Professional learning communities‚ PLCs‚ what are they? This question was the focus of Chapter 1‚ Clarity Precedes Competence. The chapter clearly states the characteristics‚ assumptions‚ challenges‚ and the needs of a PLC. According to Dufour and Fullan (2013)‚ there are three big ideas that are essential to the PLC: 1. A relentless focus on learning for all students 2. A collaborative culture and collective effort to support students and adult learning 3. A results orientation to improve practice
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The advantages and disadvantages of being a professional sportsman Being a professional sportsman requires much effort and devotion. Treating sports as an occupation has its advantages and disadvantages‚ as every job does. Firstly‚ the main advantage of being a professional sportsman is money‚ and therefore‚ fame. In some disciplines‚ like football or tennis‚ the amount of the income earned is enormous. If he reaches performance‚ money coming from sponsoring and advertising give the sportsman
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Running head: Do Professional Sports benefit the economy? Do Professional Sports benefit the economy? William S. Cooper Hodges University Directed Study in Management (MNA4704) Professor Meyers December 20‚ 2009 Abstract Do professional sports have a “major league” impact on the US economy? Most professional sports such as the National Football League‚ the National Basketball Association‚ the Major League Baseball and the National Hockey
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Performance enhancing drugs have a big impact on professional sports. The United States should allow the use of these drugs to allow athletes to compete at a higher level for a longer amount of time. Should Performance enhancing drugs be allowed in professional sports? Performance enhancing drugs are a big topic is the professional sports world today. Many people say that performance enhancing drugs are a terrible object to have in our professional sports system‚ but there are some good or even great
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Imagine a job where you can play and get paid millions of dollars! Does this job really exist? To the few privileged athletes in the world of professional sports it does. Everybody knows that the salaries in professional sports are outrageous. Does every good athlete think they’re really worth that much money? I know this is professional sports‚ but let’s face it‚ it is still just a game. For some athletes‚ these salaries go right to their heads‚ and they become conceited. The athletes forget
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Valuation professional practice in Nigeria Experts in the building industry have listed some factors bedeviling Estate Surveying and Valuation Profession in the country. They include; [1] poor remuneration‚ [2] quackery‚ [3] stringent legislation‚ [4] lack of training and [5] falling standards of valuation practice. According to Solanke (2010)‚ stated that poor quality service‚ outdated scale of fees and unhealthy competitions are some of the major challenges of the professionals in the industry
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Salary Caps in Athletics: How Much is the Game Really Effected? Should professional sports leagues‚ such as the MLB and NBA‚ implement a salary cap? This has become a rising issue in the last few years‚ involving players and the leagues and teams for which they play. Salary caps are an amount of money that a team is able to spend on its players. For instance‚ each team gets a 64 million dollar spending limit in which they have to divide between each player on the team. It has led to numerous
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Professional athletes get paid millions of dollars to play a game. Do you think they really deserve that much money for tossing a ball around? The money that pays the athletes for a game we all play competitively can be used for someone who actually shapes the future and fights for our country. For instance‚ Floyd Mayweather is the top paid athlete in the world for boxing‚ earning a total of three hundred million dollars. Do we really need to promote a dangerous sport by paying someone three hundred
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Analyse the boundaries that you would need to maintain as a teacher and evaluate these responsibilities with other professionals. I will be teaching Pre-Entry to Entry level 3 learners with mixed learning abilities‚ backgrounds‚ ethnic origins and gender. The age range will be 18 years to 65 years old. The class can consist of native and non-native speakers. As a teacher it is extremely important to have a boundary as this keeps professionalism. A teacher needs to maintain a strong and
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rights at major events can cost millions of dollars‚ network television stations pay large fees to broadcast games‚ and the merchandising and licensing of sporting goods is a major multi- national business. These trends are not just restricted to professional athletes and events‚ many of them are equally applicable to the so-called amateur sports. In some ways parallelling the increased commercialization of sport has been the emergence of academic interest in the business and management of sport
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