Overview

Lesson planning is an essential component of the teaching profession. Effective educators must be able to develop appropriate objectives and design instructional strategies to ensure that all students can acquire the knowledge and skills required by learning standards. The process of lesson planning requires careful consideration of the needs of the whole class and the specific needs of small groups or individuals within the class. The lesson plan template is designed to help the pre-service teacher think through and prepare for all these requirements. 

Instructions

To provide sufficient preparation for the teaching process, you will be required to complete a lesson plan for this course. Please use the provided template to create a lesson plan that is aligned with Liberty University School of Education standards for lesson planning and preparation. You must use the Lesson Plan Template provided. Please save the template and type directly into the fields to complete this assignment. 

• If you are pursuing the MAT in elementary education, you may focus your lesson on any grade level (K-5) and any one of the four core subject areas (English, Math, Science, Social Studies). 

• If you are pursuing the MAT in middle grades education, you may write the plan for any grade level (6-8) and you must write it in the subject area for which you are seeking endorsement.

• If you are pursuing the MAT in secondary education, you may write the plan for any grade level (9-12) and you must write it in the subject area for which you are seeking endorsement.

• You must consult national standards and the Virginia Standards of Learning for this assignment. You may not use standards from any state other than Virginia. To locate applicable national and Virginia standards for this assignment, please use the links that have been provided.

This should be a 20-minute mini-lesson. Please plan accordingly as you will be required to create a simulation video of this lesson for the Lesson Plan Presentation Assignment. 

This assignment must be submitted in Canvas and in Livetext.

Students will spend a majority of their time working on assignments and college papers during their academic pursuits. These assignments are a must as part of their higher education and contribute directly to their overall grades. However, lately, the education system is going through a transition, and so is the job market. With the rise in innovations every day in the 21st century, the learning model changes, and the changing workforce has rendered traditional teaching methodologies obsolete. As such, theories have started to arise that one’s college paper works may not be relevant in the modern world. 

Today’s students have a lot on their plate. Most of them have a life outside of their academic pursuits, and some even start small businesses of their own while in college itself. Most of them seek writing services such as WriteMyPaper4me to complete their assignments within the deadline. But not all services are legit, and some are scams posing as writing companies waiting to fraud customers. It may be best to check out WriteMyPaper4me reviews first to check whether it is the right facility for you. There are many factors to consider before settling on a writing company, such as prices, guarantees, and a number of free revisions. It is best for customers to apply due diligence and do their research before settling on a company. 

Over the last few years, several studies have been conducted on academics and their relevance in the modern world. Some studies show that the academic institutions’ methodologies have not evolved to keep up with every other industry’s changes. This puts how scholars maintain relevance in modern society at stake. 

Social media over academia

Social media is one of the most significant factors in every industry and is impacting every other individual. One’s academic pursuit is not further from it. Individuals now have access to stories, news, and information at the tip of their fingers. For college papers to remain relevant, scholars must learn to include the new realities of the information age in their assignments. 

Most scientific researches and findings are published in journals or blogs. However, not all individuals have access to such online academic journals. This means that new discoveries are often buried deep in the vast ocean of information and is likely lost to the general public. For more people to read up on the academic findings, it may be best for educational institutions to make themselves more accessible with social media. A few pseudo-scientific journals cater to the general public and offer insights into the academic world. This may be the driving factor towards change. Having training programs that help academicians present their papers to the mass may be a good idea. 

Generational shift

Most educational institutes encourage critical thinking and problem-solving skills and teach their scholars to apply such skills to their papers. Many young people have joined the academic world with different goals and aspirations, unlike their seniors. Students choose a research career to make a significant contribution to the real world and offer their expertise and knowledge to make a difference in the world we live in. 

However, these scholars report that if academia doesn’t value their engagement, they might change career paths altogether. The threat of irrelevance is, however, quite large among these academic findings of young scholars. The Economist reported in 2010 that most American universities could be unable to see the changes around them and fail to react. 

Not all is lost, however. Recent research by AAAS survey found that academicians now believe that their work should get more coverage in the new media. Most schools and colleges have understood the value of digital activities in academic achievement and learning the rules of engagement to cater to many more people. By reaching out to more readers, scholars may be given the opportunity to work on papers relevant to modern society.

Given the Spam data set for classifying an e-mail is either spam (label 1) or not (label 0). The dataset can be downloaded from https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/SpambaseLinks to an external site.. Compare three ML algorithms: logistic regression, decision tree, and random forest for this binary classification problem. Collect screenshots of critical parts for each question. Type all answers. Submit a pdf report. Use Databrick notebook. The final notebook should be fully documented and uploaded to Canvas as well as the pdf report.

1. (30 points) Find the best model for each ML algorithms. Compute precision, recall, and F1 scores based on ALL data points.  Identify the best ML algorithm based on the statistics computed.

2. (30 points) Use 5 fold (70/30) cross-validation method to find the best model for each ML algorithm using the default ROC criterion. Compare these three ML algorithms and pick the best overall model. Discuss how you reach this conclusion.

3. (20 points) Based on your best model in Q2, identify the most significant features. Discuss how you can take advantage of this finding. 

4. (10 points) Discuss why the best ML algorithm is better than the other two from a theoretical point of view. 

5. (10 points) Does the best model provide a satisfactory classification outcome? Explain. Is there another ML model that may be used to better this result? Discuss and provide the sources of your analysis.

The US and in many countries across the globe is facing a pending challenge in an aging population, falling birth rate and economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic.  These issues will have huge implications on the size of the workforce and the consumer base with ramifications on a global basis.    

Your team has been hired by a global private equity firm to investigate the implications of an aging population, isolate a problem area, and propose a compelling product or service that they can invest in. The assumption is that they are willing to invest in projects that are “long term bets” but they must have compelling insights, data and strategic plans in order to make these investments.  They want an innovative solution, something that isn’t just an extension of the past.  Your mission is to deliver these insights, data and plan.  

In order to succeed you need to dig deep into the societal, economic, environmental and technological contexts to identify the underlying problem(s). In particular, your client (the global private equity firm) is interested in learning about global market trends and opportunities related (but not limited to):  

• Life expectancy and health care 
• Transfer and consolidation of wealth   
• Movement of people, including immigration  
• Connection to external environment  
• Future of work  
• Future of retirement 
• Consumer behavior 

The creative solution and investment opportunity will then be presented to your client at the end of the program.  

In particular your mission is to:  

1. Identify global trends that are associated with an aging population which are driving consumer behavior. What are they, and what are the implications for a product or a service?   
2. Determine how you might interpret this trend and its implications in a region or a country and sector or industry.  
3. Isolate and select the problem(s) that need to be solved as they relate to this trend.  
4. Scope the problem and validate it based on data – primary and secondary research.  
5. Propose a product or service to address the problem or capture the opportunity.  
6. Communicate the work you have done on the project and your detailed proposal to the private equity firm.  

This requires deep understanding of underlying problems, and creativity in developing sustainable yet realistic solutions for the future with the support of latest and emerging technologies and trends. You want to anticipate these systemic impediments and leverage high impact opportunities, especially to address the impact of an aging population.  

Your proposal should:  

1. Be grounded in extensive research and analysis of the context and stakeholders. 
2. Showcase feasibility of execution and application supported by your insights. 
3. Demonstrate real-world application through prototyping.  
4. Convince with state-of-the-art market analytics and realism in implementation plans. 

In terms of assessment, your team is strongly encouraged to find external mentors who can support you with problem related expertise your team may be encountering when it comes to collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data to verify problems and generate solutions. You are expected to conduct extensive research associated to the problem context in a condensed period of time.   

You will start by creating a Trends Matrix – a high-level summary of trends and how they impact your project. It can also show how trends happening in one area may have influenced others. From here, you will write an Intent Statement that outlines your initiation intentions for the work you are undertaking. [Team Assignments Due March 29]  

Next, you will lay out the design of your investigation, assumptions, how you intend to test them, and preliminary definition of the problem. These will be summarized in a Contextual Research Plan and Mapping.  [Team Assignment Due April 13]  

You will then continue your journey and report back individually on anticipated types of solutions (advice, product/service, model, or venture, etc.) and the feasibility of execution and application. This individual Insights Clustering and Concept report will be your contribution to the overall work product of the team and will be identified as such. [Individual Assignment Due April 25]  

As your team learns about the properties of the problem-solution fit, we will apply means of design thinking to generate solutions and build a prototype (digital or other format) to address the problem. The culmination of the journey is your final Project Recommendation and Presentation to your clients and receiving valuable feedback from your peers regarding your great contribution.  [Team Assignment Due May 12] 

The best projects will be strategically justified and connected to an aging population, competitively focused, and written with a senior executive audience in mind. Teams will be confronted with decisions regarding how ambitious a proposal is to develop in order to present the winning proposal to solving a particular problem. New and bold is good, but so is immediate, tangible, and actionable as long as the problem is significant enough and you are not shadowing existing solutions.   

Ultimately, a particularly strong proposal will present:  

• A deep understanding of the chosen problem setting based on rigorous scientific work.  
• Fresh ideas driven by independent research combined with creative futures-oriented thinking. 
• Clarity on the most promising targets for effort and investment from the standpoint of market segment, 
• Consumer Behavior and benchmarks with strategic priorities in mind. 
• Original insights into stakeholder benefits and their thorough modeling and quantification. 
• Well justified, feasible and anchored recommendations and actions. 
• An understanding that each context has unique challenges, which can be identified through secondary sources and people connected with each geography or demographic.

Sources and people connected with each geography or demographic.

This summative assignment is the culmination of your work. It should lay out a compelling story for your client that addresses the challenge you have been given. Your recommendations and presentation should also incorporate the changes, developments and improvements that resulted from team coaching sessions throughout the course.

The deliverables are:

a) A  Project Recommendations Report of up to 50 pages that summarizes the team’s work, including prototypes, data, and primary research. The Report should be double-spaced, properly formatted in 12-point font. 

b) A presentation that will be submitted and presented to the clients. 

 Overview

For this discussion, you will choose a type of data collection method (as outlined in chapter 14 of your textbook) and describe a scenario when it would be useful as well as potential pitfalls of the method. Use your textbook as support for your answer.

Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts.

Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues’ initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: “This is interesting – in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature…” and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as “I agree” or “good comment.

“Objectives

• Describe various types, advantages, and disadvantages of data collection methods used in research

Points: 30Due Dates:

• Initial Post: Fri, Jun 4 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US.
• Response Post: Sun, Jun 6 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US – (the response posts cannot be done on the same day as the initial post).

References:

• Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.
• Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response.

Words Limits

• Initial Post: Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one (1) page)
• Response posts: Minimum 100 words excluding references.