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  Visual Arts In Early Childhood

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  Investigate, through quality* literature, why the inclusion of Visual Arts is necessary in Early Childhood programs. In your rationale, justify the importance of Visual Arts to meaning-making; creativity; cognitive and aesthetic development in young children.

  *For quality literature, search academic journals; your readings; literature found on e-Reserve; and professional web links, such as those provided in this unit plan.

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  The Reggio Emilia Philosophy

  Hailed as an exemplary model of early childhood education (Newsweek, 1991), the Reggio Emilia approach to education seeks to enhance a child’s “own powers of thinking through the synthesis of all the expressive, communicative and cognitive languages” (Edwards and Forman, 1993). The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education grew out of a city-run system of centers in Reggio Emilia, Italy designed for all children from birth through six years of age. These programs have been recognized as the best in the world, and are based upon the following principles:

  Emergent Curriculum: An emergent curriculum is one that builds upon the interests of children. Topics for study are captured from the talk of children, through community or family events, as well as the known interests of children (puddles, shadow, dinosaurs, etc.). Team planning is an essential component of the emergent curriculum. Teachers work together to formulate the possible directions of a project, the materials needed, and possible parent and/or community support and involvement.

  Project Work: Projects, also emergent, are in-depth studies of concepts, ideas, and interests which arise from the children. Considered as an adventure, projects may last one week or could continue throughout the school year. Throughout a project, teachers help children make decisions about the direction of study, the ways in which the group will research the topic, the medium that will demonstrate and showcase the topic, and the selection of materials needed for the work.

  Representational Development: Consistent with Howard Gardner’s notion of schooling for multiple intelligences, the Reggio Emilia approach calls for the integration of the graphic arts as tools for cognitive, linguistic, and social development. Presentation of concepts in multiple forms — print, art, construction, drama, music, puppetry, and shadow play — are viewed as essential to children’s understanding of experience.

  Collaboration: Collaborative group work, both large and small, is considered valuable and necessary to advance cognitive development. Children are encouraged to talk, critique, compare, negotiate, hypothesize, and problem-solve through group work. Within the Reggio Emilia approach, different approaches toward the same investigation are all valued, and thus children are given access to many tools and media to express themselves. The relationship and collaboration with the home, school and community all support the learning of the child.

  Teachers as Researchers: The teacher’s role within the Reggio Emilia approach is complex. Working as co-teachers, the role of the teacher is first and foremost to be that of a learner alongside the children. The teacher is a teacher-researcher, a resource and guide as she/he lends expertise to children (Edwards, 1993). Within such a teacher-researcher role, educators carefully listen, observe, and document children’s work and the growth of community in their classroom and are to provoke, co-construct, and stimulate thinking and peer collaboration. Teachers are committed to reflection about their own teaching and learning.

  Ideally, each Reggio Emilia school has an Atelier, which is a common space where students work on projects that involve clay, wire, mirrors, beautiful papers, drawing materials, paints and found objects. The Atelierista (or studio teacher) sees these materials as languages that children use to construct and express many kinds of knowledge, even before they can speak. Teachers trace the children’s discoveries through the artwork, and together with the ‘atelierista’, document and reflect on the children’s learning.

  Documentation: Similar to the portfolio approach, documentation of children’s work in progress is viewed as an important tool in the learning process for children, teachers, and parents. Pictures of children engaged in experiences, their words as they discuss what they are doing, feeling and thinking, and the children’s interpretation of experience are displayed. Documentation is used as assessment of learning as well as advocacy.

  Environment: Within the Reggio Emilia schools, great attention is given to the look and feel of the classroom. Environment is considered the “third teacher.” Teachers carefully organize space for small and large group projects and small intimate spaces for one, two or three children. Documentation of children’s work, plants, and collections that children have made from former outings are displayed both at the children’s and adult eye level. Common space available to all children in the school includes dramatic play areas and worktables for children from different classrooms to come together.

  Features of The Reggio Emilia Approach

  Teacher Role:

  • to co-explore the learning experience with the children
  • to provoke ideas, problem solving, and conflict resolution
  • to take ideas from the children and return them for further exploration
  • to organize the classroom and materials to be accessible and interesting to the child
  • to organize materials to help children make thoughtful decisions
  • to document children’s progress: visual, videotape, tape recording, photos, portfolios
  • to help children see the connections in learning and experiences
  • to help children express their knowledge through projects
  • to have a dialogue about their projects with parents and other teachers
  • to foster the connection between home, school and community

  Projects:

  • can emerge from children’s ideas and/or interests
  • can be provoked by teachers
  • can be introduced by teachers knowing what is of interest to children: shadows, puddles, tall buildings, construction sites, heavy equipment, nature, etc.
  • should be long enough to develop over time, to discuss new ideas, to negotiate over, to induce conflicts, to revisit, to see progress, to see movement of ideas
  • should be concrete, personal from real experiences, important to children, should be “large” enough for diversity of ideas and rich in interpretive/representational expression

  Media:

  • explore first: what is this material, what does it do, before what can I do with the material
  • should have variation in color, texture, pattern: help children “see” the colors, tones, hues; help children “feel” the texture, the similarities and differences
  • should be presented in an artistic manner–it too should be aesthetically pleasing to look at–it should invite you to touch, admire, inspire
  • should be revisited throughout many projects to help children see the possibilities

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  The use of debt financing lowers the profits of the firm

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  Requirement: The use of debt financing lowers the profits of the firm, and hence debt financing should be used only as a last resort. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

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  Association of Coffee Consumption with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

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  Article Critique

  Read the article titled “Association of Coffee Consumption with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality” by Liu et al. published by the Mayo Clinic.

  http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(13)00885-9/fulltext
  1.State the research question addressed in the study.
  2.State the dependent variables in the study. (Hint: there are two)
  3.What is the independent variable in the study and how is it measured? (What is the operational definition?)
  4.What are some possible confounding variables in the study? How did the authors control for them? (Be specific)
  5.(Five sentence minimum)

  What are the strengths and weaknesses of the study? Do you find the study to be convincing? Why or why not? How do you think this study could have been improved?

  1.4 pages

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  GLOBAL OBESITY: Challenges to international health policy

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  GLOBAL OBESITY

  Examine two or more challenges to international health policy including how these translate to progressing or inhibiting policy

  Referencing APA style to include page number.
  Context or international health policy to be used in this assignment is obesity (global obesity)
  Example using human trafficking as the policy: cross-border policing is a current issue/challenge for human trafficking that is inhibiting effective policy being formulated and international collaboration is something that is being done well currently to attempt to combat human trafficking (progressing).
  Cover leaning outcomes: 1. analyse the key challenges in the global environment that impact health policy development. 2. Critically discuss health concepts related to progressing policy.

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  Results-Based Leadership Paper

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  Results based leadership theory based on the works of Nohria, Joyce, and Robertson. Needs to be geared toward leadership in nursing. Should include background of theorist, description of theory, strengths and criticisms of theory, Application to current leadership practice  in nursing with specific examples included to support response. Should also have an introduction and conclusion.
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  5 pages
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  What is float?

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  What is float? How do firms use float to increase cash management efficiency? Why would this be good for business?
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  Mini paper 2 – Aging and Depression

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  The topic of your paper is anything you would like to write about. Make sure that your topic is about healthcare issues related to the elderly population. I have a few emails that are asking for more clarification. Im not sure what I can do to add to the clarification. I have left the topic open so you are free to choose. I thought that would be more enjoyable for all.

  Also, here are the directions from the syllabus:

  Over the course of the semester, you are required to write four (4) mini-papers. Your mini-papers are another method of reflective writing. These papers may touch on areas of interest you wish to reflect on further; the mini-paper is an opportunity to do just that.

  Your mini-papers will need to follow these guidelines:

  • At least 4 full pages in length plus reference page. Do not include a cover page. Points will be deducted for papers that do not follow the page length requirement.
  • You are free to choose the healthcare topic that you like. BUT, you must relate that subject to the elder population within your paper.
  • Your paper needs to be your original work. It should be on a topic that you originate and complete the research on. Along with this, your paper needs to be an individual effort. Plagiarism is unethical, unacceptable, and will result in a failing grade for this course.
  • Please explain the issue using sources and facts, and provide a thorough explanation of how you feel about it (your opinion). If you use sources beyond your own opinion, these sources (including the text) should be referenced appropriately within your response and a list of references should be supplied at the end of your document.
  • Papers will be submitted to the appropriate Dropbox by the assigned deadline as an attachment. (Please make sure your paper can be opened by Microsoft word. I have seen a growing number of papers submitted that are in a .lnk format and I cannot open them. If you are using a Mac make sure that the file converts correctly). If you do not submit it to the correct location, or you submit it after the deadline, you will not receive credit. If I cannot open the file due to your file formatting mistake your paper will not be graded and you will receive no credit.
  • Mini-papers should be spell checked, grammar checked, and proofread prior to submitting to the appropriate Dropbox. Read your paper out loud; this will help you catch any mistakes that are overlooked by the other methods (missing words, wrong words, etc).
  • Papers should be 1.5 spaced with 1-inch margins all around (top, bottom, left, right) and 12pt font. Your name and the page number should appear in the header of the document.

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  Are rolling budgets a valuable addition to the planning process

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  Are rolling budgets a valuable addition to the planning process? What information do rolling budgets provide that is not available in traditional quarterly and annual budgets? Which is a more valuable tool?

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  Music Celebrity Research Essay – Michael Jackson

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  Music Celebrity – Michael Jackson
  What is the economic value of fostering celebrity within the music industry? Choose a music celebrity.
  What is her or his current star text? How has this been shaped by promotion and publicity? Filter her or him through our conceptualization of stars as phenomena of industry and of audience. Does one interpretation work better than the other? In what ways does this celebrity’s star text differ from her or his previous incarnations? Were there motivations behind this change?

  5 pages
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