Description

The effect a school counselor can have on a student’s success is immeasurable. They introduce, promote, and guide students on their educational journeys with resourceful tools.

Think about your own experience with school counselors in your PK-12 experience. What tasks did they perform? With what aspects of your education were they involved?

Informally interview two high school graduates about their experiences with school counselors in PK-12 education. One of your graduates must have graduated at least a decade ago. What tasks did their school counselors perform? What role did they play in their education?

In an essay, synthesize the responses from your experiences and your interviewees to address the following questions. Make sure your responses are informed by information gathered from the interviews:

What were the roles and responsibilities of school counselors in your educational experiences or the experiences of those you knew?

In what ways has the school counselor role changed and developed over time? Provide specific examples from your experiences or the experiences of those you interviewed that demonstrate this evolution.

Compare the experiences from when you were a student in high school to the experiences of those you interviewed. If you do not have personal experiences, refer to the high school graduates’ experiences.

• How has history, philosophy, and trends influenced current practices of school counseling and the school counselor’s role? Cite one to two scholarly resources to support your response.

Instructions
Select one of the papers/articles provided in this section. Based on the argument of the author,
take a position and write your persuasive essay (five paragraphs).
In this module, there are two links to Web Sites where you can find steps and guidelines for
writing a persuasive essay.
https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/centers/writing…
The essay would be graded 0 to 10 points. If you submit late your highest grade would be six out
of ten points.
While writing your essay, please do not read/use other references. This is not an English writing
or a research assignment. This is a business writing assignment. Review the PowerPoint
presentation (Persuasive essay structure) on how to write a persuasive essay.
Steps
1. Visit the web sites to find out how to write a persuasive essay.
2. Review the PowerPoint presentation on a persuasive essay structure. This is not an
English writing assignment. It is Business Writing assignment, and your essay should
have the proposed structure.
3. Please read the rubric before start working on your essay.
4. Open Sample 1 instructions and follow these instructions to learn how to use this project
rubric. Submit your sample essay rubric evaluation using S1 link.
5. Open Sample 2 instructions and follow these instructions. Submit your evaluation of this
second essay using link S2 link.
6. Select an article that compels you to write an essay with your opinion.
7. Write your persuasive essay (five paragraphs).

1. Answer questions in “Your Opinion Counts” 

– A shortage of entry-level employees is a major concern of many hotel GMs.  To the extent currently, employed staff members can be retained, there is less needed to recruit new employees.  List three specific activities that you, as a GM, can undertake to help reduce the employee turnover rate. 

– Many jobs in one hotel are similar to those in another. Assume that the compensation including benefits in your hotel and that of a nearby competitor were identical. Identify three features you as a GM could ensure existed in your hotel to make your property competitive with the other potential employer. 

OR

2. Answer questions in “Your Opinion Counts”

– Some GMs measure their own effectiveness using primarily ADR, while others prefer to evaluate their effectiveness by the occupancy rate generated.  More recently, RevPAR has become the standard by which the effectiveness of a hotel’s management team is evaluated.  Describe at least one strength and one weakness of each of these approaches.  Are all three measures still useful? Would you as a GM, use RevPAR as your exclusive measure of effectiveness? Why or why not? 

– Many hotels experience difficulty when establishing credit policies. List five factors you believe would be important when determining whether to offer credit terms to a new client in your own hotel.  Explain your reason for choosing each factor.

• Twentieth Century and Modernism; Harlem Renaissance

1. Read the following, using the links provided here or in the weekly module in Canvas:

• Read W.E.B. DuBois, from The Souls of Black Folk: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
• Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism
  • Read poems “Harlem,” “Let America be America Again,” “Mother to Son,” “The Weary Blues,” and “I, Too, Sing America”
• Read T. S. Eliot “The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

1. DQ 9. Create your initial post on the DQ 9 Discussion Board in response to the following:

• In The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903, DuBois predicted that the problem of the 20th century would be the divisions between the races, “the color line.” Choose one of Hughes’s poems: decades later, what does Hughes’s speaker have to say about progress and “the color line”? 

Return to the board over the weekend, and read the posts of your fellow classmates. You must respond to at least one classmate by posting a reply to his/her initial post. You might find a connection or have questions for classmates. 

1. DQ 10. Create your initial post on the DQ 10 Discussion Board in response to the following:

• What does Eliot seem to be suggesting about J. Alfred Prufrock, if this poem is supposed to be his “love song”? What are his chances for success and happiness in love, based on what you have seen in the text?

     Put together a comprehensive presentation to the city counsel for a  yearly analysis of a fire department of your choice.  Along with the  yearly analysis, you will be representing the Fire Chief with the  proposal to add the items included in item number seven.  This material  should be typed, include charts, graphs, pictures and maps if needed to  justify your proposal.  Produce a PowerPoint presentation that would  represent your information and presentation.  Also include a written  report explaining in detail the presentation (PowerPoint).     

1. Conduct the analysis of the response runs for the _____ Fire Department.       
   1. Standard of Coverage
   2. Standard of Response
   3. Station Placement
   4. Turn-out Times
   5. Protected vs. Non-protected
   6. Special Concerns
   7. New Programs
   8. Medical vs. Fire Responses
2. Analyze the budget process by breaking down the percentages of the different components of the budget.
3. Complete and up-date the departments SOG’s making sure that they  are up-to-date with the current standards.  Add new guidelines if  needed.
4. Map the responses onto a map of the fire district.  Add  statistics and conclusions for you presentations considering new  programs and up dating current issues.
5. Begin a study for the future Fire Commission’s National Accreditation       
   1. Needs
   2. Pro’s vs. Con’s
6. Analyze and develop a proposal to take the current ISO rating  down 1-2 points.  Special attention should be given to the following  areas:       
   1. Water Supply
   2. Communications
   3. Fire Department Organization
7. Outline any new programs that the department would like to start in the coming budget year.