...Title：Teachers and teaching in Context Department：Education Policy and Leadership Name of Tutor：Dr. Leung Yui Kei Topic：Fostering resilience strategies in beginning teaching Name of Student：Fan Yi Wan Wendy Student Number：11011494 Submission date：16/12/2013 Introduction Most people has an incorrect perception that teacher is a simple occupation with plenty of holidays. However teaching essentially involves many difficult and challenging work tasks. In Hong Kong, teachers especially have been put on a lot of burden that come from increasingly educational accountability and the pressure originate from student, school, parents, society and etc. This is particularly true for new teacher where they are lack of experience to deal with pressure and stress coming from the challenges of their job. This paper discusses the issue that related to the new teachers and the ways to foster resilience in beginning teaching and its implication for my future practice. This paper is divided into three major aspects. Firstly, discuss the hurdles and the problems of being new teachers in different areas which included 1) Students. 2) School, its policies and collegial interactions. 3) Parents. 4) Commodity. Secondly, explore the meaning of resilience which includes its concept, developmental assets and importance to the beginning teachers. Thirdly, deliver resilience skills for new teachers. 1. Challenges in different areas for the beginning teachers 1.1 Collaboration with students ...
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...will be addressed are exploitists, mountaintop removal and its repercussions, annihilation of wildlife and endangered species, and the destruction of the surrounding natural environments driven by human goals. On the economic side of things the primary topics of discussion will be income, living conditions, isolationism, homogeneity, maximization of overall utility, timber and natural resources exploitation without resilience. Geographic view points, the final topic of discussion will pertain to environmental monitoring systems, human habitation, evolving spatial patterns, and the outcome of relative location isolation. A major issue behind the driving force of Appalachia's ecological impacts starts with the exploitation of natural resources. Timber is one of the primary resources Appalachia has to offer and it began being harvested in the very early ages. Around 1930 the federal government decided to begin buying acreage in Kentucky. Having the land already stripped, timber companies were the first to sell disappearing leaving the land with little hope for resilience or profits for decades to come. Shortly after during the Depression, substantial amounts of poor farmers were forced to...
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...However, the most successful approach has been that of, increasing the resilience of ecological and human systems (Schipper, 2007). This approach has been more successful as it strengthens the system’s capacity to cope with shocks brought about by climate change. Resilience in this instance is defined as; the ability of the any system to absorb changes, whilst retaining the same functionality as before (Hansen et al., 2003). Adaptation planning with the aim of only designing and implementing plans are usually not sustainable. Adaptation plans should be aimed at building resilience, whilst reducing vulnerability (Smit and Wandel,...
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...Nicole M. Stephens, MarYam G. Hamedani and Mesmin Destin During January’s White House opportunity summit, policy makers and higher education leaders announced over 100 new initiatives designed to bolster first-generation and low-income students’ college success. While students who overcome the odds to gain access to college bring with them significant grit and resilience, the road through college is often a rocky one. First Lady Michelle Obama described the obstacles that first-generation and low-income students commonly confront. No stranger to these challenges, she said: You’re in a whole new world. You might have trouble making friends because you don’t see any peers who come from a background like yours. You might be worried about paying for classes, and food, and room and board because you have never had to set your own budget before. You might be feeling guilty when you call home because Mom and Dad are wondering why you didn’t get a job so you could help support their family. Those are the kinds of obstacles these kids are facing right from day one. Even among the select group that make it to college, first-generation and low-income students, on average, find it harder to fit in, receive lower grades, and drop out at higher rates than do students from higher income backgrounds with college-educated parents (i.e., continuing-generation students). Study after study demonstrates that the financial, academic, and psychological barriers that these students encounter can...
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...Creamfields why do we rely on the weather? Crises are deemed to be negative changes in the security, economic ,political, societal, or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning. More loloosely, it is a term meaning 'a testing time' or an 'emergency event.A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover Creamfields is a large dance music festival that attracts 60,000 people. With a good line up and an outbreaking number of expected customer Creamfields was set to be an outstanding festival this year. However, the good times were cut short when adverse weather took over and 2 week’s worth of rain poured overnight causing structural issues and flooding in and around the site and resulting in the 3rd and final day of Creamfields having to be cancelled. This weather only confirmed what forecasters had predicted about summer 2012, in England and Wales, being the biggest washout for a century. The Met office confirmed this also by stating how it had been the one of the dullest on record, one of the coolest, and the soggiest since 1912. After much discussion Creamfields Manager, Graham, cancelled...
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...Table of Contents MODULE TITLE: SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN - 1 - DESIGN AND OPERATION - 1 - 1.0) INTRODUCTION - 3 - 1.1) WHAT IS THE ISSUE? - 3 - 1.2) CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH - 4 - 2.0) SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) - 6 - 3.0) SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION (SCO) - 7 - 4.0) SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE (SCR) - 9 - 5.0) CAN SUPPLY CHAIN BE OPTIMIZED AND RESILIENT? - 10 - 5.1) CONCLUSION - 12 - 6.0) REFERENCES - 13 - 7.0) APPENDIX - 17 - 7.1) VULNERABILITY FACTORS - 17 - 7.2) CAPABILITY FACTORS - 18 - 1.0) Introduction The fierce competition in global and local markets, has forced company leaders to focus more on developing and designing an efficient and effective supply chain network. Pishvaee and Torabi (2010) ascertain that one of the most strategic and important element of SCM is making a strategic decision on supply chain network design. And this design takes into consideration some critical parameters that come with a lot of variability, such as the flow mechanism across the chain, facility locations, sizes and numbers. Because this long-term decision will impact the competitiveness of the company in many years to come, therefore, the designed network should be robust with these uncertain parameters. As a robust SC structure is the source of sustainable competitive advantage in this turbulent economic downtown. Therefore a robust SC is capable of making a firm resilient (Tang, 2006). The remaining part of this write-up is organized...
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...BUY | Yahoo Finance | $36.50 | BUY | Step 2: Recommendation: Buy USG Corporation is currently trading at $34.26 and has a market capitalization of $4.7 billion. I recommend a BUY because of the company’s effort to reach an economy of scale, quality of products, and future revenue projections. Step 2: Recommendation: Buy USG Corporation is currently trading at $34.26 and has a market capitalization of $4.7 billion. I recommend a BUY because of the company’s effort to reach an economy of scale, quality of products, and future revenue projections. Thesis: USG Corporation for over 100 years has built an ever-growing portfolio of groundbreaking products backed by unparalleled service. The company continues to show their resilience by continuing to invest in purposeful innovation, expanding into different markets and by working smarter and faster. USG has three main strategic priorities that they are focused on to continue to improve the company. The three strategic priorities are focused on: * Strengthening the core of their North American manufacturing and distribution. * Diversifying earnings through select emerging markets and adjacent products and systems. * Differentiating through innovation. USG believes that by strengthening their current operations, expanding into areas in which their customers want...
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...Eric Chen COUN 20 Ever since birth parents try to instill in children’s minds with the significance of a College Degree. It has become ubiquitous to incorporate the idea that in order to become a successful individual in our society one must excel in college. It is quite common for the youth of today to be frightened to enter the world of College. This is the beginning of a narrow ended road which ultimately leads us to adulthood and independence, and also for us to develop into that individual that we are destined to become. College ultimately epitomizes what type of person we have transformed into and what goals we have set and will achieve here on out. If you speak to any professor, doctor, lawyer or successful person in our society they will tell you education is the backbone of their success. A college degree symbolizes ambition, maturity, and resilience. Now this is not to say that those individuals without a degree cannot be successful, but most successful people will take this journey into the world of late night studying and caffeine overload, skipping meals and a constant feeling of being buffeted by an insurmountable number of tests and assignments, striving to achieve academic excellence while maintaining a successful, balanced and healthy lifestyle outside of school. I briefly interviewed 20 Mt. SAC students outside of the campus library to try to find out how the college lifestyle affects them. The interview was in a quick survey format with...
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...SC Response to Terrorism Project MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics “Supply Chain Response to Terrorism: Creating Resilient and Secure Supply Chains” Supply Chain Response to Terrorism Project Interim Report of Progress and Learnings August 8, 2003 This report was pre pared by James B. Rice, Jr. of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) and Federico Caniato of Politecnico di Milano for the Supply Chain Response to Terrorism Project team with contributions from team members Jonathan Fleck, Deena Disraelly, Don Lowtan, Reshma Lensing and Chris Pickett. This work was conducted under the direction of Professor Yossi Sheffi, CTL Director. Please contact James B. Rice, Jr. of CTL (jrice@mit.edu or 617.258.8584) if you have any questions or if you would like to discuss this report. 08/12/2003 1 SC Response to Terrorism Project Supply Chain Response to Terrorism Project: Interim Report of Progress and Learnings 1 2 Executive summary........................................................................................................... 4 Research introduction and background ............................................................................. 6 2.1 Introduction................................................................................................................ 6 2.2 Background Research ................................................................................................ 6 2.3 Project...
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...In Pursuit of Excellence Book Review If I were new to the topic of sport psychology, and I asked someone to suggest a book that would give me an in-depth, how-to description of learning to control your mind and use it to your advantage, then I would expect them to suggest In Pursuit of Excellence. I have read a few different books on sport psychology, with all of them discussing the same information and techniques, but none of them go into the type of depth that this book does. It is almost as though this is the Bible of sport psychology; that is just how well Terry Orlick has written the fourth edition of his book, In Pursuit of Excellence. Like most North American athletes, I developed a passion for the physical part of the game at a very early age, with numerous hours of practice and playing a hundred games a summer. It was a true dedication to the sport, but I always loved it. Recently, in the past few years though, I have developed a very similar appreciation for the mental side of the game, and how it can greatly influence an athlete’s performance in all areas of life. Simple mind tricks, such as immediately stopping a negative thought, and replacing it with a positive one, can greatly affect your chances of winning a race or succeeding in your respective sport. It’s that reason why I have allowed myself to become so entrenched in it, it’s the reason why I have seen much faster improvements in my on-field performance, and have simply had a much higher quality of life....
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.......................................... 2 World’s Most Admired Global Companies ........................................................................................ 2 Analysis of Mahindra’s Current Global Scenario ............................................................................... 3 Financial Position .......................................................................................................................... 3 Brand Equity ................................................................................................................................. 4 Leadership .................................................................................................................................... 4 The Resilience to Rise...
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... * Independence (personality) * Initiative * Integrity * Introversion * Irritability * Liberalism * Likability * Loyalty * Machiavelianism * Masculinity * Misanthropy * Modesty * Moodiness * Narcissism * Need for approval * Need for cognition * Negativism * Nervousness * Neuroticism * Nonconformity (personality) * Nurturance * Obedience * Objectivity * Omnipotence * Openmindedness * Openess to experience * Optimism * Paranoia * Passiveness * Perseptiveness (personality) * Perfectionism * Persistance * Pessimism * Positivism * Psychoticism * Rebelliousness * Resilience (psychological) * Rigidity (personality) * Risk taking * Self control * Selfishness * Sensation seeking *...
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...The strategies were appropriate for the climate in which the business was operating. Figure 2 below shows the three strategies and what they entailed. The discussion will be based on the current strategy named “Market Demand Strategy (MDS)”, which became applicable in 1 April 2012. The MDS is a growth strategy which emphasises building of capacity ahead of demand. In order to achieve its objectives, the following will be carried out: R300bn capital investment programme Expanding rail, port and pipeline infrastructure Increase in capacity to meet market demand Continued financial stability and strength Significant productivity and operational efficiency improvements Shift from road to rail – reducing the cost of doing business and carbon...
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... after Wilson’s reelection in 1916, such reformers were censored. The politics of the 1920s was inhospitable toward the labor unions and radicals against business so it is understandable that one may think that the Progressivism ended there. However, during this time, the progressives did not simply allow themselves to be trod upon. Progressivism remained popular in many western states and was prominent in Washington during both the Harding and Coolidge presidencies. There was a continuing importance in the Progressive movement involving increased democracy, efficiency in the government, regulation, social justice, and and public service. Business progressivism, with its emphasis on efficiency, reached its peak in the 1920s. After the success of the suffrage movement, women payed more attention to causes such as world peace, honorable government, maternal care (SheppardTowner Act of 1921), and support for public health and education. Progressivism was an approach to social issues and it was as alive through the...
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...The Alchemist The Alchemist is a novel first published in 1988 by Brazilian-born author Paulo Coehlo. It has sold more than 65 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling books of all time, and has been translated in over 60 languages. The book follows an adventurous shepherd boy named Santiago who has recurring dream leads him on a journey to find hidden treasure. The book begins Santiago has the same troubling recurring dream, when sleeping under a sycamore that grows out of the ruins of a church, of a child telling him to seek treasure at the base of the Egyptian pyramids. After a gypsy tells him to go to Egypt once hearing his dream, a strange old man appears, claiming to be the King of Salem, tells him it is his Personal Journey to go to Egypt. After selling his flock, Santiago travels to Tangier but immediately gets robbed of all his money, forcing him to work for a crystal merchant. There he transforms the humble store into a thriving business making him rich, but ultimately he decides to continue on his Personal Journey. He joins a caravan crossing the Sahara dessert towards Egypt, and meets an Englishman who is studying to be an Alchemist. The Englishman teaches Santiago a great deal about Alchemy, and tells him he is going to Al-Fayoum to meet a powerful 200-year-old Alchemist. After the caravan is forced to stay in Al-Fayyoum because of tribal wars in the area, Santiago meets a girl named Fatima and both fall in love. When on a walk Santiago sees...
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