4 Ways to Celebrate Career Development Month in the Classroom

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 [...]

By |2022-11-18T12:14:24-06:00November 18th, 2022|Career Assessment, Education, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on 4 Ways to Celebrate Career Development Month in the Classroom

November: National Career Development Month

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 [...]

By |2022-11-01T12:44:39-05:00November 1st, 2022|Career Assessment, Life Skills|Comments Off on November: National Career Development Month

Teaching Students to Make Decisions

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 [...]

By |2018-09-10T09:24:13-05:00September 10th, 2018|Career Assessment, Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Students to Make Decisions

Special Education in Virtual Schools

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 [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:19-05:00September 8th, 2016|Career Assessment, Education|Comments Off on Special Education in Virtual Schools

A ‘Free’ Interest Inventory Isn’t Free

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 [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00April 18th, 2013|Career Assessment, Education|Comments Off on A ‘Free’ Interest Inventory Isn’t Free

Will Common Core Standards Drive At-Risk Students Away?

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 [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:27-05:00March 28th, 2013|Career Assessment, Education|Comments Off on Will Common Core Standards Drive At-Risk Students Away?
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