Visit the StressinAmerca.org website to take a closer look at stress patterns and trends.  Discuss any interesting patterns or relationships you observe for gender, region, or generation.  Then describe and explain if you are or are not surprised that there are gender, age, or generational differences in stress ratings.