What vocabulary do students learn first? When can you expect your students to produce language? Why is vocabulary retention a challenge? Can you make learning vocabulary a fun and productive experience? How many words do your students need to know to be considered Arabic speakers? Is the language all about vocabulary learning?! Join our spring session one for six weeks, and give your students the vocabulary skills they need to Start Right! This session’s topic is “Building Language Foundation: Vocabulary.” Spend about 90 minutes per week listening to lectures, watching the best teaching strategies in a real classroom setting, taking quizzes, and networking with experts and colleagues in the US and worldwide. The session runs from February 15 to April 15, 2019. Registration starts January 4, 2019 at 10 am PST and ends January 31 (or when full). The cost is $90 Per Teacher, $500 Per School (up to six teachers). Register online here.
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The Degree Rules, for Now: Increasing Interest in Skills Based Hiring
By : Paul Fain
December 14, 2018
Recent headlines have touted the move by several big employers to stop requiring new hires to hold college degrees. Meanwhile, a drumbeat of studies show increasing labor market returns for degrees, and employers say they value the critical thinking skills of liberal arts graduates.
These seemingly oppositional trends are both real and on display in a new report from Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. The report sheds light on a technology-enhanced shift in the way workers are being hired in the knowledge economy.
The traditional college degree remains by far the best ticket to a good-paying job, a well-established fact bolstered by a survey the center conducted. But the results also suggest that college leaders should pay close attention to the gradual, ongoing transformation of HR functions as well as to nascent changes in how employers view alternative credentials, particularly of the digital variety.
“The way employers relate to higher education is shifting,” said Sean R. Gallagher, the center’s executive director and the report’s author. “It’s employers getting savvier.”
The center surveyed 750 hiring leaders at U.S. employers in ……….
To see the remainder of this article visit: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/14/survey-finds-increasing-interest-skills-based-hiring-online-credentials-and-prehire
The Intangible Qualities Higher Ed Employers Look For
September 18, 2018
Right now I am working on several very senior administrative searches. I hear hiring managers say they need to hire someone who can handle “organizational ambiguity” and/or have “emotional intelligence”. Just today a manager said he had to hire someone who could maintain a sense of humor even in “the darkest hours”. So what does this really mean and how can you as a job seeker prepare to address these qualities that do not have to do with the functional skills that are described in job descriptions?
Adapting to a Decentralized Environment
What is behind these bona fide needs is the fact that academic institutions take decentralization VERY seriously. That is not to say that there are not centralized offices in Finance, HR, IT, and the Office of General Counsel that enforce compliance around issues that could put a university at risk legally or that could create negative press.
Anyone working in especially large Universities needs to simultaneously respect and ……….
To see the remainder of this article visit: https://www.hercjobs.org/the-intangible-qualities-higher-ed-employers-look-for/
California Language Teacher Association 2019 Conference
Innovate with Languages
Join Us in San Jose!
February 28-March 3, 2019
DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose, CA 95110
Welcome Information
A Note from the Conference Coordinator
The local affiliate, The Foreign Language Association of Santa Clara County (FLASSC) has been working diligently to organize the 2019 CLTA Conference, February 28 – March 3. FLASSC is sponsoring a Salsa Soiree on Friday evening from 7:30 to 9:00 pm. Do you need time to unwind after a full day of workshops? Sit and chat with friends and colleagues and learn to dance the Salsa! There will be a No-Host Bar as well as snacks to go with your drink of choice.
In an ongoing effort to improve the conference experience for California teachers, CLTA continues to offer an Early Bird Special for the Saturday/Sunday Conference plus meals for $270.00 to regular members and $260.00 for student and retiree members. CLTA has added a continental breakfast on Saturday morning from 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. The deadline for this special rate is January 15, 2019.
This year CLTA will not print a program. The entire program will appear on SCHED. By using SCHED, the CLTA Program Chair can make changes in real time. No attendee will go to a session that has been canceled because the program will be updated daily. All attendees will be sent an email so that they can get the program on one of their devices. CLTA will print an Information booklet that will include a map of the hotel, the conference-at-a-glance, all of the award winners with their pictures, information on CEUs, directions about using SCHED as well as information on the exhibitors.
CLTA is excited to announce that this year’s plenary speaker is Francisco Jiménez, the author of the short story, Cajas de cartón, that many Spanish teachers have used in their classes. The title of his speech is “The Transformative Power of Multicultural and Bilingual Education: A Personal Perspective.” After the plenary, Professor Jiménez will sign the book that Cajas de cartón appears in. The book will be available to purchase in both Spanish and English.
CLTA will be offering Continuing Education Units through Stanford University. More information will be available at the hospitality desk as well as in News Flashes that will be sent out after the first of the year.
We hope to see all of you at the 2019 Conference in San Jose!
Paula Hirsch, Conference Coordinator
https://sites.google.com/clta.net/clta19/home
SWCOLT/TFLA 2019
You are invited to join us in Fort Worth, Texas for SWCOLT/TFLA 2019
When? Friday – Saturday, March 29-30, 2019
Pre-conference Workshops, Thursday March 28
Texas Roundup of Language Standards
Where? Hilton Fort Worth, 815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
What? Professional Development for World Language Teachers
90 sessions on Friday and Saturday, Exhibitors, Networking
https://www.swcolt.org/conference
SWCOLT/TFLA 2019
You are invited to join us in Fort Worth, Texas for SWCOLT/TFLA 2019
When? Friday – Saturday, March 29-30, 2019
Pre-conference Workshops, Thursday March 28
“Texas Roundup of Language Standards”
Where? Hilton Fort Worth, 815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Where? Hilton Fort Worth, 815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102
What? Professional Development for World Language Teachers
90 sessions on Friday and Saturday, Exhibitors, Networking
https://www.swcolt.org/conference
Want To Advance Your Career Faster? Get A Sponsor.
Mentorship. It’s become a highly regarded and well-entrenched practice in our work culture. It can be a great way to meet new people, hear different perspectives, get advice and share your own experiences. Regardless of your level or title, taking the opportunity to both be a mentor and have a mentor can be beneficial and important for growth.
But it’s not enough. If you want to accelerate your career, drive toward your long-term goals and gain additional exposure, sponsorship is a critical ingredient to the recipe for your success.
What’s the difference between mentorship and sponsorship?
Sponsors take a much more proactive approach to helping you advance your career. Terry Barclay is the President & CEO of Inforum, a professional organization that is dedicated to accelerating careers for women and boosting talent initiatives for companies and she defines sponsorship as “an influential leader who openly and privately advocates for you, recommends you for highly visible or stretch assignments, supports you in risk-taking, helps you build relationships with key influencers, takes a vested interest in your career path and helps confront and interrupt bias.” According to Barclay, research has shown that having a sponsor provides the most ……….
To see the remainder of this article visit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekoepsell1/2018/11/25/want-to-advance-your-career-faster-get-a-sponsor/#34e49fb265ed
4 reasons why you haven’t seized big opportunities
I’m a hard worker and assumed this would soon become apparent to my new FBI squad. I expected my supervisor to assign me good cases, not the dog-eared ones I found on my desk. It became apparent that if I wanted to shine, I’d need to seize my own opportunities and not wait for them to be handed over.
It’s easy to wait for approval; it’s a lot harder to take initiative. People want to get noticed and take control of their careers, but it can be hard to catch the attention of the C-suite.
Successful people are proactive self-starters. They provide value beyond what’s asked of them. A product of value will prove itself. The good news is that other people will also see its value.
Few things in life are handed to us on a platter and with a smile. Most of us need to use mental toughness to push past our comfort zone if we want to move ahead. In order to take charge of your career, you often have to be the one to take the initiative. Don’t wait for someone else to create your opportunities — create them yourself.
Here are four dumb reasons you don’t seize big opportunities (and how you can change that):
1. Inaccurate assessment of strengths and talents
Many people believe that self-promotion can help them move up the ladder of success because it gets them a seat at the table. Problems arise, however, if they sell themselves too aggressively when they aren’t ready for the opportunity. Blue flamers are often impatient and seek to cut corners to maintain momentum. These are the folks who give self-starters a bad reputation. They don’t have the talent to take it to the next level. ……….
To see the remainder of this article visit: https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2018/11/4-reasons-why-you-havent-seized-big-opportunities
16th Annual South East Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures (Savannah, GA)
The Department of Foreign Languages at Georgia Southern University would like to invite you to its Annual South East Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures (SECCLL). This conference includes topics in Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Hispanic Linguistics, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian/Chinese (new), and Special Topics in language, literature, culture, pedagogy, and film. SECCLL also encourages the participation of Graduate students. The conference will take place April 11–12, 2019 in Savannah, Georgia. Learn more here.
Fourth International Symposium on the Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages (online)
The Fourth International Symposium on the Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages: Language and Identity is a free, online asynchronous symposium, is jointly arranged this year by the University of Canterbury and Uppsala University, opening on December 10, 2018. Learn more here.
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