Reflective Journal 3: My Views on the Future of Music, Newspapers, and Books

Directions for Reflective Journal

• The journals are to reflect your experiences and opinions, so there are no right or wrong answers.

Write a 3/4 to 1-page journal entry (approximately 250 words) in which you:

1. Predict one or two changes people will make in their reading and listening habits if the conventional reproduction of music, news, and books were to become obsolete.
2. Complete the page/word amount requirement.
3. Write with clarity, following mechanics and formatting requirements.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a source page and cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the source page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcome(s) associated with this assignment are:

• Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues involving mass media and society.
• Analyze various issues affecting the media business.
• Evaluate the effects of the digital information expansion / explosion on society.
• Write clearly and concisely about media and society using proper writing mechanics.

The creation of intervention plans is the substance of workplace activities designed to enhance individual performance. It is important that you have the opportunity to develop skills in creating intervention plans. To determine whether the intervention was effective and how it can be improved, you must know how to complete the research process in real-world practice. You will also need to enact psychological theories of effective leadership to manage the stakeholders and participants in the intervention.

All of these practices are governed by professional guidelines and ethical behaviors that are common to and expected in the performance psychology field and of which you need to be aware in order to create and implement intervention plans. In this assignment, you will discuss the psychological theories of leadership and their applications to the stakeholders and participants involved in the “PSY-839 Case Study,” and you will propose a theoretically sound and ethical intervention plan for the case study that has been provided.

You will also identify the specific assessment tool(s) and process you will enact following the intervention to determine whether the intervention was

effective and how it can be improved. Finally, you will describe the expected resolution to the case given the intervention you implemented.

General Requirements: Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Refer to “PSY-839 Case Study.”
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• Refer to Chapters 2-4 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) for specific guidelines related to doctoral-level writing. These chapters contain essential information on manuscript structure and content, clear and concise writing, and academic grammar and usage.
• This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.
• You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Directions:

Write an essay (2,250-2,500 words) in which you propose a plan for the case study provided. Your plan should include the following:

1. A description of the psychological theories that must be applied for effective leadership of the stakeholders and other important participants in the case. (Benchmarks C6.4: Apply psychological theories to promote effective leadership.)
2. A description of a theoretically sound and ethical intervention to the case that applies behavior modification to enhance individual performance. (Benchmarks C6.3: Apply principles of behavior modification to enhance individual performance.)
3. A description of the constructs and theories of psychomotor skill and motor control that will be applied in the intervention to improve learning and performance. (Benchmarks C6.2: Analyze constructs and theories of psychomotor skill and motor control to improve learning and performance.)
4. A description of the assessment tool(s) and process that will be used following the intervention to determine whether the intervention was effective and how it can be improved.
5. A description of the expected resolution to the case that demonstrates potential applications of psychological theories and principles underlying performance and is based on your theoretical perspective, the intervention you implemented, and your assessment of the intervention. (Benchmarks C6.5: Propose applications of psychological theories and principles underlying performance.)

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

Ph D in Performance Psychology

6.2: Analyze constructs and theories of psychomotor skill and motor control to improve learning and performance.

6.3: Apply principles of behavior modification to enhance individual

performance.

6.4: Apply psychological theories to promote effective leadership.

6.5: Propose applications of psychological theories and principles underlying performance.

Here is the case study for this assignment:

Assume you have started consulting with a large, public university that has experienced considerable athletic success across multiple sports. One of the teams you provide services for is the men’s basketball team, which is considered a revenue-generating sport for the athletic department. The coach has stated that he appreciates your assistance, he welcomed you to watch practice, and he allowed you time to present to the team on performance optimization strategies. You have worked with a few of players on an individual basis, but only to follow-up on the strategies you taught in the team sessions.

During one of your practice observations, you notice that the design of practices seems very inconsistent and disorganized. You overheard several players discuss how they never know what to expect in terms of intensity of practice regardless of their upcoming competition or strength and conditioning schedule. You observed one of the assistant coaches attempt to implement more structure and drills that appeared to have a solid theoretical basis for training. The head coach seemed to incorporate some of the suggestions, but when the team loses a game, the practices get even more inefficient and the head coach is much more critical of their performance without giving specific instructions on how to improve. The players’ frustrations are visible as their body language and communication with each other appears to suffer after a loss.

Sam is a sophomore on the team. He was highly recruited and has always described himself as a “gym rat” because he devotes so much time training for basketball. During Sam’s freshman year, he averaged 10-12 minutes per game and the coaching staff reported they were very productive minutes. He was not stellar, but they could count on him to score points and play good defense. Sam is now in contention for a starting spot, but his performance is not nearly as good as what it was his freshman year. In particular, his confidence and focus seem inconsistent and he has been rude to his teammates and coaches when they give him feedback. He seems anxious while rushing the plays and committing turnovers. In addition, he has fouled out of several games.

The team athletic trainer informs you that Sam would like to meet for an individual session, but he does not want the coaching staff to know he is seeking this assistance. In your first meeting with Sam, he says he has never felt this anxious while playing and seems to “black out” when under pressure. Sam reports feeling misunderstood by his teammates and coaches, which leads him to distance himself from them. Sam tells you that his goal is to make it to the next level and that he feels he must be the top scorer each game if he is going to achieve that goal. Sam tells you he has questions about how to run the offense, but is afraid to ask the coaching staff for fear of losing his starting position.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the web page Early Learning Program Accreditation Standards & Assessment Items (Links to an external site.) with particular attention to Standard 10: Leadership and Management. For this assignment you will be creating a presentation using either PowerPoint For assistance, view How to make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.).

Early childhood administrators need to be well-versed in standards set by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Having comprehensive knowledge of these standards will help to ensure a quality early childhood program.

Rationale:

Excellent programming requires effective governance structures, competent and knowledgeable leadership, as well as comprehensive and well-functioning administrative policies, procedures, and systems. Effective leadership and management create the environment for high-quality care and education by

• Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and guidelines;
• Promoting fiscal soundness, program accountability, effective communication, helpful consultative services, positive community relations, and comfortable and supportive workplaces;
• Maintaining stable staff; and
• Instituting ongoing program planning and career development opportunities for staff as well as continuous program improvement.

Application:

You are the director of your own childcare center. Using Standard 10 in Early Learning Program Accreditation Standards & Assessment Items (Links to an external site.) as a guide, create an eight- ten slide PowerPoint presentation to share with your staff, demonstrating the following NAEYC points:

• Effective communication
  • Explain how you will effectively communicate with your staff.
  • Create a protocol for how you will communicate with them, and how you want them to communicate with you.
  • Describe what role you will play in family communication and your expectations for their family communication.
• Comfortable and supportive workplaces
  • Describe how you will create a comfortable and supportive workplace for your staff.
  • Develop a plan that addresses how you will overcome potential challenges you may face.
  • Explain specifically what you envision a comfortable and supportive workplace for your staff including.
• Career development opportunities for staff
  • Discuss how you will create professional development opportunities for your staff.
  • Plan a 10-month calendar of professional development opportunities that you feel are important for your staff. Visit this web page for helpful Calendar Templates (Links to an external site.).
• Hiring and retention
  • Explain how you will attract and retain quality staff members.
  • Develop a plan of specifically how you will support the following:
    • new staff
    • veteran staff
    • staff that need additional support

Your eight- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation (in addition to your title and reference slides) should

• Creatively address the material including graphics, visuals, charts, graphs, or sound;
• Be designed to clearly and concisely address the material;
• Be formatted according to APA style, including the title slide, reference slide, and in-text citations;
• Utilize the notes section of the PowerPoint to expand on the presented points. These notes would be your talking points when presenting this to your staff; and
• Use at least one source in addition to the course text.

The Leadership and Management Presentation

• Must be eight to 10 double-spaced slides in length (not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate title slide with the following:
  • Title of presentation
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least one sources in addition to the course text.

For this assignment, you will conclude your marketing plan by developing your hypothetical company’s pricing and distribution strategies, and integrated marketing communications plan.

Note: You should create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

FILLER TEXT

Instructions

Create the third part of your marketing plan:

Describe or list the feedback you received on Part B of Your Marketing Plan. Explain how you will use the feedback to improve your plan.

Develop the company’s pricing and distribution strategy.

Develop the integrated marketing communications plan most relevant for your product / service and audience. Develop your message strategy. Develop your media strategy.

Develop your public relations, sales promotion, and personal selling plan most relevant for your product / service and audience.

1. Develop your online and direct marketing plan most relevant for your product / service and audience.
2. Develop your social responsibility/cause related marketing plan most relevant for your product / service and audience.
3. Use at least three academic resources that address sustainability and monitoring of effective marketing plans and determine the applicability for your hypothetical company. These resources should be industry specific and relate to your chosen product / service.FILLER TEXTNote: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.
4. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
5. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
6. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
7. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

2.   Evaluate marketing strategies used to create/communicate customer value.

d.   Analyze integrated marketing communications and its relationship to advertising strategy.

3.   Create an effective marketing plan.

• a.   Develop recommendations based on market analysis and strategy.
• c.   Develop dynamic strategies for competing.

d.   Develop branding strategies for new products or services.

e.   Develop pricing strategies and distribution channels for products or services.

f.    Develop a fully integrated marketing communications plan for products or services. 

Create a multimedia presentation that explores both major developments in historical inquiry and the value of examining history. The work you did on the Topic Exploration Worksheet in Theme 1 and the historical context and introduction in Theme 3 will directly support your work on this project.

This assessment addresses the following course outcomes:
A. Investigate major developments in the progression of historical inquiry for informing critical questions related to historical narrative. ï‚·

B. Articulate the value of examining historical events for their impact on contemporary issues.

Now that you have done some research with primary and secondary sources and written an introduction for a possible history paper, you will turn your attention to thinking about the creation and value of historical inquiry. You will use the research you have done throughout this course, as well as course materials, to inform your thoughts. To present your opinions and observations, you will create a multimedia presentation (using a presentation tool such as PowerPoint or Prezi) that addresses the following critical elements. While these questions may seem “big,” remember that you are addressing them in a presentation, not a paper, and can use bullet points, visuals, or other methods. These critical elements will be evaluated from the information you provide in your multimedia presentation. Note: If using Prezi, be sure to include a Word document with notes. If using PowerPoint, be sure to use the speaker notes feature.

Your multimedia presentation should be approximately 10 to 12 slides. You are encouraged to include a combination of text, visuals, and sound in order to support your work. Note: If using Prezi, be sure to include a Word document with notes. If using PowerPoint, be sure to include speaker notes.

Attached on file:

***Guidelines and Rubric are attached***

***Multimedia Presentation Planning Worksheet***

*** Theme 1 Exploration Worksheet and Theme 3 Historical Context Introduction Paper work***