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First-Job Survival Guide
Learning the Rules - Written and Unwritten
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1997
The lowdown on what it takes to keep-and make a success of-that first job, this book speaks to beginners like the mentor they don't yet have, telling them in plain language how to make their first year a positive experience: from making the boss happy to getting along with coworkers, coping with moral dilemmas, and knowing when it's time to move on.
English Language Education and Assessment
Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education. The contributors from China and Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the...
Authentic Professional Learning
Making a Difference Through Learning at Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
There is considerable and growing interest in professionals learning across their working lives. The growth in this interest is likely premised upon the increasing percentage of those who are being employed under the designation as professi- als or para-professional workers in advanced industrial...
International Business Ethics
Focus on China
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
This book addresses an essential need felt by many who seek to promote best business practices in China and East Asia – namely the need for culturally appropriate instructional materials (basic information, case studies and ethical perspectives) that will allow managers and entrepreneurs to understand...
Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education
Bridging the Worlds of Work and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book presents a comprehensive overview of extant literature on competence-based vocational and professional education since the introduction of the competence concept in the 1950s. To structure the fi eld, the book distinguishes between three approaches to defi ning competence, based on 1.functional...
Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT
A Guide to the ITTNC
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
This practical guide to using ICT in the primary classroom addresses all the concerns of student teachers and provides plenty of ideas and advice on how to incorporate ICT into classroom practice on a daily basis. The authors bring together theory and practice to help prospective and new teachers...
Networked Flow
Towards an Understanding of Creative Networks
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Identifying ‘networked flow’ as the key driver of networked creativity, this new volume in the Springer Briefs series deploys concepts from a range of sub-disciplines in psychology to suggest ways of optimizing the innovative potential of creative networks. In their analysis of how to support...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of...
Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training
Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Findings
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world. Our assumption is that, as a result of quality assurance activities, practitioners obtain information about their own functioning and institutional performance...
Competence Development and Assessment in TVET (COMET)
Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The transferability of vocational education and training qualifications across international borders is a live issue in this heterogeneous field. Key to this goal is defining a common methodology for measuring vocational competences. This publication sets out a proposal for just that, based on the...
What Works!
Successful Writing Strategies for National Board Certification
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
WHAT WORKS! offers dozens of writing strategies to clearly and convincingly explain your teaching practice to the National Board Assessors. Writing for the National Board is a type of technical writing teachers rarely use elsewhere and this book lifts the mysterious fog surrounding how to provide...
Studying the Effectiveness of Teacher Education
Early Career Teachers in Diverse Settings
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book provides an evidentiary basis for policy decisions regarding initial teacher education and beginning teaching and informs the design and delivery of teacher preparation programs. Based on a rigorous analysis of international literature and the policy context for teacher education globally,...
Rediscovering Apprenticeship
Research Findings of the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship (INAP)
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The rediscovery of the value of apprenticeships has been one of the most significant trends in vocational education in recent years, and has prompted an array of research and development projects in countries around the world. In this volume, the renewed interest in the apprenticeship tradition and...
Making It in the Music Business
The Business and Legal Guide for Songwriters and Performers
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Using dozens of real-life examples, readers will find up-to-date information on avoiding copyright infringement, working effectively with managers and music lawyers, developing management and booking agreements, and more. This updated edition is completely revised and expanded with two brand-new chapters...