Please keep the answers separate.1. Discuss the continuum of task demands. What are some things to consider when determining the appropriate level of difficulty for a given task demand? (Also consider the variations that may need to happen with student age, maturity, and cognitive capabilities.)Respond to student discussion board:For learning to occur the task demand must fall between being too easy and too excessive within the range known as the zone of proximity. This will allow students to achieve the task based on their abilities. To find the appropriate level of task demand, these questions must be answered first to give the teacher the opportunity to decide if the task is right for the student:Is the task to hard?What is the lesson about?Is the student capable of completing the task independently?Questions 1 and 2 involve identifying prerequisite and component skill deficits and question 3 involves reducing the demands of a task. These questions will also help the teacher determine whether there are underlying skill deficits.2. How can special interests be used to motivate students to persevere when provided new or more challenging tasks?Respond to student discussion board:(Hanna) Students with autism are often described as having restricted repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities (Lindgren & Doobay, 2011). When a student has minimal interest in a new or challenging task, using an effective reinforcer can increase the motivation to complete it (Rao & Gagie, 2006). When a student knows he/she will receive a preferred task/item once they’re done an unpreferred task, they are more likely to do it. It is really important that a student understands that he/she is going to be reinforced after a new or challenging work task is demanded. This can occur by using visual supports. By using a visual schedule and a First-Then visual, the student will have better understanding of when the preferred task/item is going to appear throughout the day. For example, a student will know that trampoline time comes after math time. Then, during math time they’ll know, First: sorting shapes; Then: trampoline time. This will decrease anxiety and the unknown, which will help lower the “problem” behaviors and increase desired ones (Rao & Gagie, 2006).

As part of successfully completing this course, you should be able to master the eight course objectives: Demonstrate the need for project management metrics. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management. In this portfolio project, you are to show your mastery of the eight course objectives at a master’s level. You are to write a paper that covers each of the eight topics. Notice that each objective is written with a verb as the first word to show some action that students must achieve for success in this class. Verbs like “demonstrate,” “apply,” and “create” require that the student takes some action on a project to satisfy the requirement. You should find a project to use in this portfolio where you may take those actions and document them in your paper. You might apply earned value analysis on a project underway to satisfy course objective number 5, for example. Verbs like “establish,” “characterize,” and “explore” require that the student shows mastery of current thinking on the subject. This part of your paper may be taken from research, or interviews. You might explore an application of dashboards by interviewing a project manager and performing research on current thinking about dashboards, for example. Therefore, your paper should include sections to address the following: Identify and describe an actual project that was successful in part because it used project metrics, what those metrics were, and why they were a contributing factor to success. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about effective management of time, cost, and scope with metrics. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about the key characteristics of properly defined metrics, and identify and describe an actual project to compare its use of metrics to your research to determine if the metrics were properly defined. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about KPIs. Show your application of value-based project management metrics on a project with which you are familiar and interpret the results of your application. Research and report on performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations, and visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management on a project with which you are familiar. Since the key sections of your work correspond to individual module of the course, it is recommended that you progressively develop your project based on the weekly topics. Paper Requirements: Prepare a portfolio paper to address the eight-course objective. All eight course objectives must be addressed. The Course Objectives are: Demonstrate the need for project management metrics and benefits of metric-driven project management. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.