The Essential Preparation For Life And Career

In “Preparing for a Career”, Derek Bok, president of Harvard Law School and author, argues how universities, more specifically liberal arts colleges, should include training for a certain occupation with regular college classes to better prepare a student for the real world after college. Considering that Bok has earned his degrees at some of the most well-known universities like Stanford University and Harvard, he has a better understanding at what students are missing and what they need to be successful. However, on the other hand, not many professors and students see or agree with Bok’s point of view. They do not agree that students need the vocational training during their years in a liberal arts college, even though students need both; an education that helps them become critical thinkers and skilled communicators as well as skilled workers in a certain career. So why not help students with their career along with their regular core courses?

Recently I read the book Start With Why by Simon Sinek and throughout my reading I had a realization about my professional goals. The book talks about how the most successful people and companies are functioning under the “Golden Circle” mindset, that you start with the “why” rather than the “what”. Essentially the idea is that you should do something because of your values and not just for the outcome (money for example). I’ve reflected frequently about my personal “why” and I’ve come to the conclusion that it is very important in not only my personal life, but in my future professional life as well.

After discussing future’s plan with Amanda, she discussed her future plans of becoming Human Resources Director in ten years. Career development and planning serves five essential purpose: encourage, develop new skills, alleviate plateauing, satisfy employment, and increase employment. My ultimate goal when developing a model a career planning for Amanda, I would want to use the Waterloo University Model. I would want to model each essential factors of the key points stages. These stages include

Lastly, Lombardi, A. R. et al (2012), in their article “College and Career Readiness Assessment: Validation of the Key Cognitive Strategies Framework,” examined the reliability and internal validity of the key cognitive strategies (KCS) within the College Career Ready School Diagnostic (CCRSD) proposed to evaluate the degree to which academic institutions offer college and career readiness opportunities for their students. The findings of the research study yielded satisfactory results as the KCS dimensions manifest suitable reliability and promising validity evidence. The findings are consistent with the earlier studies pertaining to the five-part KCS model, which depicts that problem formulation, research, interpretation, communication and

The Differences in Competencies Between Nurses Prepared at the Associate-degree Level Versus the Baccalaureate-degree Level.

Unfortunately, the results of the career assessment surveys on www2.careercruising.com did not place my desired career as one of the careers it thought I would be interested in. Another thing the career assessments told me I was primarily a visual learner, but I had a secondary preference for tactile learning as well. However, it gave me a career that correlates with the subject I want to teach as my career, which happens to be mathematics (career: mathematician). This choice can be the match for lighting the fuse for the rocket that is my career path so I can blast off with my career in the future. However, I was a bit disappointed that these surveys did not land me with a “teaching” job, but one thing I can agree on is the fact that it landed me with a math-related career, because math is my favorite subject in school overall. Even so, these results might help me pursue my dream of becoming a middle-school math teacher if I work hard enough. In conclusion, even though some of these surveys’ results don’t match my interests, I can still work hard to prove them otherwise.

My second Ah-ha moment was learning about the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards. I never knew that these standards even existed. Did TEA come up with the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards? If so, when? I do not recall them being discussed when I was in high school. What data are these standards based off of? Instead of forcing more work on the teachers, I strongly suggest that there should be mandatory required courses that Freshman and Seniors have to take, when entering high school and before graduating. This will allow for students to begin thinking about the direction in which they would like to go as far as a career and making decisions regarding their future educational plans. The Texas College and Career

In a narrative format I will provide a comprehensive summary of the concepts and presuppositional assumptions of the life course perspective including an overview of its main principles, strengths and weaknesses. I will give definition and all points need to be made of the life life course perspective.

For the past four years, I have had nothing but time—one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five days to work on regaining my ability to walk after an automobile accident. Due to this life-changing event, a gap developed in my work history. Unfortunately, during that time my confidence dwindled even as my determination and motivation to get my health back on track was at an all time high.

The presupposition of Preparing for a Career by Bok indicates that vocational majors and liberal arts major could merge to help students become successful in college. Bok states that vocational majors prepare students for the future career, but students needs liberal arts in order to learn to think critically and read what one’s learning. The three archetypes that exemplify what college should do to help students develop intellectual breadth are to combine the vocational and the liberal arts together, create more opportunities for students to build connections, students are required to learn liberal art in order to learn how to think critically and wisely and lastly instructors should give student feedback and what other employee do to solve a problem in that field.

“According to research college readiness and career readiness share many important elements, including study skills, time management skills, persistence, ownership of learning, problem solving, collecting and analyzing information, and communicating in a variety of ways (Conley & McGaughy, 2012)”. It is important that our students understand that knowing how to find information to solve a problem is a skill that they will carry with them for life. Compliment problem solving with persistence and soft skills our students will win every time. I teach junior and senior graphic design with a 1/1 ratio on computers. They are taught the Google platform from using the Drive to google docs and how to do advanced searches. They are also given skills

This information was gathered in an interview with Andrea Williams, Principal of Theresa Bunker Elementary School. The key objectives for this school are defined in the yearly district strategic plan. The district strategic plan states three key objective that all schools should achieve over the course of the school year. There is a key objective for literacy, numeracy, as well as college and career readiness. The literacy objective is for students to be proficient in reading by 3rd grade. The math objective is that elementary students will be proficient in math and be prepared to transition to the next grade. The final objective of college and career readiness is just that: Students will be college and career ready. The key objective this school uses to define college and career ready for their younger students is based on their social and academic behaviors as recorded through the school-wide system of PBIS. If the objective is to get them college and career ready then they must have positive social and academic behavior in order to be prepared for Jr. and Sr. High School and then college. The key objective defined in the school’s strategic plan for this area is that 85% of students will be served by the Tier I system of classroom management in the classroom while no more than 15% will be served on a Tier II or Tier III plan which provides more support and intervention to students who lack the social and academic skills to be successful in

Since the age of seven, I started to help my parents with basic chores around the house. For example, I helped my mom clean around the house, take out the trash, dish wash, and fold the laundry. During this period, my parents paid me in form of allowance and started a college-trust fund to pay for college fees later in life. In addition, I applied for a job during high school to work for Vons. This was my first job and the start of the basic building block toward my career development. Furthermore, I began to get more involved in high school and volunteered for my school charity outreach programs. For instance, the Los Angeles Food Bank came every Friday and passed out food to underprivileged families who lived in project homes. Also, I volunteered in an organization called," Saved the Earth" which cleaned the streets, beaches and spread awareness about preserving the national environment. In addition, I volunteered at St. Jude research hospital and read books to cancer children and assisted the nurses with giving out pamphlets to the families of the patient. Lastly, I had a valuable opportunity to observe the nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists and participate in hands on experiences. Therefore, all of these experiences led me to develop the necessary skills to pursue my future job. For example, my parents taught me valuable lessons of responsibility from doing chores to be responsible for completing assignments, which is important skill to have in life.

Botany began near the Neolithic Period but wasn’t scientifically studied until the 1700’s. During the Neolithic Period they had the knowledge of farming and soon began growing their own crops. Fruits and vegetables have been an important part of social development since the beginning of time. In Ancient Greece and Rome philosophers urged more learning in sciences, they began learning more about plants. The philosopher Theophrastus was known as “‘The Father of Botany’ because of two seminal works that were used for the next 1500 years and survive today” (Mason). “For the next 1500 years, there would be little development and most botanical studies were limited to places of learning such as universities and monasteries” (Mason). The history of Botany is very diverse

It has been 10 years passed since last time I entered in college as a freshman, and now, at the end of 2017, I decide to go back to college for pursuing a new major and reaching a new objective of career path. All of these will start from Fullerton College.