...Bentley MKT/ 421 July 14, 2014 The Life Skills Center offers a variety of products and services for individuals and families in need. These services allow an individual to better opportunities to advance themselves and overcome addictions. A person or family in need can come to the center to obtain their GED, obtain help with job hunting and interviewing techniques. We also offer more detailed programs such as counseling and addiction programs to help those in need make better choices for not only themselves but their families. Having a center that offers a variety of services gives someone in need options to make better choices. Our client’s needs will be solved in a variety of ways. A potential client could come to the center and enroll in our addiction program. This program will help this individual overcome their problems and open their eyes to new opportunities and possibly a new life. These opportunities can also be worked upon within the center. Once their addiction program comes to an end, they can seek a new opportunity; such as obtaining their GED. Taking this first step allows so many other doors to open for them to become a better person and get back to contributing in the workforce and society. Once the GED program is completed, the life skills center will help them channel their interest in careers, look for a career and help them practice the interviewing skills needed to obtain a position in their field of interest. The center will assist people, who may feel...
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...sales field, they have great hard skills and soft skills. At Rent-A-Center, they push the concept that sales equal success. Not everyone is a natural sales expert. That is the main purpose companies offer seminars and classes. Throughout this paper, multiple topics about Rent-A-Center will be discuss. Rent-A-Center primary product of service will be explained, while introducing the organization overreaching goals. Training methods will be introduced. After reading this paper you will have a greater understanding on Rent-A-Center as a whole organization, and how they turn their employees into excellent sales agents. Primary Product Not all companies have the privileges to sell just one product to be successful. At Rent-A-Center they offer a wide variety of merchandise, but they focus on their wide selection of television. Rent-A-Center is always offering mind blowing deals and discounts on their television sets. You have the ability to get a 55’’ and a 32’’ television sets for only 24.99 a week. Rent-A-Center also has it where you can bundle a 32’’ television with any purchase for an extra five dollars. Television was designed to bring entertainment into one’s home. The size of your television was a key indicator as to how much a person made. The bigger the television, the more money that person was assumed to have. Focus Rent-A-Centers main focus is sales driven. The more you are able to sell the more money you are able to make. Rent-A-Center holds monthly competition for districts...
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...resources to strengthen your skills. Refer to the videos, readings, and other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |Academic readiness is having the skills, motivation for advancement, financial stability and | |readiness? |desire to learn. Anyone can go to school up through high school, but not everyone can go beyond | | |to get a college education. Of course, it is best done right after high school, when the mind is| | |fresh and malleable and when there is ample financial support from grants or parents, but today | | |there are many adult students who have returned after working for a number of years. It is in | | |the college’s as well as the student’s best interest to verify that the student is academically | | |ready for higher learning. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |I have no problem with writing and reading, in general. I am a fairly fast reader with great | |with academic writing and reading? |comprehension, and have excellent writing skills. The only trouble I have...
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...after completing my competences skills test and the other work shops in the career service questionnaires i believe that with my coping and Strategics skills, ill be able to not only succeed at my career choice but also make a difference and contribute my life experiences to the field as well i have set high goals for myself when it comes to collage and my career, i am attending the university of phoenix for my degree in psychology . i chose this career path because i believe i can make a difference in the field and change a life or two once i graduate i plan on working with troubled youth and young adults that are in child protective services, group homes and Juvenal dentition centers. i am often asked "why" would i want to work in such environments. my answer has always been the same. i want to work in this field for a couple reason yet the main reason is because i know whats its like, iv been there, in group homes in Juvenal centers from a young age, while i was being moved from one home to the next, when dentition center to the next i slowly developed a set of coping skills that not only help me with my stressful and pressuring times. it has also showed me that no matter what you set your mind to you can do it. as a teen i learned how to express myself in more creative ways such as art and poetry. i was not thought these things by those put in charge to help me recover and learn i learned these on my own because nothing else was working. i sat up many night wondering...
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...Education Early childhood education has many benefits; the most important one teaching young children the necessary learning skills they need to grow socially, and developmentally; children are growing and learning every day so the earlier they start their education the better. The need to provide more children early education is huge, no matter what the family income is. Every child deserves to have a chance to excel in their own future. This paper will address the benefits of early childhood education and the different types of programs available. The positive affect that can happen to children attending early childhood education centers such as head start, pre-k, or a local daycare center are extraordinary. The need for this early education is crucial to children’s futures. “Research shows the benefits to the child include improved readiness to learn, improved early literacy, decreased need for remedial or special education placement, and improved cognitive development. Long term, research shows a stronger likelihood to graduate from high school, improved academic confidence, and more participation in post-secondary education.” (Pennsylvania Economy League, 2009) Children’s early years are so critical. There development, socialization, and language skills are developing and are very important to develop strong. How children develop depends on the skill obtained in there early years. Research has shown that, “quality early learning opportunities –where children learn how to...
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...structure is a necessary component for operating a business efficiently. There are five main types of organizational structure, departmental, functional, regional, product, and matrix. “Organizations are set up in specific ways to accomplish different goals. The structure of an organization can help or hinder its progress toward accomplishing these goals” (Writing ,2013, p.1) Each of these structures has components that contribute to the success of a company. Departmental and functional structure is defined as organizational structure divided and or grouped into areas of expertise, according to the specific function of managing thereby ensuring that a company operates more efficiently. (Tutorialspoint, 2013, p. 25). Grace Centers of Hope is a nonprofit organization based in Pontiac, Michigan. This organization is divided into several departments to handle different functions. Regional or geographical organizational structure is designed to provided goods or services to a vast number of individuals, all over the country and also globally. This structure is designed to meet the specific needs of a specific group of people based on their specific location. For example a company based in California that manufactures gutters for houses will provide one type of gutter for California residents and a different type for a resident of Chicago based on the climate that is unique to each location. Retail stores most often use the Product Organizational structure. This...
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...encourage cooperation with other organizations related to higher education and college student development, and to provide leadership and advocacy for the profession of counseling in higher education. ACCA is a division of the American Counseling Association. American College Counseling Association How To Use Your College Counseling Center American College Counseling Association “Supporting and enhancing the practice of college counseling.” www.collegecounseling.org Developed by the ACCA Public Awareness and Professional Advocacy Committee July 2006 How to Use Your College Counseling Center Services Often Provided INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING: Confidential individual counseling is available for a variety of personal issues including emotional problems, adjustment to college life, and interpersonal relationship issues. GROUP COUNSELING: Confidential counseling groups are designed and offered to address mental health issues (e.g., substance abuse, eating disorders, rape or sexual assault) or growth objectives (e.g., self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, assertiveness training). MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING DAYS: Many college counseling centers participate in Screening for Mental Health, Inc.’s National Screening Days: • National Depression Screening Day. Screening and Education for Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are also...
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...Studies: Knowledge is the essence of smart thinking. No matter how much raw intelligence you have, you are not going to succeed at solving complex problems without knowing a lot. That's why we spend the first 20 (or more) years of our lives in school. Robert Bjork and fellow PT blogger Nate Kornell have explored some of the study habits of college students in a 2007 paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Research on memory provides a number of important suggestions about the most effective ways to study. One of the most important tips is that students should study by testing themselves rather than just reading over the material. It is also important to study over a period of days rather waiting until the last minute to study. Kornell and Bjork's studies suggest that only about 2/3 of college students routinely quiz themselves, and a majority of students study only one time for upcoming exams. Of course, guidelines from memory research come from studies in idealized circumstances. Researchers bring participants (many of whom are college students) into a lab and ask them to learn material. Perhaps the recommendations drawn from these studies are not that helpful for real students dealing with real courses. To address this question, Marissa Hartwig and John Dunlosky related the study habits of college students to their grade point average (GPA) in a 2012 paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. They asked students about a number of study...
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...There are many support resources that are open for me to be able to use. Those resources are the library, center for writing excellence, center for mathematics excellence, student workshops, and the life resource center. I plan on using each of the provided resources to help me excel in my classes in order to complete my various goals. The library will help me to gather information for assignment, while the center for writing excellence will help me to stay in the guidelines for grammar, as well as insure that I avoid plagiarism. I plan on using the center for mathematics excellence to help me improve my math skills and for the student workshops; I plan on taking a workshop for my mathematics. As long as I have those resources in hand I will be able to stay motivated because I will have academic support. Of course I have to support from my family, which also helps me to stay motivated. As for improving my career competencies, I am going to become more organized and more attentive to details. Paying more attention to details will help me to improve strategizing. I also have to become more open minded to help me to adapt to the changes that occur in my life. I need to become more confident I myself, which will help me to adhere to my values more steadfastly. I also need to get better at following instructions to make sure that I do a better job at work. How I plan on applying the university learning goals are by making sure that I am practice professional competence...
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...While undefined personal responsibility is linked to success in college and in life. Since, it is so important I need to understand what it means to me. Then I will be able to understand how to succeed in life and in college. To do this I can create a personal plan that consists of strategies that will help me succeed. The definition of personal responsibility can be different from person to person. To me it means taking control of my health, emotions, and money. I must be responsible for my actions and accept the consequences for those actions good or bad. Personal responsibility separates me from a child, and it goes hand- in- hand with success. Through this process I will begin to understand my self-more and I will be able to get on the road to success. Personal responsibility and college success are two things that go together. Without understanding and accepting personal responsibility one would not succeed in college. College has been viewed as place of learning and as a student we are supposed to leave our personal lives at home. If we are in tuned to ourselves we can incorporate that into our college lives and use that on our road to success. If we use our personal strengths toward our college work we will be able to perform our best in college, life, and in the workplace. It is intertwined (LeFalle, 2010). My personal plan to practice personal responsibility in my education includes two acronyms; FRED and PAL. FRED stands for fun, rest, exercise, and diet. I need...
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...their creation of their lesson plans. Regardless of how the themes or topics are selected, the early childhood administrator must continually review and monitor the curriculum plans that teachers select or create, making sure that the curriculum is aligned with the program's philosophy(Gadzikowski, A., 2013). Ole Faithful program curriculum allows teachers to create their own lesson plans based on the theme for the week but it is reviewed by the administrator before it is applied in the classroom. Teachers play such an important role in helping making sure that the programs curriculum is implemented. If math is an integral part of a programs curriculum then the administrator will create opportunities for teachers to teach the appropriate skill with the appropriate materials. A teacher’s role includes giving input on what materials and activities that may be beneficial to teaching their students how to count. Among the school staff, teachers spend the most time with the students which are why teachers are a vital part of the decision-making process because they know what works and what needs improvement. In a well built curriculum teachers are allowed to make small changes as long as they are meeting the standards....
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...among people are around us every day in our lives. Taking the time to understand individuals with uniqueness is an essential part of our own growth and development. Educators are more involved with helping students with disabilities now more than ever before. Finding the correct methods and instruction to produce a healthy learning environment, and assisting students with disabilities is a key element in classrooms today. There are many different disabilities and educating ourselves as teachers on aspects of disabilities helps us to help others. Intellectual disability is distinguished mutually by a substantial under average score on a mental or intelligence test. This score combined with restrictions of aptitude in subjects of daily life, which encompasses social and school functions, communication, and self care. Other aspects consist of partial scope to plan, solve, think abstractly, comprehend complicated thoughts, understand quickly, and gain knowledge through occurrences (How common is Intellectual Disability? ). The processing of delivering these aspects is slower than their peers with average intellect and capabilities. The varieties of this disability are categorized from mild to profound. When an individual has an intellectual disability it is not uncommon for other disabilities to be integrated with it (How common is Intellectual Disability? ). Some of the other disabilities can consist of cerebral palsy, seizure disorder, vision and hearing impairments, and attention...
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...classrooms. The services that are provided reach all types of families, cultures, and races. But the vast majority of childcare centers tend to lack diversity in their staff. The author of this paper intends to show directors of childcare facilities that diversity is important in order to meet the needs of their clients for three primary reasons: to incorporate all walks of life in an ever-changing society, to develop clear communication between staff and parents, and to enhance the learning environment for the children being taught. Diversity has become a part of our everyday society and culture. As childcare providers it is imperative that directors become aware of the constant change and equip themselves with the knowledge needed to meet the needs of the current society. According to Pearson (2000), “...early childhood educators and caregivers are faced with the dilemma of meeting the needs of an ever-changing population. As the population becomes more diverse, classrooms are beginning to reflect the larger population. In response to the expanding needs of young students, instructors and caregivers increasingly are trying to incorporate multiculturalism into their class curricula” (p. 2). As our society continues to transform, childcare centers must constantly change and incorporate the current needs of their parents and children. A childcare center...
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...Hi MaryJ, my name is Jerome; I’m a student here at the University of Phoenix. My major is Early Childhood Education, Associate Degree. I know you will be starting back school soon or you may have already started. I’m sending you this guide to help make your education progress a little easier, I hope it helps. I believe if you tailor the below information to fit you, you will no doubt succeed in accomplishing your educational goals and help with all other goals you may have set for yourself. 1. General internet skills; this area will help you maneuver through the school’s website and the World Wide Web. It will guide you in two specific areas; * Using the Internet for academic purposes: Will help in knowing how to gather information from the internet, and how evaluate that information for accuracy and credibility. Keep in mind not all educational information on the internet is reliable. Conduct different searches on the same topic, this will give you different information on the same topic which will help to check how accurate and reliable the information is. Always revert to your class syllabus and the information given in class. Also know that the information on the internet is not always peer or educational facility reviewed. * Appropriately communicating with different audiences This area will assist you in communicating with the difference kind of audiences, whether it’s casual or academic and knowing the difference between the two. It...
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...the people that need them. [Your paper will benefit from a stronger introduction. The introduction provides an opportunity to capture the reader's attention with a “hook.” It also indicates what the paper will be about and how you will approach the topic. Refer to the 5-paragraph tutorial from Writing Wizards in the Tutorials & Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence for more information about writing introductions.] Quality Life Services is one Human Service organization within the Human Service Field striving to provide services and supports to individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families. This organization was founded in 1988 and is redeveloping its foundation in the Brownsville East New York area of Brooklyn New York. The organization is a nonprofit organization that is overseen by a board of Directors also known as a governing body whom are Health Professionals, Community activist and parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The mission of Quality Life Services is to provide services to individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families that will enhance the quality of life and care for these individuals while integrating them into the local communities. This mission statement...
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