Heafner‚ T. (2004). Using technology to motivate students to learn social studies. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education‚ 4(1)‚ 42-53. Using Technology to Motivate Students to Learn Social Studies Tina Heafner University of North Carolina at Charlotte Abstract Many teachers struggle with motivating students to learn. This is especially prevalent in social studies classrooms in which students perceive social studies as boring (Schug‚ Todd‚ & Berry‚ 1984; Shaughnessy & Haladyana
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1. Introduction Grievance may be any genuine or imaginary feeling of dissatisfaction or injustice which an employee experiences about his job and its nature‚ about the management policies and procedures. It must be expressed by the employee and brought to the notice of the management and the organization. Grievances take the form of collective disputes when they are not resolved. Also they will then lower the morale and efficiency of the employees. Unattended grievances result in frustration‚
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self-consciousness were negative predictors. Resources were a positive predictor of psychological availability‚ while participation in outside activities was a negative predictor. Overall‚ meaningfulness was found to have the strongest relation to different employee outcomes in terms of engagement. An alternative model of engagement comes from the ‘burnout’ literature‚ which describes job engagement as the positive antithesis of burnout‚ noting that burnout involves the erosion of engagement with one’s
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Human life expectancy in the United States has nearly doubled in the last one hundred years. Prior to the early twentieth century‚ human life expectancy hovered between thirty-eight and forty years of age. Today human life expectancy in the United States is seventy-nine years of age. This jump in life expectancy can be accredited to modern day medicine‚ refrigeration‚ clean water and improved hygiene. Disease was the most common killer during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Helmuth). One
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manager and crew tenure are relative to site-location factors in determining store-level financial performance. Recommend the most convenient alternative to increase employee retention: a.- Increasing wages b.- Bonus program c.- Training programs d.- Career development programs Financial impact of employee tenure The correlations of manager tenure (+0.44) and crew tenure (+0.26) with profits show that there is a clear positive financial effect of increasing tenure. Though
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researchers is working in Commercial Bank of Ethiopia that observe most of employees are not satisfied or motivated to work. This forced the rest researchers to examine the basic problems of human resource management unable to conduct how frequently motivate employees’ in the existing work place using financial and non financial tools. If this problems not solved‚ it may affects the image of the organization‚ belongingness workers etc…gradually. Considering this‚ it should be necessary to conduct study
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Motivating an ADN to Obtain a BSN Introduction What motivates an ADN to pursue higher education? As Janine Spencer RN‚ PhD‚ states in her article published in The Journal Continuing Education of Nursing‚ "Expanding opportunities‚ raising potentials‚ and providing an “edge” have been prevailing themes in several studies that investigated the motivation of RNs to receive their BSN." (2008) The need for nurses is growing and nursing schools across the country are struggling to expand their enrollment
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working with others in the office. I consulted a few other social workers at my agency on Yamile’s general history but I had to be careful that I didn’t share any medical details with them. The issue of this only came up when I was working with another employee involving Yamile’s current family information and benefits.. On one hand‚ I felt that I should share information about Yamile’s daughter’s pregnancy to her so she should better serve her in acquiring her benefits however‚ in doing so would break
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employees for work in foreign countries but also have to be aware of the needs of the family that will accompany the employee to the new cultural environment. A lot of people taking on international assignments are unsuccessful since their spouses or families cannot adjust to their new surroundings. Hence it is necessary to organize training in the foreign language for the employee and his/her family. Also important is to organize everything necessary for the journey including visas. It is also important
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people stick to their dreams and work for them‚ always trying to reach their goal. Using a dream can help people get through a hard time and to motivate themselves to keep working and fighting. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck shows the idea of people using dreams to motivate themselves to succeed‚ even outside of the realm of fictional books‚ dreams motivate people. In the book Of Mice and Men‚ the main characters George and Lennie are migrant workers but Lennie is mentally challenged. George and
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