Essays on Small Group

Personal Theology of Discipleship

Personal Theology of Discipleship

Introduction

Disciple making is the pinnacle responsibility of any prosperity minded church. The whole aspect starts with attraction of new Christians to a church. The new Christians are then taught and cultivated to be all rounded disciples in the ministry of Christ. There are various theological, philosophical and methodological considerations in this practice to ensure the path to discipleship maturity is conducive and effective. This paper aims at exploring the themes, components and methods applied in discipleship through reviewing various secondary literatures on the issue of personal theology of discipleship. A review of three significant pieces ...

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The church gets its disciples from the societies that surround it. In order to get these followers, the church has to convince them of gospel kingdom and make them tailor their ways of life just as it is taught in the bible. Hitherto developed disciples were once naïve and young Christians in the kingdom. Just as the military gets its personnel from a community at large, the church too does. This calling of new Christians into a church and teaching them on how to be true disciples can be seen as a recruitment process. This paper aims at ...

Introduction

Organizations across the world have a common goal of fostering good ethics across their business by taking approaches that ensure the management and employees follow acceptable ethical values and moral standards. However, most organizations fail to keep up with the approach because of current information and technology trends that play a big role in increasing risks of unethical behaviors. Moreover, the main objective of the organization is making profits and following all code of ethics might not create good outcomes for the company regarding revenues. According to Berzai (2015), the area of computer technology becomes the most difficult in ...

Introduction

Democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The essence of the American Revolution was to create such a government that would allow Americans to gain liberty, equality and freedom. This was to be based on fair representation of the people and the Separation of Powers between three arms of government. For practical purposes though, it is necessary for governance to be exercised by a group of people in the arms of government. This has been abused over the years and the people of America supposed to collectively determine affairs of government in ...

The delivery of primary care is crucial in the delivery of primary as well as preventive care to people that demand these kinds of services. Having access to primary care is essential in improving and maintaining health. Those who receive primary care obtain greater preventive services and are likely to conform to their treatment. Moreover, those who receive primary care are less prone to illness as well as premature death (Starfield et al., 2005). For a primary care to be effective, it must be coordinated, comprehensive, prompt, and focused on the needs of the patients. An effective delivery of ...

Insider Trading

Insider Trading

Investors Suffer from Insider Trading

Insider trading presents an adverse effect for the investors and the country at large. In this regard, it prevents the fair quantum of supply and demand for the stocks and contributes towards having an artificial increment in the stock prices, thus enticing innocent investors to buy the stocks at increased prices than that of their original value (Stefano, 2011). Consequently, soon after the purchasing of the stocks, it plunges in the market bringing about immense losses for the investors that in turn contributes to a significant dip in SENSEX value which finally weakens a country's entire economy ( ...

Shot in the 1970’s, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and The Marriage of Maria Braun by the same director, the films reflect on the intercultural and interracial relationships and the society’s reaction to the phenomenon. Rainer Werner Fassbinder makes his audience face the uncomfortable dilemma and choose the side to support. Though the contemporary audience may not find anything bizarre in the storylines offered by the director, it is important to remember that the film were shot in the 70’s, and their audience was basically the society Fassbinder reflected in his movies. From the perspective of ...

In reading Henry Mintzberg’s article, Organization design: fashion of fit? (1980), I was pleased that it was so easy to follow, that his concepts included examples that I could understand, and it was well organized. Mintzberg was clear, to the point, and engaging in his writing. Even though the article was published in the Harvard Business Review, it was written at a level that the average college student could understand, even a non-business major.

Mintzberg begins by tackling the assumption that too many people make: all organizations are alike. Indeed, they are not. He also clearly points out that ...

- What is the purpose of a one-to-one evaluation?

A one -to-one evaluation is majorly for testing the technical capabilities.It simply implies an activity which requires a range of two to three individuals picked ...

IEP Process

Individualized Education Plan, IEP is a written statement that children with disability use. IEP describes the child’s uncommon education program. IEP is a legal and binding document that spells out the special programs that a disabled child will receive. The document spells out the reasons of the activity that the special will receive (Allen and Cowdery, 2011). The document includes the classification of the child, the services they receive placement, therapies, behavioural and academic plans. However, the document will show the time percentage of regular education if a behavioural plan is included in the document. The behavioural plan shows the detail of ...

Several types of information were used to study the customers. Some of them were the customer’s preferences and sensitivity in terms of the features they like and most need. The initial strategy for coming up with a competitive advantage was the pricing policy. However, the best strategy used was the production of several models, in that the low cost, eco-friendly, family and image. The company has maintained this strategy by improving on the models and using different market strategies to market. On the analysis of the team, several things have been done to effectiveness. The first one is the ...

The “Petals Around the Rose” activity was an exciting experience that caused a higher brain activity and several different emotions. It helped me enormously not only in the area of my own personal problem solving, but also in the area of teaching, leading me to take many more things into account, such as the learning environment, physical movements, necessary explanations and adjusting the learning environment to every single student individually.

At the beginning of the activity, I was very enthusiastic because I have a great interest in solving puzzles. While Dr. Patty threw the dice on the floor and said, ...

Introduction:

In this paper, the significance of good quality early childhood education has been discussed, along with the teaching strategies which encourage multicultural education. The relationship and interaction between the teacher and parents is shown to be of vital importance, in order to make a child’s learning successful and meaningful in every aspect. Some light is thrown on how a teacher can motivate children in the classroom and ignite their interest in various activities. Various assessment methods have now been developed and implemented which mainly focus on recognizing and nurturing a child’s strengths and strengthening the weaknesses or areas which need ...

References

Berkowitz, B. (2003). The New Face of War: How War will be Fought in the 21st Century. New York: The Free Press. Brown, C. & Major, A. (1998). Women in Leadership. USA: Army Nurse Corps Historian. Builder, C., Nordin, R. & Bankes, S. (1999). Command Concepts: A Theory Derived from the Practice of Command and Control. Washington, DC: RAND. Burk R. (2005). Tell me again about women in combat. Retrieved March 7, 2014 from http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/006564.html. Castro, L., Carl, A., & Hoge, C. (1999). 10 Unpleasant Facts about Combat and What Leaders Can Do to Change them. USA: Walter ...

References

Berkowitz, B. (2003). The New Face of War: How War will be Fought in the 21st Century. The Free Press. [New York]. Brown, C. & Major, A. (1998). Women in Leadership. Army Nurse Corps Historian. Builder, C. Bankes, S. & Nordin, R. (1999). Command Concepts: A Theory Derived from the Practice of Command and Control. RAND Corporation. Burk, R. (2005). Tell me again about women in combat. Winds of Change. Castro, L., Carl, A., & Hoge, C. (1999). 10 Unpleasant Facts about Combat and What Leaders Can Do to Change them. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. ...

Dyslexia refers specifically to learning disabilities encountered in reading. It may at times be characterized by difficulties that occur in recognizing, decoding and spelling words correctly. Due to these challenges brought forth by the disorder, there may be problems caused with reading comprehension and slowed down vocabulary growth. In addition to the outcomes brought about by the disorder, dyslexia may lead to poor fluent loudly out reading. It is thus considered a neurological disorder. It offers hindrance to aspects involved in the learning process such as reading, writing, and spelling and to some extent speaking. The neurological disorder affects the ...

This work is devoted to a very current theme about communication that is affected by perception. In my opinion, it is one of the most important issues today, and people should pay more attention to this very theme. Communication is the most significant part of every culture’s life, which cannot be separated from it. It is written the role of culture and perception in communication. I am very interested in this topic because studying culture motivates and inspires me to learn foreign languages. I can easily read their books and watch their movie in the original language. It ...

Group work is one of the most important aspects of learning because it enhances creativity and sharing of ideas among students. I have studied the application of group work in the classroom context and acquired some ideas on how to improve learning. Even though most of the literature material on this topic focuses on ENL learning, I believe that teachers can also use group work beyond ENL learning. The second reading discusses the concept of group work in ESL learning. This discussion confirms my understanding that the concept of group work goes beyond ENL learning. The author provides a systematic ...

Introduction

Insurance companies have been known to prefer large companies for business. The companies would rather indulge in companies that are massive in size. What appears to be the universal rule for many insurance companies is that the bigger the size, the more preferable a client will be. Many reasons can be used to explain the position taken by these insurance companies. However, the one fundamental factor that controls how business is done is the force behind this notion; money. It is evidenced that big businesses result in big money. The insurance firms are likely to enter into a contract with ...

There are various ways of defining a social class depending on the author. Marxists its membership is determined by ones relationship to means production .This refers to what one does within the society as a way of producing goods and services. According to Marxists capitalists owned the means of production and they occupied the upper most social class while worker labored in the factories owned by the capitalists producing the wealth for the capitalists and they occupied a lower social class. Bourgeoisies was a class of professionals between the capitalists and the workers and they had characteristics of both the two classes Modern ...

Problem Solving

Today, societies are more global than they have ever been in human history. Currently, there is a major exchange of knowledge and culture among various different groups of people. Sometimes problems may arise which can cause problems for a certain group or groups of people. A problem such as the color of a person's skin can lead to racism and cause a split in society. Oftentimes, the solution to these problems can be found when different groups, both large and small, come together in order to exchange ideas on problem solving. In their essay, James Surowiecki's "Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster ...

In his lifetime, Steve Jobs made an unparalleled impact as the entrepreneurial and driven inventor of the iPhone and the Macintosh and co-founder of Apple, Inc. Jobs would later underscore that, unlike his predecessor in Apple, he was not as much driven to make profit as to create products that are game-changers. Born Steven Paul Jobs on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California under extraordinary circumstances to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs showed early signs of his intelligence and innovativeness at a young age. In the popular biography Jobs commissioned, ...

Vocabulary Instruction

Volume of Words The number of words presented every week should vary depending on the needs for the class topic. Often, vocabulary words are related to what the students are learning in class. If the current topic has a lot of unknown words that the students need to grasp, then the vocabulary list for the week might be longer. However, vocabulary list should be kept short, of possible. According to Bromley (2007), teaching a few, meaningful words is more effective than teaching several words that have little to do with students current subject topics (p 8).

Start by posting the words ...

Brief Background

New Hope for Women is an organization that aims to end domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking in order to create a safer and healthier tomorrow. Other than helping the individuals -- mostly the youth – who suffer from these abuses, it also extends help to LGBT members, elders, and animals. It provides educational resources, trainings, and awareness forums to assist our communities in creating a safer and healthier future. Its operations currently reach the Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and Waldo counties (New Hope for Women, 2012). The core belief of the organization is that power must not be used to demean ...

Emeralds are gleaming green gemstones that were once said -- by no less than the Hindu Vedas -- to give good luck, as well as having healing qualities. They were coveted during India's Gupta Empire, and are still coveted today by people all over the world. Today, the main producer of emerald quartz and gemstones is South America. Countries such as Colombia and Brazil are producing more of the gemstone than ever before (Norman, 1995, internet). Initially constructed in 1599, The Crown of the Andes is one of the most striking -- and recognizable -- pieces of regalia ...

One of the most fascinating examples of team group engagement is called the “Samoan Circle”; here, a meeting is conducted without any leaders (State of Victoria, 2014). The overall goal of the technique is to allow a more equitable and egalitarian approach to solving problems, particularly ones that are controversial. No leader is present, but professional facilitators can be employed in order to get the process started (State of Victoria, 2014). This technique is not dissimilar to the Fishbowl process, wherein the group is divided into two circles, one circle enveloping the smaller, inner circle. However, unlike the Fishbowl technique, the ...

Dear Instructor’s Name,

RE; MY VIEW ON BILINGUAL/ELL EDUCATION Bilingual education entails teaching academic content in two different languages. One of which is a native and a learned language. The two languages are taught in variance to each other and, in accordance, with the model of the program.

The Bilingual Common Core Initiative has published few samples for the review of the public:

- NLAP 9-10 Grade Speaking and Listening - NLAP 6th Grade Reading for Information - NLAP 3rd Grade Writing Sample

The Department is developing a new Language Arts Progressions to substitute the 2004 English as a Second Language Learning Standards.

FIVE LEVELS OF BILINGUAL LANGUAGE ENTERING Progressions is capable of identifying cause-and-effect relation between a key individual, event or idea by the organization of pre-identified keywords placed into a cause-and-effect graphic organizer, as ...

Introduction

The book, “A systems approach to small group interaction 11th edition” is a revised edition from the tenth edition of the same book. Stewart writes it. Ideally, it entails different scholarly and practical information based on a small group interaction. The content does not deviate from the title. It is comprised of eight distinct chapters within which information from the tenth edition has been modified to address the current audience. The various named and edited material within the book are as a result of the frank contributions from the avid readers of the book. The main adjustments are deemed to have been ...

Improving Performance Through Quality Initiatives

Improving Performance Through Quality Initiatives 1. One of the most important ideas I learned in Part Four is that quality initiatives have proven to be highly successful using multiple metrics, including higher employee and customer satisfaction, higher productivity, increased market share and better productivity. Given the broad spectrum of impacts on the business, using quality initiatives within a business is a very supported and logical choice. The second idea that I learned was there were actually several methods of improving quality that have shown success, although many of them share similar underlying ideas about how it should be done, including ...

Assessment is a crucial part of the teaching and learning process. If prepared well and administered to the student at the right time and conditions, forms of assessments can be an aid to learning. If analysed and the data derived from the analysis are processed by the teacher, assessment can be an aid to teaching. In any case, assessment is an important part of any teacher’s work who is concerned about real learning. This paper shall describe an assessment that was prepared to a fifth grade male student and was actually administered. There will be a discussion of the assessment ...

Iron sharpens iron is a book by Orlando Saer that highlights on the principles required for a church leader or organization. It is mainly a leadership book that is aimed at guiding and mentoring leaders who aspire to make impacts in their groups whether small or big. The book is based on biblical principals and its title derived from a scripture in the bible. This mainly insists on the fact that people need to empower each other. A church leaders needs to have the ability to learn from the others, from their experiences, whether good or bad and to accept correction. The book ...

A classroom is often characterised by learners coming from diverse backgrounds. These are the contextual factors, such as age, gender, socio-economic status, language proficiency levels, and understanding ability. These are common factors that a teacher may find present in his class and must consider in his planning and deliver of instruction. Learners from diverse backgrounds have to be served some accommodation strategies that would facilitate their learning and even a holistic development, especially as they go through adjusting in their new environment. On the part of the teacher, these accommodation strategies are reflected in his differentiation instruction strategies. One ...

Interest groups play a major role in the United States politics. These groups are associated with both negative and positive effects on the democracy of the United States. The interest groups are mainly formed with an aim of achieving certain goals that are best known to the members. This research paper will evaluate whether the interest groups have negative or positive impacts on United States democracy. The interest groups engage in politics so that they can get political assistance to achieve their objectives. They do this by ensuring that they support politicians who will listen to them and take ...

1. Positive effects of conflict may include: a. closer examination of issues that might otherwise be avoided b. a healthier, more satisfying relationship c. Both A and B d. None of the above 2. Quincy almost always backs down from any conflict. His friends call him a human doormat because he lets other people walk all over him. Quincy's conflict style can best be described as a. accommodating b. competing c. collaborating d. compromising 3. Harriet and Maynard cannot decide on which movie to go to. Harriet wants to see the ...

A Guide to Small Group Teaching (SGT)

What is Small Group Teaching?

Small Group Teaching (SGT) is a widespread form of student-centred teaching which promotes a deep approach to learning including conceptual development and change (Marton and Saljo 1976). McCrorie states that “the purist view of small group teaching is that it must be learner-centred, with all students joining in free discussion of a particular topic” (2006, p. 5).

For the purposes of this guide, small group teaching refers to any process or method of tutor-student interaction that involves a group of 2-20 students, however, as McCrorie notes, “group size is probably less important than what the group actually does” ( ...

Abstract

Tuckman's five-stage model of small group development was evident in a previous course taken by the writer, in which business negotiations were simulated and conducted with a small group of peers. During the process of group development, forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning occurred, each stage playing a pivotal role in group development and the conducting of these assignments. From beginning to end, the group was shown to be amicable to avoid conflict, have tensions as a result of changing expectations of individual roles, settling into a cohesive rhythm and understanding, and delegation of trusted tasks to others. The following paper explores these stages ...

Abstract

Tuckman's five-stage model of small group development was evident in a previous course taken by the writer, in which business negotiations were simulated and conducted with a small group of peers. During the process of group development, forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning occurred, each stage playing a pivotal role in group development and the conducting of these assignments. From beginning to end, the group was shown to be amicable to avoid conflict, have tensions as a result of changing expectations of individual roles, settling into a cohesive rhythm and understanding, and delegation of trusted tasks to others.

In a previous class I took, I ...

Arguably, working with a team and a group has numerous experiences as well as the expectation. One gets a chance to communicate, share ideas, as well as taking roles. Additionally, the experiences achieved develop individuals mentally, emotionally, socially, and psychologically. Certainly, communication was the key factor in the activities of the team and groups that I participated. Communication within a group and a team enable people to work together and efficiently towards the achievement of the intended goals. The team I participate with was a football team, while the small group a family. In both, I was part of them and experienced the team and groups ...

Communication and Leadership

Abstract The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has seventeen regular attending members. We are all athletes so we have a common interest in sports. I’m also interested in gaining experience in leadership skills and being on this committee offers me a chance to use them both in my department and in the community. Nine of the group members are men and eight are women. Although some of the literature on communication mentions a difference between how men and women communicate it is not obvious in this group. The student leader and faculty leader of the group help set the agenda and ...

IEP Research

Abstract Finally, there is a great degree of diversity in IEP. It is the responsibility of the teacher to come up with strategies that can be used to accommodate this kind of diversity. IEP is program that is intended to attain or rather meet the exceptional needs of one child who is disabled according to the federal regulations. In some cases, in order to meet the objectives of IEP a school may be forced to change or rather modify its curriculum. Notably, modification of curriculum occurs within the “related services” class on the form of IEP. Irrefutably, there is a great ...

Introduction

Far right extremists use populist jargon to appeal to the citizens of various countries in Europe. Authors Schellenberg and Langenbacher (2011) reported that out of thirteen right-wing extremist partys 7 won seats in national European parliaments in 2009. The most seats won were 9 seats in the Italian parliament with 10.2% of the vote. The authors report eleven out of the 13 won seats in national and in the last local (municipal or regional) elections. This trend is startling enough to understand the right-wing is using language that appeals to people. (Schellenberg and Langenbacher 2011).

General increasing trend in “populist” acceptance of neo-Nazi parties in mainstream politics

Haizhu of the China ...