For students to be college and career ready, they must develop higher-order thinking skills. Discuss some strategies a teacher can use to promote higher-order thinking in the secondary classroom while being cognizant of the varying levels of student understanding.

This is a graded discussion: 4 points possible due Nov 16 Week 5 - Discussion 1No unread replies. No replies. Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated. Using Personality Theory to Craft a Cover Letter Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the Cover Letters PDF (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. provided by the Ashford University Office of Career Services and the What Is a Cover Letter? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Writing the Dreaded Cover Letter (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. online resources. It is recommended that you also review the e-book by Noble (2004) and the How to write cover letters (examples) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. video which include more information and a number of sample cover letters to assist you.For this discussion post, you will use the knowledge you have gained about personality, the career specific reports you have created in the previous weeks’ discussions, and assessments associated with various fields of psychology you have studied to help you to choose and develop a cover letter for a job in the human services sector. To begin, determine what type of job within the human services sector related to personality psychology is of interest to you. Using career websites, including those listed on the Ashford Career Services Job Search (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website, and/or other third-party search engines such as the American Psychological Association’s PsycCareers (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website, Monster.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Indeed.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and SimplyHired.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Once you have found a suitable job posting, carefully review the requirements and note these for inclusion in your cover letter. Before you begin designing your cover letter, review the required readings, videos, and websites to help you determine how best to formulate it. Within the letter, you will address the person or title of the person that is listed as the contact for the job in the job posting. As you draft your cover letter, consider the elements within the job post and use your knowledge of personality theory to make yourself appear to be the best candidate for the job. Assess the various types of personality measurements that might be most effective in the position listed and mention how you might use these on the job. Once you have developed your letter, save it as a document and attach it to your discussion post. In the discussion post itself, copy and paste the link to the job posting for which you wrote your cover letter. Describe your experience(s) writing the cover letter including the ways in which you may have attempted to manipulate the reader to get the best response. Analyze and describe any ethical issues that could be associated with this process.Guided Response: Review several of your colleagues’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in this discussion. Review the job posting and cover letter created by your colleague.oWas your colleague’s cover letter appropriate for the job indicated?oWhat were the strengths of the cover letter? oWhat area(s) could have used more detail? oSuggest changes to the letter that would make it more effective for the job as listed. Include specific rationales for any recommended changes.oAddress the potential ethical issues your colleague mentioned as well as any you see that were not mentioned.This is a graded discussion: 4 points possible due Nov 16 Week 5 - Discussion 21 1 unread reply. 1 1 reply. Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated. Personality Theory at Work in Popular Media Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read the required Churchill and Mruk (2014), Hayes (2012), and Waterman (2013) articles, and review the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Chapters 14 through 17 in your textbook.For this discussion, you will choose a person who has an important presence in popular media today. This person might be a political, business, human rights, education, or entertainment figure. Examine the major theoretical approaches studied in the class so far (psychodynamic, behavioral, learning, trait and type, and humanistic). Briefly describe your chosen figure’s personality from the point of view of each of these five approaches. Evaluate and describe any cultural considerations which may affect the personality assessment within each of the given approaches. Analyze the ethical implications of basing your personality assessment on the information available through the popular media. Select the theoretical approach you think best describes the person and elaborate on his or her personality using this approach. Guided Response: Review several of your colleagues’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in this discussion. Considering your colleague’s chosen person, was the theoretical approach he or she selected appropriate?Suggest another perspective that might be used to assess this person, and provide a rationale as to why the perspective may be more effective.Consider the ethical implications indicated by your colleague. Review the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and describe the issues present in assessing personality using only the information available in popular media.