Describe a situation when you witnessed an unethical behavior of a coworker. How did you solve this situation? How did you respond?
Your initial post should be at least 450 words, formatted, and cited in the current A.P.A. style with support from at least two academic sources. Your initial post is worth 70 points.
You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 30 points.
In project, you will have the possibility to describe, emotional competence as a required leadership skill necessary for today’s leader. You may define in this paper what emotional competence is. How can it affect the leader’s decision during a crisis impacting others? Also, when the leader’s feelings and emotions must be considered, emphasizing the concepts of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills? Illustrate this paper with samples or a case study.
Contribute a minimum of four pages. It should include at least five academic sources, formatted and cited in APA.
Your post should be at least four pages (excluding the title page and references), formatted, and cited in the current APA style with support from at least 5 academic sources.
Patient: M.T., 44-year-old warehouse supervisor Chief concern (Day 1): “Bad low-back pain after lifting a box.” Home AI tool: Patient uses the health system’s portal symptom-checker chatbot. After entering “low back pain,” “both legs tingling,” “can’t feel when wiping,” and “peeing less than usual,” the bot outputs “likely muscular strain home care; clinic visit in 3–5 days.” No red-flag alert is displayed. Course: • Day 2–3: Pain worsens; bilateral sciatica, saddle numbness, and urinary retention (“I haven’t peed since last night unless I strain”). The bot again recommends home care. • Day 4 (ED): Patient febrile, hypotensive, confused. Bladder scan >1200 mL; purulent urine after catheterization. MRI lumbar: massive central L4–L5 disc herniation compressing cauda equina. • Labs: Leukocytosis, lactate 5.2 mmol/L, creatinine bump. • Outcome: Despite urgent decompression and broad-spectrum antibiotics/ICU care, the patient develops uroseptic shock with multi-organ failure and dies on Day 6. Studies show online/AI symptom-checkers vary widely in diagnostic/triage accuracy and may miss emergencies; WHO and AHRQ urge caution and human oversight for clinical AI
How should businesses like YouTube balance the economic costs of copyright infringement, the psychological motivations of users who share or consume free content, and the ethical responsibility to respect creators’ rights?
In your response, draw on at least two different disciplinary perspectives—for example:
Economics: Consider opportunity costs, lost revenue, incentives, and market impact.
Psychology: Consider why people rationalize downloading or sharing copyrighted content (e.g., social norms, “everyone does it,” or instant gratification).
Ethics: Consider fairness, integrity, and the Golden Rule.
Law/Business Strategy: Consider the role of regulation, risk, and partnerships.
Your task: Write a 250 word post analyzing this case from more than one perspective and propose a solution that a business like YouTube could implement to reduce piracy while still supporting creativity, innovation, and user engagement.
This assignment is worth 100 points so each question is worth 25 points. Make sure you address all parts of each question!
Textbook (Red Shelf): Literacy in the Early Grades
1. Do you remember your kindergarten and first-grade classroom? Can you remember a moment when you first read to someone? Do you remember any difficulties you faced in learning to read? What were your favorite books as a child?
2. Do you have a library card that you use regularly? What is the best book you have read recently? What is your favorite book?
3. Do you keep a personal journal? Do you write short stories or poems?
● Views the teacher’s role as providing information and supervising practice
● Describes learning as the result of stimulus–response actions
● Uses incentives and rewards for motivation
● Basal readers
● Minilessons
● Worksheets
Child-Centered
Constructivism
● Describes learning as the active construction of knowledge
● Recognizes the importance of background knowledge
● Views learners as innately curious
● Suggests ways to engage children so they can be successful
● Literature focus units
● K-W-L charts
● Thematic units
● Word sorts
Sociolinguistics
● Emphasizes the importance of language and social interaction on learning
● Views reading and writing as social and cultural activities
● Explains that children learn best through authentic activities
● Describes the teacher’s role as scaffolding children’s learning
● Literature circles
● Shared reading
● Reading and writing workshop
● Author’s chair
Information Processing
● Recommends integrating reading and writing
● Views reading and writing as meaning-making processes
● Explains that readers’ interpretations are individualized
● Describes children as strategic readers and writers
● Guided reading
● Graphic organizers
● Grand conversations
● Interactive writing
Handout 1.2: The Four Cueing Systems
System
Terms
Applications
Phonological System
The sound system with approximately 44 sounds and more than 500 ways to spell them
● Phoneme (the smallest unit of sound)
● Grapheme (the written representation of a phoneme using one or more letters)
● Phonological awareness (knowledge about the sound structure of words)
● Phonemic awareness (the ability to orally manipulate phonemes in words)
● Phonics (knowledge about phoneme–grapheme correspondences and rules)
● Decoding words
● Using invented spelling
● Noticing rhyming words
● Dividing words into syllables
Syntactic System
The structural system that governs how words are combined into sentences
● Syntax (the structure or grammar of a sentence)
● Morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language)
● Free morpheme (a morpheme that can stand alone as a word)
● Bound morpheme (a morpheme that must be attached to a free morpheme)
● Forming compound words
● Adding prefixes and suffixes to root words
● Using capitalization and punctuation
● Writing simple, compound, and complex sentences
Semantic System
The meaning system that focuses on vocabulary
● Semantics (meaning)
● Synonyms (words that mean the same or nearly the same thing)
● Antonyms (opposites)
● Homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently)
● Learning that many words have multiple meanings
● Studying synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
● Using a dictionary and a thesaurus
Pragmatic System
The social and cultural use system that explains how language varies
● Standard English (the form of English used in textbooks and by television newscasters)
● Nonstandard English (other forms of English)
● Varying language to fit specific purposes
● Comparing standard and nonstandard forms of English
Handout 1.3: The Balanced Literacy Approach
Component
Description
Reading
Children participate in a variety of reading experiences using picture-book stories and novels, informational books, books of poetry, textbooks, and Internet materials.
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Children learn to manipulate sounds in words and apply the alphabetic principle and phonics rules to decode words.
Literacy Strategies and Skills
Children learn to use problem-solving and monitoring behaviors called strategies and automatic actions called skills as they read and write.
Vocabulary
Children learn the meaning of words through listening to books teachers read aloud and from content-area study.
Comprehension
Children learn to use reader factors, including comprehension strategies, and text factors, including text structures, to understand what they’re reading.
Literature
Children become engaged readers who enjoy literature through reading and responding to books and learning about genres, text structures, and literary features.
Content-Area Study
Children use reading and writing as tools to learn about social studies and science topics in thematic units.
Oral Language
Children use talk and listening as they work with classmates, participate in grand conversations, give oral presentations, and listen to the teacher read aloud.
Writing
Children learn to use the writing process to draft and refine stories, poems, reports, and other compositions.
Spelling
Children apply what they’re learning about English orthography to spell words, and their spellings gradually become conventional.
9 – Facilitating Children’s Comprehension: Text Factors
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10 – Scaffolding Children’s Reading Development
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11 – Scaffolding Children’s Writing Development
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12 – Integrating Literacy Into Thematic Units
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Handout 1.5: Levels of Scaffolding
Level
Reading
Writing
Modeled
Teachers read aloud, modeling how good readers read fluently using books that are too difficult for children to read
Teachers demonstrate how to write a composition, creating the text, doing the writing, and think aloud about their use of strategies and skills.
Shared
Teacher and children read books together, with children following as the teacher reads and then repeating familiar refrains.
Teacher and children create the text together; then the teacher does the actual writing. Sometimes children assist by spelling familiar words.
Interactive
Teacher and children read instructional-level texts together and take turns doing the reading. Teachers help children read fluently and with expression.
Teacher and children create the text and share the pen to do the writing. They spell words correctly and add capitalization, punctuation, and other conventions.
Guided
Teachers teach guided reading lessons to small, homogeneous groups using instructional-level books.
Teachers teach lessons on writing strategies, skills, and procedures, and children participate in supervised practice activities.
Independent
Children read self-selected books independently, and teachers conference with children to monitor their progress.
Children use the writing process to write stories, informational books, and other compositions.
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Literacy in the Early Grades: A Successful Start for PreK-4 Readers and Writers Fifth Edition
Read Chapter 4: "Philosophy: Reflections on the Essence of Education" of the course textbook, the PowerPoint presentation on "Philosophy: Reflections on the Essence of Education", and any articles and books relevant to the topics in Chapter 4. Select a topic of interest to you and reflect (express your own thoughts, views, opinions, feelings, etc.) on the topic you have selected. Your reflections on the topic you selected must be a minimum of one full page and must be written in your own words. You must cite the sources of all your information including the course textbook and the sources of any Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated information in your discussion post and at the end of your discussion post.
Sample Discussion post attached along with PowerPoint on chapter 2
Textbook (Red Shelf): Foundations of American Education
SS 203: Historical and Cultural Foundations of Education Sample Student Discussion Posts
Sample 1: For this discussion post, I decided to use one of the discussion questions because I thought they were pretty good. Question 4 asked, "In my opinion, how much progress has the United States (US) made in equal educational opportunity?" This is a very good topic because it is something I like to talk about regularly. I feel like the US has moved forward but needs more work in providing equal educational opportunities for schools. I say this because we, as a country, did a great job in moving forward with the times by desegregating, increasing opportunities for girls and women in education, providing necessities for people with disabilities, and expanding early childhood education but we are still struggling with school funding equality, socioeconomic factors playing into school choice, and achievement gaps.
My opinion is there is no point in being able to "move forward" if you are not going to address the actual issue at hand. The United States does a good job of putting a bandage on an issue that needs deeper investments and concern. What was the point of desegregating schools when the main issue was never being with the white students but not having equal opportunities and funding? What was the point of increasing opportunities for girls and women when the issue is the pay wage for teachers is too low for all the issues they endure? What was the point in expanding early childhood education if we struggle with keeping educators, especially educators that care? Of course, there was a point for all of this but MY point is the United States does just enough to shut everyone up and not pay attention to the bigger pictures and issues that need real change.
Even though we have done better in changing the aims of education, receiving more students and expanding bigger schools, making sure teachers are prepared, and trying to keep up to date, we have other fish to fry. Some teachers are still undervalued and paid less than their professional counterparts despite their similar educational levels and experience due to racial, socioeconomic, and ethnic lines. Many students have disadvantages coming from lower-income communities, and the lack of resources and funding to schools based on unequal opportunities and economic racism that creates a gap for opportunities to students. Until these issues are truly addressed, it does not matter how much the United States can "move forward”. In MY opinion, we are not making great progress in creating equal educational opportunities. We must, we need to make progress in creating equal educational opportunities for the good of this country.
Sample 2: It is incredible to think of the sheer growth of the educational enterprise over the past half-century. It's insane to think that schools were once scarce and a luxury that only the wealthiest could afford. Now, education is available to all regardless of their background and that's something we take for granted. With the growth of the educational enterprise, naturally more schools needed to be built to accommodate all these students. Many schools had to resort to mobile classrooms and this reminded me of the time I was taught in a trailer in third grade. This was due to the school expanding and remodeling the entire school grounds to keep up with the times. Almost like a domino effect, with the rapid growth in education came a desperate need for more teachers.
Philosophy: Reflections on the Essence of Education
By: Arion Parks, David Camper, Brendon Bush
Structure and methodology of Philosophy
– In this section we will be discussing the reasoning and the foundation of philosophy. We will discuss how it is broken down and its true purpose.
Philosophy
-Philosophy means the love of wisdom.
-Seeks to understand fundamentals
-Philosophy provides tools to think clearly
Types of Thought as a philosopher
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.
People with this set of ideals believe knowledge of humanity and the universe are the most important ideas.
Teachers role is to guide and and determine what is worth knowing.
Physical sciences and reality
Epistemology is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
Knowledge about and what to know is most important
It is up to the teacher to decide what is in the curriculum and the role of the teacher is to teach and know what is in the curriculum
Truth
Types of Thoughts (contd)
Axiology is the study of the nature of value and valuation, and of the kinds of things that are valuable.
Teachers of this train of thought are open to new ideas and interpretations. Ethics and morals are deemed to be most important.
Good citizenship, honesty, and correct human relations are the most important topics. The instructor’s role is to guide the student to have good morals and ethics.
Examples
Metaphysicist
Pythagoras of Samos[a] (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)[b] was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy. Around 530 BC, he travelled to Croton, where he founded a school in which initiates were sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, ascetic lifestyle.
Epistemology
Robert Audi Robert N. Audi (born November 1941) is an American philosopher whose major work has focused on epistemology, ethics – especially on ethical intuitionism – and the theory of action. His book, The Good in the Right, updates and strengthens Rossian intuitionism and develops the epistemology of ethics. He has also written important works of political philosophy, particularly on the relationship between church and state. He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian Philosophers.
Analytic ways of Thinking in Philosophy
Analytical thinking- what seems to be
Abstraction- drawing away from experiences to a conceptual plane. 1 Focusing on some feature within experience. 2 examine precise characteristics of this feature. 3 remembering the deaure and its characteristics later so as to apply them life.
Imagination and generalization- altering of abstractions and set ranges
Analytic ways of Thinking (contd)
Logic- examines principals that allow us to move between arguments.
Induction- the productions of facts to prove a statement.
Deduction- coming to a conclusion or inference from set a laws or principles from the facts.
Schools of Philosophy and Their Influence on Education
In this section we will discuss the individual philosophers and their schools of thoughts and the four well known schools of thoughts: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, and Existentialism.
Idealism-Definition
-A school of philosophy that considers ideas to be the only true reality. Physical entities are only shadows of the true reality. (e.g idea and mind)
Idealism Cont’d
-Idealism’s roots are found in the writings of Plato.
-Idealists believe in the power of reasoning but de-emphasize both the scientific method perception, which they hold suspect. Thus, idealists contend that the rational mind has the ability to reason its way to the underlying ideas that support the world we live in today.
-Idealists practices Epistemology, which is the study of the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief
-Idealist value universal and absolute truths or ideas that remains consistent throughout centuries.
-Idealist believes that truth, goodness and beauty transcends and connects ideas. They’re important to all cultures and people.
-Idealists considers that values are unchanging, due to them underlying all aspects of existence and that they are perfect. This is called Axiology.
Idealist Philosophers
Plato (427-347 BCE)
According to Plato, truth is our central reality.
Plato believes that truth is perfect, therefore it can’t be found in the world of matter because the material world is imperfect.
People create knowledge, rather than discover it.
Humans once had true knowledge, but lost it by being placed in a material body that distorts and corrupt that knowledge.
Socrates (470-399 BCE)
Spoke to himself as a midwife because, he believed that humans were pregnant with knowledge-knowledge that had not been born or realized.
Socrates wrote a Doctrine titled, “Doctrine of Reminiscence”. In the doctrine it describes how teachers need to question students, in such a way as to help them remember what they have forgotten.
The Socratic Method emphasizes on bringing forth knowledge from students through artful questioning.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Believed in freedom, the immortality of the soul, and the existence of God.
The only way humankind can know things is through the process of reasoning.
It is only through reason that we acquire knowledge of the world.
Reality is not a thing by itself, but the interaction of reason and external sensations.
Jane Roland Martin (1929-)
Labeled as a feminist scholar, Jane is a contemporary disciple of Plato’s dialogues.
In Martin’s book, she describes how women have historically been excluded from conversations that constitutes Western educational thought.
In order to be educated is to engage in a conversation that stretches back in time.
Education=the conversation, is the place where one comes to learn what it is to be a person.
Socratic Dialogue to Enhance Reflective Learning
Socrates and Plato believed that learning is best achieved through dialogue.
When using this Socratic Dialogue, the teacher does not teach a subject by direct exposition. Teachers throw out a series of questions, that causes the learners to reflect on their beliefs.
There was a study created in 2001, using the Socratic Dialogue to see how it helps students, and researchers found that those students who were assisted with the Socratic dialogue significantly improved both surface level and abstract understanding of the project.
Realism-Definition
A school of philosophy that holds that reality, knowledge, and value exist independently of the human mind. In contrast to the idealist, the realist contends that physical entities are true reality. (e.g nature, body)
Realism Cont’d
Realist believes in natural causes for evolution of the universe.
They also believe that the world of physical objects is the ultimate reality.
Realist, unlike idealist focus more on the body then the mind.
Believes that the reason things look different from one another is due to the form that structures their matter (Metaphysics).
Realist endorse the use of the senses and scientific investigation to find truth in the physical world.
Aristotle, a realist, claims that the art of thinking well is to be able to distinguish things based on essential differences (epistemology).
Realist Philosophers
Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
Believed that ideas are found through the study of the world of matter.
Believed that one could acquire knowledge of ideas or forms by investigating matter.
Matter cannot exist without form.
John Locke (1632-1704)
Believed in the Tabula Rasa (blank tablet) view of the mind.
Tabula Rasa (an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate.)
Locke stated that the mind of a person is blank at birth and that the person’s sensory experiences make impressions on the blank tablet.
Ideas Represent Objects.
Locke claimed that primary qualities represents the world, whereas secondary qualities have a basis in the world but do not represent it.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Attempted to reconcile some conflicting tenets of idealism and realism.
Proposed “process” to be the central aspect of realism.
Unlike Locke, Alfred did not see objective reality and subjective mind as separate.
Believes the universe is made up of patterns and these patterns are analyzed through math.
Pragmatism-Definition
-A late 19th century U.S school philosophy that stresses becoming rather than being. (e.g experience and problem solving with reason)
Pragmatism Cont’d
-Pragmatism emphasizes the importance of understanding what it means to know.
-Believe that that we learn best through experience, but they also believe that the experience changes both the knower and the world.
-Knowing is a transaction or a conversation between the learner and the environment.
-Pragmatist do not believe in absolute and unchanging truth or values
Read Chapter 2: "The Early History of Education in a Changing World" of the course textbook, the PowerPoint presentation on the Early History of Education, and any articles and books relevant to the topics in Chapter 2. Select a topic of interest to you and reflect (express your own thoughts, views, opinions, feelings, etc.) on the topic you have selected. Your reflections on the topic you select must be a minimum of one full page and must be written in your own words. You must cite the sources of all your information including the course textbook and the sources of any Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated information in your discussion post and at the end of your discussion post.
Sample Discussion post attached along with PowerPoint on chapter 2
Textbook (Red Shelf): Foundations of American Education
SS 203: Historical and Cultural Foundations of Education Sample Student Discussion Posts
Sample 1: For this discussion post, I decided to use one of the discussion questions because I thought they were pretty good. Question 4 asked, "In my opinion, how much progress has the United States (US) made in equal educational opportunity?" This is a very good topic because it is something I like to talk about regularly. I feel like the US has moved forward but needs more work in providing equal educational opportunities for schools. I say this because we, as a country, did a great job in moving forward with the times by desegregating, increasing opportunities for girls and women in education, providing necessities for people with disabilities, and expanding early childhood education but we are still struggling with school funding equality, socioeconomic factors playing into school choice, and achievement gaps.
My opinion is there is no point in being able to "move forward" if you are not going to address the actual issue at hand. The United States does a good job of putting a bandage on an issue that needs deeper investments and concern. What was the point of desegregating schools when the main issue was never being with the white students but not having equal opportunities and funding? What was the point of increasing opportunities for girls and women when the issue is the pay wage for teachers is too low for all the issues they endure? What was the point in expanding early childhood education if we struggle with keeping educators, especially educators that care? Of course, there was a point for all of this but MY point is the United States does just enough to shut everyone up and not pay attention to the bigger pictures and issues that need real change.
Even though we have done better in changing the aims of education, receiving more students and expanding bigger schools, making sure teachers are prepared, and trying to keep up to date, we have other fish to fry. Some teachers are still undervalued and paid less than their professional counterparts despite their similar educational levels and experience due to racial, socioeconomic, and ethnic lines. Many students have disadvantages coming from lower-income communities, and the lack of resources and funding to schools based on unequal opportunities and economic racism that creates a gap for opportunities to students. Until these issues are truly addressed, it does not matter how much the United States can "move forward”. In MY opinion, we are not making great progress in creating equal educational opportunities. We must, we need to make progress in creating equal educational opportunities for the good of this country.
Sample 2: It is incredible to think of the sheer growth of the educational enterprise over the past half-century. It's insane to think that schools were once scarce and a luxury that only the wealthiest could afford. Now, education is available to all regardless of their background and that's something we take for granted. With the growth of the educational enterprise, naturally more schools needed to be built to accommodate all these students. Many schools had to resort to mobile classrooms and this reminded me of the time I was taught in a trailer in third grade. This was due to the school expanding and remodeling the entire school grounds to keep up with the times. Almost like a domino effect, with the rapid growth in education came a desperate need for more teachers.
Responding to a peer. Must Check grammar and must use a references. APA format. Please make sure you are following instructions. THE RESPONSE IT BELOW SO MAKE SURE YOU RESPONDING TO THAT!!!!! Due 10/19 at 3pm EST
(This the main assignment: In our journey to explore and understand the complexities of social work research practices, it is essential to connect theoretical knowledge with real-world situations. Your personal experiences and insights are invaluable as you contribute to our shared learning space. For this activity, I would like you to find an online source be it a news article, video, or report hat highlights a current social issue or problem pertinent to social work. This exercise is an opportunity for you to delve deeper into how social work research can be applied to address contemporary challenges. Submission Requirements: Identify a New Situation or Problem: Locate a recent article, video, or report online that presents a situational problem relevant to social work. Explain the Situation or Problem: Provide a concise summary of the issue, detailing the context and its significance in the realm of social work. Apply Social Work Research Practices: Critically analyze how social work research methodologies or principles can be applied to understand and potentially address the issue. Student Interaction Expectations:
Provide thoughtful responses to at least two of your peers' posts. Consider asking questions, sharing insights, or offering further applications of social work research practices.
Your primary post should encourage discussion and invite others to engage with your findings and analysis.
By connecting these dots, you'll enhance your understanding of how social work research practices are utilized in real-world applications. Looking forward to your contributions!)
Transgender
On January 27, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14183, called “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness.” This order prevents people who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria or who have transitioned with hormones or surgeries from serving in the military, as explained by Advocates for Trans Equality (Understanding Trump's Trans Military Ban, 2025). This decision could have severe effects on those serving and their families. It puts their jobs at risk and could result in the loss of healthcare, income, or housing, making their future feel uncertain.This issue is important to social workers because it goes against values like fairness and respect for everyone. Social workers are likely to see more people needing help and may have to deal with the stress and backlash that comes from this policy. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) highlights that fighting for fairness is a key part of the job. As these service members face more barriers, social workers should do what they can to make sure everyone is treated equally (Code of Ethics: English, n.d.).To understand this problem better, one useful step would be to create a survey for those affected. The survey should ask questions about what challenges people are facing and what support they need. Using the answers, social workers can get a clearer idea of how this policy is affecting people’s mental and physical health and what resources might help. With this information, social workers could then push for bigger changes and support policy reform (Lawson et al., 2019, p. 100).
