This straightforward guide to the professional standards and requirements for primary teachers illustrates the best ways of developing knowledge and how to acquire the skills needed to achieve QTS. Meeting the Standards in Primary English will: explain the Standards relating to English teaching; link the theory associated with the teaching of English to the practical application; look in detail at the teaching of reading, fiction, writing, speaking and listening, ICT in literacy, and drama; assist the understanding of grammar and language study; and consider the issues of continuing professional development.
Meeting Excellence is a comprehensive resource that provides a wide range of ready-to-use tools that have been developed and tested by a meeting initiative within Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It is based on years of research observing team meetings, examining existing meeting documents, and conducting a number of intensive individual interviews in the U.S. and Europe. This important book offers the information and tools needed to prepare, facilitate, and follow up on all your meetings.
Learn the tricks of the trade of becoming a great technical communicator
Remember when you were an undergraduate and freshman composition seemed
so irrelevant to your life? After all, you were going to conquer the
world with technological know how. Your spellcheck software would
handle the details. Now that you re a professional pitching an idea,
vying for a contract or grant, or presenting at a meeting getting
your point across effectively suddenly seems pretty essential for
success, doesn t it?
Fear not. This light hearted text,
brimming with proven techniques, good advice, and real world examples
that you can easily apply to your own case, will turn you into an adept
communicator. Written expressly for technologists, this is a simple,
concise, and practical guide to the communication dynamics of writing,
presentation delivery, and meeting interaction.
Herbert
Hirsch, in demand consultant who developed these techniques for his own
prolific engineering career, teaches you how to use "scripting" to plan
for communication events. More than a mere outline or storyboard,
scripting is a powerful technique that assists you in getting the right
structure and content, in the proper order.
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English for Business Meetings
This course teaches you both formal and informal business English needed to participate in business meeting. The course follows two meetings from start to finish:
Meeting A is a formal meeting.
Meeting B is an informal meeting.
The formal business English used in Meeting A is appropriate for
important meetings, such as for presentations at conferences or at
annual company meetings. The business English used in Meeting B is
useful for smaller meetings, such as daily office meetings or for
interacting with your co-workers.
Corduroy's going to see the doctor. He likes everyone in the doctor's office, and they know he's a very brave bear.
Young children will enjoy meeting Corduroy's friends at the doctor's in this simple and reassuring book.
