Happy 2010 to everyone! Looking forward to this New Year, and we’re starting it off right. We’ve added several more colleges to our ever growing list of continuingeducation providers.
Community Colleges of Spokane (Spokane, WA)
Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College and the Institute for Extended Learning have come together to provide the community a wide array of courses in continuing education. Totaling over 200+ different classes, they have a comprehensive selection of classes from gardening classes to career development courses for this economic climate.
South Puget Sound Community College (Olympia, WA)
Looking to learn how to draw or paint and don’t know where to begin? Need to update your computer skills? Have you always wanted to play the guitar? You’ve come to the right place—whether you want to learn a new skill or just sharpen up one you already have. South Puget Sound Community College has over 190+ classes in the Olympia area for anyone looking to learn something new.
Looking forward to having more colleges join TeachStreet in 2010.
We are always working to make TeachStreet the best website possible. We love the feedback we get from teachers, and take that into consideration when making changes. In the last few months, we have made some big changes to the site and want to take this time to go over what’s new at TeachStreet.
Teacher Tools Page
Now when you log in to TeachStreet as a teacher, the “Tools” tab becomes your “Teacher Tools”. This will display the alert bar, where important notices are circulated. Below the alert bar is a list of actions and tools you, as a Teacher, use on a regular basis. These include your dashboard, your message center, manage payments and listings, request reviews, and more.
Another key feature is the logged in bar. This green bar at the top of the page contains a series of important links, and will be displayed the entire time you are logged in to your TeachStreet account. With this bar, you can easily navigate to your profile, message center, payments, listings, articles, settings, and log out all in one click of a button, no matter where you are on the site.
OnlineClasses
You can now list online classes on TeachStreet. When you create a new session, you have the option of making that session available online. Online classes will be displayed in ‘Online Classes’ search results, regardless of where the student is searching from, as well as in additional Online Classes promotional slots throughout the website.
Session Schedule
We have created a new Session Schedule page. Now when you are on a Listings Page, you can view the different sessions available by clicking the “View Session Schedule” button. This will display the sessions in a table easily identifying the title, when, where, type, taught by and price of each session.
These are just some of the changes we have made to the site recently. Now is the perfect time to check out the changes yourself by logging in to your account today! If you have any questions about the new things at TeachStreet, please check out our Help Center for more information.
Last week we held a Seattle meet-up and did our first ever TeachStreet webinar on Edufire. Thank you to everyone who came to the meet-up, it was a pleasure to meet you all in person and we hope you found the meet-up useful. Also, huge thanks to everyone who participated in the webinar, we loved hearing your questions and feedback.
Did you miss out on the Seattle meet-up? Couldn’t make it to the webinar? Well, now you can view both the slide show and the webinar at your own leisure!
At both the meet-up and webinar, select members of the TeachStreet Team discussed a variety of topics from what’s new at teachstreet.com and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to Social Media marketing and Listings. By viewing the the slide show and webinar, you won’t miss out on a thing.
Thanks again to everyone who participated in the meet-up and webinar, and to Edufire. If you have any questions about the information presented in the webinar, feel free to visit our Help Center to find out more!
They just keep on coming. We’ve just added our largest college to our site in Bellevue College who boasts over 400+ classes in the Bellevue area. Along with Bellevue, we’ve already added classes from Green River Community College. We’re starting to get really great coverage from Shoreline Community College to Clark College loaded in previous weeks to what we’ve loaded just this week.
Bellevue College (Classes in Bellevue, WA)
As the third largest institution of high education in the state Washington, they also have a great Continuing Education program with over 400+ classes. From technology classes to local cooking classes, they most comprehensive selection of classes among technical and community colleges in Washington state. Bellevue College also has classes that begin every week and are offered during the day, evening, and weekend to suit your schedule.
Green River Community College (Classes in Auburn, WA)
With over 170+ classes in the Auburn, WA area — Green River Community College believes in learning as a lifelong process. Whether you want to learn to play the guitar, travel, start your own business or get valuable professional certifications, they can help. Their continuing education classes are convenient, affordable and flexible—you can take them in the morning or evening at one of our campuses or online.
We’re excited to announece we’ve brought on three more colleges onto TeachStreet. They cover wide range of subjects in their communities, so we’re happy to have them on.
Tacoma Community College (Classes in Tacoma, WA)
Focusing on professional development, corporate education, and continuing education — each quarter Tacoma Community Colleges bolsters over 200+ classes in it’s community. If you’re looking to better yourself professionally or even just that Spanish class for the vacation you’re taking to Mexico in the Spring — you can do it here.
TeachStreet.com needs an enthusiastic person to lead customer support.
Come join a fast-paced dynamic team of industry professional building a community website to help people teach or learn anything. We are a venture-backed startup with momentum looking for an experienced and enthusiastic customer experience associate to be the face of TeachStreet with our most important asset – our customers.
This role is critical to our success and as a result you will have both a lot of responsibility and a wide creative latitude. We encourage exceptional candidates to submit an application ASAP.
JobType:
40+ hour a week contract position, with the opportunity to go Full-Time if goals are met. Begins with a 2 week trial period. Compensation based upon experience.
Job Responsibilities: Customer Support & Trouble Shooting
Respond to all customer inquiries by e-mail or phone, provide analysis and reporting of trending issues and customer needs.
Work closely with engineering team to resolve technical issues in a quick and efficient manner; develop and manage escalation process for customer issues.
Become an expert at using TeachStreet: understand how it works, how customers use it and how best to match their needs with our services.
Support new customer onboarding, defining scalable ways to support these customers while making sure that their initial experience as a Pro member is awesome.
Identify and manage top performing teachers, optimize accounts to improve performance.
Evangelize use of the TeachStreet platform and benefits turning casual customers into power users.
Content Creation & Management
Identify points where documentation will improve user experience and efficiency
Organize and complete documentation projects with cross functional teams
Manage the creation of help materials, such as articles, screen casts, and videos
Write regular blog posts on Teacher Tips & Tricks
Job Requirements:
Excellent communication skills, phenomenal written and phone skills, consultative and friendly by nature.
Strong background in help documentation (written, video, screencast, etc.) and a passion for helping explain new concepts or clarify confusing ones required!
Strong interest in technology/knowledge of the Internet industry
Above average problem solving, trouble shooting and analysis skills
Minimum of one year experience in online user support
To Apply:
Please send cover letter (including what you’ve learned or taught recently), resume and your TeachStreet.com profile URL to jobs@teachstreet.com
About TeachStreet
TeachStreet is a dynamic online community that brings motivated learners and talented teachers together. The TeachStreet team is a bunch of dreamers and tech geeks who want to encourage people to get away from their computers, get out into the real world, and learn something new.
We have a high-energy dynamic startup culture with a great mix of enthusiasm and experience and a casual, relaxed office environment. Working here you’ll get great hands-on business experience, jump-start your career and also have some fun in the process.
Despite all the preparation, the long hours of study, the flash cards, the practice tests, the tutoring sessions, and the stress there is no guarantee that come the day of the test nothing will go wrong. Alas it’s true. We are all human and all subject to the many weaknesses this entails. While nothing is guaranteed this post by Martin Sobolewki on Grockit provides some important tips about keeping a cool head, putting your scores in perspective, and even how to deal with the daunting prospective of a retake.
One of the most important things according to Martin is to remember that scores are only one part of the equation, and there are a variety of options for dealing with one that’s lower than you and your schools might want. He reminds applicants that:
“Another thing to keep in mind is that the GMAT is only ONE part of your business school application. Don’t let a lower score keep you from applying to those schools that you have targeted. There are so many other things that the application committee looks for and the GMAT is only one part of your application. Your work experience, undergraduate institution and GPA, extracurricular activities and letters of recommendation, among others, are all just as important in your application. Also, keep in mind that the admission committee at any given school thinks far too erratically than you will ever understand and your application is very subjective in their eyes – you are only some random number on several pieces of paper. Use this as your advantage and show the ad-com that you are better than your test score reveals. There are many ways around the GMAT score and you can also address them in the additional essays that many schools offer.”
For more tips on keeping your head even the face of a disappointing score check out Martin’s full piece on the Grockit GMAT blog.
Looking for the perfect gift for your friend or family member? Tired of facing the crowds at the mall? We have the perfect gift for you. Give the gift of learning with a TeachStreet Gift Certificate!
3 Reasons why people love TeachStreet Gift Certificates:
Freedom to choose what they want to learn
Hundreds of local classes to choose from
(including yoga, piano, and test prep)
Easy to gift wrap!
So if you haven’t gotten that special something for your friends or family, come get a TeachStreet Gift Certificate today.
3 Reasons why people love TeachStreet Gift Certificates:
Freedom to choose what they want to learn
Hundreds of local classes to choose from (including yoga, piano, and test prep)
Easy to gift wrap!
So if you haven’t gotten that special something for your friends or family, come get a TeachStreet Gift Certificate today.
* Gift certificates are valid with any teacher that accepts enrollments using TeachStreet Payments.
As we’re sure you’ve heard before it’s important to be consistent in your test preparation. It’s best to do at least a little review every day. In order to help you on your way we’ve put together a few resources to help you get your daily dose of test prep.
Check out these sites for today’s GRE question of the day:
Asking for letters of recommendation is always difficult. It’s hard to know when to ask, how to ask, who to ask, how much time to give them, and what to tell them you need, but getting all these questions right is essential to gathering recommendations that will make your application stand out from the crowd.
GMAT Ninja, a professional GMAT tutor and B-School admissions consultant, shares some thoughts on the importance of recommendations, as well as some general tips about selecting the most appropriate and effective people for the job.
One great observation from GMAT Ninja is choosing a relevant recommender is very important and that relevance must pay some regard to the timing of their relationship with you. He writes:
“If, for example, your recommender is your supervisor from a job you had eight years ago, he or she might be completely unable to speak competently about your current skills and situation. Worse yet, the recommendation will make the adcom wonder why you can’t get a more recent colleague or supervisor to write a recommendation for you.”
It had never occurred to me that simply choosing an old supervisor might convey an inability to garner a more current opinion. It makes me itch to go back and look at my grad school applications, as I’m pretty sure that I have a manger from one of my first retail jobs as a recommender not because I couldn’t get someone more recent, but because I knew he would be effusive in his praise.
For more about the importance of recommendations to graduate school admissions commissions read the rest of GMAT ninjas post here.
