COURSE INTRODUCTION
{GENERICO:type="QuickInfo-2",time="10"}This course covers concepts prospective teachers should be proficient in to effectively teach the use of the English language. This course will prepare you for the English Language exam for teachers by considering how organization, structural choices, vocabulary, word use, and grammar impact the effectiveness of a student's writing. This course will also consider how tone, diction, and commonly confused terms can both enhance and detract from a reading p...
COURSE INTRODUCTION
{GENERICO:type="QuickInfo-2",time="29"}Effective writing skills are necessary for success in college and in your future career. This course is designed to improve your writing ability. Pre-College English coursework focuses on basic writing skills, emphasizing four keys to good writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence-level skills. You will also learn about the importance of writing and some considerations to keep in mind when approaching a writing task. In Unit 1, you will learn why ...
Individual Differences: Values and Personality
LEARNING OBJECTIVES * Understand what values are. * Describe the link between values and individual behavior. * Identify the major personality traits that are relevant to organizational behavior. * Explain the link between personality, work behavior, and work attitudes. * Explain the potential pitfalls of personality testing. VALUES VALUES refer to stable life goals that people have, reflecting what is most important to them. Values are established throughout one's life as a result of the acc...
The Role of Ethics and National Culture
LEARNING OBJECTIVES * Consider the role of ethics in communication. * Consider the role of national culture on communication. ETHICS AND COMMUNICATION "People aren't happy when the unexpected happens, but they are even unhappier if they find out you tried to hide it," says Bruce Patton, a partner at Boston-based Vantage Partners LLC. To speak or not to speak? One of the most challenging areas of effective business communication occurs in moments of crisis management. But in an age of instant ...
Doing Good as a Core Business Strategy: The Case of Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries International has been an advocate of diversity for over 100 years. In 1902, in Boston, Massachusetts, a young missionary set up a small operation enlisting struggling immigrants in his parish to clean and repair clothing and goods to later sell. This provided workers with the opportunity for basic education and language training. His philosophy was to provide a "hand up," not a "hand out". Although today you can find retail stores in over 2,300 locations worldwide, and in...
If English is your second or third language...
__ If English is your second or third language and you are looking to improve your English language skills, you may consider completing our "English as a Second Language" courses first. You can find those here: sylr.org/ESL
Course Syllabus
WELCOME TO GKT104: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FOR TEACHERS – LANGUAGE SKILLS Specific information about this course and its requirements can be found below. For more general information about taking Saylor Academy courses, including information about Community and Academic Codes of Conduct, please read the Student Handbook. COURSE DESCRIPTION Learn how to use English effectively by engaging grammatical and organization structures, considering the impact of tone and word use, and applying editing strat...
Patterns of Human Settlement in South Asia
South Asia's rich cultural landscape is a product of its varied physical environment and long history of human settlement. Modern humans first settled in this area 75,000 years ago, and early human ancestors likely settled in the region hundreds of thousands of years before that. The first major civilization in South Asia was in the Indus River valley beginning around 3300 BCE. This civilization, located in present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and northwestern India, relied on the monsoon rains...
Read this text which introduces the human geography of South Asia, including the evolving patterns of human settlement, the effects of colonization of the region, and the ethnic, linguistic, and religious characteristics that emerged over time. Finlayson briefly describes some of South Asia's urban and economic issues, including megacities, outsourcing, and economic development. We will consider these and other issues in the next section.
Course Syllabus
WELCOME TOENGL000: PRE-COLLEGE ENGLISH Specific information about this course and its requirements can be found below. For more general information about taking Saylor Academy courses, including information about Community and Academic Codes of Conduct, please read the Student Handbook. COURSE DESCRIPTION Improve your writing ability in this introductory course by learning how to read actively and apply the core components of effective writing. COURSE INTRODUCTION Effective writing skills are...
Course Syllabus
__ If English is your second or third language and you are looking to improve your English language skills, you may consider completing our "English as a Second Language" courses first. You can find those here: sylr.org/ESL WELCOME TO ENGL001: ENGLISH COMPOSITION I Specific information about this course and its requirements can be found below. For more general information about taking Saylor Academy courses, including information about Community and Academic Codes of Conduct, please read the ...
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