Early Education : Teaching Calendar Skills
Teaching the calendar to children is all about looking at the calendar each day and helping students to understand what day it is in the month.
Quantitative Skills Assessment of Geoscience Courses
The importance of quantitative skills in earth science education is the primary subject addressed by this website. This website is not a quantitative course, however this document does provide numerous useful techniques that can be employed in a variety of other coursework to advance the quantitative skills of the student. The first section of this website presents a checklist that can be used to develop exercises which will focus on specific quantitative applications and evaluations. Skills add
Career Exploration Steps Two and Three
Step Two is Occupational and Educational Exploration. Step Three is Career Planning. Learn the steps of the career planning process.
Navigating Major Career Transitions
Interviews with management experts who zero in on key business ideas and how to implement them in organizations.
Customize Your Career Customize Your Career: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Cathleen Benko, co-author of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today's Nontraditional Workforce. Â Copyright 2007
The Skills You Need to Lead Overseas
Featured Guest: Mansour Javidan, dean of research at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and coauthor of the HBR article "Making It Overseas." Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing
Avoid These Career-Planning Fallacies Monika Hamori, professor at IE Business School in Madrid and author of the HBR article "Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies."
5 Must-Haves of an Entrepreneurial Career - Gregory Waldorf (eHarmony)
Greg Waldorf, CEO of the online matchmaking service eHarmony.com, describes the essential components of a successful entrepreneurial career. He believes that working with great people, taking risks, adaptability, passion and timely execution of plans can lead to success for entrepreneurs. He draws parallels between the satisfaction found through finding the right career path and a fulfilling relationship.
Listen: Mentor TennisSee connects tennis to life skills for at-risk youth
Nashville inner-city youth are learning the lessons of tennis as well as life thanks to an after-school program founded by Vanderbilt University senior Jeff Berry. He is president of Mentor TennisSee, which brings at-risk children to the Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Tennis Center three times a week. In addition to learning how to play tennis, the youngsters receive free academic tutoring from Vanderbilt students. Mentor TennisSee also uses the First Serve Life Skills program as part of its instruction
Career Gates: Logistics
Career Gates: Logistics highlights various careers in logistics that are available in and around the Lehigh Valley. Paul Davis from Nestle discusses how Nestle owns their own trucks and that his division manages using those trucks to deliver products to stores. Michele Hamershock talks about the account coordinators in her department and their responsibility to replenish stores with products based on their movement statistics. In addition to Nestle, this clip highlights logistics for DSC and Coc
First Grade Skills: Interactive Activities
Tips on teaching Pre K-8 grades; language art, math, activities, and standards.
Aubie Visits Career Development Services
Choosing a major isn't AS tough when you utilize available services. Auburn University students should check out http://www.auburn.edu/career.
Stefan Lessard of Dave Matthews Band - Broadening His Career
Stefan talks about life outside of the Dave Matthews Band.
Penn State Students encourage their peers to prepare for Fall Career Days 2010
Students encourage their peers to GET STARTED preparing for September 13-17...Fall Career Days 2010 at Penn State University! With over 400 employers attending, it is a great opportunity to connect with organizations hiring in this tough economy!
Historical skills : using archives
This resource provides a general introduction to what archives are, where they are kept, how to find relevant material, and what to expect on a visit to an archives office. A glossary and bibliography are also provided along with numerous links to relevant external resources. The scope of this unit principally reflects the archival holdings of the University of Nottingham and illustrative images of items from our collections appear throughout.
Historical skills : dating documents
This resource explains the different dating conventions employed in historical documents. For example, the system of dating by reference to a religious feast day and the year of the reigning monarch has little in common with the modern calendar. Even where a recognisable date is provided, it may not be what it at first appears.... The resource includes a glossary, bibliography and translation of relevant Latin numbers/phrases. Illustrative images of items from our collections appear throughout.
Historical skills : weights and measurements
This resource aims to identify and explain some common difficulties in deciphering units of weights, measurements, and money in historical documents. Explores English and Welsh measuring systems, predominantly those used from the late sixteenth and early 17th centuries onwards, and those in force after the Weights and Measures Act of 1824. The resource includes a glossary and bibliography. Illustrative images of items from our collections appear throughout.
A new career in the health service
In this Podcast, Professor Beasley talks about the importance of optimism in the ever-changing field of Nursing. She also stresses the need to take risks to further your career.
Professor Beasley addresses the Nursing graduating class of 2006.
Language graduate as entrepreneur is this your career option?
Language graduate as entrepreneur is this your career option?
Career skills in economics
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file. As taught in Autumn Semester 2009 Careers skills is a compulsory module for all Year 2 Economics students. It is not available to students from outside the School. It is one of a number of modules that make up the Nottingham Advantage Award. The Nottingham Advantage Award is a new initiative focusing on student skills, employability and personal and academic development. Initially created for undergraduate students,
