How To Make a Good Resume : 10 steps

Introduction: Top 5 Resume Tips
Key points that will serve as a compass as you go through each step of writing your resume.

Step 1: Find a Job for Your Resume
Learn why this step is important to writing a good resume. Don't make the mistake so many make by doing this step after they write their resumes.

Step 2: List of Keywords for Your Resume
Recruiters and employers search for keywords, so you need to put them in your resume if you want to be found.

Step 3: Choose a Resume Format
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to resume format. Learn which of these three resume formats will make your job search a success.

Chronological Resume Template
Functional Resume Template
Combination Resume Template

Step 4: Your Resume Heading
Believe it or not, there's a right way and a wrong way to do this easy step. Be sure you do it the right way!

Step 5: Your Resume Job Objective
Learn the pros and cons of having a job objective statement, how to write a good one, and some good options for not having one. For example, here's a Sample of a Professional Title on a Resume.

Step 6: Your Summary of Qualifications
If the employer reads only this part of your resume, does she get the very best of what you have to offer? Find out how to make your Summary shine!

Step 7: Your Work Experience
Know how to write your work history on your resume to make the best of it, even if you have tough problems. In this step, you'll learn:
How to Explain Unemployment on Your Resume
How to Overcome Age Discrimination With Dates on a Resume

Step 8: Your Resume Achievement Statements
Achievement statements tell the employer you're worth hiring, or at least interviewing for the job. Spend time on this part so you use your resume real estate wisely.

Step 9: Listing Education on Your Resume
Where to put your Education section, what to list in it, and how to deal with many college degrees or no degree at all.

Step 10: Community Service and Other Lists on Your Resume
Where and how to put all those lists of community service, skills, and other things that need a place of their own on your resume.

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6 Classroom Management Tips Every Teacher Can Use

Effective teachers are passionate about educating their students. They want to spend their time teaching, not dealing with classroom disruptions.

Here are some classroom management tips to help teachers settle problems, or prevent them from occurring, so that they can spend more of the classroom hour on teaching and learning.

1. Take Charge of Your Class

Get everyone’s attention before beginning class. That means the lesson won’t be started, the lecture won’t begin, and nothing will be written on the overhead until everyone is in his or her seat paying attention. It doesn’t take a shout of “Let’s be quiet” or “I won’t start until everyone is ready” to get them to focus on you. It can be just as effective to walk to the front of the room and engage them with something interesting to them such as “My thermometer said it was zero this morning. It must have been freezing out there waiting for the bus” or “How many of you saw the Hunger Games?” Open with couple attention getting comments and continue until everyone is with you. Remember, don’t start teaching until all eyes are on you and everyone is in their seat.

2. Focus on the Disruptive Students

If students aren’t paying attention or busy doing other things, get them focused by using nonverbal signals of disapproval. If they are talking, pause and look toward them. If in front of the class, continue with the lesson but walk toward the problem students and stop near their seats, while still teaching. Having you so near usually shuts off the unwanted activity as the rest of the class’s attention is directed toward the misbehaving students. If there is a discussion going, direct a question to the student who is not paying attention or misbehaving. For example, say “Kevin, would you agree that the Battle of New Orleans was the turning point of the War of 1812?” Hearing his name will snap Kevin back to the class activity having the same effect without embarrassing him as if you had said, “Kevin, pay attention!” Remember to use his name when you begin to speak, otherwise he may not hear the question. Calling on a person by name brings almost anyone out of his or her reverie.

If non-verbal cues are disregarded, the next step will be imposing discipline measures within the classroom such as having them stay a few minutes after class or changing their seat.

3. Let Students Choose Their Seats

At the beginning of the school year, let students sit where they want for a few days. Then about the third day tell them that the next class period they should find a seat that they will keep permanently all year. When students choose their seats, they have “ownership” in those seats and tend to behave well in order to avoid being moved.

4. Give Incentives to Do Their Best on Assignments

If an assignment will not be collected and graded individually, students may feel they have no reason to make an effort to do a good job on the no-credit assignment. For instance, a teacher will often do an ungraded warm-up exercise to begin the class hour.

Here’s a strategy to elicit better performance on an ungraded assignment: Tell students you will randomly collect one person’s warm-up assignment and correct it. If that paper has no mistakes, then the whole class will have a shorter (or no) warm-up the next day. If a randomly selected paper is perfect, that student instantly is the class hero.

If the student has not made a real effort, then that student will be given a short homework assignment, due the next day. He or she will be penalized if it is not done. (This homework cannot be done during class time.) In most cases, students will work for peer approval by doing the assignment.

Another strategy to motivate students to stay on task would be to have students who have not stayed on task remain after class for a minute. If there is no penalty for not working, they have no reason to work.

5. Keep an Eye on Your Students

Class goes so much better when you can see your students. Turn your back on them and you may get surprised. Position your so that most, if not all of the class is visible. Watch out for shelves, computer equipment or class supplies that can block your view. When teaching, try to be facing students as much as possible.

As you work with a student at his or her desk, place yourself so you can see most of the class. As you move around the classroom, don’t follow the same pattern. By varying your routine, it becomes harder for students to be disruptive if they don’t know where you will be.

6. Establish Consequences for Misbehaving

Good classroom management starts the first day of school. Once students learn there will be consequences for misbehavior, they usually come around.

Here are three steps to help you set up consequences:

1. Determine what consequences will be effective with your students. Ask yourself what students don’t want to have happen—for example, adolescent students hate staying after class, being moved from a seat they’ve chosen, or receive the disapproval of their peers. Make those your consequences. (The reverse is also true,” Find out what students want to have happen and make that a possibility.” Classroom management doesn’t have to be negative.)
2. Tell students that there will be consequences for misbehavior. First, you will put their name on the board. Tell them that how long they stay after class depends on how the rest of the hour goes. They now control their own destiny. If they behave, they will stay perhaps only a minute. If they continue to cause problems, they will stay longer. Tell them if they become a “model citizen,” you might even erase their name.
3. Follow through with consequences for misbehavior. Show students that you are serious and they will take you seriously.

Classroom management, especially with elementary and junior high age students, never ends. It is an ongoing process, but once the foundation is laid, it only takes occasional reminders. 

 by : David Foley

Example of Classroom Management (Elementary)

Mengais Masa Lalu

 

Kamu selalu mengajariku mengais-ngais masa lalu 

Memaksaku untuk kembali menyentuh kenangan
Terdampar dalam bayang-bayang yang kau gurat secara sengaja
Seakan-akan sosokmu nyata
Menjelma menjadi pahlawan kesiangan
Yang merusak kebahagiaan

Dalam kenangan
kau seret aku perlahan
Menuju masa yang harusnya aku lupakan
Hingga aku kelelahan
Hingga aku sadar
bahwa aku sedang dipermainkan

Inikah caramu menyakitiku?
Inikah caramu mencabik-cabik perasaanku?
Apa dengan melihat tangisku
itu berarti bahagia buatmu?
Apa dengan menorehkan luka di hatiku
berarti kemenangan bagimu?

Siapa aku di matamu?
Hingga begitu sulit kau melepaskanku dari jeratanmu

Apakah boneka kecilmu ini dilarang untuk bahagia?
Apakah wayang yang sering kau mainkan ini dilarang untuk mencari kebebasan?
Mengapa kau selalu perlakukan aku seperti mainan?
Kapan kau ajari aku kebebasan?

Ajari aku caranya melupakan!
Meniadakan segala kecemasan
Meniadakan segala kenangan

Nyatanya derai air mataku
Hanya disebabkan olehmu

Ajari aku caranya melupakan
Sehingga aku lupa caranya menangis
Sehingga aku lupa caranya meratap
Karena aku selalu kenal air mata

Aku hanya ingin tertawa
Sehingga hati aku
mati rasa akan luka

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Setiap Pribadi Brilian Pernah Mengalami Kegagalan

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Setiap orang yang Brilian pasti pernah gagal, tetapi tidak pernah menganggap dirinya sebagai orang yang gagal. sebagai contoh, Wolfgang Mozart, salah satu penggubah musik Brilian pernah dikritik oleh Kaisar Ferdinand yang menganggap operanya berjudul "The Marriage of Vigaro" terlalu bising dan mengandung terlalu banyak not. Pelukis Vincent Van Gogh yang lukisannya mencapai rekor tertinggi dalam nilai penjualan, hanya berhasil menjual satu lukisan seumur hidupnya. Thomas Edison, penemu yang paling banyak membuahkan hasil dalam sejarah, pernah dianggap sebagai anak remaja yang sulit diajar. Begitu juga dengan Albert Einstein pemikir besar di zaman kita, pernah diberitahu oleh seorang kepala sekolah di Munich bahwa ia "tidak akan pernah menjadi orang yang berarti".

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 Setiap orang yang Brilian bisa saja memiliki banyak alasan untuk percaya bahwa mereka adalah orang yang gagal, tetapi mereka tetap bertekun. Saat menghadapi semua kesulitan, penolakan dan kegagalan, mereka tetap percaya diri dan menolak menganggap diri gagal. Tidak jadi masalah di mana Anda pernah gagal atau berapa banyak kesalahan yang Anda buat, jangan membiarkan semua itu menurunkan nilai Anda sebagai seorang pribadi. Seperti dikatakan banyak orang, "Tuhan memakai orang yang gagal, sebab disekitarnya memang tidak ada orang yang tidak pernah gagal". Sama seperti banyak orang, Anda juga mengalami masa-masa sulit menjaga pola pikir yang positif dan mencegah diri untuk tidak merasa sebagai orang yang gagal, tetapi ingatlah selalu bahwa sungguh sangat mungkin untuk memupuk sikap positif tentang diri Anda, tidak peduli keadaan sekitar Anda sekarang atau riwayat hidup Anda di masa lalu. "Biarkan sikap positif Anda yang menentukan cara Anda memandang diri, bukan keadaan sekitar atau masa lalu Anda". (Failing Forward. John C. Maxwell).    

by Motivasi Untuk Generasi Muda Brilian on Monday, January 16, 2012 at 7:39pm                                                                        

Pacar Senja

Senja mengajak pacarnya duduk-duduk di pantai. 
Pantai sudah sepi dan tak akan ada yang peduli.

Pacar senja sangat pendiam: ia senyum-senyum saja
mendengarkan gurauan senja. Bila senja minta peluk, 
setengah saja, pacar senja tersipu-sipu. 
“Nanti saja kalau sudah gelap. Malu dilihat lanskap.”

Cinta seperti penyair berdarah dingin 
yang pandai menorehkan luka. 
Rindu seperti sajak sederhana yang tak ada matinya. 

Tak terasa senyap pun tiba: senja tahu-tahu 
melengos ke cakrawala, meninggalkan pacar senja
yang masih megap-megap oleh ciuman senja.
“Mengapa kau tinggalkan aku sebelum sempat 
kurapikan lagi waktu? Betapa lekas cium 
menjadi bekas. Betapa curangnya rindu. 
Awas, akan kupeluk habis kau esok hari.”

Pantai telah gelap. Ada yang tak bisa lelap. 
Pacar senja berangsur lebur, luluh, menggelegak 
dalam gemuruh ombak. 

(2003)