New Teachers – Should You Overplan Your Lessons?

New Teachers – Should You Overplan Your Lessons?

The question is out: how many of you new teachers (1-5 years of teaching experience) in fact overplan your lessons? As a new teacher 12 years ago, I overplanned my lessons constantly in order to ensure that ALL students were engaged even if it meant restructuring the lesson.

In general, overplanning is a good habit to develop especially when they are used as back-up plans to support parts or even an entire lesson.

The problem however with overplanning becomes even more complicated and tricky during those unexpected moments. How do you know just exactly what activity to use? And for how long? How many activities? This is where experience and knowing the students and their abilities can play a strong role in deciding which activities are appropriate to use. Sometimes you might surprise yourself with your own little spontaneity and find out that you know more than you actually gave … Read more

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Technical Writing Programs – Brooklyn College Technical Writing Program

Technical Writing Programs – Brooklyn College Technical Writing Program

There are quite a few certificate programs offered in the United States by different universities for those just starting out and considering Technical Writing as a career. In my honest opinion, a certificate is not necessary to make it in the technical communication field but it does not hurt either, especially if your resume does not include a list of prior tech writing jobs.

Brooklyn College is an educational institution that you can certainly consider if you’d like to earn a certificate in Technical Writing before you apply for a related job. Perhaps it’s not one of the biggest schools around but they offer a dedicated program made up of continuing-education courses.

To be eligible for the certificate, the students must take 8 classes, each $355 (at this writing) and each lasting 8 weeks. The whole program costs $2840.

Here are the full curriculum of Technical Writing classes at Brooklyn … Read more

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Satisfied Employees Equivalent Pleased Customers

Satisfied Employees Equivalent Pleased Customers

Most people understands that the cleaning crew is at the base of the company meals chain–most people other than Maureen Regan at Seaside Vacation Rentals. And possibly that is why she is ready to recruit and keep critical personnel while many others battle in a tight labor current market. Regan proves that to preserve your workforce intact you have to be a bit counterculture and be keen to appear at and do points differently. She phone calls it her “reverse pyramid.”

“Most providers treat their cleansing crew like an undesired stepchild”, she says. It is not the most prestigious or pleasurable position–who needs to clean some else’s toilet? –so lots of shell out them awful wages and regularly recruit small-conclusion workers who are forced to accept that this is all they can assume to get for undertaking menial labor. But now imagine that you are on family vacation and you … Read more

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What is Your Rock Instrument Character?

What is Your Rock Instrument Character?

Everybody’s personality is exclusive. If you’ve got ever satisfied a musician, you will know that many have quirky personalities.

Even so, have you ever questioned what your selection of instrument claims about your individuality? Underneath is a checklist of features I have recognized above the yrs in different musicians. It is just a little bit of fun and no offence is meant.

Drummers:

You are insane and normally full of electricity. You possess an timeless stamina, are hyperactive and have a childlike quality. Dwelling a quick paced everyday living, you can at times be a very little dim – oops(joke)

Some well known drummers include things like – Keith Moon, John Bonham and Ginger Baker.

Bassist:

You are frequently shy and laid again. You like to keep in the track record and are likely to be quiet. You may well enjoy a broad array of instruments and have a broad … Read more

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How to Self Publish and Promote an eBook

How to Self Publish and Promote an eBook

Here’s what you need before you start to publish:

A book description. Smashwords requires a long and short description, so have both ready. (I usually combine the short and long descriptions in my Amazon publication).

A list of seven keywords. I recommend checking Google to research common keyword searches used to for the type of book that you use. For example, “science fiction” is fairly broad and will probably put you on page 1,000,000,000 or lower. However, “alien invasion colonization” will narrow that down and put you higher on a search list – and yes, people do search that way. You’d be amazed at the keywords they use.

A book cover. If you’re blessed to be more savvy with graphic arts than I am, then you can buy images from iStock or Shutterstock for this. MorgueFile has free images available, but I would recommend … Read more

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Geometry Solvers Online – A Reliable Way to Learn Geometry

Geometry Solvers Online – A Reliable Way to Learn Geometry

Geometry is one of the more interesting branches of math, given it’s visual aspect and the spatial reasoning challenge it poses to students. Learning geometry is certainly not as tough as learning algebra or calculus, for instance, but it does have it’s little challenges to keep students on their toes.

Students learning geometry learn how to calculate the area, volume, space, and perimeter of the common geometrical shapes. This involves memorizing a bunch of formulas for each shape and knowing when to use them. Geometry in itself is quite easy but questions can be tricky and are designed to test how students can manipulate the information they have to fit the given data.

Practicing geometry is important if you want to do well in it. It is also the most effective way to learn all those formulas. Practicing math problems has never been a favorite homework activity among students so … Read more

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