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While undertaking my duties as a teacher, teaching does not automatically result in effective learning among my pupils. Many teachers can be teaching in a class, but effective learning is low. Managing children to ensure there is a good teaching environment, has been the biggest challenge. As a teacher, I need to make the classroom a good learning environment to ensure that my pupils comprehend everything I teach. To manage the class for effective learning, I need to apply several strategies that create a good classroom environment. Children portray different characters while in and outside the classroom. Each will behave based on both the environment they come from (home) and the environment they are learning in (Classroom). A teacher requires some competence to ensure effective classroom management (Gilbert & LIgnugaris_Kraft, 1997). My first strategy is to structure the classroom environment to suit learning. This will customize the children’s minds to be positive. When children are disrupted in class, the chances of understanding are reduced. Children have high learning capacity when they are still young, this should be capitalized by creating an environment with the least interruptions. I will customize the class environment to suit the age and the grade of the pupils. I will develop a classroom environment that gives the children a chance to be creative and experimental whatever they learn. The class will be an arena for communication, taking responsibility, teamwork, and exchanging options among the children and myself (Lave et al, 1988). Children in second grade and those in fifth grade learn different content. I will, therefore, have a suitable arrangement for the class. The arrangement will be based on the subjects being taught. Teaching aids, images of minority groups, role models, and interesting scripts will be displayed on the classroom walls. The portraits and charts will be used easily when giving examples hence, creating a good learning environment. Pupils will be allowed to interact with culturally and socially diverse groups either by visits or exchanges. The classroom will also have a section to display pupils’ work. The pupils will access equipment, teaching aids, and materials that are used for learning in each lesson with ease. The storage area will be within the classroom. Walls will be decorated with bright colors, as young children like them (Smith, 1996) The other strategy which I will apply is supervising pupils’ engagement in class. When children are engaged in class academic activities, they cannot engage in disruptive activities or tasks which are not in line with the current activity at the same time (Carnine, 1976). When children are engaged effectively, disruptive behaviors are relatively reduced and their minds are engaged with more academic activities (Jones, & Jones, 2007). To increase child engagement, I will use relevant materials in the subject being taught including teaching aids. When I ask a question and a pupil gives
The two works of art examined here appear quite different and indeed when analyzing the context similarities seem nearly impossible. The Girl with a Pearl Earring is a portrait of a young girl with the focal point being her teardrop-shaped pearl earring. The painting is oil on canvas and stands the test of time as the most famous masterpiece of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, on whom very little information can be found. The subject is a young, bright-faced girl facing forward, lips slightly parted, while her body is turned away. The sculpture Atlas’ Slave by Michelangelo is carved into marble and depicts the mythical figure of Atlas supporting the world on his shoulders. The date associated with Atlas’ Slave is rather obscured, though most critics estimate sometime between 1515 and 1530. Michelangelo is well known for working during the “high renaissance”, in which artists and scholars were rediscovering Roman and Greek mythology and their image of man as a civilized, beautiful, intellectual creature. The context in which Michelangelo carved this sculpture is quite fitting to the meaning of the piece because it uses a popular subject among his contemporaries. Also, depicting Atlas as strong and handsomely shaped fits in Renaissance art because it celebrates the beauty, strength, and ability of man. The material Michelangelo uses contributes to the strength and realistic appearance of the sculpture as well and contributes to the meaning of the sculpture. By sculpting Atlas’ Slave out of marble he emphasizes the Renaissance belief that man was indestructible and extremely strong and capable. Another interesting detail is the seemingly unfinished quality of the sculpture. “Often the original form of the material is totally altered in the process, but in Michelangelo’s Atlas’ Slave we can still see the rectangular block of stone…” (Zelenski 304). Perhaps Michelangelo’s intention here was to make the viewer aware of the medium with which he was creating. It’s easy to picture a fully completed sculpture as human, but here we are fully aware that Atlas is carved from a block o
The article under consideration is written by Huston and Sakkab (2006). It dwells upon the application of a new model for innovation by one of the largest companies in the world Procter & Gamble. The model is called connect and develop (C&D). The authors compare the new model with the model largely used in 1980s ‘research and develop’ (R&D). The R&D model is proved to be less effective in the contemporary business environment (Huston & Sakkab, 2006). The authors comment upon the peculiarities of the new model and provide some advice for the implementation of the new C&D model. Huston and Sakkab (2006) point out that Procter & Gamble first used the new model in 2002. The first product to be developed was a “line of Pringles potato crisps” which was launched in 2004 (Huston & Sakkab, 2006, p.58). The company decided to find the necessary solutions outsides the company. The experience was very successful. Therefore, A.G. Lafley, CEO, decided to change the R&D model into more appropriate and effective model for innovation. The authors state that the use of the new model led to the increase of innovation success rate whereas costs of innovation fell. Apart from providing good examples of the effectiveness of the new model, the authors give some advice. For instance, they note that it is important to determine the area of innovations. The company should determine the categories of products to be developed. When the categories are determined, it is possible to find institutions and individuals to collaborate with. The authors provide an effective pattern to determine areas of innovation: researching top 10 consumers’ needs, defining adjacencies and technology game boards. The authors also comment upon possible networks to use. Procter & Gamble use propriety networks (technology entrepreneurs and suppliers) or open networks specially designed for C&D model (NineSigma, InnoCentive, YourEncore, Yet2.com). Huston & Sakkab (2006) also comment upon the most appropriate time to use this model. Finally, the authors emphasize the rapid change of business environment which requires the use of the new model for innovation. Key points The article under analysis provides a detailed description of the use of the new model for innovation, C&D model. The authors share a valuable experience of one of the largest companies in the world. It goes without saying that such a detailed and exemplary illustration of the model’s effectiveness can be very helpful for many other companies. The authors justify the effectiveness of the new model for innovation. They state that there are far too many resources outside companies, so it is but natural that companies can use those resources. However, they point out that it is impossible to create new products using the new model only as it can lead to failure. This is a very valuable tip for companies which are trying to adapt in the modern business environment. More so, Huston & Sakkab (2006) stress that ideas taken from outside have been still analyzed by researchers in the labs of Procter &
Introduction Nowadays, there are many businesses established in the United Arab Emirates. The majority of new companies and start-ups face significant problems with brand promotion and offering their products or services to an aimed market. Bricks Concept Development is a company that specializes in helping new brands become popular, investors allocate their financial means properly, and assists existing businesses in becoming more successful. Presentation Often, inexperienced people have great ideas about services or products that they want to create and sell these innovations to earn money and make their customers benefit from such offers. However, young businessmen have problems with effective branding and promotion of their companies (Govers, 2014). Therefore, Bricks Concept Development is always ready to help these initiative people who want to make the world a better place. Who We Are Bricks Concept Development is a professional consulting company that aims at supporting new brands and services by suggesting appropriate methods of development and analyzing a certain market with our clients. Also, Bricks Development Concept is always ready to invest money in a particular start-up if the organization’s experts forecast its successful future. Our main goal is to make every client benefit from our consultations. Your success is important to us because this is how we understand that the UAE business society needs our consultations and strives to develop regularly. What We Offer Once a new customer contacts us, our first aim is to understand what type of business this person wants to establish and how can we help him or her to get their products or services to the desired market. To begin with, we study every case thoroughly and create a concept with our clients to display the main details and intentions of the future brand (Zhang, 2015). Next, we discuss your vision of the project and identify the main objectives for the nearest future. It is necessary for every young businessman or a team to understand and clearly see the point it has to reach. To make an appropriate and efficient consultation, experts from Bricks Concept Development must assess a suggested product or service and analyze its opportunities in a certain market (Uhl & Gollenia, 2015). After that, we are ready to position, challenge, and define the developed business concept targeting the most beneficial practical implications and outcomes for the new brand. In the next stage, our responsibility implies the development of both a concept strategy and a business case that will have a positive impact on both operational and financial returns of the consulted brand once it is launched. As it is mentioned above, we also offer consultations to investors who want to allocate their extra financial means among young brands to multiply their capitals (Levy, 2016). As our company also specializes in investments, we can help people without any know
Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Michigan to become one of the greatest men in the history of America and the entire world (Gelderman par. 1-2). His visionary approach to the automobile industry promoted the innovations of cars and assembly lines and contributed greatly to the modern concepts of mass production and personal transport. Early Life Ford was the son of farmers, but he did not want to follow his father’s steps; instead, he demonstrated talents for other things. When telling his story, the Henry Ford museum emphasizes that Henry showed interest in building and engineering since childhood. For example, he constructed “rudimentary” water wheels and steam engines (“Henry Ford” par. 2). Moreover, Ford engaged other youngsters in these activities and managed to organize their work. Apart from that, he learned to fix watches himself. In fact, it might be more accurate to state that he taught himself to do it, and it was another talent of Henry Ford: he wanted knowledge, and he learned to find it by exploring, investigating, making mistakes, and fixing them. Watches became his “textbook,” and he learned about the “rudiments of machine design” with their help (“Henry Ford” par. 2). Early Career In 1879, young Ford went to work as an apprentice at the Michigan Car Company in Detroit, which started his quest for jobs that could provide him with more knowledge of mechanics. He always sought for the jobs that offered the opportunity to learn something new (“Henry Ford” par. 4). In 1882, he came back to his family farm but kept working with machinery: the steam engines that the farmers used or odd jobs at Detroit factories took up his time. However, it was also clear that he did not really enjoy working for someone else. In 1888, he got married and moved to Detroit. Ford chose to work for the Edison Electric Illuminating Company because he needed to know more about electricity (“Henry Ford” par. 5). In five years, he was taking the post of the chief engineer in the Company, but Ford also worked in another direction: he was among those 19th-century people who were trying to build the “horseless carriage”. His first model, the Quadricycle, appeared in 1896. It had heavy wheels that reminded one of bicycles but no reverse. His second car was created in 1898, and Ford grew ambitious enough to create his own company that would manufacture his carriages. Ford Motor Company When Ford first started to take up business, it turned out that he needed to learn about this sphere of human activities as well. He did it in the same way as before: started two companies and learned through errors that the ventures did not survive. Ford, however, did not give up, and his visionary leadership skills together with the rising popularity of racing cars provided him with the investing that helped him creat
So as to bring success in our business, we have to apply four functions of management. These functions include, control, organize, plan, and direct. Control, will help someone to retain his job and stay out of problems. Also one should control his/her actions. By doing this, one is able to do the right thing at the right time (Wiley 2010). Furthermore, one should take full responsibility. This helps one to bear in mind that he/she has control over his destiny. It also helps one to keep away from making excuses. In addition, one should learn how to direct others. A manager being able to control workers leads to success in an organization. Also, having the capability of being directed is a source of success. As a leader, one should not ignore advice from his/her coworkers (Wiley 2010). Direct communication is very important. Direct language should be used so as to ensure that your listener understands you. Also, one gets benefits of being organized naturally. This is in terms of how one performs his tasks. By doing this, one impresses the management (minds tool ltd 2011). In Cost leadership organizations targets producers with the lowest cost within their industry. To drive the cost down, elements of production are used. Cost leaders aims at a broad market. The reason is to allow sufficient sales to cover costs. By offering goods and services at a low cost, one has a competitive advantage. The reason behind is that one can be able to undercut his rivals on price. A company under low cost can price its products at the same cost as its competitor. By doing this the company can still make higher profits (Wiley, 2010). This kind of action will create a barrier to entry. The action requires huge capital so as to achieve a size that can be competitive in the market. Examples of low cost producers are Wal-Mart and Ryan air. Wal-mart’s size provides it with enormous efficiencies. The efficiencies help it to keep its cost low. In niche strategies, efforts are made towards a specific segment. An organization becomes popular for its products within its area of specialization. Competitive advantage is formed for the niche market. Also, success may come for being a low cost producer and an example of a company practicing this strategy is Roll Royce. (Minds tool ltd, 2011). In differentiation strategy, products acquire unique features and characteristics. Differentiated products satisfy the unique needs of the customer. The price of a standard product is always lower than the premium prices. (Minds tool ltd, 2011). For firm to outperform its competitor, the price charged should be greater than total product cost. Competitive advantage allows a company to stand. An organization under this strategy aims at focusing efforts in specific areas. It charges for the additional differentiated value. For an organization to succeed under this strategy, it is required to carry out enough research, develop and innovate. Also, the organization should have the capability to produce high-quality products (Minds tool ltd 2011). Finally it should have effective sales and
Executive Summary Lush, the UK-based organic cosmetics company, presents comparably beneficial products manufactured, in large part, from fresh fruits and vegetables. This paper proposed the expansion of Lush to the Indian market, focusing on the external and internal analysis of the company as well as the key indicators of the target market. In particular, the macro environmental analysis explored such factors as economic, political, legal and cultural ramifications. On the micro environmental level, the company was evaluated with the help of Porter’s Five Forces model that revealed the strong market position and competitiveness of Lush. Next, the Indian market’s tendencies were assessed in order to specify motivations for expansion, among which the growing trend for personal care and awareness of cosmetics importance was discovered. Based on the mentioned analysis, Lush’s unique brand and marketing approach were described as constituents of the competitive advantage of the company. Ultimately, a set of recommendations was proposed in relation to production, ethics, organisational culture and some other factors related to entry to the Indian cosmetics market. Thus, the overall appropriateness of the global expansion of the Lush company was clearly identified and supported by convincing arguments based on credible sources. Introduction Company and Product Lush represents a network of branded stores, selling natural cosmetics for facial and body care. The name is an English industrial trademark, with a history going back to the 20th century. The history of Lush began in 1978,when a team of experts engaged in the manual production of cosmetics and become suppliers of the famous international perfume and cosmetics corporation, The Body Shop. In 1994, they established the Lush company and opened the first store in London. The brand is the creator of a huge number of innovative cosmetics products – bath bombs, shower gels, hard sugar scrubs, shampoos for hair and toothpaste. The company uses safe, natural ingredients, including freshly squeezed juices from fruits, vegetables and plants as well as an assortment of essential oils. According to the organisation’s official website, the company purchases ingredients for cosmetics only from other companies that do not allow animal tests, believing that people themselves should experience cosmetics ( Lush 2017). The company also develops recipes for products and flavors and produces them manually, using a minimum of preservatives, packaging and exclusively vegetarian ingredients and always informing customers when the products were manufactured. The company devotes great attention within the context of the company’s performance to the organisational culture, environmental protection and customer care. Problem This beauty brand manages approximately 900 stores all over the world and is always seeking for new opportunities to expand. This paper proposes the expansion of Lush to the Indian market for beauty cosmetics as India presents a fruitful market with regard to the opening of new stores and attracting more customers. In particular, invest
Chapman, J. (2000). Adolescent sex and mass media: a developmental approach. Miami: Herald. This book has a different approach to adolescent sex. Adolescent sex can be largely blamed on mass media that has been promoting it in one way or the other. In this case, mass media has not controlled the way it airs sexual materials thereby exposing teens. This means that there are no control mechanisms to look at the content that is being aired. The author believes that mass media should be at the forefront developing teens but this has been the opposite where they have played a big role in destroying them. As much as the media plays an important role in our society, it will be better if there are enough control measures to develop adolescents well as far as sex is concerned. Brown, D. (2002). Mass media influences on sexuality . New York: Harper & Row. Browns’ book offers an insight on the fact that mass media has an influence on sexuality in a broad way and this is in comparison with previous generations. According to him, the previous generation was not exposed a lot to mass media and that is why we had slight cases and instances of teenage sexuality. In this case, he argues that there should be controls to ensure that teenagers are not exposed to a lot of sexual content that can end up influencing them negatively. Teens should not be restricted to access mass media but there is need for responsibility from the media itself on what should be done. Ponton, L. (2000). The Sex Lives of Teenagers . New York: Dutton The author argues that the sex life of teenagers has been changing drastically in recent years because of various reasons. As a matter of fact, he believes that this trend is so alarming that more needs to be done to avert this situation. There are various reasons that can be behind the increase of adolescent sex in our society and this is what needs to be looked at. This is based on the fact that the number of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases has been increasing. The society should rise up to the occasion and guide teens on morality issues for their own good. Analysis Each book has effectively talked about the issue of today’s teens becoming sexually active and aware at a much younger age than the previous generations well. The first book largely blames an increase in the awareness of sex in teens on mass media. In this case, all the blame should be put on mass media because they have made it possible for teens to learn more about sex thereby engaging in it. From the argument, teenagers could not have learned more about sex were it not for mass media. The second book evaluates the influence of mass media on the present generation in comparison with