Tips to Get The Right Teaching Job

Teaching is one of the most competitive fields to get into nowadays and therefore it is absolutely vital that you show off your skills in your application and write why you would be the best person for the job. Try and market and sell yourself really well so that your application stands out among the rest of the applications that have been received.

Examples of the types and category of questions that you may be asked in an interview or application for a teaching position are highlighted below.

Training and qualifications

You may be asked for elaborations about any practical training that you have completed and specific qualifications as well as any best practices that you could bring to the institution regarding teaching and meeting the teaching targets.

Teaching skills and experience

This will mainly cover things on your CV as well as any general experiences that you have had including things like the different aspects of teaching you have been involved in from creating the material to setting the standards and helping students pass the subject with flying colours. Talk about mentoring and how you’ve helped various students progress fairly quickly to the standards that they are at now and giving examples of subject matters that you have taught including any challenges and how you overcame them.

The core competencies that you feel a teacher should possess

This looks at things like ability to communicate with large groups of students as well the ability to communicate a particular teaching subject to the student to help them grasps the subject matter. Looking at lecture management skills and lesson planning as well as general time management skills to manage time across teaching, research oriented and administration related tasks.

Personality and motivation and passion for teaching

This would involve looking at how you can manage different behaviours and opinions about the subject area as well as talking more about why you chose the subject area to teach, how that subject area motivates you and the kinds of things that you incorporate into the teaching such as the use of interactive tools to make the subject more engaging.

The interview may conclude with queries on the various issues facing the education sector in general and how these can impact the educational institution that you teach in.
Bob Brightside


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Bob Brightside, Educational recruitment tips is one of the many topics that Bob writes about. If you would like to know more about university teaching jobs & lecturer vacancies or lecturing and assessor jobs and vacancies, please visit the Protocol National website now.

The Use of iPhones In Further Education

With the boom in technology and new gadgets being released practically every week, it was inevitable that educational institutions would take a slice of the action and entice their students with technology to adopt that mix of traditional and digital interactive teaching and learning methods.

Several educational institutions have put across the digital test to their students allowing a sample of fresher’s to use the new iPhone and its applications as part of their learning at the institution. There are several things that students can engage in whilst using an iPhone as part of their busy life. Since most students will engage in part-time employment to support themselves financially through their student life, the idea seemed quite genius to allow lecturers to keep in contact with students who have such a busy life.

There are a couple of universities that have actually trialled the use of such technology and have found them to be a learning and motivational tool both for students and lectures. For example, the University of Central Lancashire in Preston developed and offered their students a free iPhone application that allowed students to be fully capable of exploring the university campus and local amenities. The application had various services stored on it such as university and campus maps as well as information on local entertainment centres, restaurants and transport links.

Also, when you get students coming from different parts of the world you find that you get stopped quite a lot for directions. This new application meant that students no longer had to stop lecturers or senior students for directions in and around the university campus.

Abilene Christian University based in Texas completed its first year of running a pilot program where they gave 1000 freshman students the opportunity to select an iPhone or iPod Touch phone and use it for free for the duration of the study. This was seemingly one innovative way of stopping students from being distracted by their mobile phones during lecturers and classroom learning sessions as it allowed the integration of the institutions curriculum into the application so that students could leverage the use of their gadgets as part of their education.

With the immense developments in technology and social media connectivity it was quite enjoyable and invigorating to see how such technology could revolutionise the learning experience using digital interactivity.


About the author:

Phil Adams-Wright, digital learning is just one of many topics that Phil writes about. For more information, please visit the protocol Education website now.

Download Microcoft Office 2010 Beta - Let's The Students Know!

Now available to download for Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Version, if your school office computer or school lab PC's still used Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 you should need to upgrade it into Office 2010 in order to improve our students skill and knowledge.

Try to download for free of Microsoft Office 2010, total file size is 684 MB, Operating System required Windows XP or Vista, last update on November 19th, 2009, it's trial for 60 days, if you had satisfied than you can order or buy the full version of Microsoft Office 2010 with price: USD 449.00.


Hardware and System Requirements:

• 500 MHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher
• 256 MB of system memory or more
• 3 GB of available disk space
• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
• DVD-R/W Drive

Top 10 benefits of Office Professional Plus 2010

1. Save travel costs by enabling your people with better communication tools.

Office 2010 helps save time and money by providing one-click communication through unified communications technology, and document sharing from within Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, without the need to switch applications. This makes virtual meetings more effective so team members can get more done without being in the same room.

2. Beat deadlines by working more effectively as a team.

Co-authoring allows multiple people to work on the same document at the same time, such as an RFP, to respond faster and meet deadlines. With Office 2010, multiple team members can work on Word 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 documents and be able to see who else is working on what sections.

3. Use Office virtually anywhere and on virtually any device.

With Office Web Apps, you can review and make minor edits to documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote 2010 from any supported Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari browser. All of the changes are saved and appear exactly as you intended, so you can seamlessly move from a desktop to the Web, and vice versa.

4. Gain control over your e-mail and calendar.

Outlook 2010 can help you take control of your day with conversation management tools, mail tips, calendar preview, and more. Stay better organized and up-do-date with less effort and find information you need fast.

5. Make informed business decisions the second you need to.

Excel 2010 provides tools for improved data visualization, so you can gain key insights quickly and easily turn the numbers into a story to share with others. You can convey whole trends in a single cell with Sparklines, choose from more styles and icons in conditional formatting, and highlight specific items such as “max/min” in a single click.

6. Create sophisticated marketing in-house to get your business noticed.

Office 2010 puts you in the director’s chair, enabling you to create dazzling digital content in PowerPoint 2010 that comes to life with cutting-edge audio/video capabilities and animation enhancements. Your business can cut costs by reducing the need for third-party multimedia tools and design agencies.

7. Enable employees to work offline and keep your business moving forward.

SharePoint Workspace 2010 allows everyone to take content from SharePoint sites offline and work with that content from their desktop, without reliance on an Internet connection. This makes it easier for IT to drive a strategy with more consistent use of collaboration tools based on SharePoint technology throughout the organization.

8. Be more productive by finding what you need faster.

Office 2010 extends the toolbar throughout all applications, making it easier to find the commands you need. And the new Microsoft Office Backstage view (available in all applications except Communicator) gives your people quick access to important operations such as viewing document information, saving, printing, and sharing.

9. Protect inboxes from malicious attacks, so everyone in the business can rest easier.

Office 2010 provides a Protected View feature to help you guard against malware in your e-mail attachments and Internet files, as well as in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents.

10. Stay organized by keeping the right details in the right place.

OneNote is your essential “catch-all.” From daily sales figures to news articles clipped from the Web, you can make everything accessible and at the ready. You can even create side notes that stay on your screen as you move between different programs, so you can keep your thoughts organized as you multi-task.


Ready to download?

Here is the link for Microsoft Office 2010 Beta!

Download Soal Ujian Nasional 2010 : Kisi-kisi Lengkap UNAS SD, SMP, SMA dan SMK

National Test (UNAS) 2010: Let's prepare our students!

To facilitate the students to focus and succeed in the 2010 national examination subjects, (UNAS) Ministry of National Education through the Ministerial Regulation No. 75 Year 2009, has developed grid about the UN. Grid reference about the UN is in the preparation and development of the national exam (UN). Problems created by the UN Educational Assessment Center (Puspendik) Research Development Agency Ministry of National Education under the coordination of National Education Standards Agency (BSNP). Soal UN will be examined / reviewed by teachers, lecturers, and under coordination of Puspendik BSNP.

Here is a grid of 2010 the UN has been compiled based on school levels and subjects. Please download pdf file type in accordance with the levels and subjects to be tested. The average file size of this grid is 25 kB. (Please download it by: right click on the download, save as).

High School Science Program (IPA)

1. Indonesian 50 (download)
2. English 50 (download)
3. Mathematics 40 (download)
4. Physics 40 (download)
5. Chemistry 40 (download)
6. Biology 40 (download)
   

High School Social Program (IPS)

1. Indonesian 50 (download)
2. English 50 (download)
3. Mathematics 40 (download)
4. Economics 40 (download)
5. Sociology 40 (download)
6. Geography 40 (download)
   

High School Language Programs (Bahasa)

1. Indonesian 50 (download)
2. English 50 (download)
3. Mathematics 40 (download)
4. Sastra Indonesia 40 (download)
5. History / Anthropology 40 (download)
6. Foreign Language Options 40 (download)
   

Vocational High School (SMK)

1. Indonesian 50 (download)
2. English 50 (download)
3. Mathematics 40 (download)
4. Vocational Theory (updating..)
   

Islamic high School (MA)

1. Indonesian 50 (download)
2. English 40 (download)
3. Mathematics 40 (download)
4. Ilmu Tafsir 40 (download)
5. Ilmu Hadits 40 (download)
6. Ilmu Fiqih 40 (download)
   

SMA-LB

• Indonesian, English and Mathematics (complete download)

Grid National Exam 2010 Level SMP / MTs :

SMP/ MTs

1. Indonesian 50 (download)
2. Mathematics 40 (download)
3. English 50 (download)
4. Natural Sciences 40 (download)
   

SMP-LB

• Indonesian, Mathematics, English (complete download)

Grid National Exam 2010 Level SD / MI :

• Indonesian, Mathematics, English (complete download)

Source: www.nusantaranews.wordpress.com

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Silabus Bahasa Jawa SMA Kelas X, XI dan XII

Download Syllabus file for free:
Java Language

School Grade:
Senior High School / Islamic High School

Class:
X, XI and XII

Semester:
1 and 2

File Type:
Word Document (.doc)

File Size:
Total size 269,5 kb


How to download Syllabus files?

Just single click on the links below, then it will open download window automatically, click save, and browse your hard disk to place the files!

If you need to increase your download speed, try to use this free software:
Internet Download Manager or Download Accelerator Plus with newest version!


Link list:

• Silabus Bahasa Jawa Kelas X
• Silabus Bahasa Jawa Kelas XI
• Silabus Bahasa Jawa Kelas XII
  

To find other or more lesson of Syllabus or Lesson Plans you can request directly by post a comment or use google search.

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Online Tutoring Jobs: Becoming an Online Tutor

The internet, fast broadband and interactive technologies have revolutionized communications. The impact has been huge and education is one area that has reaped the benefits. On the one hand, students and learners of all ages have new access to knowledge in a wide variety of subjects and skills. On the other, the growth of online tutoring jobs has provided earning, as well as learning, opportunities for tens of thousands of online tutors.

Online tutoring is attractive because of the flexibility it offers tutors. Online tutors can effectively write their own job description. Online tutoring jobs offer the scope for people with the skills and the dedication to help learners to create a rewarding career for themselves or simply to pass on their knowledge and passion for their subject. It’s an industry with almost as many niches as there are people to occupy them. Here are some of the ways that online tutors shape online tutoring jobs for themselves.

Career Tutoring Jobs

For people unwilling or unable to take up conventional teaching jobs, online tutoring can become a fully-fledged, full-time career. That career can be carved out according to the online tutor’s preferences: the tutor can specify his or her own hours and specialize in the subject and/or skills areas they most enjoy and are themselves most skilled in.

Of course, unlike conventional jobs, the onus is on the self-employed online tutor to build up a client base. For those who wish to take on online tutoring jobs as a career, versatility will obviously be helpful. The ability to teach more than one subject will help; so will the ability to teach all ages and to adapt the tutoring services offered to learner’s needs. That might include simple homework help and supervision at one end of the spectrum and intensive coaching for SATs or GREs at the other.

Specialty tutoring jobs

It is also possible to build one’s career as an online tutor around a specialty. That could be a subject specialty, such as math, economics, or language tutoring online. Or it could be skills-oriented. Remedial help for students with learning difficulties is one area that offers opportunities for specialty tutoring online. Some online tutors with the requisite skills may choose to specialise in test prep, either in general, or to prepare students for specific tests.

Part-time online tutoring jobs

The flexibility that comes with online tutoring makes it ideal for people who only have a few hours a week to spare, but plenty to share. Although specialized tutoring jobs and tutoring for college graduates may require extensive qualifications and experience, online tutoring as a part-time option is taken up by many starting out in a career in education. Some online tutoring options certainly require educational experience but homework help and supervision may require an online tutor who (as well as subject competency) has the personality and attitude to help inspire young learners and keep them on the educational path.

Online Tutoring in non-academic subjects and leisure areas

Some online tutors take tutoring jobs primarily because they have a passion for their subject and want to promote it by helping others. Whatever your passion, you will find that there’s someone out there who shares that love of a subject or pastime. Online tutoring is a way to indulge your passion, popularise it and assist others all at the same time.

The principal attributes that good online tutors possess include a love of the subject, detailed knowledge and the people skills to pass it on. For people with those attributes and qualities, online tutoring can be a rewarding and enjoyable career, full- or part-time.

Tutoring Services LLC publishes articles & videos of online tutoring, online learning to help the students of schools, colleges & universities to find a tutor, also provide help on online tutoring jobs for tutors to find resources online & offline.

More information visit:

www.tutoringservices.com

The Importance of Campus Life For College Students

College is a time for leaving the comfort and security of home and embarking on the journey to adulthood. Many universities and colleges require a student to live on campus at least during their freshman year. This is very beneficial to students as they will learn about campus life and the many benefits that come with living on campus.

Living on campus allows one to meet and interact with a wide variety of people. People from all over the world will attend a quality college and university so you will be exposed to new cultures and learn so much from them. As well, you will make long lasting friends and have support during times when you may feel home sick. Living on campus helps ease any anxieties associated with the transition from home to college. Not only does living on campus give you easy and quick access to classes, but you will also be able to interact with people living in your dorm and take part in the social gatherings and parties.

Living on campus will give you the ability to take part in many clubs and organizations. This can include organizations that focus on education, cultural diversity, gender issues, recreational activities, spiritual activities, political clubs, sports activities, and much more. Colleges and Universities also have various extra curricular activities such as working at the college newspaper, radio station, and more. The convenience of living on campus makes it more likely that you will participate in clubs and other organizations. As well, the convenience allows you to attend other facilities such as night time labs, night time classes, the library, and the fitness centre. The fitness centre is a great way to exercise, participate in recreational sports activities, and even take a swim. Most colleges also have various college sports team that one can try out for. It is also helpful to be near the college health centre, dining halls, and student information resources.

If you are attending college on a tight budget, you will most likely want a part time job to ease your daily living expenses. Living on campus makes access to an on campus job much easier as you will be only minutes away from your job. You do not have to worry about driving to a job and days when there is bad weather. You will make that extra bit of cash while meeting and interacting new people.

Recent studies have shown that students living on campus are more likely to complete their education program. The reason for this is that students living on campus feel more connected to the college and the people. They tend to invest more time in their classroom studies as well as campus life. There may seem to be a lot of benefits to living off campus when attending college, however, if you live on campus you will be exposed to new experiences and people which will make college life more fun and rewarding. Campus life is a unique experience that one should take full advantage of before they actually get out in the work world where they will have their whole lives to be fully independent.

Author: A.Noton