PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT Personality Spectrum and Multi Intelligence According to the results, I am an organizer with a score of 27 out of 32. I also portray the thinker personality, with a score of 19 out of 32, then the giver personality, with a score of 17 out of 32. I least fall in the adventurer category with a score of 13 out of 32. According to multiple intelligence, the result shows that I am highly logical/Mathematical. I am also musical, kinesthetic, and intrapersonal to some a significant extent. Learning and teaching styles I prefer the cognitive learning style. My opinions, ideas, and way of thinking are analytical and logical rather than just imaginative. I approach learning sequentially; that is, I learn in stages. I visualize tasks before committing to accomplish them. I also work deliberately to attain any goal. I often acquire knowledge through experience, thought, and sensory input. Therefore, detailed representation with hands-on tasks will be the most efficient teaching style. I also love the logical presentation of content, as this improves my chances of mastery. Study Techniques…
How Trauma affects Child development. Various factors determine children’s development. Nature and nurture are one of the critical factors that impact significantly on a child. Trauma is closely associated with the event of a child. What children encounter in their life has a significant impact. Therefore, this paper will discuss the effect of Trauma on children. DESCRIPTION OF AREA OF STUDY. I decided to study at Lexington School. It is a dynamic school in the United States of America. Specifically, I was interested in nursery school. It is a school that the pupil-teacher ratio is professional. The school has a vast population of pupils. High society led to a close study of the children. Many diverse groups of pupils are in the school, and having the focus on accurate information is acquired. Categorically it has individual students who are well catered for by the professional teachers. Dyslexia pupils are standard in the institution, and special attention is given. The dedication of the management in handling children convinced me to choose the area as my part of the study. It is…
What is active and passive investing, and what works best? . Investment in this day and age is more of an art than a career. The entrepreneurial landscape is quickly changing, and those that win are those that change with it. The relative nature of the market leaves many investors stranded as they try to navigate their way through the markets and guard their assets by building recession-proof portfolios. What are active and passive investments? Active investments are investments based primarily on short term returns. They involve trying to outperform the market. This makes use of a fund manager who actively tracks the market, global trends, and politics and makes investments to obtain short term returns from favorable market conditions. Passive investments take the long term mentality or the buy and hold approach. Here your fund manager invests long term in indexed funds and ETF’s to cash in on long-term returns mainly from capital appreciation and dividends. What wins The argument between passive and active investments is like the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry with loyal diehards on each side.…
When and why should occupational therapists be involved in home modification? Home modification can be defined as the alternations made in living spaces to meet the requirements of individuals with physical limitations so that they can continue to live a safe and independent life (Petersson et al., 2008). Occupational therapy is a distinct type of therapy that plays a crucial role in home modifications. It provides clients with information concerning the tools that they should optimize in their living spaces relative to a person’s abilities and promote maximum participation in day to day occupations (Somerville et al., 2016). This paper intends to discuss home modification and occupation therapy by answering the given questions. When and why should occupational therapists be involved in home modification? An occupational therapist should be involved in home modifications when it comes to evaluating a living space for alternations or changes. Occupational therapists think of ways to make a living space function better for both now and the future, and often come up with excellent and low-cost solutions (Somerville et al., 2016). Usually, their focus is…
Research Article Review: Enhancing Work Team Effectiveness Summary A project, whether in science, construction, or project management, needs a team. Team management is important to ensure there’s effectiveness and hence, maximum productivity from each member of a team. NAS (2015), in his literature research, highlights the crucial factors in a team process that ensure the effectiveness of a team, plus the interventions and actions that can be used to shape the process quality. Despite the focus on science teams, NAS (2015) explains that the team dynamics in project management teams inform other teams outside their contexts; hence, this research can be extended to other fields. The article begins by highlighting the theoretical framework behind understanding team effectiveness. He suggests two considerations to be the multilevel unfolding of teams overtime and comprehending the team’s structure of workflow. Teams are composed of different individuals that need to coordinate resources. Team processes are ways that these teams coordinate resources. There are cognitive processes that mostly deal with how information is shared among the team members. The team process can be behavioral, including how…
Describe your short- and long-term career goals and how the NYU Stern Executive MBA program will help you accomplish them. The information technology domain has always fascinated me since the day I decided to switch my domain from mechanical to IT back in the year 2000. With technology advancement, more and more Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) focused companies are switching to leverage online services – from incident management, environmental compliance, and sustainability management. Thus, I believe Environmental domain based IT services & products will be an exciting area of growth in the years to come. When I decided to switch my domain from mechanical to information technology, I realized that I lacked Software Engineering experience and therefore decided to pursue my Masters in Computer Science in the US. The first couple of years, I worked as a Software Consultant to understand the diverse Information Technology domain and to acquire hands-on experience in programming. I was quickly promoted to Senior Application Architect/Technical Manager and then to Director in an IT services company, where I spearheaded the growth of the…
Social media and professional career Introduction Notably, the social media has become a great part of many people’s lives and it has become great to remain connected with the global world. Just almost everybody you know is on Twitter, What-up, LinkedIn, and Facebook. When properly utilized, the social media platforms can be far beneficial in unimaginable ways. On the other hand, when used in the wrong way, it can impact an individual negatively. Some of the impacts of the social media are mild, and they might not be noticeable in the short run. However, their impact, in the long run, can be devastating (Roman, 2014). The main objective of this essay is to explore the positive and the negative impact of the social media on professional careers and how one can elevate the positive and supress the negative. There are various positive impacts that the social media can have on an individual professional career. One of the impacts is that it can help a person to network with co-workers and potential employers. Social media platform such as Facebook and LinkedIn…
Navigating Public-Private Partnerships Purpose of study Public education landscape in many urban districts is being transformed as private-sector providers such as educational management organizations partner with or run the district schools. Some private sector providers’ vision for school reform has remained static over time. The increase in the public-private sector partnerships has made the concerned policy maker struggle to improve low-performing schools. Therefore, there is a need to examine different private-sector providers to identify factors which may contribute to success or failure of the public-private partnerships. This article creates a framework that places these private sector providers in a continuum of control. Conceptual framework Purchasing of services from private providers such as school lunch, and busing is common in district schools across the nation. Some argue that this public-private partnership has made service delivery in these schools more effective. Proponents of the private-public partnerships say that these private sector providers will use their outsider status and experience to access personal and professional networks that will spark creativity in the public school system. In contrast, the detractors of the public-private partnership…
Benefits and Challenges of Advanced Practitioners The ANP role is seen as having the professional knowledge, behaviours and also the skills of high level, and the ability to practice health care safely and effectively, (Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, 2009). Adopting these key qualities accompanied by expert skills as well as knowledge, ANPs are in a position to assist in the reduction of patients waiting whenever they are under critical conditions. As such, this is achieved by first identifying the Urgent and non-urgent cases in the Emergency Department, as suitable and transferring to majors or results, therefore keeping the unit to full capacity. Arguably, the most important benefit of ANPs is its ability in improving the quality of services at the Emergency Department (McDevitt and Melby 2015) by increasing positive patient outcome satisfaction and safety (McDonnell et al 2014). Virtually most emergency departments consider themselves as understaffed, particularly when regarding medical staffing. As such, this is true to some extent considering that it’s a sector whose workload is large and variable from time to time. However, this makes it…
Research Methodologies:Well-Prepared in Their Own Eyes Research Method Used The article about “Well-Prepared in Their Own Eyes” was conducted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) to evaluate questions revolving on the career preparations of the students in mid-level colleges and universities (Jaschik, 2015). The researchers used surveys to conduct this research. The study focused on the employers and the new graduates who enter the job market and what the employers think about their career preparations in the colleges and universities. The use of the survey was the most appropriate method of research in this work because it comprises raw views and ideas from various stakeholders of higher education (Geiger, 2017). In reality, data for sociological research require fresh information from the participants and the information should not have been subjected to increased scrutiny which may distort it, thus the relevance of the method of the survey in this research. Strengths and Weaknesses of Survey Method Survey method is one of the widely used techniques in research. The survey allows individuals some level of anonymity in which they…