departments so that each student can expect to work towards improving and applying these critical soft skills and core abilities regardless of their program of choice. 1. Communicate Professionally * Demonstrate communication standards specific to occupational area * Write professionally * Speak professionally * Interpret professional documents * Demonstrate critical listening skills * Communicate using professional non-verbal behavior 2. Use Appropriate Technology
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Standardized tests have historically been used as measures of how students compare with each other or how much of a particular curriculum they have learned. Increasingly‚ standardized tests are being used to make major decisions about students‚ such as grade promotion or high school graduation‚ and schools. More and more often‚ they also are intended to shape the curriculum and instruction. Students across America have had to repeat classes because of the way standardized tests are used
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Process ESSAY HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR POSTURE Nowadays‚ mostly all of the people have bad posture. The new generation brought us gadgets especially the computers that made us sit all day long not noticing that our back is already curved. Our parents usually see it and they always yell “straighten up your back!” or “do not slouch!” because it is always nice to see people possessing good body posture. Fashion models really look great as they stand and walk gracefully on the catwalk. Good posture really
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Title: How to Improve Your Health General Purpose: To inform Specific Speech Purpose: To inform my audience about how they can improve their health by following a healthy diet and exercise routine Thesis Statement: You must understand that the main causes of heart diseases between some other illnesses are a sedentary life and an unhealthy diet. Introduction Who wouldn’t want to know the recipe for good health? The mixture of healthy diet and physical activity helps the body’s system
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Standardized Testing Robert L. White Advanced Writing Bill Bohnert February 2‚ 2006 In years past thousands of grade school students have been drug throughout the school systems of the United States without a single thought to whether they acquired the knowledge necessary to be successful in the working world or college. Since the signing of No Child Left Behind Act by President George W. Bush‚ many believe standardized or "high stakes" testing places advantages and disadvantages
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Employability of graduates is an increasing issue in society. How can graduates and employers both improve the future employability for the benefit of both society and businesses in general? Employability is the behaviours‚ skills and attributes applied to create‚ cope with and enjoy change and innovations leading to personal fulfilment and organisational effectiveness (Crayford and Fearon et al.‚ 2012‚ pp. 187--193). Employability encompasses personal initiative‚ functional flexibility and career
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I believe that standardized assessments are important and can serve as an important benchmark for describing and categorizing certain aspects such as the so-called "intelligence" term. However‚ I have always been very attentive to the recognition of the shortcomings of these tests and the individual differences that can cause the results of these tests to drop enormously and make the evaluated person appear to be less competent. I remember when I did the GRE‚ during the exam I laughed at reading
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Standardized tests have always determined the future of many students‚ parents‚ and everyone else. For some‚ it created a downfall in their long run and‚ on the other hand‚ it had no effect on others at all. The Standardized test has been made part of the American culture for more than 50 years and it is time to revise our standards (Fletcher). The NCLB Act‚ also known as the No Child Left Behind Act is one of the foundations that Standardized tests are built on. Rather than this Act working in favor
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Direct Instruction Following the many approaches‚ theories‚ and development through cognitive‚ conceptual‚ constructivist styles of teaching‚ the Direct Instruction allows a constant source of inspiration‚ support‚ encouragement‚ and motivation. By starting the education of life applied to myself‚ my family‚ my daily actions in all I do‚ this action applies the appropriate knowledge‚ dispositions‚ and performances in developing diverse approaches to strategies that are constructive‚ consistent
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spends nearly 88 million dollars a year on standardized testing(Martinez)‚ and Florida has a $245 million dollar contract with NCS Pearson to administer their Comprehensive test(Vu). Nearly half “of all the school districts in the United states have reduced their time spent on science‚ the arts‚ and social studies” by close to 150 minutes a week in favour of the topics more heavily tested on standardized tests‚ like reading and math(Ravitch). Standardized testing is not a new topic when it comes to
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