Air Force Technical School Training -- Phase II

Air Force Technical School Training -- Phase IIAir Force Technical School Training Phase IIThere is Air Force Basic Military Training that is also known as Basic or boot camp that is a recruit transitional training from civilian life to the military. The following training where the newly trained Airmen receives more specialized education and experience in their Air Force Specialty Code (job) is at the Air Force Technical School.Just because the new Airman has finished Basic Military Training, does not mean life in the advanced schools gets easier with newly earned freedoms. In fact, the Air Force will gradually allow the Technical School Airmen to gain their everyday freedoms and privileges back over time. The Air Force once has lesser restrictions on Airmen in Technical School, but with the added distractions of town liberty, many were failing out due to a significant amount of time away from the base, school, studying, and getting into liberty incidents. To ensure success and hig her performance, the Air Force mandated tougher discipline for the new Airmen fresh out of basic training. These restrictions the Air Force places on its Airmen during Technical School training are released like clockwork. There is a certain number of calendar days broken up into three phases of Technical School Training.For instance, Phase 1 lasts from the first through the 14th calendar day and is nearly as rigid in their rules and regulations as Basic Training.Phase II runs from the 15th calendar day through the 35th calendar day, and Phase III continues until completion of Tech School. Phase Two Specifics Within the first two weeks, the Airmen at Tech School have started to figure out the schedule and the effort required to succeed and are therefore granted more freedoms. However, the following restrictions still apply. As with any member in the military, the Airmen start to learn, with greater privileges come greater responsibilities. Airmen are expected to follow, promote, and encourage all Airmen to adhere to standards. They will be held accountable and supervised commensurate with their time in service. During this phase, Airmen will still adhere to the list of requirements below Will remain in uniform and on station during duty hours. If Airmen go off station, they will wear the appropriate blue uniform combination and remain in the local area as determined in writing by the training/operations group commander.No civilian clothes.May consume alcohol if of legal age on base only, but not during the duty week or 12 hours prior to duty.May ride in and operate a private motor vehicle (PMV) after duty hours.Will adhere to a call to quarters (curfew) of 2200 (1000 P.M.) to 0400 (400 A.M.) on evenings prior to duty days and a curfew of 2400 (Midnight) to 0400 on evenings prior to non-duty days. Training/operations group commanders will determine, in writing, call to quarters for Airmen assigned to shifts other than a traditional day shift. Will have thei r ?rooms inspected a minimum of one time while in Phase II. Airmen must keep their rooms according to local guidelines but may personalize their rooms.Willmarch to and from all locations during duty hours.Will participate in a formal open ranks inspection conducted by an MTL a minimum of one time while in Phase II.May use a personal electronic device (such as cell phones and MP3 players) after duty hours only.Will reisepass all required open ranks and room evaluations prior to progressing to Phase III. Units will determine pass/fail to depend on locally developed standards. Documenting Discrepancies and Successes - The Gotcha Form The Air Education and Training Command (AETC) Form 341 in Air Force Basic Military Training is the primary method the Air Education and Training Command uses to document discrepancies and excellence for non-prior service recruits in both Basic Military Training and Air Force Technical Schools. You will have to carry one of these forms with you along w ith your military identification with you at all times while in training. The good news is that these forms can be used for good as well as discrepancies in basic military performance. If you do something well (and someone sees you), you will get leistungspunkt for it. But the same holds true for if you have a poor uniform appearance or somehow out of regulations in your appearance or performance of duties. If an instructor at the training command (Basic Training MTI, Military Training Leader, instructor, Airman leader, etc.) observes you doing something good or bad, they can pull a 341 from you. The instructor will complete the bottom of the form, documenting what they observed and returns the form to your squadron for further action that your chain of command deems appropriate. Just because you are no longer in Basic Training, does not mean you are not supposed to be held accountable for your performance of duties and maintain discipline.

Science says parents of successful kids have this in common

Science says parents of successful kids have this in commonScience says parents of successful kids have this in commonMost parents want their kids to stay out of trouble, do well in school, and go on to live successful lives as adults.And while there isnt a set recipe for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to a handful of factors that predict success.Unsurprisingly, much of it comes down to the parents. Keep reading to take a look at what parents of successful kids have in common.Drake Baer contributed to a previous version of this article.They make their kids do choresIf kids arent doing the dishes, it means someone else is doing that for them, Julie Lythcott-Haims, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University and author of How to Raise an Adult said during a teddy boy Talks Live event.By making them do chores - taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry - they realize I have to do the work of life in order to be part of life, she previously told B usiness Insider.Lythcott-Haims believes kids raised on chores go on to become employees who collaborate well with their coworkers, are more empathetic because they know firsthand what struggling looks like, and are able to take on tasks independently.They teach their kids social skillsResearchers from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University tracked more than 700 children from across the US between kindergarten and age 25 and found a significant correlation between their social skills as kindergartners and their success as adults two decades later.The 20-year study showed that children who could cooperate with their peers, be helpful to others, understand their feelings, and resolve problems on their own were far more likely to earn a college degree and have a full-time job by age 25 than those with limited social skills.Those with limited social skills also had a higher chance of getting arrested, binge drinking, and applying for public housing.This study shows that helpin g children develop social and emotional skills is one of the most important things we can do to prepare them for a healthy future, said Kristin Schubert, program director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the research, in a release.From an early age, these skills can determine whether a child goes to college or prison, and whether they end up employed or addicted.They have high expectationsUsing data from a national survey of 6,600 children born in 2001, University of California at ab dafr Angeles prof Neal Halfon and his colleagues discovered that the expectations parents hold for their kids have a huge effect on attainment.Parents who saw college in their childs future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets, Halfon said.The finding came out in standardized tests 57% of the kids who did the worst were expected to attend college by their parents, while 96% of the kids who did the best were expected to go to colle ge.This falls in line with another psych finding The Pygmalion effect, which states that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. In the case of kids, they live up to their parents expectations.They have healthy relationships with each otherChildren in high-conflict families tend to fare worse than children of parents that get along, according to a University of Illinois study review.A nonconflictual single-parent family is better for children than two-parent families with conflict, according to the review.But, conflict between parents before and after a divorce can affect children negatively.Another study in this review found that 20-somethings who experienced divorce of their parents as children still report pain and distress over their parents divorce ten years later.Theyre educatedA 2014 study from the University of Michigan found that mothers who finished high school or college were more likely to raise kids that did the same.Pulling f rom a group of over 14,000 children who entered kindergarten from 1998 to 2007, the study found that higher levels of maternal education predicted higher achievement from kindergarten to eighth grade.A different study from Bowling Green State University suggested that the parents education levels when a child is 8 years old significantly predicted the education and career level for the child four decades later.They teach their kids math early onA 2007 meta-analysis of 35,000 preschoolers across the US, Canada, and England found that developing math skills early can turn into a huge advantage.The paramount importance of early math skills - of beginning school with a knowledge of numbers, number order, and other rudimentary math concepts - is one of the puzzles coming out of the study, coauthor and Northwestern University researcher Greg Duncan said. Mastery of early math skills predicts not only future math achievement, it also predicts future reading achievement.They develop a rel ationship with their kidsA 2014 study of 243 children born into poverty found that those who received sensitive caregiving in their first three years did better in academic tests in childhood than those who did not receive the same parenting style.Those children also had healthier relationships and greater academic achievement.This suggests that investments in early parent-child relationships may result in long-term returns that accumulate across individuals lives, coauthor and University of Minnesota psychologist Lee Raby said.They value effort over avoiding failureWhere kids think success comes from also predicts their attainment.Over decades, Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has discovered that children (and adults) think about success in one of two ways. Over at Brain Pickings, Maria Popova says they go a little something like thisA fixed mindset assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens that we cant change in any meaningful way , and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.A growth mindset, on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of un-intelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities.Dwecks mindset theory has attracted valid critiques over the years, but the core tenant of believing that you can improve at something is important to encourage in children.The moms workAccording to research out of Harvard Business School, there are significant benefits for children growing up with mothers who work outside the home.There are very few things, that we know of, that have such a clear effect on gender inequality as being raised by a working mother, Harvard Business School professor Kathleen L. McGinn, who led the study, t old Working Knowledge.Daughters of working mothers went to school longer, were more likely to have a job in a supervisory role, and earned more money - 23% more compared to peers raised by stay-at-home mothers.The sons of working mothers also tended to pitch in more on household chores and childcare, the study found.But, working mothers arent necessarily spending every waking minute outside of work with their childrenWomen are more likely to feel intense pressure to balance child rearing with workplace ambitions. Ultimately, they spend more time parenting than fathers do.A 2015 study found the number of hours that moms spend with kids between ages 3 and 11 does little to predict the childs behavior, well-being, or achievement.In fact, the study suggests that its actually harmful for the child to spend time with a mother who is sleep-deprived, anxious, or otherwise stressed.Mothers stress, especially when mothers are stressed because of the juggling with work and trying to find time with kids, that may actually be affecting their kids poorly, study co-author and Bowling Green State University sociologist Kei Nomaguchi told The Washington Post.It could be more beneficial to spend one fully-engaged hour with a child than spend the whole evening half-listening to your kid while scrolling through work emails.They have a higher socioeconomic statusOne-fifth of American children grow up in poverty, a situation that severely limits their potential.Its getting more extreme. According to Stanford University researcher Sean Reardon, the achievement gap between high- and low-income families is roughly 30% to 40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years earlier.As social scientist Dan Pink wrote, the higher the income for the parents, the higher the SAT scores for the kids.Absent comprehensive and expensive interventions, socioeconomic status is what drives much of educational attainment and performance, Pink wrote.This article first appeared on B usiness Insider.Science says parents of successful kids have this in commonMost parents want their kids to stay out of trouble, do well in school, and go on to live successful lives as adults.And while there isnt a set recipe for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to a handful of factors that predict success.Unsurprisingly, much of it comes down to the parents. Keep reading to take a look at what parents of successful kids have in common.Drake Baer contributed to a previous version of this article.They make their kids do choresIf kids arent doing the dishes, it means someone else is doing that for them, Julie Lythcott-Haims, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University and author of How to Raise an Adult said during a teddy boy Talks Live event.By making them do chores - taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry - they realize I have to do the work of life in order to be part of life, she previously told Business Insider.Follow Ladders on Flipboar dFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreLythcott-Haims believes kids raised on chores go on to become employees who collaborate well with their coworkers, are more empathetic because they know firsthand what struggling looks like, and are able to take on tasks independently.They teach their kids social skillsResearchers from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University tracked more than 700 children from across the US between kindergarten and age 25 and found a significant correlation between their social skills as kindergartners and their success as adults two decades later.The 20-year study showed that children who could cooperate with their peers, be helpful to others, understand their feelings, and resolve problems on their own were far more likely to earn a college degree and have a full-time job by age 25 than those with limited social skills.Those with limited social skills also had a higher chance of getting arrested, binge drinking, and applying for public housing.This study shows that helping children develop social and emotional skills is one of the most important things we can do to prepare them for a healthy future, said Kristin Schubert, program director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the research, in a release.From an early age, these skills can determine whether a child goes to college or prison, and whether they end up employed or addicted.They have high expectationsUsing data from a national survey of 6,600 children born in 2001, University of California at Los Angeles professor Neal Halfon and his colleagues discovered that the expectations parents hold for their kids have a huge effect on attainment.Parents who saw college in their childs future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets, Halfon said.The finding came out in standardized tests 57% of the kids who did the worst were expected to at tend college by their parents, while 96% of the kids who did the best were expected to go to college.This falls in line with another psych finding The Pygmalion effect, which states that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. In the case of kids, they live up to their parents expectations.They have healthy relationships with each otherChildren in high-conflict families tend to fare worse than children of parents that get along, according to a University of Illinois study review.A nonconflictual single-parent family is better for children than two-parent families with conflict, according to the review.But, conflict between parents before and after a divorce can affect children negatively.Another study in this review found that 20-somethings who experienced divorce of their parents as children still report pain and distress over their parents divorce ten years later.Theyre educatedA 2014 study from the University of Michigan found that moth ers who finished high school or college were more likely to raise kids that did the same.Pulling from a group of over 14,000 children who entered kindergarten from 1998 to 2007, the study found that higher levels of maternal education predicted higher achievement from kindergarten to eighth grade.A different study from Bowling Green State University suggested that the parents education levels when a child is 8 years old significantly predicted the education and career level for the child four decades later.They teach their kids math early onA 2007 meta-analysis of 35,000 preschoolers across the US, Canada, and England found that developing math skills early can turn into a huge advantage.The paramount importance of early math skills - of beginning school with a knowledge of numbers, number order, and other rudimentary math concepts - is one of the puzzles coming out of the study, coauthor and Northwestern University researcher Greg Duncan said. Mastery of early math skills predict s not only future math achievement, it also predicts future reading achievement.They develop a relationship with their kidsA 2014 study of 243 children born into poverty found that those who received sensitive caregiving in their first three years did better in academic tests in childhood than those who did not receive the same parenting style.Those children also had healthier relationships and greater academic achievement.This suggests that investments in early parent-child relationships may result in long-term returns that accumulate across individuals lives, coauthor and University of Minnesota psychologist Lee Raby said.They value effort over avoiding failureWhere kids think success comes from also predicts their attainment.Over decades, Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has discovered that children (and adults) think about success in one of two ways. Over at Brain Pickings, Maria Popova says they go a little something like thisA fixed mindset assumes that our charact er, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens that we cant change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.A growth mindset, on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of un-intelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities.Dwecks mindset theory has attracted valid critiques over the years, but the core tenant of believing that you can improve at something is important to encourage in children.The moms workAccording to research out of Harvard Business School, there are significant benefits for children growing up with mothers who work outside the home.There are very few things, that we know of, that have such a clear effect on gender inequality as being rais ed by a working mother, Harvard Business School professor Kathleen L. McGinn, who led the study, told Working Knowledge.Daughters of working mothers went to school longer, were more likely to have a job in a supervisory role, and earned more money - 23% more compared to peers raised by stay-at-home mothers.The sons of working mothers also tended to pitch in more on household chores and childcare, the study found.But, working mothers arent necessarily spending every waking minute outside of work with their childrenWomen are more likely to feel intense pressure to balance child rearing with workplace ambitions. Ultimately, they spend more time parenting than fathers do.A 2015 study found the number of hours that moms spend with kids between ages 3 and 11 does little to predict the childs behavior, well-being, or achievement.In fact, the study suggests that its actually harmful for the child to spend time with a mother who is sleep-deprived, anxious, or otherwise stressed.Mothers stre ss, especially when mothers are stressed because of the juggling with work and trying to find time with kids, that may actually be affecting their kids poorly, study co-author and Bowling Green State University sociologist Kei Nomaguchi told The Washington Post.It could be more beneficial to spend one fully-engaged hour with a child than spend the whole evening half-listening to your kid while scrolling through work emails.They have a higher socioeconomic statusOne-fifth of American children grow up in poverty, a situation that severely limits their potential.Its getting more extreme. According to Stanford University researcher Sean Reardon, the achievement gap between high- and low-income families is roughly 30% to 40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years earlier.As social scientist Dan Pink wrote, the higher the income for the parents, the higher the SAT scores for the kids.Absent comprehensive and expensive interventions, socioeconomic status is what drives much of educational attainment and performance, Pink wrote.This article first appeared on Business Insider.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people

Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Agree

Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt notlage AgreeSalary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not AgreeSaying OK or yes to the first salary offer can leave thousands of dollars on the table.The Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation (Part 4) Salary expert Jack Chapman offers 10 lessons on salary negotiation in the vein of the Ten Commandments.After months of preparation, getting your resume fine-tuned, answering ads, researching on the Internet, following up leads and networking with numerous people to find the right job, one word can throw away thousands of dollars.Believe it or not, that word is OK. It may be inexperience in dealing with salary negotiations, or just an anxious moment, that makes you say OK. Either way, blurting out OK to the first salary offer can leave money on the table.Consider what you might do instead. How about memorizing a one-word response that will work in every negotiating scenario?Think of this as a riddle Whats a four-letter word that has no vowels, is not in the dictionary and makes money every time you use it with negotiating precision? Give up? The word is Hmmm - a single word that buys 30 seconds of silence. A 30-second pause really amps up the pressure on employers to offer more.Many of my clients have said this is the one technique that has made them the maximum amount of money with the minimum amount of effort. All you need to do is shut up - harder for some than others, eh? But its doable by anyone.The move is called The Flinch. It works in salary negotiations, raise negotiations, flea markets, used car sales, the sewer repair bill - just about anywhere financial transactions take place. When you hear the other persons first offer, dont say OK. Say Hmmm.Take some time to really ponder it. Check your gut - are you delighted? Neutral? Disappointed? Worried? Give yourself some time and in the seconds of silence the other persons offer is more likely to improve in some way.Dont blabber. Be quiet. Let silence do its work.Read other in stallments in this seriesPart 1 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Speak Too SoonPart 2 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Regret Salary DisclosurePart 3 Salary Negotiation Tips Let the Employer Make the First Salary OfferPart 4 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not AgreePart 5 Salary Negotiation Tips Know How Much Money Youre WorthPart 6 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Covet Thine Own Benefits and PerksPart 7 Salary Negotiation Tips This Is the Job Thou CovetethPart 8 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Worry about Earthly EconomyPart 9 Salary Negotiation Tips Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of Thy Salary in VainPart 10 Salary Negotiation Tips Honor Thy Wealth and Prosperity