Teachers' Perceptions of Optimal Professional Development Experiences

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Introduction
History of professional development in the United States
Professional Development in the state of Georgia and State requirement teacher licensure
Different types of professional development
Current Styles of Professional Development
*In-Service Training
* E-Learning: Distance Learning, Webinars, Live Virtual Classrooms, Skype, and Video Conferencing .
* Train the Trainer Model
Measuring Quality or Effectiveness of Professional Development
Characteristics of effective professional development
Examples of Successful Professional Development Models
Challenges in Implementation of professional development
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Critical Review of the Literature for Administrative Topics

 

Selecting a Topic

There are several things you will want to keep in mind as you are deciding the administrative topic to access a critical review of the literature.  First make sure the topic is a leadership and/or administration focus.   Secondly, ensure it is a topic you have interest in and of which you are passionate.  Your enthusiasm for a topic will be needed in order to forge a long term relationship with a topic that you will be working on from the time of your initial research course to the end of your Masters’ of Science in Nursing (MSN) program.

 

Thirdly, you will want to do an initial brief review of the literature to see what is available.  This is important because you may find there is a wealth of information on your topic.  If this is the case, you may want to narrow your focus to one or two issues or research questions related to the topic.  Or you may find that there isn’t much research on the topic you have selected, in which case you may want to broaden the topic to include additional components or alternative issues and/or broader research questions.

 

Once you have decided on a potential topic, you will need to have it approved by the administration research coordinator.  So, don’t spend too much time on the above steps because if the topic is not approved, you may need to go back to the drawing board to select a different topic.

 

Once your topic has been approved by the research coordinator, you will be notified of this fact.  A research advisor will be assigned based on the advisor’s interest and experience in a topic.  You will need to communicate with your assigned advisor regarding your topic selection and establish a timeline for your literature review with your advisor’s input.

 

Conducting your Literature Review

Once your topic has been selected and your research advisor has been assigned, you may proceed to the accessing of literature for reviewing your topic.  Depending on what your topic is, you may want to narrow or broaden your topic or research question as described above.

 

It is important that you establish an organizing framework for your literature review.  One method that I find useful is to use 4×6 index cards.  On one side of the card, place the reference for the article using proper APA format and on the other side a brief summary or main topic of the article.  You may want to further individualize these cards based on specific identifying features as to the purposes of your research or to specific issues that you have narrowed as your focus.  You may also want to use either certain colors of index cards for certain issues or use highlighter colors on the cards to further identify specific parts of your topic.

 

The majority of your articles should be research articles, but you may also have several that provide informative explanations of issues related to the topic.  It is preferable with most topics that the articles are 10 years or less old.  However, it is also acceptable to have seminal research that forms a historical perspective on the topic.  For these articles, it is acceptable to have articles that may be very old dating back to when the topic was first researched.

 

A review of the literature should be a minimum of 30 articles and may be 50-70 articles or more.   This will depend on the topic and the amount of literature that is available on the topic.  Discuss the proper amount of articles with your advisor.

 

Evaluation Criteria for Critical Literature Review

 

Please see the guidelines in the “Preparing Literature Reviews” by M. Ling Pan that you received in your GNUR 530 Utilization of Research in Evidenced Based Practice Course.  The checklist of guidelines is located on pages 117-124.  Although all of the components of the guidelines will not apply to every literature review, many of the guidelines will be helpful in your preparation.

*The attached rubric may be used.  However, in collaboration with the research advisor it may be modified to better reflect appropriate categories for a specific literature review.


 

*Critical Literature Review for Administration Topics

Criteria for Assessment Pts. (%)
Chapter I: Introduction and Analysis of the Issue/Trend

1.      Purpose of the Literature Review: What is the topicof inquiry and description of the problem?

2.      Significance: Why is the issue important?  Base this on current scholarly literature.  Demonstrate why it requires further study.  Include both theoretical and empirical research in identifying the topic as an important issue in the literature.

3.      Background: What is the seminal or historical research on the topic?  How has the issue developed over the years?  This may be older research that was first done on the topic.

4.      Problem Statementstated clearly and contains all important elements pertaining to the phenomena of concern.

5.      Theoretical Framework or Concept upon which the review is based.Describe the framework from the literature.  You may want to weave the theoretical framework into other chapters as is appropriate.

6.      Definitions of key terms that are pertinent to the topic confirmed by literature

·         Please take note: Any literature discussed in the introduction should be synthesized: In other words, similar articles should be meshed or combined and analyzed together.  It should not read like an annotated bibliography.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

150

Chapter II: Review of the Literature

1.      To prepare to write this chapter, first divide up your articles into subject areas or themes that the topic covers.  These themes will be the headings (in APA format) that you will use in this chapter.  These headings are mandatory and will help you to organize the literature.

2.      You should synthesize (similar articles will be discussed together) a variety of informative articles and research studies applied to define the topic.  Similar literature should be meshed in order to show trends in the literature.

3.      Integrate experiential and theoretical literature.

4.      A minimum of 30 articles must be applied.  However, 50-70 articles may be an appropriate number depending on the amount of literature available on your topic.  Please discuss this issue with your advisor.  If there have been studies that are done on your topic for differing populations, settings, subjects, and diverse other research factors, you should concentrate on utilizing research from all the varying areas.

 

 

 

300

Chapter III: Literature Search Process

1.      Search Strategies: Describe the methods that you used to do your literature search.  For instance, detail the databases, key words/terms/phrases and engines utilized.

2.      Grid of Common Themes: Relate the organizing process that you used once you found the articles.  How and what did you identify as themes, categories and trends within the literature?  Provide discussion of this and then provide a grid of the articles with the themes and categories that you developed.

3.      Rationale:Why is the literature review an optimal way to discuss or answer your problem/question?

4.      Theoretical or conceptual framework: You may want to speak here again to your theoretical or conceptual framework and how it helped determine your approach to the literature.  Apply literature that utilized the framework and cite why it worked for your literature review.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

150

ChapterIV: Research & other Findings within the literature

·         Discuss the specific Findings of the Literature review after you evaluated it as a whole in relation to your topic.  What were expected as well as unexpected findings from your review of the literature

·         Discuss an analysis of the literature that you reviewed.

 

 

 

150

Chapter V: Applications, Recommendations, Summary, and Conclusion

·         Apply the findings from the literature to a variety of administration practice settings and situations.

·         Apply the findings to leadership topics.

·         Provide your recommendations for further research or experiential application of the topic due to gaps you noted in the literature.

·         Summarize your literature review

·         Provide an inspiringConclusion.

 

 

150

·         Write in a scholarly professional manner using professional terminology.  Make it interesting and relatable to leadership professionals.

·         Use proper grammar and accurate APA format. (1 point will be deducted for each unlike error in grammar or APA)

 

50

·         Complete a Reference List in APA format of all research articles used in the lit review.  Do not include references that you did not use in your paper.

·         Double check your reference List against the APA book for correct formatting of references prior to submission to your advisor.

 

50

Total 1000 Pts (100%) 1000

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Identify a recent example of a company that is attempting to “do well while doing good”

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Four Questions, 250 words each, please provide proper sources for each answer:

  • 1. Corporate Social Responsibiilty
    •  – Identify a recent example of a company that is attempting to “do well while doing good”
    •  – Identify a recent example of a company that has cut corners and done damage while doing well financially
    •  – Compare and contrast each company’s CSR report
    •  – Identify stakeholders impacted by CSR policies
    •  – Discuss the impact of their respective choices on the company image.
  • 2.  Locate an article that discusses whistleblowing.  Discuss the situation that led to an employee blowing the whistle on the organization.  Should employees have freedom of conscience? Why or why not?  Considering long-term effects on employees of blowing the whistle.  When should they engage in whistleblowing tactics?  Identify some reasons why external whistleblowing occurs.
    • 3. Use a reliable source to locate an article about an organization that addresses an issue associated with ethics.
    •  – Choose the ethics theory most applicable to the issue in the article you choose.
    •  – Review possible ethics documents on the company’s website.  Identify current policy statements and describe the current environment created by these policies.
    •  – Indicate whether or not the company has a clear ethical program or not
    •  – Identify at least two areas for improvement to create a strong ethical culture.
  • 4. Global Impact of Organizational Ethics
    •  – Use a reliable source to locate an article that addresses a contemporary ethics issue and highlights the global component.
    •  – Create an ethical and moral framework using the ethics theories.
    •  – Hint: This framework should provide you with a way to evaluate the ethics issues and deal with the complexity
    •  – Apply the created framework to the contemporary ethics issue, addressing the global component within the analysis.
    •  – Describe how the application of your framework helps you to address the issue.
    •  – Describe how the systematic application of the framework helps you effectively and ethically deal with the complexity of the global component.

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Lysistrata by Aristophanes

 

Describe the title character and the other women in the play. Refer to their ethnic background,
social status, their education, their names, their physical appearance, and their occupations.

ELI 816_Week4_Discussion 4: Client Relations

 

ELI 816_Week4_Discussion 4: Client Relations
A consultant manages client relations and expectations.
How does the consultant effectively achieve those goals? Can you share personal experiences, either as a consultant or a client?
Your post must be at least 300 words, formatted and cited in proper APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources
Module 4 Overview

Topics
• Disengaging
• Testimonials and References
• Coaching and Facilitating
• Conflict Resolution and Negotiating
• Teams and Groups

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this week, students will be able to:
o Evaluate the process of developing, establishing, and marketing consulting services; the functions of consulting; and consulting practices and

techniques.
o Examine key factors and concepts related to consulting engagements, and assess and integrate the interrelationships.
o Evaluate and present assessment of issues and organizational challenges from the perspective of a consultant.
o Assess and align individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, skills, aptitudes, and goals with consulting opportunities and the processes and

interventions involved in the consulting domain.

Read & Review
• Weiss (2011): Chapters 9–11
• Week 4 PowerPoint
• Week 4 Lecture Notes
•
Module 4 Lecture Notes
Developing Skills for Successful Consulting
• Essential Skills for Strategy Consulting
o Impeccable researching skills (desk research, telephone interviewing, and face-to-face)
o Outstanding analysis and synthesis skills (e.g., the ability to delve into deep data analysis and then synthesize the key messages, or the “so

whats”)
o Excellent written communication (to produce Word and PowerPoint reports)
o Strong PowerPoint presentation creation (essential for developing client presentation packs late at night!)
o Commitment to delivering excellent client service (i.e., the desire to put in the long hours when you have to ensure a quality deliverable for

the client)
• Consultancy Skills Development
o Independence
o Understanding
• The Five Fatal Flaws of Consulting
1. The project is defined in terms of the consultant’s expertise or products, not in terms of the specific client results to be achieved.
2. The project’s scope is determined solely by the subject to be studied or the problem to be solved, ignoring the client’s readiness for change.
3. The project aims for one big solution rather than incremental successes.
4. The project entails a sharp division of responsibility between client and consultant; there is no partnership between them.
5. The project makes labor-intensive use of consultants instead of leveraged use
The 10 Commandments of Consulting
0. Concentrate continually on delivering client value.
1. Commit all stakeholders to action.
2. Clarify complex client issues.
3. Communicate authentically.
4. Collaborate with the client.
5. Conduct a “willing and able” assessment.
6. Control scope creep.
7. Compress the cycle time of delivery.
8. Customize each solution.
9. Continually learn and grow.
Consultants Must Have These Four Capabilities
o Technical expertise
o Relationship skills
o Engagement management
o Business acumen
The Consulting Process
o Relationship skills
o Contracting
o Assessment
o Delivery
o Feedback
o Solution & design
o Integration
o Closure & renewal
Business Acumen Success Elements
o See the bigger strategic issues facing the client.
o Be able to define business solutions.
o Possess process knowledge of the functional area of the business and industry sector.
o Define change management issues.
o Understand the competitive landscape.
o Provide relevant skills, strategies, tools, and ideas to the client.
o Use knowledge and experience to build strong rapport and sustainable relationships with the client.
Six Elements in Building Strong Consulting Relationships
o Decorum
o Commonality
o Empathy
o Credibility
o Value
o Trust
Probing
o Open probe – When you want to allow the client to respond freely to gain general information or when you want to encourage expansion
o Closed probe – When you want to limit the client’s response to uncover specific information or when you want to confirm your understanding
The Four I’s Probing Strategy
o Issues
o Importance
o Impact
o Investigate

 

 

Liberal studies

Choose any two characters or people from the books (Rocket Boys, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and the Joseph story) to compare. You should choose the two characters or people from two separate books; in other words, do not compare characters or people from the same book.

Your comparison should focus on the career/vocation of the characters that you have chosen. In your comparison, consider the following:
•What kind of work do they do?
•Do they find fulfillment in their work?
•What role does work play in their lives?
•Are there family or relationship conflicts concerning their work? If so, how do the characters handle these conflicts?
•Does their occupation shape their lives or it is merely necessary for survival?
•Do they approach their work differently or in the same way?
•How important is their choice or work/vocation to them?
•Does their choice of work cause friction with others? How and why?
•How does their choice of work affect their communities, their families, and their personal and spiritual lives?

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•500 – 750 words
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•Good essay structure
•Clearly discernible thesis statement
•Maturity of thought and expression, including grammar, spelling, and other issues of mechanical correctness
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"Auditing Can Resolve Financial Statement Fraud"

1- Based on the Working Version of my Draft, (which is gonna be attached as a file), you need to expand your research in order to submit your Final Version of your Final Research Assignment. On the last page of my Draft is gonna be the Professor’s Feedback and Comments about the assignment so, be sure to keep in mind what she said about the research assignment in order to avoid making the same mistakes in the Final Paper.

The Topic of my Research is:
“Auditing Can Resolve Financial Statement Fraud”

2- You MUST USED at least 7 scholarly sources, from which 4 of them are gonna be attached in a File. REMEMBER, YOU MUST USE THE 4 SCHOLARLY SOURCES ALREADY ATTACHED IN THE FILE.
-SOURCES APPROVED FOR THIS PROJECT: -You must have one book but NO MORE than one book. Other sources can come from the library, eLibrary databases, scholarly journals and magazines, findarticles.com, or Google Scholar. THE SOURCES CAN NOT BE OLDER THAN 10 YEARS.

THIS ESSAY SHOUOLD FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:

· Use proper APA format (cover page, abstract, body, and reference page).
· Must be 2000-2500 words. (This includes the ABSTRACT (200-225 words) and the BODY (1800-2275 words.)
· Use Times New Roman font (12 point).
· Use integrated short burst quotes in the body of your own sentences. Use minimal paraphrasing and signal phrases. No block quotes should be used.
· Sources should be obtained from eLibrary databases. They should consist of articles from scholarly journals dated within the last ten years. Other sources may be approved as long as they
are scholarly and provided you check with the instructor first.
· Submit this assignment in Microsoft Word Document format. No other formats will be accepted.
Use the following format for the FILE NAME: AbernathyA_Formal Research Assignment. Note that the name format contains your last name and first initial in exactly that order.

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Supply Chain Management

EG 3337 Supply Chain Management

Rules:

  1. Type your answers using MS WORD and email me the file as an attachment. Please ensure that the email is submitted before the deadline. Please note that, no time extension or accommodation will be provided due to issues pertaining to connectivity. You may submit your answers in advance, if you are concerned about internet connectivity issues.
  2. While you are allowed to refer to resources such as books, notes and other research materials, you SHALL NOT discuss the problem with others (including other students or professionals). You should provide citation to the material you have referred.
  3. You are required to provide appropriate reference citation to the material you used as a reference, failing which you may not receive a test grade on the exam.
  4. You may use MS Excel or other software resources in solving the problem. However, you are required to organize all the materials within the MS WORD document (as tables or figures or charts) and send one single file as an email attachment. Do not cut and paste from Excel as it appears on Excel. Each number (or table of values) should be accompanied by a description (using a sentence or a paragraph explaining the number or table of values.
  5. By answering this assignment, you agree to the Student Code of Honor, and in particular, towards this assignment, you did not lie, cheat or steel, nor did you tolerate those who did so. Please note that academic dishonesty will result in a final letter grade of ‘F’ on the course.

 

Question:

Pompeii Italian Grill Restaurant serves an exquisite Italian cuisine in the heart of San Antonio, Texas. The restaurant’s high seller is an Italian pasta dish that uses two main ingredients, namely the Mariella Capellini Pasta and the Basil, Garlic & Black Olive Sauce. The Italian brand Mariella Capellini Pasta is purchased from the WholesaleItalianFood.com firm, which is an e-commerce website operated by a privately-owned importer and distributor headquartered in South Florida. The distributor operates via a 3PL, a warehouse to store the pasta product to be delivered to the restaurant. Whereas, the Basil, Garlic & Black Olive Sauce is purchased from a local manufacturer, namely the Shayne Foods.

The restaurant usually serves its customer demand for the pasta dish by using 25000 lbs of pasta per year and 25000 lbs of sauce per year, on a fairly uniform and constant basis. The restaurant expects the demand to be similar for a foreseeable future time period. Since both the ingredients are required in equal amounts at the point of use, the restaurant replenishes its inventory for both the ingredients at the same time. In particular, they utilize a truck to collect the ingredients for replenishment by paying $200 per shipment. Assume that the capacity of the truck is not an issue. As soon as the truck brings both the ingredients, the ingredients are stored in appropriate cold storage aisles for future use. However, due to the handling and wastage, approximately 4% of the pasta and 9% of the sauce are wasted, consistently. The pasta is purchased at $0.70 per lb and the sauce is purchased at $5 per lb. The inventory costs are computed at 67% per year of per unit costs.

The 3PL firm, which exclusively serves the restaurant, buys the pasta ingredient from the Italian manufacturer at $0.10 per lb and spends $1200 per order. The 3PL incurs approximately 5% per year of the per-unit cost in inventory holding and can hold inventory without any capacity limitations. The 3PL follows an inventory policy where it purchases an order quantity that is an integer multiple of the order quantity placed by the restaurant.

Whereas, Shayne Foods, which exclusively produces the sauce to serve the restaurant, buys the sauce ingredient from farmers and spends $2200 per production setup and procurement order of the ingredients. Shayne Foods incurs approximately 8% per year of the per-unit cost in inventory holding on both the raw ingredients and the finished product. Raw materials such as tomato, garlic, basil, and olives cost $0.4, $1, $3, $2, respectively. For each pound of the sauce, 0.94 pound of tomato, 0.02 pound of garlic, 0.03 pound of olives, and 0.01 pound of basil leaves are required. The production cost per pound of the final product is $1 per pound. Due to FDA and quality control requirements, Shayne Foods purchases the ingredients, exclusively for the restaurant and processes them as per its stringent quality standards on a lot-for-lot basis. That is, once the factory receives a purchase order from the restaurant (assuming a certain constant lead-time), the factory procures from the farmers an appropriate amount of the ingredients by factoring the wastage amount. The purchased ingredients are inventoried in a cold storage section of the facility. Production process starts as soon as the procured raw ingredients are received, and the inventoried ingredients are constantly and uniformly depleted as needed for production. The production rate is 125,000 million pounds per year. The processed final product is inventoried again in the cold storage. Once the finished inventory reaches the replenishment order size placed by the restaurant, the entire finished lot is shipped out to the restaurant and the production resources are assigned for processing orders from other customers. In the production process, the factory has experienced an average of 12% wastage of ingredients, which cannot be claimed back.

  1. Draw the inventory profile for each stage of the supply chain, define the decision variables and formulate the average annual cost functions for each supply chain partner.
  2. Analyze the supply chain assuming that the replenishment decisions are made in sequence, that is, the restaurant decides first, followed by the 3PL, and Shayne Foods. In particular, derive the average annual cost functions for each supply chain partner, and determine the individual costs, order quantities, and cycle times.
  3. Determine the supply chain optimal replenishment quantities, cycle times and the supply chain cost.
  4. Provide ideas on how to incentivize the restaurant, 3PL and Shayne Foods to shift their operations from the scenario specified in part (2) to the scenario specified in part (3).
    1. In particular, explain using the values obtained in the previous parts the incentives in dollar amounts per pound and who should provide incentives to whom and by what amount to break-even the cost increases, if any.
    2. In addition, explain using the values obtained in the previous parts the incentives in dollar amounts per pound and who should provide incentives to whom and by what amount to split the cost savings in the supply chain equally between the facilities.

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The Relationship between Extramarital Affairs and the Acceptance by Age

 

Written Project 1

Learning Objectives: After completing this exercise, you will:
• Construct Title page using APA guidelines.
• Construct an introduction section for your research paper.
• Construct the first draft and partial submission of your Methods section.

 

Practical Work: Let’s get started working with the variables of interest to you.

Step 1: Construct your Title Page. Choose a title for your research paper. Construct your title page using APA formatting. This title may be revised as

your research progresses.

Step 2: Construct your Introduction Paragraph. Construct an introduction that explains to the reader what the research topic is and why it is important

to study.
The final paragraph or sentences of your introduction should forecast your main arguments and conclusions and provide a brief description of the rest of

the paper [a “roadmap”] that lets the reader know where you are going.

Step 3: Start to Construct your Methods Section. You will start to construct you first draft of the Methods section.
Using the General Social Survey (GSS) website https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/. You will need to set up your individual account first before search for

your variables.

The variables required for this research paper are:
AGE
XMARSEX

1. Using the variables generated for you (AGE and XMARSEX), identify the actual variable name from the GSS website.
2. Take note of the specific GSS 2004 survey question as shown on the GSS website. The exact question is known as the measurement tool for that

variable. Identify the measurement for the variable.
3. Create a “label” for your variables in a few words.”
4. The response choices to the survey questions are known as the attributes or values of the variable. Identify the attributes of the variables. Do not

include “Don’t Know,” “No answer” and “Not applicable.” Also, include how the attributes are coded, that is, the number that is assigned to each

attribute.
5. Identify which of the two variables is the independent variable (IV) and which is the dependent variable (DV).
6. Create your causal model. Hint: your causal model should use your variable label, not variable attributes.
7. Create the null hypothesis (H0) from your variables.
8. Construct the alternative or research hypothesis (H1) for your variables. Specify the nature of relationship between the two variables (i.e., how is

the DV affected by the IV) in the form of a hypothesis. Hint: your alternative hypotheses must use the specific variable attributes shown on GSS.

Written Assignments: As part of the “writing intensive” portion of this course, we are building mini research paper. The final submission for the course

will contain all of the elements listed below:
• Title page (1 page)
• Abstract (1 paragraph)
• Introduction (1/2 – 1 page)
• Literature Review (about 2 pages)
• Theory Section (about 1 page)
• Methods Section (about 1 page) (partial)
• Analysis Section (including tables, charts, etc.) (about 2 pages)
• Summary and Conclusions (about 1 page)
• References (1 page)

Submission Protocols:
• Correct use of APA format.
• Correct description of variables (survey question and attributes) as detailed above.
• Correct causal diagram, IV and DV.
• Correct construction of hypotheses statements.
• Definitions, use, and understanding of concepts from the course.

 

 

 

Sociology

Television is a powerful and pervasive agent of socialization. It is everywhere, we devour it, and watching it is one of the primary ways that

Americns spend their leisure time. So, it seems appropriate that we examine what kinds of messages we are getting about our society from viewing

it. How does tv socialize us? You will use content analysis to answer this question.

Step 1: Choose a popular tv show (comedy or drama series rather than a news show, talk show or reality show) and watch at least one episode

inits entirety. You may want to watch a recorded episode so that you can go back and review it if needed. Select one aspect of social status or

individual identity to focus on (gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, class, religion, etc). Take notes as you watch the episode and

keep track of how the program represents the social status you chose.

Step 2: Consider the following questions: (you may want to print these out to have with you as you watch)

1. In the program, how many [your topic] characters are there? How does the number of [your topic] characters compare with the number of other

characters? Are the [your topic] roles major characters or minor characters? How can you tell?

2. What types of roles do the [your topic] characters have? What are their activities, attitudes, and interactions like on the show? What kinds

of things do they do and say that tell you who they are and what they
are like?

3. Are the portrayals of [your topic] positive or negative? Humorous or serious? One-dimensional or multidimensional? How can you tell?

4. What images of [your topic] does this program portray? In other words, what messages do the words, pictures, plot lines, and characters

convey to viewers about [your topic] in general?

5. How does the content of this program contribute to our socialization process? What do we learn about [your topic] in society from watching

this program? After finishing your analysis, what do you think about TV’s powers of socialization?

Step 3: Summarize your findings in a discussion post and consider how your findings compare to those of your fellow group members.