Bible teachings about kindness Kindness refers to one’s ability to be friendly to others around them. It also focuses on sharing what one has with those who require assistance and to be understanding what other people are going through. Therefore, to be kind is to put yourself in other people’s situations and be able to feel their pain or suffering. Such a perspective leads to one being concerned with the affairs of others. It also means that one does not seek individual happiness or to benefit themselves while others are suffering. The bible teaches that God will protect those who show kindness and protect them from harm. Saul asked the Kenites to move away from the Amalekites because they had shown kindness to the Israelites (Samuel 15:6-7). Their kindness led to them being saved from their harm that befell the Amalekites.   Being kind is critical as one grows into adulthood as it helps improve one’s community. The act of kindness affects others around the person. The act of kindness is contagious and influences others around the person. It is…

Observing DAP in the classroom   Part 1: Use NAEYC’s Developmentally Appropriate Practices to evaluate the developmentally appropriateness of the classroom you are working in this semester for EDU 284.  To do so, first carefully read DAP Position Statement {https://www.naeyc.org/resources/position-statements/dap} and the Ten Effective Teaching Strategies {https://www.naeyc.org/resources/topics/dap/10-effective-dap-teaching-strategies. Spend time in the classroom with these resources comparing what you see in the classroom to those Developmentally Appropriate Examples and In Contrast Examples.   You will be looking for examples of Principles of Child Development and Learning that Inform Practice (in DAP Position Statement, pages 10 – 16), Guidelines for DAP (in DAP Position Statement, pages 16 – 23), and Effective Teaching Strategies.   Record observation examples of what is developmentally appropriate or what is not developmentally appropriate about the environment, teacher, etc.  Write each example in such a way that the observation is fully described AND is clearly aligned or not aligned with a Principle, Guideline, or Teaching Strategy.   Part 2:  Identify one child in your practicum classroom who needs particular support in developing a skill.  Refer to the appropriate Goal…

The ten leading health indicators in Healthy People Assessment: The ten leading health indicators in Healthy People 2020 identify racial health disparities as one of its national health objectives. The Office of Minority Health 2019 shows that African Americans adults approximately sixty percent more likely to suffer from diabetes and be diagnosed by a physician than white adults and links this to racial health. African Americans’ poor lifestyles, coupled with unequal health care access, resource availability, low socioeconomic status, and lack of health literacy predisposes them to diabetes, which quickly exacerbates leading to comorbidities. The most appropriate nursing diagnosis of African American community is deficient knowledge of diabetes (its risk factors, pharmacological and non-pharmacological management, prevention, signs and symptoms, impacts and complications) related to unfamiliarity with diabetes and its management as evidenced by a show of concern and development of some avoidable complications. Diabetes may lead to neuropathy resulting in ulcer and amputation, retinopathy, which may lead to blindness, nephropathy exposing individuals to renal diseases, which are often fatal, and obesity, among others (Khan & Misra, 2020). According to the…

Water is very important when we consider the survival of living organisms Water is very important when we consider the survival of living organisms. However, what is strange enough is that we know nothing about its origin and how it came to form oceans and lakes. In early stages of our education, most of the teaching about water were mostly based on water cycle which involves water evaporation from water sources, condensation resulting to formation of clouds and finally, the clouds released the water to refill oceans, and all these processes were sensible only for one thing: None of these processes illuminated us on how water was formed and deposited to the oceans and atmosphere or when. The origin of water and oceans remain to be a debatable topic among many scholars. The most recognized concept is that billions of years ago, the earth was bombarded by comets, asteroids and icy particles and this process led to the ice being released to both the atmosphere and the earth surface to for lakes, oceans etc. (Pepin, 1991). Regardless of these scientific…

What is one thing that Hicks talked about that you didn’t know before? After listening to Hicks lecture on computing specifically in the UK, it’s surprising to learn that women worked on the first computers and undertook all the underlying processes that work towards improving the performance of the machines ranging from the assembling, troubleshooting and even operation.  It’s impressive to learn that women worked on new and cutting-edge technology before even the world knew about its existence, and were instrumental in changing the outcome of World War II.  Learning that it was their operations with these computers that changed geopolitical events and brought about a victory alters my whole perspective of the field. Why is your new perspective important? The new perspective is essential because it helps to unravel erroneous myths that I have fostered over the years about women in IT being the exception and not the norm. My dynamics of the computing world has changed from where I saw the field as a male speciality with women trying to only make inroads in the recent decades to…

Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date:   In philosophy, justice is the concept of proportionality between a person’s merits and the things that occur to them, either good or bad. The starting point of almost all major Western accounts on justice has its roots in Aristotle’s discussion on the virtue of justice. According to Aristotle, the critical element of justice is the ability to treat similar cases alike to shorten the time for gaining justice (Cammack 178). In his philosophical theories, teachings, and discussions, Aristotle distinguishes between the justice in wealth and goods distribution and reparation justice. An example is a retributive justice, the punishing of someone for the wrongs that they have done. This notion of justice is important since that in a just state, a central concept of political philosophy emerges. The political philosophy was invented in the antiquity era by Plato and reinvented by Aristotle. It encompassed the origin reflections of the existing political institutions, and its concepts were used in the interpretation of concepts such as justice and equality. In ancient Greece, justice was viewed differently as…

Reflection Paper; Effectives Teaching Profession Introduction The focus of the qualities of effectiveness in teaching is a whole round activity that does not only consider teachers’ dispositions but every person who seeks to bring to the classroom unique ideas, aspirations, motivation, and knowledge. Such people are considered to be teachers regardless of their professional alignment. However, various people, scholars, and researchers have brought different approaches of assessing effectiveness in teaching as reflected in this paper. Reflection to the chapters The mini lessons that I have conducted shows that my strength lies there. Among the behavior that justifies my effectiveness is integration of speaking, reading, and listening in just one lesson (Stronge, 2018). I find it convenient to start the lesson with reading so as to grasp the attention of the learners and assess their ability to comprehend the content. Listening being the second helps in evaluating their comprehension and coherence in the establishing the content of the topic (Stronge, 2018). Speaking comes last after thorough evaluation of what learners require to facilitate grasping of the topic’s content. This also enables…

    The effect of teaching listening skills to improve student’s Pronunciation, a case study of schools in Jordan   Introduction: Spoken version was started numerous centuries ago, before the discovery of written version of language. Human beings as a social animal depends upon language to communicate with each other. Now a days, in many countries of the world, language of choice is English. It is supposed that many foreign languages are hard to understand and learning them is also a difficult task. English language is also one of them which is difficult to learn as well as difficult to teach. EFL (English foreign language learners) have a keen interest in Pronunciation as well as phonology. ( Dalton  & Seidlhofer, 1994; and Linguagem & Ensino, 2000). Pronunciation is a vital oral skills in addition to language  skills . Furthermore, they are defining requirements and describing their standards for communication skills (Linguagem & Ensino, 2000).  The use of   English language is increasing day by day in the world. For an instance, number of people are increasing who use English language to communicate…

 Gospel of Matthew and First Timothy notable differences in their teachings Question 5 I agree with your views that the Gospel of Matthew and First Timothy have notable differences in their teachings. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is constantly preaching regarding the kingdom of heaven. For instance, the teachings on the kingdom of heaven ask people to have good faith if they want to inherit the kingdom of God. I support your views that message from the Gospel of Matthew is that people should always strive to lead an authentic life, and they will receive the kingdom of God. I also support your views on the book of First Timothy. Paul speaks about the need to stay justified through faith. When an individual does something wrong, they still have a chance to enter heaven as long as they believe in God. Paul also states that when people have faith in God, they will always be forgiven regardless of the kind of mistakes they make in life. Question 4 I agree with your views on the ideas of Paul to…

Jesus’s Teaching on Compassion To be compassionate is to be sympathetic and concerned about the suffering that other people are exposed to. The books of Mathew are known for their teachings about being compassionate. Reading the book highlights various approaches that Jesus used to express the concept of being considerate. Forgiveness and compassion are the two central teachings in Mathew’s gospel. To illustrate the importance of forgiveness, Mathew teaches us that we should forgive those who wrong us for God to forgive our trespasses, as incorporated in the prayer’s petition on forgiveness. Mathew uses several parables to teach about forgiveness. For example, the parable of the unforgiving servant teaches us that we should have mercy on those who have offended us so that we may appreciate God’s forgiveness. The master forgave the servant of a higher debt than that which his fellow servant owed him to mean that God extends more mercy to us, so we should be willing to forgive unconditionally. Moreover, he urges Christians to forgive seventy times seven times. Mathew’s gospel is centered on Jesus’ compassion towards…