The purpose of this assignment is to help you identify aspects of your own ethnic identity and to articulate how your own personal culture may impact social work practice with Hispanic and Latino clients.OverviewEthnic identity, an aspect of our self-concept, may be viewed as how we classify ourselves in terms of the group(s) we belong to and who we see ourselves similar to in terms of cultural groups. This involves an internalization of the understanding of “Who Am I” in terms of ethnicity.InstructionsIdentify and explore a pivotal incident in your own life that contributed to your own ethnic identity development.Part B - PaperAssignment Sections and DirectionsCover page (APA)Introduction (approximately 2 pages)Introduce the assignmentDiscuss general personal life details (to your level of comfort)Age, gender, family constellations (current and family of origin), education, employment, ethnicity, health, parents and grandparents ethnicity, etc.Integrate literature that addresses the ethnic group with which you identify.Description and context of the critical incident related to your ethnic identity development (approximately 3 pages)When did the incident occur?What happened and who was involved?What were the emotional factors involved?Discuss your own ethnic identity development at this point in time.In light of your critical incident and your own ethnic development, discuss ways that your own personal culture may impact your social work practice with clients similar to your own ethnicity and with Hispanic and Latino clients.Integrate literature that addresses ethnic identity and that is relevant to your experiences.Ethnicity and Hispanic or Latino citizens and immigrants (approximately 2 pages)Based on your readings of Grande’s novel, identify and discuss aspects of ethnicity that are pertinent to the characters in the novel and that have similarities to your own ethnic identity.Based on your readings of Grande’s novel, identify and discuss aspects of ethnicity that are pertinent to the characters in the novel that are dissimilar to your own ethnic identity.Discuss ways in which you will use this information to enhance your cultural sensitivity when working with Hispanic and Latino clients.Integration of theory and social work practice (approximately 2 pages)Choose one of the social work theories we have discussed this term and explain how you will use that theory to enhance your cultural sensitivity when working with Hispanic and Latino clients.Discuss literature that addresses these points.References Page (APA)Assignment GuidelinesPage Length: 10 pages including APA style cover page and references page. An abstract is not required.Sources: At least 8 sources, including your Payne (2104), Organista (2007), and Grande (2006) readings. The remaining 5 sources must be peer-reviewed journal articles.Format: Font and margins according to APA format. Your assignment must be submitted in MS Word.Deadline: Late assignments will not be accepted for credit except in cases of extraordinary circumstances (e.g., car accident, death in the family, serious illness).No credit will be awarded for papers that are posted late (in the absence of extenuating circumstances). However, you are still expected to post the paper, with an explanation for the lateness.If no paper is posted, a fitness to practice form will be submitted by the instructor. Tips for succeeding on the paper: Please write in the first-person for the papers. This is acceptable in APA format when you are writing in an autobiographical manner.Make sure to save time to proofread your paper for spelling, grammar, and APA format and style. All papers are due by the deadline unless you have contacted me prior to the deadline. I do abide by our OLLU Worden School guidelines for late assignments (as stated in the syllabus). If you have not completed the paper by the deadline, please post the paper to the dropbox and add a note about your circumstances. We will work together to address opportunities to complete the paper if there are extenuating circumstances. Make sure to abide by the assignment guidelines for including the required numbers of course readings and peer-reviewed journal articles. The Payne text counts as one source even if you cite multiple chapters. However, your text does not count as one of the articles, as a book is not a peer-reviewed article.Make sure to abide by the assignment guidelines for paper length and inclusion of assignment elements. Please refresh your memory in terms of types of plagiarism: self, copy and paste, improper citation of material that is copied verbatim, etc. Unfortunately, some students engage in “copy-and-paste” plagiarism by not putting quoted material in quotes and neglecting to add the page number so the reader can find the quoted material in the original source. This is not just an improper citation, it is plagiarism. Please reach out to me if you need clarification about this. 
Here is a helpful resource:https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/10-types-of-plagiarism.pdf Remember that we have a VeriCite tool in the dropbox where you can check to see if your paper has sections that appear to be plagiarized. I do follow our Worden policy of reporting each instance of plagiarism to the administration. I also assign a grade of 0 to the assignment and do not allow students to make up plagiarized assignments. Use your resources if needed:• PPT in Week One- Required Resources Media• APA and Source Choice (PowerPoint File)(information on APA format and peer-reviewed sources)• Writing Center (if you need assistance with spelling, grammar, and APA format and style)• Proofreading assistance by a peer

For this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation about the lessons learned from an incident that has occurred within the last 15 years within your local community or home state.  The PowerPoint presentation should cover the areas listed below. Identify an incident that has occurred in your local area or home state within the last 15 years (human-made, natural, or technological). Summarize the incident. Explain what agencies responded at the federal, state, and local levels and how available resources may have supported the jurisdictional procedures. Analyze how first responders interacted with other agencies during the incident and how the National Incident Management System (NIMS) may or may not have been used. Describe what lessons were learned from the incident based on first responders’ interactions.  Discuss any future considerations for responding to these types of incidents. Support your PowerPoint presentation with images or graphics, and include at least two resources. Your PowerPoint presentation must be a minimum of six slides in length (not counting the title and reference slides) and must follow APA style for references and citations. Click here to access a helpful tutorial that discusses PowerPoint best practices. Click here to access the transcript for the tutorial.

For your assignment, select two of the following scenarios and answer all parts of the questions as prompted. ******************Although colleges and universities have utilized distance learning (i.e., online classes) for many years, teaching kindergarten through 12th-grade students using an online platform is much rarer. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic of 2020 forced K-12 schools throughout the world to turn to distance learning to teach children under 18. But how effective is an online curriculum for children who are only familiar with physical classrooms? To answer this question, your local school district asks you to conduct a series of studies focusing on the new distance learning curriculum they developed to teach K-12 students. Fortunately, the school district does have a control group option available to you should you need it. That is, some classrooms can use in-person instruction as the school has adequate safety measures in place to protect these students. The school administrator who hired you has four goals (though only the first goal must be addressed in all study designs): First, the school administrator must know if online students are adequately learning material appropriate for their age group (as measured by an end-of-semester exam that all students must pass).Second, the administrator would like to know if the curriculum they developed works equally well across students with different computer experience (experienced versus inexperienced).Third, the administrator would like to know if students are improving as they progress through the semester.Fourth, the administrator would like to know if the curriculum helps male and female students equally.The school administrator recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic is temporary but that other pandemics might occur in the future, or K-12 schools might naturally evolve an online component. Thus, the administrator would like to know how well distance learning students perform over the next four calendar years.Assignment Instructions:You have come up with a series of studies to test the administrator’s goals.Use the information in the study designs presented below to determine whether the design involves a posttest-only between-groups design, a pretest-posttest between groups design, a matched pairs design, a block design, a within-group design (pretest, posttest), or a longitudinal design.Determine if the study meets the first goal of the administrator.Determine whether the study meets at least one other goal, and if not, describe how you would alter the study design to meet at least one other administrator goal. Scenario AYou design a study where you randomly assign students to one of two conditions. In one condition, students take the curriculum fully online. In the second condition, they take the curriculum fully in person. However, because you think familiarity and experience with computers might impact how students adapt to fully online classes, you first find students who are experienced with computers as well as students who are not experienced with computers. To make sure the two conditions are composed of students who share similar traits and abilities, you pair up experienced computer users and send one to Condition 1 and the other to Condition 2. You do the same for the next pair (and the next). You also pair up students who are not experienced with computers and similarly assign one to Condition 1 and the other to Condition 2. Here, the independent variable is the condition (online versus in-person teaching), and the dependent variable(s) is the extent to which the child learns the age-appropriate material (as measured by passing the final exam and/or assignments).This study best describes which of the six research designs described in this lesson? Explain your response, including how this study design meets the first administrator goal.Does this design meet any of the other administrator goals?If yes, which one and why?If no, how could you redesign the study to meet at least one other administrator goal? Scenario BYou design a study where you randomly assign students to one of two conditions. In one condition, students take the curriculum fully online. In the second condition, they take the curriculum fully in person. All students take a pretest at the start of the semester and a post-test at the end of the semester. Here, there are two independent variables. One is the type of course (online versus in person), and the second is timing (pretest at the start of the semester versus post-test at the end of the semester). The dependent variable(s) is the extent to which the child learns the age-appropriate material (as measured by passing the final exam and/or assignments). This study best describes which of the six research designs described in this lesson? Explain your response, including how this study design meets the first administrator goal.Does this design meet any of the other administrator goals?If yes, which one and why?If no, how could you redesign the study to meet at least one other administrator goal? Scenario CYou design a study where you randomly assign students to one of two conditions. In one condition, children will have in-person instruction in a physical classroom. In the second condition, the children will have online instruction. Both conditions will use the same curriculum, though the online version is remote. The independent variable will be the condition (in person or online), and the dependent variable(s) will be the extent to which the child learns the age-appropriate material (as measured by passing the final exam and/or assignments).This study best describes which of the six research designs described in this lesson? Explain your response, including how this study design meets the first administrator goal.Does this design meet any of the other administrator goals?If yes, which one and why?If no, how could you redesign the study to meet at least one other administrator goal?Scenario DYou design a study where you randomly assign students to one of two conditions. In one condition, children will have in-person instruction in a physical classroom. In the second condition, the children will have online instruction. However, you first match students on multiple key characteristics that you think might impact their learning. In this case, you focus on their computer experience and gender. That is, you pair students with the same computer experience and then randomly assign one member of each pair to the online condition and the other member to the in-person condition.Similarly, you pair inexperienced students, you pair males, and you pair females, and once again assign one member of each pair to the online condition and the other to the in-person condition. You do this for all students. Thus, male experienced computer users, male inexperienced computer users, female experienced computer users, and female inexperienced computer users are present in both online and in-person classes. The dependent variable(s) is the extent to which the child learns the age-appropriate material (as measured by passing the final exam and/or assignments).This study best describes which of the six research designs described in this lesson? Explain your response, including how this study design meets the first administrator goal.Does this design meet any of the other administrator goals?If yes, which one and why?If no, how could you redesign the study to meet at least one other administrator goal?Scenario EUnfortunately, you find that the school district cannot give you an adequate in-person comparison group; therefore, all students will participate in the new online curriculum. Since they still want your help to assess the program's effectiveness, you decide to do so by assessing student knowledge at the start of the semester and comparing it to their knowledge at the end of the semester. The dependent variable(s) is the extent to which the child learns the age-appropriate material (as measured by passing the final exam and/or assignments). This study best describes which of the six research designs described in this lesson? Explain your response, including how this study design meets the first administrator goal.Does this design meet any of the other administrator goals?If yes, which one and why?If no, how could you redesign the study to meet at least one other administrator goal?Scenario FYou design a study where you randomly assign students to one of two conditions. In one condition, children will have in-person instruction in a physical classroom. In the second condition, the children will have online instruction. Fortunately, your study design allows you to follow and assess both sets of students multiple times over four years. Even as the students advance from one grade to the next, your study will determine if taking classes online helps or hurts their ability to pass assignments and final exams (the dependent variables in this study). The independent variables would be (a) the varying amounts of times assessments are taken (quarterly, mid-semester, end of the semester, the following semester, the next school year, etc.) and (b) the two conditions, in-person and online instruction. This study best describes which of the six research designs described in this lesson? Explain your response, including how this study design meets the first administrator goal.Does this design meet any of the other administrator goals?If yes, which one and why?If no, how could you redesign the study to meet at least one other administrator goal? Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pagesReferences: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.The completed assignment should address all of the assignment requirements, exhibit evidence of concept knowledge, and demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the content presented in the course. The writing should integrate scholarly resources, reflect academic expectations and current APA standards.