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Modern day teaching can be extremely demanding. Teachers will therefore always welcome ways of helping them in their efforts to inspire and encourage pupils. In primary schools, targeted use of school stickers and rubber stamps has been found to be of enormous benefit when marking pupils’ work.
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One of the things that interests me most about career choices is that many students and their parents tend to revert to default. Default is often those standard or core careers that tend to come into mind whenever careers are discussed. These include accounting, engineering, banking, medical (doctor, nurse etc) and other usual suspects. Granted, there are a lot of jobs available in these default/classic careers, but where’s the realisation that the world of work has changed?
Parents are not well equipped at all to advise their kids on the new careers and roles that are available and unless the kids themselves do their research, neither are they. It seems to me that there’s quite a long lag time between new types of roles emerging into the world of work and awareness of these roles as career options by the general population.
So what are the exciting new career choices and how do people find out about them? Most new careers tend to develop in the areas that are getting a lot of news coverage and where social, economic and other trends are leading. So with the web for example, because this is an area in which there is so much activity, a host of new roles and career choices have emerged. These include programming in new open source languages, web marketing including pay per click marketing, viral marketing, search engine optimisation, blogger, social media marketing and so on. The environment is another area in the news. In the past 10 years, we’ve seen the emergence of careers such as carbon management consultants, conservation scientists and environmental sustainability consultants. These are just a few examples.
The good news is that although some of these, particularly the environmental roles require serious study (normally a Masters degree to get in), for most of the web roles you can build your skill and expertise by teaching yourself, learning from the community and trying things out. If you have the desire and interest to learn, this is a very open area. Of course, the very fact that it is so open makes some of these new career choices very competitive. Buy hey, if you’re prepared to settle for a career that is not competitive then you need to be prepared to settle for what goes with that – poor earnings and prospects.
So one of the tricks of good career planning is not to make decisions too early and not to make decisions without research. You wouldn’t go and buy a new car without doing a load of research. Why on earth would you consider committing to a career without some serious research and analysis?
For more information on Career Choices visit My talent Place or email grant.crow@mytalentplace.co.uk
Providing career advice for many parents is a frustrating and challenging task. Many parents with kids requiring career advice today have been part of the boomer generation. They’ve tended to stick to one role throughout their career and are able to give great advice around this area. This focus and experience in one area does become a potential problem though when trying to advise their kids. OK, most of us have some friends we can call on when necessary, but that option is still limited.
Of course, the other problem is that often our kids won’t listen to us talking about our career experiences just because we’re the parents! I know of a lot of parents who are ideally placed to give advice, but find themselves talking to a brick wall (or rather to no – one at all).
One more twist in the tale is those of us who have kids who want to do what we’ve done in our careers, because that’s what they know and they haven’t taken the time or put in the effort to explore other options. When I hear that a teenager want to be in advertising because their parent is, that’s a red flag for me!
So, what to do? I’m going to suggest the idea of creating a global parent community of career advice. Think of the power we can harness if thousands of parents were to individually document their work experiences, identify the good and bad of their career, talk about the specific skills required for success, make videos about their week – the challenges they faced and the decisions they had to make and so on.
Using technology creatively will make what seems like a difficult challenge much easier to overcome. We’ve got to make it easier for parents to be able to share their experiences in the knowledge that the community of career advice will benefit everyone. An individual parent’s involvement might not help their own kid, but it will help someone else’s in other part of the country and vice versa. This is definitely an idea in which synergy is created – individual knowledge is harnessed and creates a whole that is infinitely more useful than the parts.
Pie in the sky? No ways. I’ve recently opened a new website to facilitate this interaction. www.mytalentplace.co.uk is designed to help solve this problem and create the community. Check it out and let me know what you think. Oh, and while you’re there, why don’t you register and contribute something?
For more information on Career Advice visit My talent Place or email grant.crow@mytalentplace.co.uk
DO YOUR REQUIREMENTS ONLINE
This Georgia Drivers Ed course is entirely online, so where you work on it is totally up to you. The state of Georgia requires all new drivers to complete a Joshua’s Law approved course before being able to take their permit exam, so why not do it in a fun and easy way? This course is accessible from any computer with an internet connection, so you can do it from home, school, work, or even your favorite coffee café that has wireless internet services.
JOSHUA’S LAW ONLINE COURSE
This course is approved in the state of Georgia, which means that it fulfills all the requirements that are necessary for you to take your permit exam. You can come and go as you please with it because you get an unlimited amount of log ins and outs. This allows you to take breaks whenever you need them and it lets you decide when you work on it and for how long.
ONLINE
You can sign up for this Georgia Drivers Ed course online in just a few minutes, so you can start working on it right away. You will get to pick your own username and password when you register and that way you can log in from any computer location and always be able to access your course.
HAVE FUN TOO
There are eight units that make up this Georgia Drivers Ed course, but each one of them is jam-packed with fun. There are tons of graphics, animations, videos, and audio clips in every unit to make sure you that you have a lot of fun and that you never get bored; too bad all your classes in school aren’t this fun. There are also short multiple-choice quizzes at the end of each unit to help you review what you have just learned.
LOG IN AND OUT ANYTIME
Being able to log in and out of this Joshua’s Law course whenever you want really lets you be in charge of your studying. Your spot is automatically saved for you each time you log out of your course, so when you log back in you don’t have to waste any time trying to remember where you left off.
GUARANTEED TO PASS
This driver education course does have a final exam at the end of it, but it is way different from anything you have seen before. Every question on the final exam is multiple-choice and it has been pulled right from the course material, so you will be more than prepared for it. Plus, since you can take it as many times as you want you are literally guaranteed to pass it at some point.
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
This course is very user-friendly, but you still may have questions throughout it and that is what the customer support team is for; to help you when you need them. They work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and you can reach them by calling a toll-free hotline, emailing, or even by chatting live with them right from your computer.
Children love birthdays and the younger your child is the more special their birthdays are. We all remember the excitement of getting our presents and having a day with our friends which is full of fun, games, jelly and ice cream, so we want our own children to have good memories too.
It is important that we make our children enjoy their birthdays as much as possible and at Brainwaves we know what brings a smile to a little one’s face. Everybody spoils their children a little bit; however, the fact is that it is the simple things that children enjoy the most.
Think back to how many times you have bought a present for a child and they have been more interested in the wrapping than the actual present. Bright and sparkly things are always a hit with youngsters and our school stickers are perfect for many occasions, including birthdays.
Stickers are a good alternative to birthday badges, as they are obviously safer and there is no danger involved, especially if the children are quite young. Stickers are also a lot more versatile as they can not only be placed on the birthday girl or boy as a badge would be, but can also be placed on invitations, cups and even on all the presents.
Other things that make a child’s birthday special are cakes and games. Entertainment does not have to be expensive or excessive. Think about the traditional party games such as pass the parcel and musical chairs- all great games that do not cost the earth and will be a guaranteed hit with the children.
Lastly, no children’s party would be complete without a goody bag. All you need to include is a simple toy, a piece of cake and some stickers or crayons. A reminder of the happy day and a good memory all round.