It's National Career Development Month! This month is all about helping individuals boost their workplace readiness skills and enhance their career prospects. There are lots of great ways to celebrate in the classroom. Here are a few ideas to get you started: 1. Talk about different careers. National Career [...]
Since 1967, the National Career Development Association has promoted November as National Career Development Month. The goal of this month is to improve career development at all stages. As a result, November the perfect time for students, and even those already employed, to explore careers and focus on their [...]
Every day your students face a number of decisions in the classroom. Some of these decisions are easy and require almost no thought at all. But some of these decisions have a tough problem at their core. The outcome is not easily predictable. The first step in these cases is [...]
Technology is amazing. For millions of people across the world, it opens doors that would have remained closed in the past. A patient in the U.S. can have his X-rays viewed in India to get results quickly and save money in the process. You can hail a taxi with your [...]
Many of our new customers tell us that before they began using our Conover Online MECA® Interest Indicator they were using free print programs to help meet the assessment requirements for Indicator 13. These “free” assessment tools look great on the surface—after all, they are free. But, a closer look [...]
We Think So!!! A recent article in The Council for Exceptional Children Smartbrief on March 14, 2013, entitled Math Teachers Strive to Bring Core to At-Risk Students discussed how many math teachers feel about teaching core standards to their at-risk student population. These new standards for the middle schools focus [...]