What’s Your Secret Career Superpower?
Career counselling aims to help clients match their abilities to rewarding work. But the nature of our abilities and how we perceive them can stop us from recognizing our greatest strengths.
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Career counselling aims to help clients match their abilities to rewarding work. But the nature of our abilities and how we perceive them can stop us from recognizing our greatest strengths.
Most curricula, teaching modalities, and even the educational environments themselves have failed to keep up with many crucial advances in technology. The entire landscape of higher education is beginning to change. It’s no small wonder that many of the bigger, more expensive traditional colleges and universities are getting nervous.
Want to make students cheer? Tell them there’s no homework tonight. For office workers, let them go early. How much of our lives wind up dedicated not to where we’re going or what we’re building, but to what we seek to avoid?
Bullies delight in belittling others and are driven by the sense of power and perceived social status they derive from demeaning those they target. It should come as no surprise that they might try to achieve a sense of social power and standing by targeting those they perceive as the weak, the disadvantaged, and the developmentally disabled.
Recently Scientific American published an article calling for raising the standards of science education. That made me ask: what are the standards for our science students and how would we measure them? And what are we missing when we emphasize scientific facts over the scientific process?
The kind of training that leads to mastery is well-known, yet not yet widely applied. What keeps more of us from applying the best practices of top coaches and teachers? What can we do to overcome these blocks and unleash the hidden potential in all of us?
More and more schools have character development programs, that teach children core ethical values and standards of behavior. The Character Education Partnership (CEP) network defines 11 Principles of Effective Character Education.
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