Career Enhancing Techniques Essay

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  1. According to DuBrin (2015), the following strategies or tactics are identified for enhancing your career:
    1. develop career goals,
    2. capitalize on your strengths and build your personal brand,
    3. be passionate about and proud of your work,
    4. develop a code of professional ethics and prosocial motivation,
    5. develop a proactive personality,
    6. keep growing through continuous learning and self-development,
    7. document your accomplishments,
    8. project a professional image, and
    9. perceive yourself as a provider of services. (p. 430)

    Identify and explain three career-enhancing techniques or tactics in advancing your career.

    Your essay should be at least two pages and should include an introduction, a body of supported material (paragraphs), and a conclusion. Be sure to include two references (on a reference page), and follow all other APA formatting requirements.

Write a brief description (~250 words) about something you learned that was new, interesting, compelling, etc. and why.

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Pick one of the websites that you explored and….

1) Write a brief description (~250 words) about something you learned that was new, interesting, compelling, etc. and why.

2) Provide a link to that specific part of the website

3) Title your forum post with a title that captures your learning and might appeal to someone with a similar interest.

List of Websites:

Explore national organizations that support children & youth through research, policy, practice. There are many more that we will learn about this semester but here is a list to get us started!

EC – Early childhood—–MC – Middle Childhood—–AD – Adolescence

  • National Association for the Education of Young Children—EC  http://www.naeyc.org/
  • National Black Child Development Institute — All ages  https://www.nbcdi.org
  • CASEL Collaborative for Academic Social Emotional Learning—All ages https://casel.org
  • Ready by 21—-All Ages & MC/AD http://www.readyby21.org
  • Global Family Research Project—All ages https://globalfrp.org/About-Us
  •  John Gardener Center for Youth and Their Families— MC, AD http://gardnercenter.stanford.edu/resources/publications.html
  •  Afterschool Alliance —All Ages http://www.afterschoolalliance.org
  • National Afterschool Association—All Ages https://naaweb.org
  • The Aspen Institute—MC AD  https://www.aspeninstitute.org/tag/opportunity-youth/
  •  American Youth Policy Forum—AD  https://www.aypf.org/youth-populations/opportunity-youth/
  •  Berkman Center of Internet and Society—All ages  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/youthandmedia
  • CIRCLE: The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement– MC, AD, http://www.civicyouth.org/
  • Child Trends—All ages  http://www.childtrends.org/
  • Annie E Casey Foundation—All ages http://www.aecf.org/

Refelction On Hope Required When Growing Roses In Concrete

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1) Read or Watch (Your choice): Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete2) Write a short post (250 words) that responds to these prompts:   a)  Dr. Duncan-Andrade talks about 6 different kinds of hope:

  • Mythical Hope
  • Hokey Hope
  • Material Hope
  • Hope Deferred
  • Socratic Hope
  • Audacious Hope

a) What do think about these concepts? Which kind of hope stands out to you and why?  b) Do you think the concept of hope is relevant to you and/or the field of child and adolescent development? Why or Why not?  c) What other guiding concepts do you want to embody in your work with children, youth and families?

Which of the 2 short story/comic pieces

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AS AM – Assignment #5: Last Assignment/Self Eval Name:

 

PART I: Last assignment—what did you like and why?

 

 

 

Which of the 2 short story/comic pieces (Yiyun Li’s, “The Princess of Nebraska,”  and Nam Le’s “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”)did you like the best and why?

  

 

Why do you like Adrian Tomine’s, “Killing and Dying best and why?