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| Duties at Purdue University |
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| I estimated the economic impact on the Indiana economy from 7 capacity building programs that took place in 6 different foreign countries. I analyzed archive expenditure budgets and Project reports from universities, sub-contractors, and the US agency for international development, as well, I interviewed current and former faculty and deans as well as Indiana-based project entrepreneurs. Reason for leaving is that I successfully completed the goal of the research contract |
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| Do your grades accurately reflect your ability? Why or why not? |
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| No they do not. Because of my passion to learn for real world applications, my scholastic focus is in fully understanding the process involved in the material. Combined with my devotion to mathematics, this focus has prepared me to provide the optimal response to the economy's demand. |
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| Further work after loosing coverage on contract? |
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| I will definitely continue to pursue my passion in logistics. Where I next travel, depends on what professional opportunities are offered to me. |
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| How do you feel about travel? |
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| After establishing a couple months of professional experience near Kentucky, I am 100% available for travel. |
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| How do you think a former supervisor would describe your work and attitude? / - How would your teacher describe you? |
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| My work is what can always be described as passionate for its objective. My attitude has always been open-minded in order to respond to my dynamic conditions. |
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| Give an example of a situation in which you provided a solution to an employer. |
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| At my first day on the job with AT&T, groups of only-Chinese speaking customers would visit at the same time. As I was the only employee capable of communicating with them, my short-term consultancy began with a bottleneck at the final link of the AT&T supply chain. When I returned home that evening, I printed a paper with all of AT&T's phone plan options completely written in Chinese and translated each character. I shared this with my management and co-workers the next day; and since then, the entire staff has worked more efficiently to create customer satisfaction at the end point of delivery to the consumer. |
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| what are you looking for in your next position? |
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| I am looking for an opportunity to apply my analytical, communication, and mathematical skills in the professional spectrum of efficient execution of engineering principles in the real world. |
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| Have you had any failures? What did you learn from them? |
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| In my failure to earn a 3.0 GPA in my first semester at Purdue University, I learned that I must fully invest my skill set for my current professional requirements. |
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| Of which 3 accomplishments are you most proud? |
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#1 is Earning 6th place in the US Collegiate Problem Sovling competition hosted by the Mathematics ASsociatoin of America which is the largest higher-level education mathematics organization in the world.
#2 is in receiving the highest team presentation marks in my mathematical programming course within Purdue University's resource economics department.
3 is in maintaing a problem-solving focus throughout my entire life. |
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| What is the latest two books you've read? |
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| What would you like to have accomplished professionally five years from now? |
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| To become outstanding in applying my mathematical and analytical skills in the professional spectrum of operations management, supply chain design, mathematical modeling, and efficient execution of engineering principles in the real world. |
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| describe your ideal work environment / - What would make you happy in a job? |
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| A synthetic work environment where the curiosity of research, challenge of real world, and the problem solving frontiers are well aligned. |
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| What one personal weakness do you intend to overcome in the next year? / What is your greatest weakness in school or at work- Why did you leave your last job. |
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| Name the most challenging work situation and what you did to resolve it? / - How much preparation on files for trial do you do? / most stressful situation i have faced you |
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| When I came to Purdue University, the agricultural economics PhD program informed me that my mathematics background was already sufficient prior to enrolling in their mathematics coursework. In response, during my first semester of graduate school at Purdue, I enrolled in a full time PhD course load as well as several academic research projects to accompany my work as a Graduate Research Assistant for 20 hours per week. Due to my focus on team research and professional responsibilities, my first semester GPA was 2.09. The challenge I then faced was to perform nearly flawless course work while completing a journal formatted paper for the economic models requested Purdue University Vice President of Engagement. In succeeding in this challenge to bring my cumulative GPA to 3.0 by streamlining all of my activity for my academic and professional research objectives, I further recognized that my true interests are within management science.This is how i thrive under pressure to achieve better results |
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tell me a situation where you had to handle a JERK? /
“Tell me about a time when working with another person you found yourself at a disagreement. How'd you work it out and what was the outcome.” |
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| During my student presidency of the Morehead State Environmental Science Club. The university was in need of a 3-mile trail through the steep hills surrounding its campus lake. Because MSU lacked the budget and man power for constructing a paved or manmade trail, I first contacted the student leaders of the environmental science club to discover that they only existed on paper but were no longer holding meetings. I first responded to this by leading the creation of a student organization. This required the full utilization of and expansion of my academic and social network to include faculty advisors and student members. I quickly assigned student roles based on their individual backgrounds. While studying the sustainability of outdoor trails with the group advisor, I shared my new knowledge with the members to immediately hand-made trail construction. I continued communication with additional organizations so that hundreds of students joined in the construction. However, the director of facilities at Morehead strictly opposed activity not organized at his desk. In response to this restriction, I immediately contacted this director by email and in-person meetings that promoted process improvement for both the student organization's results and the efficiency for the facilities management. The outcome of my final academic year included 5-miles of of additional campus trails that connect to the Sheltowee Trace national recreation trail as well as strongly improved campus recycling represented in the United States University Recyclemania competition. |
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| “What about Ryder is most interesting?” / - Is the Ryder System your ideal company? / - What is the most enjoyable part of working at Ryder System? |
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| Yes. I am most interested in Ryder's integrated logistics management business segment that applies lean management. Because in today's world, competition is so tough that if you don't have this Lean spirit, you won't survive. |
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| How did you get started working in this field? |
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| I have had comfort with analysis and handling data during all of my college study. My personal fascinations with querying data within Microsoft Excel, Access, and SQL Server are motivated by my young observation of the importance of data for optimizing the response to its relations and constraints. Further recognizing how mathematics is what provides the general principles for this application, I became very comfortable with undergraduate algebra during elementary school and my pre-teen years I then continued my strong study in undergraduate calculus before beginning high school. I then strengthened my knowledge by educating others and gaining comfort with working and collaborating with people. I did this along with group academic work to strengthen my ability to assist the real world. |
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| What skills or personal qualities are good for this job? / why should we hire you? |
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| Obviously, technical proficiency is step one, but after that it's important to have interpersonal/people skills. You're constantly communicating and collaborating with people, trying to solve problems together, communicating your concerns or ideas, and approaching people and situations in a way they can understand. You need to be able to relay information in non-technical terms, in the way people can understand it and take actions needed. Oftentimes, there are problems that arise that a group needs to solve and we need to work with each other and communicate the needs of each area to find a solution that's good for the company. |
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| What are your biggest strengths? / - What are your strengths? |
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| Analytics and proactive communication. My analytics strength is demonstrated by my university education and my unofficial, but complete study of Purdue Unviersity's Online Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course. (I demonstrated proactive communication in my environmental leadership at MSU when I prioritized the sequence of trail construction processes with the hand tools available as our technology. I expedited our campus-wide communication and participation by directly meeting with the University President in his office after emailing his secretary. With his approval, I determined the student staffing to lead, map, and track continuous improvements of trail conditions and expansion. Further communication involved personal meetings with the administration of each university college, including the university's Athletics office and several of their coaches. In 1 academic year, 5 additional miles of trail were made available to MSU) |
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| Favorite class and why? Problem with a teammate? |
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| At Morehead State, it was my operations research course. At purdue, it was the math programming for resource economics course that involved a closer look at the simplex method and then focused on farm-level linear, nonline, integer and binary, risk, as well as dynamic programming models |
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| Problem you had to overcome? |
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Car accident in the hills of Morehead, Kentucky when I experienced an immediate collapse of my left lung. This was when my life depended on transportation logistics for my travel to the nearest Emergency Room that was about 10 miles away. Since then, my studies have only increased my passion for logistics.
Logistics for My transportation. Tracheostemy
chest cavity pump artificial stomach (sp 0 wording) |
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| Examples of your proactive attitude to problem solving? |
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| My proactive attitude to problem solving was exercised when my love for problem solving faced a lack of challenge in my school's mathematics courses. Because I did not have a high school diploma at this time, I researched Morehead State University's student enrollment policy and learned that I could enroll in part-time courses if I had sufficient ACT score. In learning this during the summer of 2001, I visited the university library every Monday to Friday, morning to afternoon to prepare my test taking skills. As a result, I completed university algebra, pre-calculus, and calculus with a 4.0 GPA while I was enrolled at Rowan County Middle School. |
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| What you have been doing while you were out of work? |
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| My aging parents needed a temporary caregiver for my others oldest aunt while I unofficially continued my education at Purdue with their Doctoral Students in Operations Management who were my past classmates. |
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| Please tell me about yourself |
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| I've completed a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Morehead State University. I am confident that my studies combined with my intense background in competitive problem solving make me the perfect candidate for contribution to Ryder as a logistics engineer. |
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| name some weaknesses /- Your greatest weakness in school or at work? |
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| In my passion to assist my team, regardless of how it costs myself, my personal health is at danger when my maximum team contribution requires me to lose rest. This lack of rest does not support my efficiency. |
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| Yes, in that I do feel it is important to be near my family as my parents and great aunts are older. I will be comfortable supporting them from outside Kentucky once I have earned greater savings thru professional experience. |
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| If you have an idea, how would your presentation differ for departments / - How do you cope without motivation? ("going to back to original vision") |
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I would present the same facts to each department. However, I would also empathize with any department member who faced difficulty.
mitigate the difficulty in change. As a lean leader we cannot just drive things down and just say, you know, to do this because I said. It needs to be recognized that change is hard on people, it really is. That is a fact so we need to do everything we can to mitigate the negative impacts of change by going back to the original vision of our work and validating assumptions. Then empathetically reviewing why these may seem difficult. If people are struggling with the tactical implementation of a lean principle, whatever it may be, flow, quality of source, or visual management, then we can go back to the original vision. Why were we doing this? What were the assumptions we made? Let’s talk about why we’re feeling negative impacts from this change. |
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| Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was developed by Motorola in 1986. |
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1. Clarify your job target. As Yogi Berra famously said, “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”
So when you begin putting an elevator pitch together, nail down the best way to describe your field and the type of job you’re pursuing. Until you can clearly explain the type of position you want, nobody can help you find it or hire you to do it.
2. Put it on paper. Write down everything you’d want a prospective employer to know about your skills, accomplishments and work experiences that are relevant to your target position. Then grab a red pen and mercilessly delete everything that’s not critical to your pitch.
Keep editing until you’ve got the speech down to a few key bullet points or sentences. Your goal is to interest the listener in learning more, not to tell your whole life story. So remove extraneous details that detract from your core message.
3. Format it. A good pitch should answer three questions: Who are you? What do you do? What are you looking for?
(MORE: Job Interview Advice Older Women Don’t Want to Hear)
Here’s an example of how to begin a pitch that includes the essentials: “Hi. I am Jessica Hill. I am an accountant with 10 years experience in the insurance industry and I'm looking for opportunities in the Dallas area with both insurance and finance companies.”
That speech would take about 15 seconds. Jessica would then want to use her next 15 seconds to add details about her unique selling proposition, special skills and specific ways she could help a potential employer.
4. Tailor the pitch to them, not you. It’s important to remember that the people listening to your speech will have their antennas tuned to WIFM (What’s in It for Me?) So be sure to focus your message on their needs.
For example, this introduction: “I am a human resources professional with 10 years experience working for consumer products companies.” The pitch would be more powerful if you said, “I am a human resources professional with a strong track record in helping to identify and recruit top-level talent into management.”
Using benefit-focused terminology will help convince an interviewer that you have the experience, savvy and skills to get the job done at his or her business.
5. Eliminate industry jargon. You need to make your pitch easy for anyone to understand, so avoid using acronyms and tech-speak that the average person or job interviewer might not understand.
The last thing you want to do is make your listener feel stupid or uninformed.
6. Read your pitch out loud. As Fast Company’s Deborah Grayson Riegel recently pointed out in her article "The Problem With Your Elevator Pitch and How to Fix It," writing is more formal and structured than speaking. If you’re not careful, your elevator pitch can come off sounding more like an infomercial than a conversation.
Reading it aloud then tinkering with the words will help you sound more authentic.
7. Practice, practice, practice (then solicit feedback). Rehearse your pitch in front of a mirror or use the recording capabilities of your computer, so you can see and hear how you sound.
This might feel awkward at first, but the more you practice, the smoother your delivery will be.
Keep tweaking your pitch until it no longer sounds rehearsed. When your presentation is polished to your satisfaction, try it out on a few friends and ask them what they thought your key points were. If their response doesn’t square with your objective, the speech still needs work.
8. Prepare a few variations. You might want to say things slightly differently to an interviewer than to a former colleague. Also, sometimes you'll just have 15 seconds for a pitch (kind of a short elevator ride), other times you may have a minute or two.
So focus on mastering a few key talking points then work up ways to customize your speech for particular situations.
(MORE: The Art of First Impressions)
Use the word count feature on your computer to create shorter and longer pitches; a good rule of thumb is that you can say about 150 words in one minute.
9. Nail it with confidence. The best-worded elevator pitch in the world will fall flat unless it’s conveyed well.
When you give the speech, look the person in the eye, smile and deliver your message with a confident, upbeat delivery.
Get your pitch right and you might soon find yourself riding an actual elevator at your ne wjob |
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| My mathematics and economic training allow me to focus on my job duties as well as the total cost of business across the value stream. Similar to Robert Martichenko's 2012 book on People in lean organizations, I believe this focus will lead the sustainability of lean organizations. So that my passion for responsible and ethical behavior together with my problem solving and communication skills are what perfectly match Ryder's superb diversity, training, and development to maintain and improve its competitive edge. |
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| How do you feel your past experience has prepared you for this position? |
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| It has provided me an interdisciplinary academic background that I may apply to future problem solving and consultancy. |
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| What do you like and what do you not like about your last job? |
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| What attracted you to agricultural economics? |
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| What motivated your interest in education? |
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A recent example I can tell you is from a study I reviewed during my mathematical programming course for Purdue University's Agricultural Economics department.This was a study on the supply of malaria vaccines for malaria-victims in Malawi. There are more than enough vaccines to cure all patients affected by malaria in Malawi! The problem is that we don't have a supply network so that it can reach them.
So I'm fascinated by the idea of how to reach the people. That is, to observe that it is not just about having, but about how to optimize the system sot hat what you have will reach the people, or how you put the network together. |
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| Who are the 3 biggest competitors to Ryder's Supply Chain Management |
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| Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a leader in commercial transportation and supply chain management solutions |
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| - Would you rather write a report or give it verbally? |
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| I prefer to share information verbally in order to provide greater social comfort and immediate guidance for any confusion. |
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| What is the purpose of the WW Foundation? |
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| Ryder provides transportation and supply chain management products, and is especially known for its fleet of rental trucks. |
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| Describe a situation when you where you were given a large task. What was your mental preparation to complete the project. |
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| - How do you keep track of things you need to do? |
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| I schedule my activities on GOogle Calendar. At each individual problem solving task. I keep a clean, easy-to-follow paper that guides my work |
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| How would you decide on your objectives? |
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| With my information available, I first complete the task that yields the greatest net marginal contribution to my work. |
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| - How open-minded are you to other members ideas? |
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| I always value other members' ideas. I focus on keeping an open-mind to maintain flexibility for dynamic constraints. |
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| - How have you changed in the last five years? |
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| I have greatly diversified my problem solving skills in the last five years to improve my open-minded flexibility. Five years ago, my focus was in my undergraduate assistantship's focus on mathematical economics in order to program educationally interactive economics models with the Mathematica software. After my internship at North Carolina State University, I applied my problem solving skills to 13 academic credit hours of engineer and mathematical physics courses to better understand my physical model development. My focus since then has been on improving my numerical analysis and its application to economics topics. |
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| - List five words that describe your character. |
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| Social-I engage the people I am working with to also be involved. Analytical - I am always problem solving. Resourceful - By focusing my attention on the present situation, I always account for what resources are available. Decisive - Until further information is provided, my attention remains on my chosen process. Passionate - what's I have a defined purpose, that objective becomes my passion. |
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| - What kinds of situations do you find most stressful? |
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| The most stressful situations involve highly sensitive parameters that are unknown. With my mathematical training, these are also the situations I view as the most exciting. |
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| - When were you most satisfied in your job? |
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This project challenged campus residence halls, organizations, and individuals to participate in 9 eco-friendly events throughout the month for $3,000 in prizes. This offered student fun and local environmental awareness and improvement. Participating students volunteered 350 hours.
Each of the Events was a serious project that was successfully competed consisted of:
Eco-Film, Trail Work, Recycle Rate, Best Motivator, Cardboard Dash, Recyclable Race,Highway Cleanup, Carbon Sequestration, Recycle Center Volunteering
I coordinated the event planning and communication. President Wayne Andrews led the opening and closing sessions of the Eco-Olympics. Joshua Bradley led the Eco-FIlm event. Anna Claire Griffin monitored the Trail Work event. Aazaad Roka led the Recycle Rate event. Jeanelle Pridemore supervised the Highway Cleanup event. Ezra Dike monitored the Carbon Sequestration event. LaTonya Vernon led the Recycle Center Volunteering event. Students, J Corey Wheeler, Biswas Sharma, Brad Schneider, and Kelsey Flannery, and MSU Marketing professionals, April Hobbs Nutter and David Patrick, provided media. Environmental Eagles and SIFE advisors, April Haight and Janet Ratliff, respectively, provided guidance.
J Marshall oversaw the project's funding, tools, and prizes. Allie Secor directed the recycling facilities and resources needed for the Recycle Rate Event (i.e. waste audit). Gene Caudill allowed environmental associate staff to provide random sample waste bags from each residence hall. Bob Cooper postponed the Energy Efficiency Event due technical difficulty due to emergency.
Assistant Vice President William Redwine donated University Bookstore prizes. The CEO of Hamilton Inc., Trent Hamilton, donated funding for outdoor prizes. KY Energy Club Coordinator, Bree McCarney, acted as the KY Center for Applied Energy Research liaison for the donation campus-wide Eco-Olympics marketing. Cave Run Outdoor donated high-quality mountain bicycle prizes. Morehead Walmart donated prize bicycles |
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| According to NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNINGAND ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCENCISLA • Wisconsin Center for Education Research • School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison • 1025 West Johnson Street • Madison, WI 53703Web site:, , To help students learn mathematics or science with understanding, teachers need to know how to help students |
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| (a) connect knowledge they are learning to what they already know, (b) construct a coherent structure for the knowledge they are acquiring rather than learning a collection of isolated bits of information and disconnected skills, (c) engage students in inquiry and problem solving, and (d) take responsibility for validating their ideas and procedures. |
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| According to NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNINGAND ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCENCISLA • Wisconsin Center for Education Research • School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison • 1025 West Johnson Street • Madison, WI 53703Web site:, This kind of teaching requires that teachers have a coherent vision of? |
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| (a) the structure of the mathematical or scientific ideas and practices they are teaching; (b) the conceptions, misconceptions, and problem-solving strategies that students are likely to bring to learning those ideas and where they are likely to struggle in learning them; (c) the learning trajectories that students are likely to follow; (d) the tasks and tools that are likely to provide a window into students’ thinking and support their learning and problem solving; (e) the kinds of scaffolding that can support students to engage in sense making and problem solving; and (f) the class norms and activity structures that support learning. |
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| sites about school mathematics |
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| http://www.pims.math.ca/~hoek/teageo/TEA.pdf http://www.teachingforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cchaiti.pdf http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/publications/98_jra_lmr_has.pdf http://www.mathcurriculumcenter.org/PDFS/CCM/summaries/cambridge_summary.pdf |
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