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September, 2010

Dog Obedience Trainer – Course of The Week

Dog Obediance

If you love working with and training dogs, you possess compassion for animals and a tremendous amount of patience then maybe you should become a dog obedience trainer. Dogs are social animals and if they’re not provided with proper training, they can become destructive: soiling a house, destroying belongings, fighting other dogs, barking excessively or even biting people. As a future dog trainer be prepared to deal with it!

Dog obedience trainers work closely with dogs to correct behavioural problems and to train dogs to interact socially with people and other animals. The aim of this job is to help to open up basic communication between dog and owner, and allow for a much better relationship between the two.

Learning to become a dog trainer can begin while you’re still in high school by taking courses in biology, psychology, English, and physical education. During summer vacation you could volunteer with an animal shelter to get some experiences with animals. Certificate programs in dog obedience training are offered through a variety of schools, where you will learn training methods based on positive motivation and reinforcement, appropriate for the specific breed of dog and it´s temperament.

Highland Canine Training Harmony – NC, offers dog training certification programs with specializations in basic or advanced obedience training, behaviour modification, police K-9 training, detection, search and rescue, competition, obedience or sport-dog training.

At K-9 Companions Riverside – CA, to become a Certified Dog Trainer the dog trainer must complete the book work, tests and hours, plus have 1 years worth of practical experience working with dogs and clients under the supervision of a professional dog trainer.

The Animal Behaviour College’s Dog Obedience Instructor Program is structured to offer each student the convenience of a home study with the benefit of working one-on-one with a professional trainer.

Completion of a course allows you to take a licensing exam through the National Association of Dog Obedience Instructors (USA) or its equivalent in your country.

Cooking Lessons to Become Compulsory in the UK

Chikara Kakizawa

A recent survey found that 75% of British children can’t boil an egg and in Australia obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness. Obesity in Britain has been rising since the 1980s, when ready-made and microwave meals as well as cake mixes became more prevalent in British supermarkets. It’s scary that today’s children don’t know how to cook at home, but it´s because their parents were never taught to cook. If you cannot cook properly it is impossible to know how to eat properly.

In Britain a 1 hour cooking lesson per week is, at least theoretically, compulsory for primary school children. In 2008 the British Government announced that cookery would be compulsory for 11-14 year-olds from 2011 . The Australian Government is now considering implementing cookery in schools too.

Many specialists agree that while cooking, children learn skills that benefit in other subjects, such as mathematics (measurements), chemistry (following instructions and chemical reactions) and language (through reading).

Cooking lessons at school teach the importance of a healthy balanced diet, nutrition and the importance of getting enough vitamins in an easy and fun way. They also make children more responsible and conscious consumers who know how to shop for food. The top five meal suggestions that a teenager should know how to prepare are soup, risotto, spaghetti bolognese, shepherds pie and casserole.

As a result of the British Government’s decision, there is an urgent need to recruit more food technology teachers and to give further training to current teachers. Pursuing a career in cookery might just be an excellent choice, so get it while it´s hot !

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Sep 10

Spanish to Become Most Spoken Language by 2045

The Spanish letter "ñ" on a keyboard

It is estimated that by the year 2045, Spanish will be the most widely spoken language in the world. Humberto Lopez Morales, the secretary of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, claimed that this is predicted by evaluating several factors. Perhaps the most prolific of these is that Spanish is the second most-learned language in the world (behind English). He also highlights the advantage of speaking another language in economic powerhouses such as the United States, where being bilingual opens the door to the labour market. This contributes to the number of people learning Spanish, and in the US almost 16% of the population are Spanish speaking.

There are currently more than 500,000,000 people in the world that speak Spanish; including native, bilingual and foreign-language speakers. It is the third most widely spoken language in the world, and the second when referring to native speakers alone. I can´t think of a better reason to start learning a language today! Here are some courses to check out:

Expanish in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offer small group classes of 20 hours a week. The average group size is 4 people, and students can practice conversation, engage in group activities and improve sentence structure with their fellow classmates. Expanish believe the best approach to learning a language is to also learn about the culture and how the two intertwine. They organise a number of activities and workshops so that students can apply the Spanish that they have learned in the classroom to real life situations.

In Colombia the Spanish World Institute have Spanish courses for students to learn Spanish as a foreign language. Their academic programs look for a deeper understanding of the Colombian culture, through cross-cultural education, personalised attention and dynamic teaching methods in a professional and friendly atmosphere and they also offer voluntary programmes.

If you have an interest in a particular country I would recommend that you choose to study Spanish there, as most of the programs involve learning about the local culture and customs as well, which is an added bonus. Suerte! (good luck!)

Reference: Wikipedia