Understanding Learner Needs and Presentation Techniques
Unit 14: Learner Needs
What are Learner Needs?
When a learner learns a foreign language, they have various needs that influence their learning.
Personal needs: need for praise, need to become more fluent.
Professional needs: learning English to give presentations.
Recognizing and trying to meet learner needs are part of being a good teacher.
Unit 16: Presentation Techniques and Introductory Activities
What are Presentation Techniques and Introductory Activities?
Presentation techniques are the ways used
Read MoreUnderstanding Legal Prescriptive Rules and Standards
Understanding Prescriptive Rules and Legal Standards
Prescriptive rules are rules that set certain conduct legal standards. Legal standards are requirements that are central to the legal order.
The elements of the requirements are:
The Character
The character of a standard depends on whether the standard is set so that something may, must be, or must be done. There are a number of operators called deontic operators that exemplify the character of the norm. These include:
- Obligation (O)
- Permission (P)
- Power
Hospital Classifications, Services, and Pharmacy Roles
Hospital Roles and Classifications
Weeks 1-3: Role of Hospital Care
- Patient Care: Diagnosis and treatment of illness/injury, preventative medicine, rehabilitation, convalescent care, and personalized services.
- Education: Education of all staff and patients, providing support (social, occupational, physical, psychological).
- Research: Advancement of medical knowledge, improvement of hospital services, animal research, clinical trials (not always related to medical personnel).
- Public Health.
Classification
Read MoreManagement Theories, Leadership Styles, and Team Dynamics
Management Theories and Leadership Styles
People Management and Behavior (Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Y)
- Theory X: Assumes some people are inherently lazy and irresponsible, requiring strict control and authority.
- Theory Y: Assumes people are motivated and capable of self-direction, suggesting that persuasion, professional help, and motivational factors yield better results.
Leadership and Conduct (Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid)
This theory categorizes leadership behavior based on two dimensions:
Read MoreUnderstanding Language Registers: Standard, Literary, and More
Standard Language Register
Standard: Generic and specific topics, oral and written channels, objective intention, medium reliability. Characteristics:
- Variety: Supradialectal, used by the public, oral and written.
- Facilitates intercommunication for the whole linguistic community.
- Associated with media, education, publishing, information, and dissemination areas.
- Holds a first degree of formality.
- Conforms to grammatical regulations.
- Neutral, not marked by jargon, colloquialisms, or vulgarisms.
- Pretends
Intriguing Encounters: Jobs, Afterlife, and More
The Day I Met the Strange and Inscrutable Steve Jobs
- d) Steve Jobs hardly ever granted interviews.
- a) Jobs was a very strict person.
- a) He was quite different from what I had expected.
- c) Still influenced by the incident with the fans.
- b) Jobs simply repeated the same explanation he always gave.
- d) Simply did not answer.
- a) Followed a well-established routine.
- d) Difficult to define.
Death Sites: How to Log In Your Afterlife
- d) Keep your online profiles safe after your death.
- c) Any kind of personal online