Have you Googled your name lately? Back in the olden days of 1994 when my husband was a student teacher, the word "Google" wasn't even in his vocabulary, let alone a worry for his job search.
Today's digital generation of student teachers have a whole new set of rules to follow. Finding the jobs and getting the interview are only a part of the process. They also have to worry about their "web presence."
Rebecca Anthony and Williams Coghill-Behrends work with the student teaching program at the University of Iowa. They have dedicated a whole section in their college textbook
Getting Hired to creating a Professional Web Presence. The section, as well as the rest of the book, includes information, to do lists, and activities for students to learn about what it takes to become a professional educator.
Not only do they address photos, but also appropriate relationships and the non-professional implications of socializing online with students and parents.
The book, along with digital learning resources helps student teachers build their portfolio, job seek, get an interview, and then land the job.
Find out more at
www.kendallhunt.com/getttinghired
As a geology professor, how exactly do you capture the interest of non-major students who are taking the class just as a requirement? Current events is a good place to start.
Better yet, what about tailoring a section of the course specifically to communication or journalism students. That's right -- if a student is going to be reporting on or writing about geological disasters at some point in their career, they will be better prepared if they have some knowledge about it. Which, in this digital generation, is highly likely.
David Best, the author of
Earth's Natural Hazards did just that at Northern Arizona University. The special section taught geology from the aspect of natural geologic disasters and catastrophes that the earth is capable of. Students are engaged, because they recognized many of the events. They learn the geologic background of these events, and as part of this section -- they write about them as if they were already in their journalism careers.
If you are looking for engaging geology books for college students, this is the one for your course.
Earth's Natural Hazards studies the geological occurrences behind many of the natural disasters that most students already know about. The book also uses digital learning resources to enhance the textbook materials and keep up with events which may happen during the course.
It's hard to believe another NCTM annual conference is upon us. The big talk at this year's meeting is about the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Mathematics, as educators and publishers alike are working hard to make sure the curricula they're using are aligned to the new standards.
Fortunately for Kendall Hunt, our core math products like
Math Trailblazers and
Math Innovations already align very well with the CCSS. And as a digital publishing company with a strong focus on the development of digital learning resources, we can provide CCSS-related program enhancements to our customers easily and economically without the need to purchase additional print materials.
If you're attending NCTM, stop by booth 1235 to learn more about the ways we can help you address the new standards in your districts and classrooms. We're also sponsoring some great workshops that will provide additional product information -- you can learn more about those
here.
And if you're not attending NCTM this year, don't worry! Just call your Kendall Hunt sales representative at 1-800-542-6657 -- they'll be happy to speak with you about all of our math product solutions -- including
Flourish, our new digital learning network -- and the ways they can help you not only meet, but exceed the new CCSS standards!
Are you going? Kendall Hunt will be there! The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Conference takes place in San Francisco March 9-12. The Kendall Hunt booth is number 1729, so be sure to stop by. You also won't want to miss our two workshops, one on BSCS Biology: A Human Approach, and one on our exciting new digital learning environment, Flourish. You can find more information about those here.
Flourish will be in the spotlight, along with the four high school science programs, BSCS Biology: A Human Approach, Forensic Science for High School, Global Science, and KH Chemistry that are currently available in Flourish. Flourish is home to an ever-growing list of online course materials and digital learning resources and at NSTA you’ll see how affordable these products are when purchased digitally either as a complete curriculum, eChapters, or eUnits. When you visit our booth, you can sign up for a free trial of the program of your choice, and everyone who registers will be entered in a daily drawing to win a free classroom license for Global Science, Forensics or A Human Approach!
If you are unable to attend NSTA, we’ll miss you, but you can sign up for a free trial of Flourish at http://www.kendallhunt.com/freeflourishtrial. You’ll also find the same product-specific information we’ll be sharing in the booth through our free Inside Look Webinar series.
NSTA is always an exciting week. We get to visit with so many of the teachers using our science programs and share our programs for the first time with many others. Not to mention, of course, that the Moscone Convention Center is in the heart of fabulous San Francisco. We hope to see you there, so don’t forget to visit us at booth 1729!
How are we preparing this digital generation for eLearning in college?Luckily more and more First-Year Experience (FYE) courses are including digital learning resources as part of their program. Teaching students how to be successful during their first year of college gives students confidence, and sets a good foundation for them to really thrive during college.
The authors of
"Thriving in College & Beyond" understand that when students learn valuable personal development skills in the first year of college, and have a plan for their college career, they not only are more likely to stay in college through graduation, but also succeed in their career and life.
Learn more about FYE programs and strategies from Drs. Joe Cuseo, Aaron Thompson, and Michele Campagna at the
Symposium on "Promoting First Year Student Success in College & Beyond" March 17-19 in Rosemont, IL (near Chicago)
Visit
www.thrivingincollege.com/symposium.html for more information
I love what I do.
I love working at an educational publishing company.
I love that we make things that help teachers teach and children learn.
And I love that we still make physical books with covers and pages.
Don’t get me wrong, the digital learning tools, kits and online resources we put out are amazing, and I think they add such an important dimension to our elementary school textbooks, secondary school textbooks and everything in between.
But for book junkies like me, there’s nothing like a book hot off the press, as it were. Opening a new book for the first time is a sensory experience. The first crackles of the adhesive in the spine as I flip open the cover. The feel of the crisp, new pages as I rifle through them, and the smell. Oh, that printing press smell. You’d laugh at us here because we all do it. We get in a new high school science textbook, for example, and the first thing we do is stick our noses in it to get a whiff of the fresh ink on the new paper. And I’d hazard a guess that you’d find employees at any other educational textbook publisher doing the same thing.
This has been a lifelong thing for me. As a child, my mom always wanted me to get books from the library. Okay, fine, I did, and I love the library, but I wanted to own the book, to keep the book, to watch my books line up on my bookshelves like a literary growth chart, showing me where I’d been and where I might be going. My son has inherited this from me. He told me once when I was ranting about the mess in his room, that I could, “get rid of everything but my football, my baseball glove, and my books.” I almost took him up on it. It’s no wonder I ended up at a school textbook publisher, my love of books brought me here. I wonder where his love of books will lead him.
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