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
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
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
12. Web Views; Locations and Maps (February 11, 2010)
Software engineering, application development, programming language, computer science, iPhone operating system, OS 3.2, iPad, web, internet, browser, WebKit, HTML, MIME, CoreLocation, GPS, WiFi, Cell Network, point, vector, annotations, maps, reverse geoc
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
Making Sense of Journey North Maps: Core Questions
Here you'll find guidance for helping students focus on what's happening and interpret why it's happening as the season progresses.
First Grade Skills: Interactive Activities
Tips on teaching Pre K-8 grades; language art, math, activities, and standards.
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.
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,
Enhance Google Maps with ScribbleMaps I am doing Geography with my kids at the moment and obviously we use Google Maps quite regularly. I recently discovered ScribbleMaps and now use this as my default Google Part 4: Example of a teacher using a radio news broadcast to develop listening skills. Using writing as tool to promote critical thinking skills Teaching Oral Presentation Skills Using the "Virtual Presentation Assistant." Written Document Analysis Worksheet Gaining Catfish Aquaculture Skills Document skills: Maps and plans
Part 4: Example of a teacher using a radio news broadcast to develop listening skills.
Professor Haddad teaches writing in a small workshop setting in the School of Journalism. He uses the Socratic Method to teach critical thinking and pushes as much of the work toward the students as possible. Writing provides him with a mechanism for insight into the thinking process of his students. In essence, his aim is to teach the students how to use the craft of questioning by using a series of guiding questions to lead them through the critical analysis process. Dr. Haddad stro
This site is and online tutorial for improving one's public speaking skills. The site is designed to help an individual target specific needs as a speaker by allowing access any or all of the contents listed, including determining purpose, selecting topic, researching topic, analyzing audience, etc
The following document analysis worksheet was designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. You may find this worksheet useful as you introduce students to written documents.
See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming.
As a specialist medium, maps and plans can be a challenge to use and it is not always immediately obvious just what can be learned from them. This resource demonstrates how the researcher can use these documents to gain varied insights about a particular place and aspects of its history. The resource includes a glossary and bibliography. Illustrative images of items from our collections appear throughout.
