Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs

Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs

The post is of three assignments

1:Advanced Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs./ Professional Preparation

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Professional Preparation
Review the 2010 NAEYC Initial & Advanced Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs.
Choose one of the individual standards that you would like to explore in order to boost your knowledge or skills in your current or future practice and would allow you to become a better advocate for young children and their families.
Use the Initial Standards.
Create a two- to three-page paper (not including title and reference pages) that includes the following sections. Each section should be a separate paragraph.
Section ONE: Provide A Summary of Your Chosen Standard and Justify Why You Chose It. Summarize the Standard in your own words, then justify why you think that knowing more about this standard will (a) help you in your professional or personal life in general and (b) help you to become a better advocate. Be sure to give at least three specific examples.
Section TWO: Create A List of Five Questions With Corresponding Rationales. Create a list of five questions to ask an early childhood professional about aspects of the standard. For each question, describe your rationale for asking it. Create one question designed to enhance your ability to advocate on behalf of children and their families in this particular area. Create the other four questions to enhance your knowledge of both the standard AND your personal and/or professional goals.
Section THREE: Provide Contact Information with an Explanation for the Request. First, provide the contact information for an early childhood professional in your own community who is willing to provide email responses to your questions. Then, provide the “blurb” or explanation describing the purpose of the assignment that you will use when you ask him/her if he/she would be willing to answer your questions. — as for the contact information for an early childhood professional – just make up this information

Be sure to include an introductory paragraph describing the purpose of the paper AND a conclusion summarizing the paper and your next steps. This means your paper will be at least five paragraphs.
Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. In addition to the course text, utilize at least one scholarly source to support your points.
Required sources: Read from your text; Continuing Issues in Early Childhood Education:
Chapter Six – The Early Childhood Education Workforce
§ Chapter Six examines the current workforce of early childhood educators in terms of who they are and how best to recruit and retain high quality teachers as we look to the future.
Chapter Seven – The Professional Development of Teachers of Young Children
§ Chapter Seven offers a discussion of the issues surrounding the professionalism and professional development of early childhood educators. Research on effective methods of professional development and the implications for the future of this training is also examined.— (chapters will be attached)

Read the following article:
Colker, L.J. (2008, March). Twelve characteristics of early childhood teachers. Beyond the Journal. Young Children on the Web. Retrieved from https://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200803/BTJ_Colker.pdf
Please review the current standards for professional preparation if you have not yet been working in care or education settings with young children:
NAEYC. (2010). 2010 Standards for initial early childhood professional preparation. Retrieved from https://www.naeyc.org/ncate/files/ncate/Initial_2pager.pdf

2: Post Modernism

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A research paper about post modernism culture (four questions in total). three to four websites(sources) should be enough to answer each question. For past research papers of the same nature,i was able to fit all four questions and answers into one and a half pages. So lengthy answers not required.

POST MODERNISM CULTURE

1.BACKGROUND TO; AND INFLUENCES ON THE DESIGN PERIOD
(describe the background to the design period, the social background, the background to where the design came from – other countries and design movements influence on)

2.CHARACTERISTICS OF DESIGN PERIOD
(describe the important historical events of this period that have had an effect on the design movement; describe the discoveries and developments, either technological or scientific; describe the influences of the period ie. Nature, war, speed, grid/layout, removing decoration, etc)

3.KEY FEATURES THAT IDENTIFY DESIGN PERIOD
(Describe the important identifying aspect of the design movement – the way the work looked, the materials they used, the techniques the used)

4.MAIN FIGURES (DESIGNERS) OF THE DESIGN PERIOD
(briefly list the artist/designer/craftsman from this period – what they are most remembered for – the medium (style) they worked in or with)

3:Home Health Care and IT

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Use technology to solve specific business problem of a start up business in the medical field such as home health care; create a business model that will support a new start up company; step by step method/database that will aid in helping a veteran select the best plan/options/route in starting a business in the home healthcare industry…(idea is flexible)

Managerial Applications of Information Technology
Rickey Jestice
12 March 2016

Executive Summary
I will discuss a startup business in the medical field; home health care; I will create a business model that will support a new startup company.
Business Problem Statement
Lack of support for small business startup.
Name of the Company/Organization
TBD – it’s a startup.
Description of Proposed Solution
Create a step by step method/database that will aid in helping a veteran select the best plan/options/route in starting a business in the home healthcare industry’ either through purchasing a franchise or a startup.
General Benefits it Will Provide the Organization
How a specific database with gather data to support a process that will aid in supporting best courses of actions in planning a startup.
Audience
Veterans wishing to startup and “Veteran Owned Business”.
References
4-5 references to be used.

Write paper on some aspect of e-commerce. Tie it into targeted advertising, tie the back-end databases that are necessary to support e-commerce. For example, how databases contain information that allows vendors to target their audience and what those databases are.

The table of contents for the Course Project proposal:
• Subject of Course Project
• Business problem statement
• Name of the company or organization
• Brief description of proposed solution
• General benefits it will provide the organization
• Audience to whom you are presenting the recommendations
The Course Project proposal is due no later than 11:59 p.m. MT of Week 2.
Course Project
The project should follow the APA style of citing references in the text and on the bibliography page. No fewer than five references must be used for research and properly cited in the paper and in the bibliography.
Ensure correct spelling and grammar (use built-in tool with MS Word).
Credible reference sources are available through the DeVry Library and other sources. Please do not use Wikipedia.
The project proposal must be 2 to 4 pages in length (excluding the cover page, table of contents, bibliography and any attachments which includes images, tables or graphs), double spaced, using Times New Roman font, 12-point, using 1 inch margins and headings for the paper format requirements.
The table of contents for the Course Project:
• Cover page
• Table of contents
• Abstract
• Brief company background
• Discussion of business problem(s)
• High level solution
• Benefits of solving the problem
• Business or technical approach
• Business process changes
• Technology or business practices used to augment the solution
• Conclusions and overall recommendations
• High-level implementation plan
• Summary of project
• References
• Appendices

Grading Rubrics
Course Project Grading Rubrics (Proposal 75 points; Project 200 points)
Category Proposal Points Course Project Points % Description
Documentation and Formatting 12 30 15 A quality paper will include a title page, abstract, proper citations using APA style, and a bibliography.
Organization and Cohesiveness 15 40 20 A quality paper will include an introduction based on a well-formed thesis statement. The logical order of the content will be derived from the thesis statement. The content will be properly subdivided into sections derived from the outline. In a quality paper, the conclusion will summarize the previously presented content and will complement the thesis statement from the introduction.
Editing 12 30 15 A quality paper will be free of any spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors. Sentences and paragraphs will be clear, concise, and factually correct.
Content 36 100 50 A quality paper will have significant scope and depth of research to support any statements. Strategic implications will be explained and supported. Relevant illustrations or examples are encouraged. A quality paper will employ use of sound reasoning and logic to reinforce conclusions.
Total 75 200 100 A quality paper will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. All sections in the table of contents must be in the project to earn full credit.

Some Ideas to Identify a Business Problem
• Lack of competitiveness or profitability
• Inefficient processes
• Slow product development
• Obsolete IT organization and technologies
• Poor corporate communications
• Ongoing personnel issues
Some Benefits it Will Provide the Organization
• Financial—profitability, revenue, product costs
• Improved competitiveness
• Better marketing positioning
• Efficiency in key processes, for example, sales, manufacturing, and development
• Improved product or service quality
• Improved product development
• Better and more accurate support turnaround
• Preparation for the future—how is the organization positioning itself for future growth
Some Ideas on How the Project Could Tie Together
• As an example, you could write your paper on some aspect of e-commerce. You might tie it into targeted advertising. You could then tie the back-end databases that are necessary to support e-commerce. For example, how databases contain information that allows vendors to target their audience and what those databases are.
• Another example might be the functionality of enterprise systems. You might choose a specific enterprise system like ERP, CRM, or SCM and detail how the functionality is delivered. This could be how a business person would access this type of information.
• The business problem is high cost of IT and product development, and the benefits are profitability, faster development time, or increased sales. The solution might be Cloud computing describing the Cloud computing approach taken; for example, SaaS or Cloud virtualization.

5 References
Laudon, Kenneth C., Laudon, J. P., . (01/2015). Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 15th Edition.

Early Childhood