Does anyone who has AOL know how to get my name to show on e-mails with my username? I have been bumped from mailings because it says this does not show. I have tried all kinds of things, but to no avail.
The Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team still need full year homes for students.. the most "critical" is for Omer from Turkey and Andra from Indonesia. Both are really good kids! They are both interesting, helpful around the house (both cook), good students, and well mannered kids! Please, ask around. We would like to keep them in the schools they are in already, but don't let that limit you. We can have them change schools if need be. They may be in any private or public schools in southern KY or near Nashville for special meetings as they are scholarship students. Keep in mind that one does not have to have siblings and single, widowed and retired folks make great host parents. We have had many great situations were the host sibling attended a private school and the AFSer attended public school. In these cases, the AFSers said he/she has an opportunity to meet more folks while here.
Andra (Male from Indonesia)
Andra attends Hillwood High School. He is on the cross country team and likes to write. He helps his host family with cooking. The host mom in his current family is leaving for Zambia in the middle of October... so we need a new family for him very soon.
In Indonesia, Andra was very active in youth organizations vocal about social problems and awareness. He strongly believes in working to create a better world for today's youth. He also likes to write and participates in the production of his school newspaper. His favorite subject in school is biology and in the future would like to be a child psycologist. He looks up to his father as a role model and likes to help around the house by washing dishes, washing the car and helping his mother cook. Andra has been recognized several times by various organizations for the work he does as an advocate for child welfare. Andra can live with pets and doesn't smoke
Omer (male from Turkey)
Omer is 17. He is mature for his age (at least it seems so to me). Omer likes sports and will be on the soccer team in the spring. He currently attends Hillsboro High School. Omer is also getting very good grades and his English is very good. He is in the IB program at Hillsboro and fluent in Italian as well as Arabic and Turkish. He is considering going into international relations, but also likes the idea of owning his own restaurant/hotel some day. He lived in Italy for a while and is quite self sufficient. He is great with little kids and can live with pets, plus doesn't smoke.
Thanks for any assistance that you may give us. If you would like presentations on our AFS sending programs in the future, please, contact us and we will bring some of our thirty (30) current AFSers and our volunteers to your classrooms.
Sincerely yours, Jenny Myers Watkins College of Art & Design Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team Hosting Coordinator [link removed]
To become better acquainted with the many opportunities with AFS Intercultural Programs for students and teachers come visit us at our booth on October 11th at the October Fest in Nashville. It will be located just off Jefferson Street across from the Bi-Centennial Mall and Farmers' Market.
We have been successfully sending and hosting foreign exchange teachers and students for the past 61 years and have 50 partner countries, currently.
See you there !!!!
Becky Heywood Miss Tennky Area AFS Sending Coordinator [email removed]
I am wondering if anyone has suggestions with getting help/passing the math content knowledge exam. I took the test back in June and scored a 135. You have to have a 136 to pass. I am scheduled to take it again in November.
Linda)GOn 10/17/08, Nicole wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has suggestions with getting > help/passing the math content knowledge exam. I took the > test back in June and scored a 135. You have to have a 136 > to pass. I am scheduled to take it again in November.
Has anyone here had any problems with the lackluster human resources office at MCS? I wonder what goes on there on a daily basis? Love to hear the stories!
HR has many parallels to our ineffective government... incompetence and futility.
On 1/15/09, SO FUNNY AND TRUE!!!!!! by EX-HR Worker!!!!! wrote: > On 12/21/08, WORKING IN HUMAN RESOURCES wrote: >> Friends: Working in HR is as stressful as being a stationary >> engineer in a boiler room. They spend more time eating donuts, >> complaining about their spouses' shortcomings (wink), and watching >> their backsides exceed the size of their seat cushions. Most of the >> time these bureaucrats already know whom they are going to hire but >> by law must publish the openings via periodicals and the internet... >> maybe a few might get a token interview, but otherwise it's all >> staged. It's the ideal job for those who have little ambition, >> slight cranial activity, and are willing to bend the rules in order >> to be accepted and keep their mundane positions. That just about >> says it all...if I have left anything out, please feel free to >> continue the thread! >> >> MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A POLITICALLY INCORRECT NEW YEAR! >>
On 2/04/09, in his words there is truth wrote: > Not only in Memphis but with many other HR offices I have dealt with in my > seemingly mad, endless job search; many HR employees are rude or non- > responsive to earnest candidates. When a potential teacher is applying for > work, normally he or she is sincerely interested in the job for survival > reasons and maybe even wants to make an improvement in young peoples' lives > as a dedicated educator. But to have lackluster, apathetic bunglars > handling their application packages in a haphazard fashion is tragic. If I > worked in HR, I would make every effort to be of assistance to the > applicants. After all, this is part of the job definition. Put a hidden > video camera in most of these HR offices and tape the amount of inactivity > that takes place. Unreal! > > HR has many parallels to our ineffective government... incompetence and > futility. > > > > > > On 1/15/09, SO FUNNY AND TRUE!!!!!! by EX-HR Worker!!!!! wrote: >> On 12/21/08, WORKING IN HUMAN RESOURCES wrote: >>> Friends: Working in HR is as stressful as being a stationary >>> engineer in a boiler room. They spend more time eating donuts, >>> complaining about their spouses' shortcomings (wink), and watching >>> their backsides exceed the size of their seat cushions. Most of the >>> time these bureaucrats already know whom they are going to hire but >>> by law must publish the openings via periodicals and the internet... >>> maybe a few might get a token interview, but otherwise it's all >>> staged. It's the ideal job for those who have little ambition, >>> slight cranial activity, and are willing to bend the rules in order >>> to be accepted and keep their mundane positions. That just about >>> says it all...if I have left anything out, please feel free to >>> continue the thread! >>> >>> MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A POLITICALLY INCORRECT NEW YEAR! >>>
The Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team has many AFS foreign exchange students and AFS volunteers available to speak in your classrooms and civic, PTO(As)and church groups for International Education Week and throughout the year.
Contact Becky Heywood, volunteer and sending coordinator, at [email removed]].
On 11/08/08, Joanna wrote: > I am considering persuing the alternative teaching license > (certificate) in Tennessee. My research has been limited > to the state website ( unable to reach anyone by phone). > Apparently, with a BS degree and 24 credit hours in an > area of concentration and 5 years of work experience in > that same area, it is possible to become licensed to teach > without taking the Praxis II exam. Is there anyone out > there who may be able to give me any insight into this > method of licensing? Any input is appreciated. > Joanna
LorieI don't know of any at all. Most of the job openings are in science or math and then there is not many of them. Some people that I know that have a teaching degree are having to try and find jobs doing other things due to no job openings.
On 11/08/08, curious? wrote: > Does anyone know of any Vocational openings in tennessee?
I am studying from [link removed].