Give them one specific compliment on their article and two specific facts or activities that they could add to their article to help parents understand the process of language acquisition.

Parents Newsletter
Hello Parents, I know you are excited about your child growth and development. This letter is to assure you that you have made the right decision by allowing us here to work with you and your child. Our goal is to help your child become the best he can be in life. With this in mind we insist that you be fully involve in your child learning. The educators are here to help your child be successful in their learning goals and have fun as they learn.
We will continue to inform you of your child progress throughout the year. Even your child will come home talking of the activities that they are engaged in. And as parents you are always welcome to stop in and check on us and ask questions about any concern you may have.
Language and Communication is very important in the growth and development of children because “Language is the principle means by which humans communicate, but not the only one. Communication is the activity of a sender conveying a message, usually with meaningful information to a recipient across space and time (Piper, 2012, p.1.1).”
Infants may not be able to use word but they still can communicate with parents and caretakers using a different language such as crying or whining to get attention. If they are wet, hungry, or need some attention they have their way of letting us know.
According to Vos, (2008) state “Preschool years are vital years, during this period and especially the first three years of life, the foundation for thinking, language, vision, attitudes, aptitudes, and other characteristics are laid down, says Ronald Kotulak, author of Inside the Brain. Consequently, it would be a waste not to use a child’s natural ability to learn during his or her most vital years, when learning a second language is a easy as learning the first. Since 50 percent of the ability to learn is developed in the first years of life and another 30 percent by age eight, early childhood development programs have the opportunity to encourage early learning and development.” (p.1).
Parents another great way to help your child advance in learning is to read to them and talk with them, especially infant children the more they hear you talking to them the more their vocabulary will increase but please do not compare your child to another child because all children learn differently and on different levels each child is unique in their own way so appreciate their progress.

Piper, T. (2012). Making meaning, making sense: Children’s early language learning. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education.
Vos, J. (2008). Can preschool children be taught a second language? Early childhood news. Retrieved from
http://www.early childhood news.com/early childhood/article-view.aspx?Articled=60

Choose 1 visual art primary source from this list of 6 items:

1. Fourth of July Picnic, text p. 218

2. Early Mill in New England text p. 220

3. Deck Life on the Paragon , 1811-1812 text p. 222

4. The Rendezvous, text p. 225

5. Seminole Dance text p. 227

6. Platte River Crossing text p. 226

Directions
Pick one image. Do not research the painting, image or the artist. Do not write about the painter or artist.
Share the primary source you picked and describe it in detail explaining what you see

After describing the source you picked answer these questions about the image:

What culture, time period and place does it depict?
What is the historic setting?

What perspective does the artist portray about the topic?

What “story” or “narrative” does the image display about the period after 1815 or the people in it?

What was left out?

What can we learn about the American experience from the image?

What does this source tell us about the time and place in which it was produced?

How did viewing this source help you understand the time in which the piece was produced?

Use only the text Chapter 8 and the resources in Module Week 8 for background.
No outside research.
You must show me your read and understand the material assigned and Module 8.

Guidelines

Upload your written response a file due at the end of Week 8 for up to 50 points.

Find the grading rubric in the top right hand page drop down menu with gear.

Write using your own words.
Do not embed any photos or illustrations.
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No outside research is allowed. Use only our textbook and the resources in Week 8 Module.

Do not repeat the questions.

Direct quotations should be no longer than 1.5 sentences.

Do not type a heading, title. Place only your name on the paper.
Type the word count at the end of your last line.
Minimum word count 275. Maximum word count 450.

AT LEAST 200 WORDS EACH WITH CITATIONS…RESPOND ON THE CONTENT AND NOT THE GRAMMAR OF THE INFORMATION

POST 1:

Hello Professor Towns and Classmates,

Challenging the status quo produces innovative ideas that can improve overall operations and allow an organization to grow because of creative, fresh, and diverse perspectives. I am currently employed at an NYC Hospitals. Ten questions that challenge the status quo at my current work place are as follows:

1. What job responsibilities can be eliminated and handled electronically?
2. What can we do to exploit the areas that make our hospital unique?
3. Are there increases to staffing that could be made to help our current staff?
4. What changes can be made to reduce the amount of paper used?
5. Are we reaching out to vendors in order the get the best deals possible on supplies?
6. Are there new technologies that we should be implementing within our medical center?
7. How many new research studies can we add in addition to our current studies?
8. Are there incentives such as extra PTO that we can provide to staff for exemplary performance?
9. How can we speed up the journal entry process?
10. Would it be efficient to outsource collections department?

“The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers, it is to find the right question” (Dyer, et al. Pg. 4) the most beneficial question for my organization was to analyze what job responsibilities can be eliminated and handled electronically? This is the most important question in addressing status quo because our finance operation has been effective for so long, there is a sense of maintaining the same processes and methods. What I find interesting is that because we are a hospital organization, there are constant upgrades to medicines, medical procedures and surgical equipment. We adopt state of the art technologies so that we can provide precision and high-quality care to your patients. On the finance side, some of the processes are antiquated and haven’t change in decades. This possess a barrier to innovation because there are no efforts to make improvements, the executive team is happy at the pace and the way things are being done without thinking about ways to make the employees more efficient and productive when performs their jobs.

After analyzing the question, I developed a suggestion of a job responsibility that can be eliminated. We maintain employee time sheets and allocate the hours and salary cost spent on different research and department studies. This process is very time consuming because it is performed manually and requires the finance team to chase down employees to complete their time sheets. I think this can be eliminated and tracked through our payroll department. We utilize a third-party payroll company to handle the processing of checks. A meeting should be set to evaluate our needs and see if our third-party payroll company can implement this innovation to elevate this responsibility from our staff with an automated approach.

The best discovery skills that would enable my organization to drive innovation and overcome creativity barriers and the status quo is Observation. At my organization, if more time was spent analyzing our processes and observing how things work, while discussing ways to improve them, it would greatly increase our productivity and creativity. Observers try all sorts of techniques to see the world in a different light (Dyer, et al. Pg. 4). This would be a great way for us to innovate and provide our staff with more support to be great.

Joseph Sardella

Reference:

Dyer, J. H., Gregersen, H. B. & Christensen, C. M. (2009 Innovator’s DNA. Harvard Business Review, 87(12), 60-67. Retrieved from https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pl/66107034/66108…

POST 2:

Class and Professor Towns,

Ford questioned the status quo of riding horses. Questioning other ways of transportation changed our lives forever with the invention of the automobile. Questioning the status quo at my workplace might start a revolution for the better. At least very least it may ignite ideas that may create changes that would satisfy the stakeholders. Here are 10 ideas questioning the status quo at my workplace:

1. Why is the cast room located so far from the x-ray room since the patients might have to go back and forth for x-rays?
2. Why doesn’t the medical assistance at my work place provide pregnancy tests for patients scheduled for MRI or X-ray exams when they are unsure of their pregnancy status?
3. Why not allow the medical assistance to cross train between each other’s jobs in order to familiarize each other’s tasks in case when one is absent?
4. Why doesn’t the scheduler for MRI exams have a measuring tape or some type of tool to help identify who would can or cannot fit into the machine?
5. Why aren’t there vendor machines?
6. Why isn’t there a computer application that can sync registered patients with radiology so I do not have to use extra time to manually input patient information?
7. Why isn’t smoking away from entrance enforced?
8. Why is the x-ray table not padded?
9. Why is there no wheelchair on site?
10. Why isn’t CPR mandatory for all staff?
11. Why doesn’t the MRI Machine convert to stand-up MRI?

Converting an MRI machine to a stand-up machine would be so convenient to many patients. I would imagine that all that is needed is to remove the table and place a chair and maybe an interface device in order to make the switch from conventional to stand-up. This would avoid canceling the exam and having to cause an inconvenience to the patients by having them sent out to a stand-up MRI. Exams can take 20 to 40 minutes. Some patients have discomfort when lying down for a long duration. Patients wouldn’t be able to keep still which is required for the exam. Some are claustrophobic and would prefer sitting up during their exam.

The problem is there are no such convertible machines. It would have to be invented. The product would then have to be approved and installed which could take some time. Also, if such machine were to be invented it be costly for the upgrades. Maybe upgrading the present machines can be a possibility with the right and careful technology designed.

I think raising this question and bringing awareness to a need that would overcome the barrier of bringing a more convenience to patients would help catalyze this idea. Questioning is the start of breaking out of the status quo (DYER, 2009). It starts with bringing awareness that patients are dealing with the inconvenience of having to be turned away to another facility that provides a stand up MRI machine. Some patients might have to take an extra day off from work. While other patients have to sought out transportation. It can also delay diagnosis or the reports. Having an MRI machine that can be conventional and do stand-up MRI exams would be beneficial to all stakeholders including staff, owner, doctors and of course the patients and their families. Making the question aware could ignite a revolution such did Ford when he found an alternative to using horses for transportation. Questioning the status quo is the 1st step to getting the ball rolling to better our lives.

Dyer, J. H., Gregersen, H. B., & Christensen, C. M. (2009). The innovators DNA. Harvard Business Review, 87(12), 60-67.

PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS, I MUST COMPLETE A PEER REVIEW ON THE BELOW. Thanks

Please demonstrate critical thinking abilities. No fewer than 100 words for post.

For this response, should outside sources be used to support the content within the postings, proper in-text citations and correctly formatted references should be prepared consistent with the APA (6th edition). The list of references should be physically positioned at the end of the postings.

2. You own Falzer’s Tool Coating Company, a high-tech firm specializing in the coating of cutting tools (e.g. drill bits, cutting blades) to provide longer life before resharpening is needed. You are concerned that the competition continues to develop new coating methods and new applications of coating in different industries. You want to create a work environment where employees offer more new product ideas and suggest new industries where these ideas might be applied. What type of compensation plan will you recommend? What are some of the problems you need to be aware of?

The best opportunity for the employee is to be compensated fairly, is the opportunity to benefit or from the idea or process. An hourly employee may see benefit in a one time bonus of $2,500, and acknowledgement in a quarterly publication. Dependent on tenure the idea or process, could be paid quarterly or annually. Though, a full an complete agreement as well as disclosure should be in writing with the employee. Non-disclosure as well as non-compete should also be made between the company and the employee. All entities involves should be completely aware of the ramifications of the idea.

Non-disclosure as well as non-compete protects the ingenuity of the idea, as well as both parties. The employee should be made fully aware of his compensation being offered.

Milkovich, G., Newman, J., & Gerhart, B. (2014). Compensation (11th ed.). New York, New York: McGraw- Hill.

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

1. Provide a rationale for the stock that you selected, indicating the significant economic, financial, and other factors that led you to consider this stock.
2. Suggest the primary reasons why the selected stock is a suitable investment for your client. Include a description of your client’s profile.
3. Select any five (5) financial ratios that you have learned about in the text. Analyze the past three (3) years of the selected financial ratios for the company; you may obtain this information from the company’s financial statements. Determine the company’s financial health. (Note: Suggested ratios include, but are not limited to, current ratio, quick ratio, earnings per share, and price earnings ratio.)
4. Based on your financial review, determine the risk level of the stock from your investor’s point of view. Indicate key strategies that you may use in order to minimize these perceived risks.
5. Provide your recommendations of this stock as an investment opportunity. Support your rationale with resources, such as peer-reviewed articles, material from the Strayer Learning Resource Center, and reviews by market analysts.
6. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

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; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Critique financial management strategies that support business operations in various market environments.
• Analyze financial statements for key ratios, cash flow positions, and taxation effects.
• Review fixed income strategies using time value of money concept, bond valuation methods, and interest rate calculations.
• Estimate the risk and return on financial investments.
• Apply financial management options to corporate finance.
• Determine the cost of capital and how to maximize returns.
• Formulate cash flow analysis for capital projects including project risks and returns.
• Evaluate how corporate valuation and forecasting affect financial management.
• Analyze how capital structure decision-making practices impact financial management.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in financial management.
• Write clearly and concisely about financial management using proper writing mechanics.