...Understanding Schizophrenia Tawnja Davis AIU Online PRES111-Presentation Essentials Ramsey Joel April 26, 2011 Abstract The presentation review is to show how effective it was with the audience about the topic understanding schizophrenia. The resources were given and told how they helped in the presentation giving fact and examples of the illness. Difficulty and ease was explained on how the presentation was formed giving examples of each. The hard fact of the presenters suffering loss was reviewed along with her interview with a news team. The outline and how well it worked in forming the presentation was also mentioned. The visual aids we discussed and it was told how well they helped give insight to the audience on the topic. It was reviewed and told how with the next presentation certain elements would be involved such as making a board that has each slide pinned along with written statements. A check list was involved in the conclusion. Although this paper was done by the presenter references were given without them the presenter would not have facts in her presentation. The presenter believes that the presentation will help others look inside themselves and help make a difference for the better in changing the way things are with schizophrenia. Understanding Schizophrenia The choice of my topic relates to the experiences I have had with schizophrenia and my son. The intended audience here would be anyone interested in making changes with the mental health...
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...Understanding the Attitude In the essay “The Bias of Language and the Bias of Pictures” which appears in The Norton Mix, authors Neil Postman and Steve Powers evoke the attitude of suspicion. People form their attitudes primarily based on someone else’s perception versus their own. An attitude is what often guides people’s decisions. Postman and Powers discuss different levels of language and how both moving and still pictures may not be true representations of fact. Key indicators that they harbor suspicion about the media are obvious when they discuss recreations, how language operates and how words actually express meaning. During old historical movies, historical dates and events are told in a way to not only inform but to catch the viewers attention. Newscasters are similar. Instead of listing off facts, the reporter creates a story with the facts in it. That keeps the viewers from changing the station. “The job of an honest reporter is to try to find words and the appropriate tone in presenting them that will come close to evoking the event as possible” (par.3). Reporters today state facts in a way that they want the viewers to understand it. This is important to the readers because it shows how reporters use different words to describe a situation. Words show emotion and are filled with meaning. When a reporter is trying to keep the viewer interested, she may include words that trigger the mind to define an event, person or situation. For example, “Today congress ordered...
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...person can sit in class all day long listening to a lecture and still not have a clue as to what is going on. If one wants to retain knowledge and apply it, it is up to that person to learn and comprehend the material that is presented to them by the teacher. Understandably, there are times when one does not get the information right away. When this happens though, it is up to the student to find out why they are not comprehending and get the additional information that is needed to learn the material. Smarthinking Assignment #1 In “The Activity and Art of Reading,” the authors explain to us the difference between reading information and reading for understanding. In the book it says, “we must know how to make books teach us well.” When reading just for information there is no comprehension. When reading for understanding one comprehends the material and is able to apply the material. What do You Think of This Idea? “The student must do the learning” in my opinion is a true statement. A person can sit in class all day long listening to a lecture and still not have a clue as to what is going on. Sometimes our minds can drift off and the teacher starts to sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher. If one wants to retain knowledge and apply it, it is up to that person to learn and comprehend the material that is presented to them by the teacher. Understandably, there are times when one does not get the information right away. When this happens though, it is up to the student...
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...Understanding History [Type the document subtitle] DeVry University 1/7/2015 Vietnam and the 20th Century Experience 7 January 2015 Understanding History When reading through history it is important to understand the past before you can understand the present. There isn’t a way to know how we got to where we are, without knowing where we’ve been. So when dealing with participants in history it is vital that we thoroughly understand where a specific person came from and what they have done. If we were to study individuals without knowing prior context for example the French in Vietnam; if you begin reading in the middle of our textbook in chapter two you would believe the French were going to be in Vietnam for the long haul and were not going to accept defeat. But in all reality, by the end of chapter two the French had all but surrendered and were overpowered and America was forced to come into Vietnam. From there into Chapter three, its hard to find French presence in Vietnam. So without knowing prior context from chapter three on you would have almost little to no clue that the French had tried to take back Vietnam under a nationalist puppet government. This is why it is so very important to know the context of prior history. I do not believe many people in my age group even know the French were involved in Vietnam; I for one had no information about Vietnam other than it was an unpopular war America was in that left many veterans out in the cold...
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...knowledge and understanding are two completely different categories. In education, proper categorization of knowledge and understanding provides teachers with extensive tools needed for organizing curriculum content around the key concepts, and developing meaningful connections between the curriculum content and students’ real world experiences. Knowledge vs. Understanding Despite significant similarities, knowledge and understanding are two completely different categories. In education, proper categorization of knowledge and understanding provide teachers with the extensive tools for organizing curriculum content around the key concepts, and developing meaningful connections between the curriculum content and students’ real world experiences. Knowledge is usually referred to as “a set of established facts” (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005); in other words, knowledge is a body of coherent facts, or verifiable claims, which are necessarily right or wrong, but which are not necessarily understood by people. In other words, understanding “is an unobvious and important inference, needing uncoverage” (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). Knowledge requires understanding, and understanding is impossible without knowledge. Understanding makes sense of facts, ideas, and skills that form the foundation of knowledge. Understanding tells us what these facts, ideas, and skills mean; and while knowledge is an objective category (facts and ideas are either correct or incorrect), understanding is totally subjective...
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...knowledge gained. Figure 2.1, Knowledge versus Understanding, shows the distinction between the two terms. The figure shows the basics of knowledge transferring to the complexity of understanding. In the classroom, knowledge is taught with different representations of that knowledge. That knowledge progresses to be transferrable and applicable to everyday life. In kindergarten, numbers are presented in the form of counting. It is not until the end of kindergarten or the beginning of first grade where students are taught the understanding of numbers and how to use them. Students are taught the basic understanding of addition and subtraction. After the students are taught the understanding of addition and subtraction, students can demonstrate their learning by using counting chips or other concrete objects. Now that the students have shown their understanding of addition and subtraction, they can go further with their knowledge. Once students demonstrate understanding, they can express their enduring knowledge to transfer to other concepts. Concepts that addition and subtraction and addition can transfer to are money or other school subjects like science and other higher understandings of mathematics. In each grade, the enduring knowledge is always present since the knowledge is transferred each time. In every instance where addition and subtraction can be applied, students are able to do because they have already transferred their understanding. After the students graduate from high...
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...Understanding the role of the social care worker 1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship The difference between a working relationship and a personal relationship is that a professional relationship is governed by professional codes of conduct and employer policies and procedures. Fundamentally, it is vitally important to maintain professional boundaries between other staff members and individuals in your care, taking care to maintain a strong sense of mural respect and understanding of the beliefs of others, regardless of your opinion of them. Essentially, a personal relationship is one that is created through personal choice with a person who you share similar interests and personal values with. Concepts such as boundaries are more fluid and are not governed by set rules of procedures. 1.2 Describe different working relationships in social care settings There are many different types of relationships within health and social care and each will require a different type of working relationship with varying degrees of formality. For instance, the relationship you would have between a service user and a social worker, or other professional body would be much different, having to employ a more formal approach with a member of a professional body. Essentially the different types of working relationships are: Between colleagues Between supervisors and managers Professional bodies Clients and family members/representatives...
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...Understanding Self-Knowledge and Evaluating Understanding xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Grand Canyon University July 14, 2007 Understanding Self-Knowledge and Evaluating Understanding The purpose of this paper is to identify, describe, and critique personal views on the place of understanding self-knowledge from the point of view of both the teacher and the student. The paper will also provide an evaluation of the sequence and organization of instruction that was used during at least two teaching assignments (units). The focus of this evaluation will be toward the effectiveness of the sequence and organization in accomplishing the desired understanding expected from students. To allay the purpose of the paper, criteria from Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s (2005) “backward design” will serve as a background for much of the information included in the paper. According to Wiggins and McTighe (2005), self-knowledge is “the wisdom to know one’s ignorance and how one’s patterns of thought and action inform as well as prejudice understanding” (p. 100). In consideration of today’s teaching milieu, it is possible that there are far too many instructors who are not familiar with the positive academic gains that they could bestow upon their students by paying attention to criteria that warns against instruction is devoid of any understanding, appreciation or acknowledgement of students’ self-knowledge. One of the greatest teachers and philosophers of Western thought, Socrates (Wiggins...
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...Curriculum Development Using Understanding by Backward Design Some of the challenges of developing meaningful curriculum is that the content has to promote student understanding, retention, and generalization. (Amy Childre, 2009) There is no argument that curriculum development is not a single process, where one type of development fits all. A curriculum designers and educators can look at the works of Ralph W. Tyler, Decker Walker, and Elliott W. Eisner and many others to establish a way of developing curriculum. It is understood that one type of curriculum development or template is not the best approach. It takes the ideas of many theories to create the best possible curriculum. Tyler’s Rationale is still considered the primary template of curriculum development. (Marsh, 2003) However instructional designers and teachers know the tides of curriculum are in a continuous state of change, especially now. So is Tyler’s Rationale and other theorizers’ designs the best to use when developing and teaching curriculum? Is the current means of curriculum furthering student learning, retention, and generalization? Today’s curriculum developers and teachers need to look past traditional means, they need to look beyond textbooks and other curriculum influences when creating meaningful curriculum. Understanding by Design (UbD) looks at a new way of establishing curriculum starting with outcomes first. It looks to achieve the same goals as traditional processes but utilizes a reverse approach...
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...How does intra- and interpersonal perception (understanding yourself and other people) contribute to individual success both at university and later at work? An individual’s awareness and monitoring of themselves can enhance and improve one’s perception of reality, contributing to individual success; just as growing relationships with others and strong communication skills can in-turn contribute to the same individual success. This success can be achieved at an academic or organizational level, through an individual’s intrapersonal and interpersonal perception of themselves and the world around them. However, without strong intrapersonal dynamics, an individual cannot achieve an equally strong interpersonal perception with their community and the greater world. Strong intrapersonal perception begins with an individual’s self-assessment of what they know, so that they can improve their self-regulated learning skills and be successful (Bercher, 2012). Self-regulated learning is important as it allows an individual to assess and monitor themselves, proving to them their ability or inability to complete a task. This can be achieved through many tools and exercises. Bercher describes the use of a Student Self Assessment Sheet (SASS), which shows how an individual can achieve better learning through cognitive feedback, which usually occurs during the completion of a task. If feedback occurs during the accomplishment of a task, an individual can understand what went wrong and modify...
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...Cultural competence and understanding cultural beliefs and values allow health providers the ability to properly assess individuals and provide appropriate education which is understandable to the particular culture. Culture is behaviors, beliefs, values, and ways of life for an individual which influence health, healing, wellness, illness, and delivery of health services (Dolan Hunt, 2014). Cultural awareness, imposition and sensitivity are areas that need to be understood. Cultural awareness is the understanding of our own thoughts and abilities to reflect on them to better understand the differences of others. Cultural imposition is fully understanding the cultures beliefs before providing a plan. An example of this is educating a patient on a specific diet and the need to educate the health provider regarding the cultural beliefs as there may be certain foods that patient will not eat. Cultural sensitivity also needs to be considered, understanding communication in respecting ones culture. Verbal and non verbal communication both need to be considered. An example of this is that some cultures find it disrespectful to stare to long and have direct eye contact, therefore it is important to have knowledge of this so that when providing care this is respected (Dolan Hunt, 2014). It is important to be knowledgeable, unbiased and understanding in order to perform in our full capacity. Overall, providing culturally congruent care is essential to reduce health disparities...
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...Through this course I acquired the knowledge to use in different approaches when dealing with a company internationally. I now have a perspective of the international network, and the challenges in the international environment. My first perspective is the component parts of an international company, and understanding internally how it all comes together. Now I see why it helps to identify the company’s strengths and weaknesses, prioritize the company’s tasks to solve them in the right order and synchronize efforts to move in the same direction. We covered subjects such as globalization, differences in cultures, the strategy of international business, and the organization of international business, global human resource management and global marketing. This knowledge is important because it gives me an understanding of how to utilize the knowledge behind a product, and bring inside knowledge to everyone on the team I create. I see how it’s not the physical product itself that makes an impact on the market, but how you utilize the knowledge behind the product such as the services and culture. The real value of knowledge is not the product but how to use everything to create a competitive advantage anywhere. A company has many different units, and sometimes they are not all aligned to the same. By looking more closely at challenges, when dealing with forming the strategy to implementing the strategy, I am now able to identify the misunderstandings between the decided strategy...
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...depends on the context of the situation and purpose. However, sometimes the types of communication is often construed when it should be used is often incorrect. Therefore, understanding the necessary elements of communication allows individuals to know when and how to use different forms of communication. Therefore, basic communication can consist of individuals talking or not talking. It is usually known as the process of sending and receiving messages. This is used when one is saying something that is broad or does not need to be fully explained. When one wants to gain a full understanding of something, a detailed explanation is required. Therefore, when communication consists of describable explanations, it is defined as effective communication even though there are many different ways in which something can be understood depending on how it was said. This direct communication with someone is quick and particularly easy; however, in order to get someone to grasp the full context of what an individual is talking about, the elements of communication must make sense, and be effective. This means there should be a mutual understanding of what is being said between the messenger and the receiver. Effective communication involves more than just understanding the information. It involves the shared understanding of the feelings, thoughts, wants, needs, and intentions of the communicators, which may not be openly expressed (Du Pré, 2005)....
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...A study on the common figurative language used in a poem and its implication to the understanding of the piece. By Jocel Sundiam Ms. Josephine Carillo English IV Chapter 1 The problem its settings Introduction In using figurative language on a poem, many people from different walks of life develop their comprehension ability when it comes to figurative language understanding. Figurative languages challenge our mind by prodding our imagination and we used to know that we need to look beyond literal meaning of the words, in other words, to understand what we read we must be sensitive to the choices of the words of the author. The student’s inability to comprehend figurative language is a potential difficulty that they have to grapple with while studying. This might affect the improvement of their comprehension skills and might also be a great hindrance on reaching their goals in life. Specifically, when you take the courses that is related to languages. The purpose of this study is to show what are the possible outcome on understanding a piece. Understanding a piece is not easy by just getting the meaning of the words in the dictionary alone. The better understanding of the poem is based on how they used their imagination to see the visual interpretation of the poem. The appreciation of the writers emotion can do help a lot on conveying the meaning and message of the poem. This means that the student who understand the background of the writer will...
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...Explain how understanding specific English language learners' needs guided the choice of instructional strategies to support the content and language learning. It is essential to understand English language learners’ needs because ELL students face the combined challenge of learning all the academic content as other students, while also learning the language of instruction. With the rapid growth in the size of the ELL student population in the U.S., teachers who are effective recognizes ELL students unique academic needs, unique background experience, culture, language, personality, interests and attitudes toward learning for the purpose to adjust, or differentiate, their instruction to meet students’ needs. Explain how the differentiation of tasks or activities supported the English language learners' content learning and language development. Differentiating tasks or activities enables and supports ELL students in many ways. Using differentiated teaching strategies gives ELL students the leverage that is needed to be successful. In the case of the aspects of quantity and quality for example, the same reading task can be assigned to the whole class, but students do not have to do the same number of questions or exercises. The ELL students are given a choice and can choose to do one or more tasks; it is important for them to progress at their own pace and interest. Explain how the differentiation of assessments allowed the English language learners to demonstrate...
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