5 Common Skills Mapping Challenges And 6 Best Practices For Improved Talent Management Skills mapping has gained tremendous significance in the business world, and with good reason. It supports leaders in utilizing their workforce’s skillsets in the best way possible to deal with the challenges and changes they face every day. Additionally, it aids training … Read more
McCarthy and her co-author, Marjorie Ingall, are also the pens behind SorryWatch, a website that analyzes apologies in the news, pop culture and history. SorryWatch is full of examples of bad apologies, such as actors who tweet “I’m sorry if,” athletes who make excuses with their apologies, and corporations that issue apology statements without ever … Read more
12 Common Reasons Students Don’t Read & What You Can Do About It by Terry Heick Why don’t students read more? Digital distractions? No books at home? Too much testing? Kim Kardashian? It depends on the student. It depends on illiteracy vs aliteracy. It depends on how you define reading (does reading long-winded character dialogues … Read more
Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee on Friday announced the “untimely” death of the institution’s president, Orinthia T. Montague. Montague began her tenure as the college’s fourth president in September 2021 and was known on campus as “Dr. O.” She led the institution in transforming and improving the student experience and was “totally committed” … Read more
I wondered what constitutes literary language in the ChatGPT universe. Instead of college essays, I asked ChatGPT to write a paragraph about the perils of plagiarism. In ChatGPT’s first version, it wrote: “Plagiarism presents a grave threat not only to academic integrity but also to the development of critical thinking and originality among students.” In … Read more
Today on the Academic Minute, part of University of St. Thomas Week: Bryana H. French, associate professor of psychology, explores a framework for helping to heal racial trauma. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Most Popular Stories Most Popular title_words_as_hashtags
Freshman members of the Boston College men’s and women’s swim and dive program were allegedly forced to binge drink until they vomited and then consume their own vomit, according to new details SwimSwam reported regarding the hazing allegations that last week prompted college officials to suspend the program indefinitely. Earlier SwimSwam reported that some team members … Read more
Scholar and activist Ibram X. Kendi defended the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, which he founded and directs, in a statement Friday after the center recently laid off more than half of its employees. In the aftermath of the layoffs of 19 of the center’s 36 staff members, former employees have publicly slammed the … Read more
From challenging parenting interactions to difficult discussions with teachers and students, hard conversations are part of a principal’s job. School leaders are always practicing the art of keeping their cool and their emotions in check. Recently in our Principal Life Facebook Group, we asked, “How do you keep your cool when a conversation turns tense, … Read more
What Is Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Learning Theory? by TeachThought Staff What did Vygotsky say about learning? “Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of human learning describes learning as a social process and the origination of human intelligence in society or culture. The major theme of Vygotsky’s theoretical framework is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development … Read more