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Using technology to help learners develop listening skills on their own
by Richard West, TESOL Instructor Listening can be one of the hardest skills to help your students develop, especially as many materials and curricula focus on a fairly narrow set of tasks and methods. Luckily, there are a wide number of new technological tools that can help any language learners you work with develop listening…
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Teaching English through Music, A Practical Guide for Teachers
by Christie Cassel, ELP Instructor Do you love music? Most people do, at least to some degree. We connect with music on an emotional level and the lyrics can become imprinted our brain (for better or worse). Can you think of catchy lyrics in a foreign language that you’ll never forget? Feliz Navidad? Thanks to…
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Let’s Talk (Again): Leadership and International Relations
By Dr. Jan Lüdert To understand pressing global issues it is necessary to bring the study of leadership with theories of International Relations (IR) into renewed conversations. Especially realist IR scholars tend to neglect questions of leadership because their emphasis on structures – focusing on the state system – brackets the impact of individual agency. Yet,…
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CityU’s 5th Annual MBA Case Competition
Congratulations to the 2018 MBA Case Competition winners, Nailia Gibadullina, Minh Truong Nguyen, Jasveer Kaur, Clark Jason Ngo, Yang (Cecilia) Li and, Tuan Khai! Launched in 2014, the MBA Case Competition challenged students to act as company employees to examine critical issues, analyze the situation, identify solutions and provide the best course of actions as…
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Student achieves his dream of starting his own counseling practice
Deciding to pursue a master’s in counseling can set you on a path toward influencing the lives of others in very positive ways. Although it can be a difficult decision for some, James Voss knew from the start that he wanted to help others and he turned that calling into a degree. James Voss started…
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Having Purpose: An Essential Leadership Skill
By Dr. Pressley Rankin One important aspect of leadership is vision. Vision requires the skills in planning, goal setting, leading through change, and having a purpose. It could be argued that it is the ‘purpose’ that guides all the other aspects of visioning. That is what I am examining in this blog post. Seven Questions…
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Student upgrades her technical college certificate to a master’s degree
Mitzi Philpott earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and began her career right out of college as a loan officer. After a few years of experience and becoming a mother of two, Mitzi decided to lead by example and pursue her passion for teaching. Not knowing exactly where to start, Mitzi reached out…
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Management and Leadership
While leadership has been studied since the time of the ancient Greeks, the idea of management is relatively new, having been created during the industrial revolution. Still, for many years, both were seen as similar. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that academics began to see the concepts as different. John Kotter in the early 90’s…
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Going Full Circle: Reconnecting with Former Students Abroad – as Friends
Featured image: Stanley Yen (middle; WAL, 2007) with Debbie Chan (R) and her husband Gordon. by Debbie Chan, Washington Academy of Languages (WAL), Student Activities and Services Sometimes it just takes a year or two (or how about a decade or more) to see how your friendships stand the test of time. Now with Facebook,…
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