Integrating the Theory Into Professional Practice

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** paper – 900 words

**powerpoint 8 slides

To excel in their practice, social workers needs to understand a  variety of theoretical frames for differing scenarios they will  encounter as professionals. Social workers also need to understand  techniques for applying theory to their practice.

  • C4.GP.B. Apply critical thinking to engage in analysis of quantitative and qualitative research methods and research findings.
  • C6.GP.A; C7.GP.B; C8.GP.B; C9.GP.B. (Engage)  (Assess) (Intervene) (Evaluate). Apply knowledge of human behavior and  the social environment, person-in-environment, and other  multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks with clients and  constituencies.

Assignment Description

For this final assignment, which is also your final course project,  write a scholarly paper and create a PowerPoint presentation including  the components identified in the instructions below.

Assignment Instructions

For this assignment:

  • Discuss why the theory, chosen for the assignment in Unit 5, is useful to you in your social work practice.
  • Compare and contrast your selected theory with at least two other  theories, explaining why the theory you selected is a better fit for  your practice.
  • Explain how theory guides social work practice, including the areas of assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
  • Integrate research-based knowledge and practice wisdom to support your project.

Using the content of your Unit 5 assignment, your chosen case  study, and selected theory, create a PowerPoint presentation that  presents a comparison of your theory with at least two other theories in  the context of applicability to your chosen case study.

  • Explain your reasoning using multiple sources of knowledge, including research-based knowledge, and practice wisdom.

This is a two (2) to four (4) minute presentation. Points will be deducted for going over or under the assigned time.

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· Before you begin, read the section in the syllabus titled, “Submitting Your Online Speeches.”

· This is a two (2) to four (4) minute presentation. Points will be deducted for going over or under the assigned time.

· There are three (3) things you’ll turn in on Blackboard: A visual aid, YouTube link, and short outline.

· You should use a visual aid to help your audience remember what you’re speaking about (it can be an object such as a certificate, trophy, etc. or anything that is visual in nature). Be sure to show it during your speech.

· More guidelines to follow.

Develop a 3-4 minute recorded presentation in which you  (1) define who you are now, using Sidney Fine’s “Three Kinds of Skills,” (2) illustrate your “skills” with a story from your life as directed below and (3) set a goal as to how you will demonstrate/apply your skills in your current internship.

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Instructions

Presentation #1: Identifying and Illustrating my Skills

There is a valuable lesson to be learned from those who have conducted successful job searches: it is extremely important to define who you are as you embark on your job search AND to be able to illustrate who you are through short stories from your professional and personal life that demonstrate the unique strengths you bring to a role.

Objective:  Develop a 3-4 minute recorded presentation in which you  (1) define who you are now, using Sidney Fine’s “Three Kinds of Skills,” (2) illustrate your “skills” with a story from your life as directed below and (3) set a goal as to how you will demonstrate/apply your skills in your current internship. You will use PowerPoint or a similar tool to create your presentation.

Recording Directions:  record your completed presentation and upload it into the dropbox for Presentation #1 in D2L.

Your recording options are:

  1. Panopto:  This option is housed in your D2L course shell and is a video-sharing platform supported by NLU.  Detailed directions for recording and sharing with Panopto can be found HERE
  2. PowerPoint dictation:  Using this option, you would record a voice-over of your PowerPoint slides and share them with your instructor.  Directions for this option can be found HERE
  3. Zoom: you may use zoom to record your presentation, walking your audience through shared slides.  You would use the record function in zoom and then save your completed recording and share it with your instructor in D2L.  Directions for using zoom to record a presentation can be found HERE.  This option does require that you sign up for a temporary free zoom account or that you have your own account.

Presentation Content Directions:  In your presentation, make sure to:

1. Define your skills. (3 Slides-one for each skill type)

a. Using Sidney Fine’s Three Kinds of Skills (linked here), identify one Transferable/Functional skill (what you can do), one personal trait/attitude (how you conduct yourself), and one knowledge-based skill (what you know)  that best define the strengths you bring to your internship at this moment. (You are encouraged to identify one of these skills from your Strengthsfinder survey.)

2.  Determine how your passions, values, and interests connect to the skills you have identified. (1 slide)

  1. As you think about what you can do, how you behave, and what you know, it’s also important to think about what you care about and what you love.  Reflect on the connection and share your learnings in this slide.

3. Illustrate with a story.   (1 slide)

  1. Select an event  from your recent past where you have demonstrated

your identified skills. You might revisit the SOAR  format to tell your story, revisited here. You could also consider the storytelling suggestions offered by Katherine Hanson in your assigned readings, found here. (Your story must contain: what you wanted to accomplish, a hurdle or obstacles you encountered, a description of what you did, a description of the result that is measurable.)  If you absolutely need to tell more than one story, you can. The goal here is to show your audience how you have demonstrated the skills you have identified.

4. Determine Next Steps.  (1 slide)

  1. Now that you have identified three current skills, identify ways that you might demonstrate  (or more effectively demonstrate) these skills in your current internship, job, or extracurricular activity.

Required Readings for Presentation:  

Just to let you know that I am Computer Science student so present it accordingly

Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation with speaker notes and audio. Your audience is the City Council members who are responsible for deciding whether the city invests in resources to set in motion the smart parking space app. 

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Purpose 

This assignment illustrates how data analytics can be used to create strategies for sustainable organizational success while integrating the organization’s mission with societal values. You’ll apply statistical time series modeling techniques to identify patterns and develop time-dependent demand models. You’ll practice organizing and delivering a presentation to senior decision-makers. The PowerPoint presentation includes an audio component in addition to speaker notes.

Resource: Microsoft Excel®, DAT565_v3_Wk6_Data_File

Scenario: A city’s administration isn’t driven by the goal of maximizing revenues or profits but instead looks at improving the quality of life of its residents. Many American cities are confronted with high traffic and congestion. Finding parking spaces, whether in the street or a parking lot, can be time-consuming and contribute to congestion. Some cities have rolled out data-driven parking space management to reduce congestion and make traffic more fluid.

You’re a data analyst working for a mid-size city that has anticipated significant increments in population and car traffic. The city is evaluating whether it makes sense to invest in infrastructure to count and report the number of parking spaces available at the different parking lots downtown. This data would be collected and processed in real-time, feeding an app that motorists can access to find parking space availability in different parking lots throughout the city.

Instructions: Work with the provided Excel database. This database has the following columns:

  • LotCode: A unique code that identifies the parking lot
  • LotCapacity: A number with the respective parking lot capacity
  • LotOccupancy: A number with the current number of cars in the parking lot
  • TimeStamp: A day/time combination indicating the moment when occupancy was measured
  • Day: The day of the week corresponding to the TimeStamp
  • Insert a new column, OccupancyRate, recording occupancy rate as a percentage with one decimal. For instance, if the current LotOccupancy is 61 and LotCapacity is 577, then the OccupancyRate would be reported as 10.6 (or 10.6%).
  • Using the OccupancyRate and Day columns, construct box plots for each day of the week. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Is the median occupancy rate approximately the same throughout the week? If not, which days have lower median occupancy rates? Which days have higher median occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?
  • Using the OccupancyRate and LotCode columns, construct box plots for each parking lot. You can use Insert > Insert Statistic Chart >Box and Whisker for this purpose. Do all parking lots experience approximately equal occupancy rates? Are some parking lots more frequented than others? Is this what you expected?
  • Select any 2 parking lots. For each one, prepare a scatter plot showing the occupancy rate against TimeStamp for the week 11/20/2016 –11/26/2016. Are occupancy rates time-dependent? If so, which times seem to experience the highest occupancy rates? Is this what you expected?

Presentation: 

Create a 10- to 12-slide presentation with speaker notes and audio. Your audience is the City Council members who are responsible for deciding whether the city invests in resources to set in motion the smart parking space app.

Complete the following in your presentation:

  • Outline the rationale and goals of the project.
  • Utilize boxplots showing the occupancy rates for each day of the week. Include your interpretation of the results.
  • Utilize box plots showing the occupancy rates for each parking lot. Include your interpretation of the results.
  • Provide scatter plots showing occupancy rate against the time of day of your selected four parking lots. Include your interpretation of the results.
  • Make a recommendation about continuing with the implementation of this project.

Submit your assignment.

Summative Assessment: Leading Group Challenges (PowerPoint)

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Presentation Content

  1. Assume you are a newly hired police chief in a medium-sized police department. The political leaders specifically hired you to make changes within the department.During your career, you have been known as a “Cop’s Cop.” The operations of the new department seem to be stuck in the past. There haven’t been many changes in the past 20 years. More specifically, there has not been a focus on using a team approach toward managing interaction within the department or with the community.The Common Council of your community has requested a report from you on how you intend to approach this challenge.Research and analyze a police department in your area to determine the following:
    • How do they use teams and manage team interaction?
    • What tactics do they use in their decision making?
    • How do they successfully interact with their community?
    • Develop a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation explaining how you intend to approach this challenge. Your goal is to develop the department into a more productive, high-performance organization. Complete the following in your presentation:
    • Analyze the basic characteristics of groups in criminal justice organizations and describe how you will apply these characteristics in your department.
    • Evaluate the concepts of teamwork and high-performance teams in criminal justice organizations and explain how you will use these concepts to achieve your goals.
    • Analyze the roles that managers must play in order to be effective team members and leaders within a criminal justice organization and present how you will apply these roles as you lead your department.
    • Explain how your implementation of these strategies in your department will improve internal operations, as well as connect to and interact with the community more efficiently in the 21st century.
    • Research these issues using the following sources:
    • Media accounts
    • Personal interviews
    • Internet sources
    • Police department official statements
    • Other resources you think are important.
    • Cite a minimum of 3 sources in addition to your textbook.Submit your assignment.Resources
    • Center for Writing Excellence
    • Reference and Citation Generator
    • Grammar Assistance

The Assignment: (8- to 9-slide PowerPoint presentation)

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Nursing is a very highly regulated profession. There are over 100 boards of nursing and national nursing associations throughout the United States and its territories. Their existence helps regulate, inform, and promote the nursing profession. With such numbers, it can be difficult to distinguish between BONs and nursing associations, and overwhelming to consider various benefits and options offered by each.

Both boards of nursing and national nursing associations have significant impacts on the nurse practitioner profession and scope of practice. Understanding these differences helps lend credence to your expertise as a professional. In this Assignment, you will practice the application of such expertise by communicating a comparison of boards of nursing and professional nurse associations. You will also share an analysis of your state board of nursing.

To Prepare:

· Assume that you are leading a staff development meeting on regulation for nursing practice at your healthcare organization or agency.

· Review the NCSBN and ANA websites to prepare for your presentation.

The Assignment: (8- to 9-slide PowerPoint presentation)

Develop a 8- to 9-slide PowerPoint Presentation that addresses the following:

· Describe the differences between a board of nursing and a professional nurse association.

· Describe the board for your specific region/area.

· Who is on the board?

· How does one become a member of the board?

· Describe at least one state regulation related to general nurse scope of practice.

· How does this regulation influence the nurse’s role?

· How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?

· Describe at least one state regulation related to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs).

· How does this regulation influence the nurse’s role?

· How does this regulation influence delivery, cost, and access to healthcare?

· Has there been any change to the regulation within the past 5 years? Explain.

 

 

https://www.nursingworld.org

 

https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm

 

https://content.waldenu.edu/content/dam/laureate/laureate-academics/wal/ms-nurs/nurs-6050/artifacts/USW1_NURS_6050_Halm_2018.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4713907/

Create a Cybersecurity Awareness Poster 

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Create a Cybersecurity Awareness Poster 

a. Use Powerpoint to create a poster that will make others aware of the different social engineering techniques used to gain unauthorized access to an organization or the organization’s data.

Pick from: Baiting, Shoulder Surfing, Pretexting, Phishing, Scareware, Ransomware, Tailgating or Dumpster Diving.

b. The poster should depict the techniques used and how users can avoid one of these social engineering attacks. Also include directions on where the poster should be placed within the organization.

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Curriculum Integration

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One of the most important tasks of a school leader is the modeling of best practices. Curriculum alignment is among these best practices. Teachers will benefit from examples of alignment and they should be part of the alignment process to ensure improvement, promote students’ learning readiness, instill mutual commitment and accountability, and develop the knowledge, skills, and motivation to succeed.

Select a school setting (e.g., elementary, middle, secondary), and design a 10-15 slide digital presentation for a faculty professional development session on unit planning. Provide research-based examples that promote the following:

  • The importance of planning units, rather than simply individual lessons.
  • Designing instructional units that embody high expectations for student learning and align with academic standards.
  • Planning differentiated instructional strategies and technologies that can be used to maximize high-quality instruction.
  • Ensuring that curriculum and instructional practices are culturally inclusive.
  • Incorporating the school’s vision and goals into innovative instructional programs.

Include a title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.

Support your presentation with 3-5 scholarly resources.

5-10 slides (maximum) -Be concise, clear, and focused on the topic asked.

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⁕ Identify expected physical and developmental changes occurring in the school-age child.

 

  1. 5-10 slides (maximum) -Be concise, clear, and focused on the topic asked.
  2. Include the rationale for the response. 
  3. Turnitin less 15%. 

Create a presentation (i.e. PowerPoint) based on your self-awareness of your behaviors in the workplace and based on each situation you identified for self-awareness. Your presentation will need to include:

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ScenarioYou are a member of a high-functioning team and want to apply for an open management position. Part of the interviewing process involves you reflecting on your own behavioral growth and development in order to demonstrate your commitment to relating to others while achieving personal and professional goals. To do this, you need to identify two different situations that indicate a focus/change needed to make others want to work with you as their manager. One situation needs to be a positive experience while the second is a negative experience.

Instructions

Create a presentation (i.e. PowerPoint) based on your self-awareness of your behaviors in the workplace and based on each situation you identified for self-awareness. Your presentation will need to include:

  1. Details or background on the two situations identified (positive and negative).
  2. For each situation, discuss what non-verbal cues were given or used.
  3. For each situation, explain what the outcomes were.
  4. For each situation, determine what tools could be used to make improvements (i.e. listening more, empathy, more information, etc.).
  5. Include speaker notes on each slide.

Rubric:-Clear and robust details or background information given for both positive and negative situations using multiple clear examples in a well-crafted presentation.-Provided clear and concise explanations on non-verbal cues for each situation using multiple clear examples in a well-crafted presentation.-Provided clear and concise explanations on outcomes for each situation using multiple clear examples in a well-crafted presentation.-Clear and concise determination on possible improvements or tools used for each situation using multiple clear examples in a well-crafted presentation.-Included clear and detailed speaker notes on each slide.