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Analysis of Ethical Dilemmas (FEAP 6a, 6b, 6c, 6e)

Description: Problem solving is one of the most important skills that a teacher can develop. As a teacher you will be presented with many situations that require a quick decision. You will need to consider how you can avoid potential ethical violations while still supporting the needs of your students. You will analyze case study scenarios and apply the Principles of Professional Conduct of the Education Profession of Florida and the Code of Ethics in written reflection format.

Directions: You will be presented with a set of 20 scenarios that represent potential ethical conflicts. You need to describe what you would do in each situation by answering three general questions. The product is a report that answers the questions for each scenario and describes how you would react if you were faced with the decision to be made.

1. For each of the scenarios provided, answer the following questions:

· Briefly discuss the purpose of Florida’s Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct as it relates to your major/discipline/program of study.

· Determine if there is a potential violation of the Principles of Professional Conduct, and, if so, which principle(s) are at risk in this scenario and why? 

· Identify statutory grounds/procedures for disciplinary action, the penalties that can be imposed by the Educational Practices Commission against a certificate holder, and the appeals process available to the individual if applicable.

· What would you actually say to the parties involved that shows that you are responsible, dependable, and concerned about your students? Or what precautions would you take to protect yourself and your students? (Write a scripted response or a procedure/strategy.) 

· In a scenario that requires you to respond verbally, assume that your first response is not “accepted” by the party involved’ and he/she tries to convince you to do what he/she wants you to do. What would you say next? (State what you think the person would say to convince you to do what he/she wants, and write your second scripted response.)

2. You are responsible for analyzing and writing about the odd numbered scenarios #1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19. We will discuss the even numbered scenarios in class.

3. Remember that this task will be scored. Although there are some activities in which it is acceptable for you to share work with other pre-service teachers; this one must be completed alone.

4. Use the following web pages to complete this assignment:

http://www.fldoe.org/edstandards/code_of_ethics.asp

The Code of Ethics and the Principles of Professional Conduct of the Education Profession in Florida

SCENARIOS

1 Money: As the band pre-service teacher, you are in charge of collecting monies from student sales of chocolate bars. The students are counting on this sale to go on a field trip. You are being asked to be responsible for about $ 1,000. What do you do?

1. Advice: One of your students shows up alone at your home and wants to discuss a situation from school. He claims that a gang is bullying him and he can’t tell at school or he’ll be attacked. He has several bruises. That’s why he came to your house. What do you do?

2. Alcohol: During an over-night field trip with students, one of the chaperones brings a cooler of alcoholic beverages to share after the students go to bed. You check the field manual, which does not mention alcohol, but you are not sure if you are responsible for the students after they go to sleep. You would sure like one glass of wine or bottle of beer. What do you do?

3. Rights: One of your students tells you that he/she is LGBTQ. The student confession conflicts with your own personal and religious beliefs, and makes you uncomfortable. The student wants to talk to you for guidance, because the student is having trouble “fitting in.” The student is crying. What do you do?

4. The Press: Your principal is running for superintendent and a local reporter asks your opinion about the principal. (Assume two different scenarios here. In the first you think the principal is excellent; in the second you think the principal is incompetent.) What do you say to the public?

5. Videos: Your students have worked hard preparing for an examination, and they are asking that you reward them by showing the movie Bad Teacher during class time. One of them has rented it for you and shows up in class with it. What do you do?

6. Internet Pornography: Another pre-service teacher sends you e-mail containing funny but pornographic cartoons on the school e-mail server. What do you do?

7. Collegiality: You become aware of a possible moral/ethical problem involving a colleague, but you have no proof and you are not directly a witness. What do you do?

8. Public Role: You are a member of a civic group, club, church, or organization, and you are asked to speak representing that group on a controversial matter as a teacher. In your role as a teacher what do you do?

9. Classroom Policies: You have a new student who is diabetic. You have a rule posted at the front of the class that says, “No food in class.” Another student catches the new student eating candy in class and tells you. What do you do? What do you say to the student who told you? 

10. Equal Opportunity: There is a state drama contest and you are the advisor for the drama team. You have a population of mostly Hispanic and Black students in your school and club. This year’s selection for the contest is a scene from Shakespeare. You need six parts and have eight majority White Non-Hispanic students in the club. You are sure that pronunciation is one of the major criteria for judging. How do you pick the parts?

11. Academic Dishonesty: Your students are talking with each other about an FSA administration given the previous day, and you hear them mention that your colleague who was proctoring the examination gave several students “clues” that assisted them in answering some questions. What do you do?

12. Self‑Competing and Personal Crisis: You have always had a normal life, but after the death of your brother in a car accident, you can’t help dwelling on how short life can be. You have no energy for teaching and go home and sleep all afternoon. You don’t grade papers or make lesson plans. A psychologist tells you that you are depressed. Your annual review is coming up, and you’re afraid of a bad report. What do you do?

13. Due Process: You attend a football game at your school, and sit beside some students in your science class who have a bad reputation. When you start to leave, you notice your wallet is missing and you’re sure you had it when you sat down. You’re sure the students took your wallet, but they left early. What do you do?

14. Free Speech and Equity in the Classroom: Your eighth grade class is studying earth science. You assign the class a science fair project with grading criteria. They are supposed to set up a poster display on a project related to the course content. One student comes in on display day and sets up a religious scene of God creating the world in seven days. You explain to the student that the display isn’t consistent with the criteria ‑ it’s not from a topic in the book. The student insists that his parents approved the topic after reading the science book and encouraged the project. Another student doesn’t have a project. He is from a very low SES family. How do you grade the two students?

15. Zero Tolerance: After a shooting, your district passes a strict regulation: weapons of any kind at school will result in expulsion for the rest of the year ‑ no exceptions. Several letters are sent home and the students are given assemblies where examples of knives, guns, and other weapons are displayed. You have a third grader, normally a good student, who shows you a bullet and asks you what it is … he doesn’t seem to know. He says he found it. You’re afraid that turning him in will result in expulsion. What do you do?

16. Supervisor Interactions: Your school has an assistant principal who constantly makes “adult comments”, dresses provocatively and, occasionally, winks or waves at you. This makes you uncomfortable but nobody else seems to mind. You report to this AP for an annual review and for permission for several educational requests. Do you say something to her, “go over her head” to the principal, ignore her, or file a complaint?

17. Student Rights: A student is absent from school every Monday for several weeks. You ask about it, because the student will soon be in violation of the district attendance policy. The policy states that students are to receive a failing grade if they miss more than ten days a semester. The student typically completes all work despite the absences. You ask the student why he is absent so often. He explains that his parents are divorced and Monday is the only day the court allows visitation with his father. His father helps him with schoolwork, but he lives too far away for the student to come to school. The parent and child ask for a waiver of the school attendance policy. What can you do?

18. Confidentiality: You are in the pre-service teachers’ lounge and cannot help but overhear several other pre-service teachers discussing student performance on examinations, including student names and scores. The pre-service teachers’ lounge is not very private; office personnel wander in to get coffee, and the door often stands open even though students pass by regularly and can overhear anything said. Should you say anything to the talkative pre-service teachers?

19. Academic Freedom: You teach high school social studies. The School Improvement Team decides your class would be perfect for the new sex education program. You don’t think it’s part of social studies, don’t agree with the sex education curriculum, and have no training in the topic. The principal says that training will be provided, “everything fits in social studies”, and social studies is not on the FSA, so you’re the one to teach it. What do you do?

For your School of Education Portfolio Reflection, use the following to guide you in writing your reflection for this assignment:

· For whom did you develop and/or implement the artifact (# students/ grade/age/ subject/classroom setting/LEP/ESE)?

· What theory/concepts/best practices did you use to develop and/ or implement 

 the artifact?

· What did your students learn, or what will they learn as result of the artifact being implemented / utilized by you?

· What did you learn as a result of creating/implementing the artifact?

· What would you do to improve the artifact and student learning? 

· How did the assignment address the FEAP?

Business Finance II

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1.  How is an investor’s required return rate of return related to an opportunity cost? 

2.  How do flotation costs impact the firm’s cost of capital? 

3.  Belton is issuing a $1,000 par value bond that pays 7 percent annual interest and matures in 15 years. Investors are willing to pay $958 for the bond. Flotation costs will be 11 percent of market value. The company is in an 18 percent tax bracket. What will be the firm’s after-tax cost of debt on the bond? 

4.  A preferred stock paying a 9 percent dividend on a $150 par value. If a new issue is offered, flotation costs will be 12 percent of the current price of $175. What is the cost of capital for the company?

5.  The capital structure for the Carion Corporation is provided here. The company plans to maintain its debt structure in the future. If the firm has a 5.5 percent after-tax cost of debt, a 13.5 percent cost of preferred stock, and an 18 percent cost of common stock, what is the firm’s weighted average cost of capital? 

Outcome: Investment in Long-Term Assets/Capital Investment Analysis / Capital Investment Decision Analysis and Free Cash Flows / Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy  

·  All tasks are individual.

·  Each assignment should be submitted by means of a word document. If you need to do some calculations you can attach an Excel document. Please note that the numerical solution should be established in the word document.

Formalities:

·  Wordcounts: 2000 words.

·  Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

·  Font: Arial 12,5 pts. 

·  Text alignment: Justified. 

·  The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

Leading Productive Teams Portfolio

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A minimum of 10 pages not to exceed 15, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font,

using APA standard.

•A minimum of 8 pages (Pages 2-13), The first page, following the title page, should be a Table of Contents. Please list out all sections with their corresponding page number. Failure to include this page will be a 10 point deduction. Then, follow the list of topics below. Each topic should consist of 3/4 to a full page in information.

• Title page, running head, including title of paper, your name, course name and course

number, date of submission (Page 1).

• A minimum of 8 pages (Pages 2-13)

o Introduction of the need for Team Leadership training

o Diagnosis of problems and potential solutions in team leadership

o Discussion of current research on improving team effectiveness

o Include Communication, Conflict, Creativity, and Culture

o Include the Five Appreciations

o Discuss the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

o Discussion of evaluation of training effectiveness

o Brief summary of the biblical implications

o Proposed syllabus for the training (1-2 pages)

• A reference page (Pages 14-15)

• A minimum of 5 references are required, The Holy Bible, books and articles from

academic sources (Online Library), and other periodicals.

U3 CS204

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In this Assignment, you will have an opportunity to view a set of slides. After viewing all of the choices of sets of slides, choose one of the sets that best represents your desired career field. Then, describe and analyze what you viewed according to the following directions. Each paragraph should be a minimum of 5–7 sentences.

Choose a set of slides to view.

Your Assignment should include:

Part 1: View and Analysis (3–4 paragraphs)

Describe and explain what you viewed. Answer the following questions in your response:

  • Which set of slides did you choose to view? How does this set of slides relate to your own career?
  • Were the individuals professional? What made the individuals professional (consider attire, non-verbal communication skills, presentation of self, and identify and describe specific things in the slides that made the individuals professional)?
  • After reviewing the slides, list and explain specific areas that would be unprofessional on the slides as well as in your field when considering attire, non-verbal communication skills, and presentation of self.
  • Include any additional thoughts focused on professionalism based on what you viewed on the slides.

Part 2: Personal Reflection and Connection (4 paragraphs)

  • Describe the appropriate attire for an individual in your profession. Provide specific examples of appropriate attire. Note: you may want to research this by talking to those in your profession or researching appropriate attire for your profession as this may differ from what you viewed in the presentation. In addition, review the Credibility Robbers information from the Unit 2 Learning Activities.
  • Describe and analyze what makes someone a professional in your field. Use research to support your ideas for this paragraph.
  • Explain the behavioral attributes you practice that identify you as a professional (review Units 1–3 for information).
  • What aspects, such as attire, non-verbal communication skills, and presentation of self, do you possess that make you professional? How do these aspects relate specifically to your field?

Assignment Format

Your submission should:

  • Have a brief introductory and concluding paragraph
  • Be about 2 pages, double-spaced, in length using 12 pt. Times New Roman font
  • Include a title page and reference page (note: these do not count towards the two-page content requirement).
  • Be clearly written in Standard English. Be sure to proofread your assignment before posting to ensure you have proper grammar and writing mechanics.
  • Be unified, original, and insightful
  • Follow proper APA 7 edition format for both in-text citations and sources on reference page.

find trends in your profession

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For Project 2, “Find Trends in Your Profession,” you will research your industry and identify the top three trends, create a Reference page, choose an issue of particular interest to research, and write a short analytical paper on the impact of this issue in your field.  

This is a two-step process with separate deliverable dates: 

The first step is to prepare your Draft References in APA style, 7th edition. 

The second step is to prepare a Research Paper. The due date is Tuesday, May 4th.  You may also share your research experience with the class in the Project 2 Discussion area. 

Please make sure you submit each deliverable in the PROPER FOLDER on the CORRECT DUE DATE.

There are four steps that will lead you through this project.

Step 1: Conduct Research to Identify Top Trends. First, you will look in business and industry-related databases for information about your industry. Then you will search the library, websites, and other resources for information that would help you identify the top trends in your industry.  Please remember to record notes from the resources and record the complete citation in APA format in your References page.

Step 2: Choose an Issue to Research Further. Choose an issue from your research on a trend in your industry that has potential for great impact on the field, and then draft a preliminary question or statement of the problem. Once you have chosen your issue and completed enough research to provide a well-reasoned answer (or solution), you will be ready to write your issue paper.

Step 3: Write your Research Paper. Your paper will be 5 pages, not including your cover page and References page(s), double-spaced and set up in APA standards. It does not require an abstract. Your citations, both “in-text” and “References” will be in accordance with the APA 7TH EDITION 

The headings for your research paper will follow this general pattern: Please remember to include each of these components in your research paper. 

  1. Introduction
  2. Findings
    1. Top Trends of the _____ Industry; NAICS/SOC Codes
    2. An Important Emerging Issue in a trend and what it means in context to the industry
  3. Conclusions
  4. References

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Week 3 Discussion

The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered. For this assignment, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Provide a detailed response to the topic questions in the Discussion Area. For this assignment, post your responses directly to the Discussion Area; do not attach any documents.

To support your work, make sure you use your course and text readings. When asked, also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite the sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of this week.

Sentencing Disparities: The Death Penalty

History has shown a wide system of biases among states in the use of the death penalty. In Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 510 (1968) and Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the US Supreme court attempted to address discriminatory practices of disproportionate execution of blacks in many states.

In this assignment, you will discuss the following questions:

  • Conduct a brief search and discuss existing views on the death penalty and sentencing disparities when it comes to race. Analyze whether the death penalty is used more often in cases involving minorities than nonminorities. If so, what remedies can be used to correct this disparity.
  • List the aggravating and mitigating factors recognized in your state.
  • Once you have listed the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, comment on whether you agree, disagree, or think that some others should be included. Explain your reasoning.

Note: You can find these in your state’s laws. If your state does not allow the death penalty, choose the nearest death penalty state.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/state-by-state

USE FLORIDA PLEASE

Introduction to Leadership Concepts Homework Questions

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Find an article in the New York Times in which you can apply one or more of the specific theories or concepts we have been studying. Please link your article to the chapters for which you are submitting. you have full access to the NYTimes.com archive; to access this service, you should create an account by going to https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass.

After finding and reviewing your article, post a brief summary of how, where, and why you can apply leadership concepts and theories we’ve studied in class. Be specific. For example, if you choose to connect behavioral theories to your article, be specific about which behavioral theories you’re connecting. The deeper the integration between the article and specific leadership theories, the better your grade will be.

This assignment is where theory meets practice. The better you can integrate the theories into real-world events, the more deeply you are learning the material. It is this real- life application that will cause you to remember what you are currently learning.

Your initial post should be a minimum of 500 words. You must also select an article from the current year; the article can be from any category of news EXCEPT opinion, and must connect to content in unit one of the course. Remember to include a link to the article you are discussing. 

source evaluation

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After completing the Week 3 Full of Fallacies assignment, where we used logical fallacies to manipulate the audience in an advertisement, in Week 5 we will do the opposite. No fallacies allowed.

We’ll use well-structured arguments to persuade the audience of what we believe to be the truth using evidence from authoritative, unbiased sources as justification.

Choose an issue you’d like to convince other people of and find sources that will be the foundation for the Week 7 Infographic. Use the attached Source Evaluation Worksheet to complete this assignment (CO1).

Part I: Choose a topic.

Describe the topic, concept, idea, or approach that is going to be the central idea of the Week 7 Infographic. There is no minimum word count but please use several well thought-out sentences to make your point.

Part II: Source Evaluation Worksheet

– Find a minimum of three (3) sources; two (2) academic sources from the APUS library and one (1) article (quality online or newspaper article).

– Annotate your list of sources, i.e. explain what you hope to get out of these readings and how it will help you argue your point.

– For this assignment, do not use the website sources you used in the Week 3 Forum.

– Follow the format found in the Source Evaluation Worksheet.

Consider the following:

– Please upload the completed Source Evaluation Worksheet and write directly into it.

– Be detailed and precise when completing the worksheet.

– Your annotation of your sources should be in your own words with some quotations from your source.

The source evaluation worksheet is attached to this request.

HIMA460 Healthcare Data Management and Governance Assignment: Data Standardization

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 Assignment Instructions As the Director of Health Information for a large health system, you have been asked to analyze data sets, secondary data sources, and archival methods through the application of health informatics techniques. The CEO and Board of Directors has asked you to propose a plan to implement across the organization and recommend best practices. 

Please follow the instructions below to complete this assignment. 

1. Apply your knowledge of database querying, exploration and mining techniques to facilitate information retrieval, to create an outline of key components and factors for a data standardization plan.

2. Investigate at least five (5) key challenges related to data sources and data dictionary composition, to meet the needs of a health system. Determine the importance of each challenge and its significance. 

3. Investigate at least five (5) key challenges with data file structures (i.e., data definitions, data modeling, data warehousing, and database management systems). Determine the importance of each challenge and its significance. 

4. Compare and contrast the key challenges. Specifically address the comparisons as advantages and/or disadvantages to data standardization. 

5. Based on all the previous assignment components: a. Construct a plan to manage information as a key strategic approach and part of the information management planning process, as an asset throughout the healthcareorganization. b. Recommend at least three (3) best practices in your plan. c. Justify each recommendation.

 6.Present the information utilizing a video conferencing or recording system. Submit your plan with recommendations, and presentation recording. 

20014 complex in project management

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In chapter 5 of Terry Cooke-Davies’ book Aspects of Complexity Stephen Carver and Harvey Maylor apply a flying analogy of four generic types of management to teaching complexity within the project and program environment (Cooke-Davies 2011, p.69-70).  

What do you conclude from Carver’s and Maylor’s analogy?  And, what on earth do Carver and Maylor mean by structural and dynamic complexity?

In not more than 1,000 words make your explanation by typing rich text directly into the editor field for your submission.  The text area will be available in this study week from 12am Monday until 12am the following Monday. Submissions made after that time will receive a 5% penalty for each day late.

Please make sure that you meet the deadlines set for this assignment.  Extensions will only be allowed by using the CQU Assessment Extension Request link in this Moodle web page.

You must use the correct academic communication method to write your explanation, including in-text references and a reference list.  See the Academic Learning Centre Moodle web page in the Moodle Support section on this web page if you do not know how to do this. The 1,000 word limit includes all the text you enter, which also consists of in-text references and the reference list.

You should discuss this question and assignment with your tutor and colleagues in your prior weekly tutorial.