Executives in today’s business environment have limited time available to research and absorb information. In order to optimize their time, executive summaries are becoming increasingly important. They allow readers to speed read a report and gain the focus and insight needed.

Your executive summary should:

• Cover the main points
• Provide a conclusion and/or make recommendations

Prepare an executive summary presentation of your final project. It should summarize the final project so it can be presented to the board of a particular company. Use this guide to writing an effective executive summary as a resource to prepare your content and message for your presentation. The presentation should contain about 7–10 slides with either audio (voice over) or detailed speaker notes.

Consider and apply the following principles of an effective presentation:

• You may utilize a product such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Prezi, or Google Slides to create your presentations.
• There are various template designs that you can find on the internet for your presentation. However, first consider your presentation from the audience’s perspective prior to selecting a specific style. Distracting backgrounds, large blocks of text, all uppercase fonts, elaborate font styles, grammatical errors, and misspellings are distracting. Be consistent with the style of text, bullets, and sub-points in order to support a powerful presentation that allows your content to be the focus.
• Each slide should include your key point(s). Do not place large blocks of text on the visual. Your presentation is not a means of presenting a short paper. In an actual presentation you would not read from your slides but use them as prompts.
• Any notes or narration you would use in delivering this presentation to a group should be listed in the notes section of the slide.
• References should be listed at the bottom of the slide in slightly smaller text.
• Use clip art, AutoShapes, pictures, charts, tables, and diagrams to enhance but not overwhelm your content.
• Be mindful of the intended audience and seek to assess the presentation’s effectiveness by gauging audience comprehension (when possible).

The following links offer helpful tips and examples for developing presentations:

• Making PowerPoint Slides
• Really Bad PowerPoint (and How to Avoid It)

Remember:

• Your feedback and comments should be constructive, featuring a discussion of the strengths of the presentation as well as areas that could be improved.
• Keep the tone of your comments positive and constructive. You are reviewing the presentation, not the person.

Follow-up should focus on receiving clarification on edits and feedback, or should lead to a discussion contrasting approaches. Constructive and friendly follow-up is optional, but encouraged.

 

Your Journal entry must meet the minimum length requirement of a paragraph of approximately 150 words. It must be well written and clearly organized using standard English, characterized by strong writing style elements, and free from grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling errors.

To prepare for this Journal, review the Unit Readings and Resources, including the articles about outdoor math and science activities. 

Throughout this course, we have explored how teachers can create stimulating standards-based learning environments using various materials and settings. 

In writing your Journal, consider this scenario and respond to the prompts below:

As a teacher, you wish to engage the children in learning and enjoying math through outdoor play and activities using a playground environment (your current playground or an imagined playground).  

Describe activity ideas connected to the five math domains you can use with children in the outdoor playground environment. You may list different activities for each domain, or you may come up with ideas that connect to multiple math domains.  For each activity idea, state the associated math domain and list a math-related word or phrase that could be used to engage in “math talk” to extend child learning. Examples of math words or phrases include symmetry, cylinder, how many, inch, or make a pattern. 

 

Review the “Multidisciplinary Evaluation Team (MET) Case Study.”

Based on your “Diagnostic Assessments Graphic Organizer” assignment from Topic 1, determine which types of assessments should be administered. Identify a minimum of three assessments and justify your decision in a 500 word response. Explain how the validity and reliability of each assessment supports your decision and how you will use your findings in your future professional practice.

Support your findings with 2-3 scholarly resources.

i will send a copy of the case when bid is accepted.

PASCAL: Pensées

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Pensées is a collection of thoughts, serially numbered and grouped into sections by editors after the death of the author.  Every thought is exact in content and wording.  The nature of the content arrangement allows a reader to start reading it anywhere, and it would make ready sense.

Read the text carefully and answer the following questions precisely. Page numbers given in brackets show where the answers can be found. However, read the book completely, not merely the portions that contain the specific answers.  Write legibly.  Expand the writing space as needed.

If your edition of the book is different from what I have followed, you should still be able to locate the corresponding page.  You can also find the answers by the serial number of the “thought” in the book. 

1. Brief biography of Blaise Pascal with weighty specifics, including his major contributions to the world.

2. Introduce the book, Pensées, a person who has never heard of it.

3. What does Pascal mean by “the rules of perspective”? (p. 6-7)

4. What statement does Pascal make on time? (p.13)

5. Pascal says, “It is good to be deceived.”  Why?  (p. 13, 17)

6. What does Pascal say about himself in relation to cosmic space? (p. 19)

7. What’s the relationship between present pleasures and absent pleasures? (p. 19)

8. “Two kinds of ignorance.”  Explain.  (p. 22)

9. “Two sources of our actions.” Identify. (p. 25)

10. Without this, man would be a stone or animal. What? (p. 29)

​  11.  Man is equal either to  or​ (p. 31)

​  12. Why does Pascal say that “man infinitely transcends man”? (p. 35)

 13. Why or when does rest prove intolerable? (p. 39-40)

    14.  When is a king a wretched man? (p. 42)

15. What is the infinite abyss in relation to which God is mentioned?  What has God to do  with it? (p. 45)

16. What have the philosophers not offered us?  (p. 47-48)

17. Does Pascal reject miracles?  Why?  (pp. 50, 55)

18. How does Christ stand in between God and wretchedness? (p. 57)

19. What moves Pascal to terror? (p. 59)

20. How does Pascal define nature?  (p. 60)

21. What is our problem with extremes?  (p. 63)

22. What fills Pascal with dread?  (p. 66)

23. Why is the Christian religion appropriate for all?  (p. 68,70)

24. What are the differences between the prophecies on Christ’s first and second comings?  (p. 80)

25. The Jews were fond of symbols, but what happened? (p. 84)

26. Neither of these is the Christian nor Jewish religion.  Which ones? (p. 92)

    27. What is Pascal’s proof for the flood and creation? Caution: This one question alone be enough for a major project research.  Can you see what portion of Biblical genealogy Pascal uses to make this note? Hint: Gen. 5; also see, thought #392 on p. 117 (p. 94)

 28. What is peculiarly remarkable about the Jewish people?  (p. 97)

29. What are the weighty proofs of Jesus?  (p. 102, 115)

30. Why does Plato get mentioned in relation to thousands of ignorant men? (p. 103)

31. How should complaints about hardness of life be handled? (p. 120)

32. Pascal is known for his famous wager. What is it?  Note: This section is one of the most quoted of all Pascal passages.  Read it slowly and carefully.  (p. 123)

33. What is the position of the heart in relation to reason?  Why? (127)

34. What Pascal trying to explain in his atom-eternity parallel? (130)

35. “It is a monstrous thing to see one and the same heart at once so sensitive to minor things and so strangely insensitive to the greatest,” says Pascal.  What inspires this comment? (p.131) 

36. “I am in a pitiful state,” says Pascal. Why? (p. 135)

37. Why are we unable to understand the state of Adam’s glory or his sin or how it has been transmitted to us? (p. 135)

      38. What is the pleasing thing about God’s hiddenness and revelation? (p. 117, 139)

39. Pages 140-41 speak of “two truths alike:” what are they? How do those truths relate to 

 a philosopher’s knowledge of God? 

40.   What are some of the unique qualities of the Jewish people? (p. 116, 143, 149)

 

• What are my beliefs about the family and the nature and quality of family life and the human experience? 

•  What is a “family”? How important are families? What values do I hold  regarding families and the human experience? What does it mean to be  human? 

• What are my beliefs about the purpose of FLE? 

•  What is the nature of FLE? What value does FLE have in com­munities? Is  it to provide insight, skills, and knowledge? Is it to change behavior?  How “interventionist” should FLE be? 

• What are my beliefs about the content of FLE? 

• Of  what value is university-based theory and research to families? Of what  value is the lived experience of individuals, families, and communities,  and how can it become part of the content of FLE? How do my personal  values regarding families and the human experience influence the content  I select? 

• What are my beliefs about the process of learning for families in outreach settings? 

• How  do individuals and families learn most effectively? What teaching  strategies have the greatest impact? How important are learning goals  and evaluation in these processes? What assumptions do I hold about  learners?