HOS 518 Assignment 1 - Constructive alignment and the Deep and Surface approaches to Learning Dr Rika Van Schoor Due Date : 16th March 2012 TITLE: Life Long Learning through Constructive Alignment In responding to the assignment question‚ I have considered and reflected on my approaches to teaching‚ facilitating and learning in the context of constructivism and constructive alignment. Therefore the assignment is structured broadly as follows: I provide a definition of constructivism
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Godsey Re: Constructive Discharge Claim of Emily Watson Mr. Wilson‚ As you asked‚ I have researched the claim of constructive discharge by former employee Emily Watson. Ms. Watson is claiming that she had no choice but to resign based on the fact that she was scheduled to work Sundays. According to Ms. Watson‚ this is an infringement on her religious beliefs and she is claiming discrimination and constructive discharge based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Constructive Discharge and
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Explain the different methods of giving feedback. I personally prefer to receive and give verbal feedback as it allows for the opening of the two way communication process and enables the teacher to ensure that the student/s understand and can ask questions. Where possible this should be supported in written form to enable evidence and enable the learning point to be revisited by the teacher and student. The process I prefer to follow when giving feedback is: 1. Ask the student how they think
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meaning of a necklace? Why would someone put this accessory around their neck and then place within it special significance? A necklace doesn’t provide water in a drought‚ like a tap‚ or protection in football‚ like shoulder pads; it only decorates. Receiving a cross necklace after your confirmation in the methodist church is a big step in the religious journey. This necklace has seen more than just the inside of my shirt. Although there are thousands of variety between each chain and pendant‚ it means
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Sending and Receiving Children: Adoption of Children from Foreign Countries In Mary Roach’s book‚ Stiff‚ The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers‚ she describes how upstanding anatomists would pay “body snatchers” to dig up graves and retrieve bodies for “dissection” (44-45). The anatomists never saw anything wrong with digging up the bodies‚ dissecting‚ and desecrating beyond recognition‚ then throwing the bodies literally to the vultures. This disrespect of bodies still occurs today on a different
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Question No 5 As a production supervisor‚ Ali decides on Friday afternoon how many units of output his employees will be able to produce and on which days certain products will be run in his department. He also decides which of his employees are going to be responsible for operating which machines within the department next week‚ as his employees are multi-skilled assemblers. On Monday‚ he informs his employees of their assignments to specific machines by handing out assignment sheets. He tells
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Minnetonka Receiving March 8‚ 2013 I. Major Facts A manager of a warehouse in Minnetonka MN is analyzing the number of workers allocated to the receiving dock. The trucks arrive randomly at the average rate of four per hour with a deviation of plus or minus one. Two warehouse workers can unload five trucks per hour or one every twelve minutes. Each warehouse worker receives $14 per hour. The firm put in place a greater amount of associates to the receiving dock in order to deal with
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Constructive Strategy Strategy: Origin: in the early 19th century: from French stratégie‚ from Greek stratēgia ’generalship’‚ from stratēgos . [mass noun] archaic (ancient) skill in devising plans or schemes; “cunning”. Strategy involves a high level of careful plans or methods to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. Strategy is also about attaining and maintaining a position of advantage over adversaries through the successive exploitation of known or emergent possibilities
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QUESTIONNAIRE – CTI We have taken this tool Constructive thinking inventory (CTI) from the book “Constructive Thinking The key to emotional intelligence by Seymour Epstein“ As mentioned by the book author Epstein‚ this tool (CTI) is a reliable and valid measure of the constructive and deconstructive thinking in which people normally engage in. In addition the author Epstein claims that “this tool has been administered to large samples of people and constructed according to recognized psychological
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level thinking‚ thus becomes a dynamic process where students must learn to access information. Learning is an internal process and influenced by the learners personality‚ prior knowledge and learning goals (Brooks & Brooks‚ 1993). Piaget studied how children reasoned and called it genetic epistemology‚ or the study of the development of knowledge. Piaget went on to identify four major stages of cognitive growth that emerge from birth 0-2 years which is the sensorimotor stage‚ 2-7 years which is
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