Month: April 2020

HOW USING AI IN RECRUITING ALLOWS HR TO BE MORE HUMAN

There’s a new member of the recruitment team and his name is Al Gorithms. Al is able to parse through a mountain of résumés and find suitable candidates faster than you can send a tweet. He can quickly trawl social media to determine whether candidates are team players, get clues about their work ethic and pinpoint personality traits that may be missing from a standard résumé. And Al isn’t swayed by any bias—he looks solely at data.
With talents like these, it’s not surprising that Al, a building block of artificial intelligence (AI), is having a significant impact on the recruitment process, replacing many of the tasks traditionally performed by people. But that doesn’t mean that we should be writing an obituary for recruiting professionals—far from it. While some processes are indeed becoming obsolete, they are often mundane repetitive tasks that people are happy to delegate to a robot colleague.
Still, though AI won’t replace recruiters, it is changing the roles they play. Here are some ways that using AI in recruiting enables you to be more thoughtful about hiring.

More Opportunities for Personal Connections

Though AI in recruitment is still new, it’s gaining traction. According to the Harvey Nash Human Resources 2017 Survey, 15 percent of HR leaders think AI and automation are already impacting their workplace and 40 percent anticipate that it will affect their plans over the next few years.
As AI technology becomes more commonplace, the differentiating factor for organizations will be the quality of their recruitment team and its ability to be creative and strategic in attracting high-quality candidates.With Al taking care of repetitive tasks, recruiters will have more time to focus on strategic issues and long-term planning. They will also have more time to build personal relationships with candidates. Sure AI can identify talent, but it’s not going to hire the talent—that requires building a rapport with candidates to assess their cultural fit for the company.
With technology speeding up and potentially improving the hiring process, recruiters will become talent advisors to the business, using their market knowledge to steer hiring decisions.

Room for Thoughtful Data Interpretation

Recruitment in the future will be a symbiosis of man and machine, each playing to the other’s strengths. Data will only get you so far—recruiters will still need to understand how to interpret that data and ask the right questions.
It’s also important to give automated recruitment tools the right parameters in the first place. For example, one of the great strengths of technology is that it is impartial and can help cut through the unconscious bias that makes human recruiters unwittingly prefer certain candidates. But machines can still be biased if they are programmed that way. Machines are designed by people, after all.
The most successful recruiters will be the ones who understand the software they are using, know how to program it effectively and are able to analyze the data that emerges. The bottom line is that recruiters need to not only keep up with technology, but also master it.

The Chance to Be a Marketer

It’s a candidate’s market. Top candidates can be picky about where they want to work, so modern recruiters need to put a marketing hat on to ensure their organization is presented as an appealing place to work.
With Al freeing up their time, recruiters need to develop an integrated digital marketing strategy to ensure their brand is presented consistently across media channels and that candidates are given the best possible experience across the board. For example, speed is key. If you take too long to contact a candidate after their application is submitted, or if the application process itself is too complex, then that candidate will go knocking on your competitor’s door.
The digital economy is having a profound effect on recruitment and the skills that recruiters need. It’s a real opportunity for recruiters who are data-driven, people-focused and have a keen eye for branding and marketing to take strategic center stage.

Technology in the Classroom: Silent Light App Review

The classroom management app Silent Light uses lights as an indication of whether you class is on- or off-task.
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Vocabulary Activities that Get Kids to Love New Words
Getting kids to learn new words is arguably the most important task teachers have. Indeed, people with larger vocabularies are better at getting their point across, and are more largely understood.
Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox looks at some ways teachers can encourage kids to learn how to love new vocabulary words.
Janelle’s activities include:
  • Create a word wall
  • Play word games
  • Word of the day
  • And more!

Overall, by getting kids to learn new vocabulary words, you’ll be enabling them to become better students overall, not just in English. And the words they learn now will empower them for college and career readiness!
How do you get students to love learning new words? Do you have any tips, tricks, or fun activities that you do in your classroom?
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Bring Play into the Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards have been tagged as being complicated, overly dogmatic, and inconsequential, among other things. The Common Core State Standards have never, to our knowledge, been lumped in with anything “fun.”
But today on TeachHUB.com, regular writer Janelle Cox asserts that despite the Standards’ stodgy reputation, elements of “play” can still make their way into a Common Core State Standards-based classroom.
Some ideas:
  • Create Learning Stations
  • Have a Fun Friday
  • Create Choice Boards

How to Get a Teaching Job: A Resume Guide

Today on TeachHUB.com, we published a perfect article for those of you looking for tips on how to get a teaching job. Our post, penned by frequent TeachHUB.com contributing writer Janelle Cox, is a step-by-step guide on creating one, and includes the mandatory elements as well as optional elements and resume aesthetics.

Janelle’s resume elements include:

Education
Experience
Interactive Field Experience
And more!

Each element includes detailed descriptions and examples.

Janelle sums up her article like this: “There is no correct way to format your resume. You have the choice of how you want to represent yourself. However, the elements that are listed above are the suggested ways that many career centers follow. Teaching resumes should be aesthetically pleasing to the eye, so it is recommended to follow the tips suggested.”
How do you format your teaching resume? Do you have any tips for teachers? Please share, we would love to hear your thoughts.
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5 Summer Activities to Keep Students Learning
Students and teachers alike are anticipating the end of the school year, and the two-month break that then commences, giving all a chance to rest and recharge before the back-to-school process begins anew.
•   Go Geocaching (a scavenger hunt)
•   Play an instrument
•   Keep a Journal
•   And More!
Oftentimes, however, the two-month break can bring about the dreaded summer slide, a phenomenon which occurs when kids forget a certain amount of what they’ve learned during the year.
Thankfully, there are ways that parents can encourage summer learning, and in a fun and playful way. Today on TeachhUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator as well as a known education writer, enlightens us on how we can encourage parents to continue the learning process through June and July. Janelle’s ideas include:
 By partaking in a few of the activities outlined in today’s article a few times a week, parents (with the advice of teachers) can help avoid the dreaded summer slide. By promoting simple and fun summer enrichment activities, you can bet your students will return to school in August ready to learn.
Do you have any suggestions on how to keep students learning all summer long so they won’t get that dreaded summer brain drain?

Top 12 Ways to Enjoy Your Job

You work hourly, daily, continually, and purposefully toward creating a school experience that is satisfying for your students. But what about you? What are you doing to ensure that your school is a wonderful place to teach as well as learn?

With summer drawing near, it’s the time to stop counting down the days until break and start enjoying your job.

Here are 12 tips to help you make the most of your school days:

Amp Up Your School Social Life

1. Don’t Hunker Down: Escape from your classroom once in awhile.
While sometimes we need to insulate ourselves, take a quiet moment or maximize our classroom downtime, it’s also imperative that we actively, consistently, and intentionally seek time and space with peers. Use this brief change of scenery and moment away from the classroom to come up for air.

2. Let’s Do Lunch: Eat lunch with your peers, not alone at your desk.
The time you have in school is rarely your own. Lunch is one moment in your day when you get to seek others out. Don’t let this daily opportunity escape you.

Teaching Strategies to Promote a Self-Directed Classroom

Great teachers know that the way to instruct effectively is to use teaching strategies that encourage students to find answers on their own. This is called a self-directed classroom.

With that in mind, today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator based in Upstate New York, takes a look at some teaching strategies that bring about a self-directed classroom.

Janelle’s ideas include:

  • Make it OK to Fail
  • Study Role Models
  • Identify the Negatives
  • And More!


Janelle sums upper her article thusly, in a paragraph entitled “Boost Students’ Confidence”: “From time to time, try and bolster students’ confidence by discussing their strengths or abilities. Try and find something about each student that you can celebrate to help boost their confidence. Confidence building is a known way to increase students’ self-assurance and make them feel more independent.”

In what ways do you promote a self-directed classroom? Please share your tips with us!

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Classroom Activities to Promote Nutrition & Health
Because it’s National Nutrition Month, periodically we’re spotlighting ways that educators can promote a healthier classroom, whether it be through classroom activities that feature movement or even ways to have a better classroom snack.
Today onTeachHUB.com is a perfect example of that. Frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox calls out some fun and engaging ways that educators can promote health and nutrition. She breaks her article into those two distinct (and logical) pieces, and offers up classroom activities for each, including:
•    Mental Fitness
•    Relaxation
•    A Balanced Diet
•    Food Diary
•    And More!
Janelle reminds us to always emphasize that it is the students’ own responsibilities to maintain a healthy lifestyle and diet.
How are you celebrating National Nutrition Month in your classroom? Do you have any fun activities to promote health and nutrition that you would like to share?

YouTube Rolls Out School-friendly Video Site

YouTube has been an educational resource with tremendous potential that teachers have been wanting to tap into for years. School bans and content concerns have gotten in the way… until now.

With YouTube for Schools, school can block the main YouTube while giving teachers and students access to educational videos for free.

The video site has created a new education section called YouTube EDU that allows schools to use educational videos from the world’s largest video sharing platform without opening the door to inappropriate or time-wasting content.

Schools can also add their own videos to their channel, customize their video playlists and keep their student video uploads private. YouTube Teachers lets you search by grade level and subject matter.

Even if your school didn’t block YouTube before, this seems to make using the site to teach easier and less stressful for teachers (at least in theory).

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HOW USING AI IN RECRUITING ALLOWS HR TO BE MORE HUMAN

There\’s a new member of the recruitment team and his name is Al Gorithms. Al is able to parse through a mountain of résumés and find suitable candidates faster than you can send a tweet. He can quickly trawl social media to determine whether candidates are team players, get clues about their work ethic and pinpoint personality traits that may be missing from a standard résumé. And Al isn\’t swayed by any bias—he looks solely at data.
With talents like these, it\’s not surprising that Al, a building block of artificial intelligence (AI), is having a significant impact on the recruitment process, replacing many of the tasks traditionally performed by people. But that doesn\’t mean that we should be writing an obituary for recruiting professionals—far from it. While some processes are indeed becoming obsolete, they are often mundane repetitive tasks that people are happy to delegate to a robot colleague.
Still, though AI won\’t replace recruiters, it is changing the roles they play. Here are some ways that using AI in recruiting enables you to be more thoughtful about hiring.

More Opportunities for Personal Connections

Though AI in recruitment is still new, it\’s gaining traction. According to the Harvey Nash Human Resources 2017 Survey, 15 percent of HR leaders think AI and automation are already impacting their workplace and 40 percent anticipate that it will affect their plans over the next few years.
As AI technology becomes more commonplace, the differentiating factor for organizations will be the quality of their recruitment team and its ability to be creative and strategic in attracting high-quality candidates.With Al taking care of repetitive tasks, recruiters will have more time to focus on strategic issues and long-term planning. They will also have more time to build personal relationships with candidates. Sure AI can identify talent, but it\’s not going to hire the talent—that requires building a rapport with candidates to assess their cultural fit for the company.
With technology speeding up and potentially improving the hiring process, recruiters will become talent advisors to the business, using their market knowledge to steer hiring decisions.

Room for Thoughtful Data Interpretation

Recruitment in the future will be a symbiosis of man and machine, each playing to the other\’s strengths. Data will only get you so far—recruiters will still need to understand how to interpret that data and ask the right questions.
It\’s also important to give automated recruitment tools the right parameters in the first place. For example, one of the great strengths of technology is that it is impartial and can help cut through the unconscious bias that makes human recruiters unwittingly prefer certain candidates. But machines can still be biased if they are programmed that way. Machines are designed by people, after all.
The most successful recruiters will be the ones who understand the software they are using, know how to program it effectively and are able to analyze the data that emerges. The bottom line is that recruiters need to not only keep up with technology, but also master it.

The Chance to Be a Marketer

It\’s a candidate\’s market. Top candidates can be picky about where they want to work, so modern recruiters need to put a marketing hat on to ensure their organization is presented as an appealing place to work.
With Al freeing up their time, recruiters need to develop an integrated digital marketing strategy to ensure their brand is presented consistently across media channels and that candidates are given the best possible experience across the board. For example, speed is key. If you take too long to contact a candidate after their application is submitted, or if the application process itself is too complex, then that candidate will go knocking on your competitor\’s door.
The digital economy is having a profound effect on recruitment and the skills that recruiters need. It\’s a real opportunity for recruiters who are data-driven, people-focused and have a keen eye for branding and marketing to take strategic center stage.
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Mistakes on School Websites You Must Avoid at All Costs

A school website acts a conduit between that institution and its students and their parents (even grandparents). Therefore, it’s imperative that a school have a living and breathing website that is easy to navigate, among other things.
Today on TeachHUB.com, guest contributor Matt Harrell examines the five most-common school website mistakes, including:
Outdated Technology
No Testimonials
Too Much Text
What nervewracking things on school websites drive you crazy? Let us know!
Learn the 5 things you need to avoid when building out your school’s website >>
Ways Your School Can Feel the Thanksgiving Spirit
Thanksgiving is the best time of year to celebrate this country’s most pure holiday.
Today, frequent TeachHUB.com contributor Jordan Catapano looks at some different ways that educators can celebrate this wonderful season, including:
Decorations
Giving/Donations
Studying
These are just some of the ways your class and your school can celebrate this holiday together. What are some of your own favorite Thanksgiving activities that you’ve enjoyed?  
Read more non-traditional ways your school can enjoy Thanksgiving >>
22 Ways to Add Rigor to Your Classroom
Recently on TeachHUB.com, we listed out 22 ways that teachers can add rigor to the classroom. Rigor is quite the educational buzzword of late, and writer Jacqui Murray wades through the jargon to give you operative tips on injecting rigor into your curriculum.
Some samples:
•  Expect inquiry.
•  Face unknown questions with a smile.
•  Focus on exceptional expectations.
•  Support students so they can reach high expectations.
Learn some quick ways to add rigor today >>
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11 Back-to-School Activities for the First Month

We’re all already knee-deep (well, maybe ankle deep) into the new school year. Some of us are immersed in chaos, others are already inspiring their legions of 2017-20187 students.
Regardless of how your class is coming along, you can probably use some helpful back to school activities to help you along. With that in mind, frequent TeachHUB.com contributing writer Jacqui Murray, who is a seasoned technology teacher based in Northern California, takes a look at some “Activities I\’ve collected from colleagues using transformative tools that optimize learning while making students active participants in expected learning outcomes.”
Jacqui’s ideas include:
  • Create a Timeline of Class Events
  • Class Rules
  • QR Codes
  • Virtual Collaborative Board


And More!

Jacqui sums up her article like this: “Whatever you do, make it a dynamic example of what is in store for students this school year. Leave them energized, excited, and ready to participate in a year\’s worth of learning.”

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10 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most students have a basic understanding of the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr. They comprehend that he was synonymous with freedom, justice, and equality, among other traits.

But how deep does your students’ understanding of Dr. King go? Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Jordan Catapano outlines several tactics educators can use to get their kids to gain a more thorough grasp of the importance of the civil rights icon, including:
  • Read “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
  • Encourage kids to make speeches of their own
  • Compare Dr. King to others
  • And more!

All in all, it’s important to help your students understand that MLK Day is about more than just a day off.
How do you recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. in your classroom?
Learn new ways to celebrate MLK Day>>
Beating Teacher Burnout Through Motivation
Oftentimes, educators of every level of experience focus on how to motivate students, all the while neglecting how to keep themselves motivated.
Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox tackles the treacherous issue of teacher burnout and lays out several methods by which teachers can motivate themselves this season, including:
  • Use Motivational Quotes
  • Control Your Work Space
  • Start Fresh Each Day
  • And more!

Successful teachers are self-motivators, and have mastered the fine art of self-motivation and know what works and what doesn’t.
How do you motivate yourself throughout the school year? Do you have tips or tricks that work well for you?
Get our ideas on how to motivate yourself this time for year>>
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Awesome Lesson Ideas to Integrate Science Across the Curriculum

It’s easy to feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the school day to properly address all the curriculum expectations that we must teach our students.  The challenging part is addressing curriculum expectations in a meaningful way where students are engaged and motivated throughout the lesson.

One of the most powerful strategies that we have ever learned as teachers is taking a cross-curricular approach in planning lessons and units for the school year, as we are able to incorporate curriculum expectations from various subject areas to create an engaging activity.

By developing cross-curricular activities that are both fun and motivating, teachers can easily integrate science into different subject areas—it only requires a bit of planning and creativity!

We all know that Science and Math are easy to teach together, but did you know that Science can be creatively woven into other subject areas? Science can be integrated into English Language Arts, The Arts, Health & Physical Education and Social Studies to create engaging lessons and activities that your students will just love!

Here are some easy ways to integrate science across the curriculum.

Video Writing Prompts: Sound of Music Dance Party

3-5: Contagious Rhythm
If you were in the train station, would you have joined the dancers? Why do you think so many different kinds of people (young & old, boys & girls) joined in?

6-8: Ballroom Brainstorm
There are many different kinds of dances. Brainstorm as many forms of dancing as you can. What do all of those dances have in common?

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