Articles related to "Professional Development"



Don't Go "Stale" During the Summer!
Summer's coming up. What's a music teacher to do to keep up-to-date while funning and sunning? This article has some suggestions to help you start fresh in the fall!
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Free Professional Development
Don’t break the bank on expensive courses to develop yourself professionally. There are many low and no-cost training alternatives.
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How to Find Your Way through a Learning Portal
What Internet users should know about using a learning portal to find online courses.
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Online Course Buyer's Guide
Review of a buyer's guide to online courses
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PAL: A Nascent Organization for Localization Professionals
A new organization&#8212PAL (Professional Association for Localization)&#8212will "serve and represent those who prepare software and documentation for the world." The organization's focus will be "its member translators, localizers, internationalizers, and globalizers." PAL is an ambitious and much-needed endeavor, an idea whose time has come.
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Summer Lessons for Teachers
What do teachers do during the summer? Would you believe it: they go to school! Well, a lot of them, anyway. And now is about the time each year that much of it gets plan
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Summer School for Teachers 3: Boning up on Technology
This article in the Summer School for Teachers series is dedicated to the pursuit of technological knowledge. Why do we even teach technology? What standards should we adhere to? How can we assess the content we already have and align it within technological standards?
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Upcoming Conferences of Note
Some of the excellent library conferences coming up in the next few months.
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Mountain State Arts Grants
Writer's grants are available from state art commissions for poets and fiction writers in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.
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Summer Opportunities for Teachers
High school teachers can discover how to advance themselves professionally to earn more money and gain respect in the classroom. Be better prepared for next school year!
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Develop Your Computer Skills Online
Would you like to learn how to use the most popular computer software applications? Do you know someone new to the internet who is wondering how to get on and start surfing? Would you like instant answers to your questions about how to do a specific task in your word processor or tax program? Want to learn Microsoft Word, ACT!, UNIX, JAVA, HTML, or C++? Here are a few sites which can meet your needs. Web-based distance learning is booming. Check it out!
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Evaluation of Corporate Training
Improving a training session requires feedback from participants. Designing an evaluation form that captures the necessary information is important.
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How to Prepare a Winning Teaching Portfolio
In today's competitive job market, academic institutions now require candidates to submit a teaching portfolio and knowing how to sell your skills is the key to success.
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Interview Skills Training Design
Training hiring managers on interviewing techniques requires a training design and delivery that allows participants to practice the theories taught.
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Resolutions for Graduate Students
Get your master's or PhD studies this year off to a good start with some helpful New Year's resolutions. Here are some suggestions.
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Tax Rebates a great opportunity
With tax rebate checks arriving soon to millions of U.S. homes, now is a great time to implement those old New Year's resolutions.
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Technical Writing Certification
Professional and technical writing certification, Associates Degrees, or Undergraduate Degrees in Professional Writing are accessible via distance learning programs!
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Thinking of Changing Careers?
The thought of changing careers can be frightening, but can also lead to additional job training, vocational training, or many types of continuing education options!
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Corporate University Partnering
Corporations benefit by building partnerships with universities. Companies can recruit new grads, influence curriculum and find instructors for corporate training.
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Northwest State Arts Grants
Writer's grants are available from state arts councils for fiction writers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
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Quality Teaching for Australia
The concepts of "quality teaching" and "quality teacher" are a hot debating topic in Australia. Now researchers are producing a clearer definition of the terms.
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Degree or Certificate?
You know you want to go back to school for professional development. Should you take a degree program or a certificate program? Read on to consider the advantages to both options.
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Earn an Accounting Designation
There are a number of ways to become an accountant. A CGA, CMA or CA designation indicates professionalism and adherence to industry standards.
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Lacking formal education?
If you lack formal education, follow these strategies when writing your resume, to position your candidacy against your competitors.
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More Southern State Arts Grants
Emerging and experienced fiction writers in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana can receive grant funding through state arts councils.
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Music Education – for All Schools?
The Australian Government's review of music education in schools had an unprecedented response from the public. Benefit to the children is now in the government's hands.
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Climbing the corporate ladder with a dynamic resume.
How to increase your chances of securing that promotion!

Job Hunting for Information Professionals
Links to library and information industry employment sites and career information.

Leadership Competency Building
Build your leadership competencies through various leadership training options, building a relationship with a mentor and learning from your early mistakes.
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Resume writing from a recruiter’s point of view
Planning on sending your resume to a recruiter? Avoid having your resume screened out by incorporating these interview winning tactics!
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The Secret Life of Indexers--Part 3
Part three of the secret life that indexers lead.
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Year-Round Schooling?
A look at the pros and cons of the year-round schooling movement.
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Working Mother Magazine Award Winner
IKEA Has Been Named to Working Mother Magazine’s “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” and Honored with the Family Champion Award
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Dream to Reality
Once, not all that long ago, I had a dream about completing my education. I took a step, and then another, toward placing myself in a situation where I could realize my dream.
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How to Become Series: Pharmacist
With chains and department stores now having their own in-house pharmacy, there are more pharmacist jobs than ever before.
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Institute for Learning Technologies
Review of the Institute for Learning Technologies
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Professional HR Certification vs. Non-certification
A discussion of the value of human resource professional certifications and a complete list of available certifications and the associations that sponsor them.

Welcome! Report Card: The EIC
The Education Improvement Commission. What's it all about? Will teacher representatives and the government ever learn to work together?
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Community College Teaching
Where do you find information on community colleges? Where do you find employment listings? What is the average course load? What kinds of classes will you teach? Who are your students?
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Engineering is Elementary Lessons
Multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural lessons from Boston's Museum of Science teach K-6 students to apply the Engineering Design Process for 21st century problem solving.
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HR Training for New Managers
New managers need to be trained in HR policies and procedures. Developing training modules that will address their needs will help build consistency company-wide.
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National Middle School Association
The National Middle School Association (NMSA) can help middle school teachers in many ways. The answers or advice they need might just be a click away.
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Self-awareness at Work
One of the EI competencies is self-awareness. Being aware of how your emotions affect your performance will help you respond intelligently to emotional triggers.
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Teacher Morale Does Matter
Strong teacher morale, positive school cultures, and student learning go hand-in-hand. Principals need to help create a nurturing environment for students and teachers.
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Who is Carl Gustav Jung?
Introduction to the Life and Work of Carl Gustav Jung, psychological personality theorist and dream explorer.
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Why Join A Writers' Union?
Freelance writing can be a lonely and isolating profession. Joining a writers' union helps you build connections with other writers and access information and support.
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Career Values Assessment
Career values that form the basis of career and professional development decisions will lead to high job satisfaction and engagement.
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Designing Training for Gen Y
To create an effective learning environment for Gen Y, include elements that allow for collaborative learning especially if they involve the use of technology.
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Distance Learning Goes the Distance
Distance learning continues to expand through the decades and now includes curriculum that uses all of the Web 2.0 technologies.
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Don't depict yourself as a dinosaur
This article contains a number of strategies in how to craft a compelling resume if you have worked for one company for an extensive amount of time.
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