This document defines key academic vocabulary words related to careers, continuing education, retirement planning, transferable skills, colleagues, teamwork, philanthropy, diversity, and other topics. Example sentences are provided for each term to help illustrate its meaning in context. Key terms defined include pension plan, transferable skills, colleagues, nonpartisan, information technology, teamwork, collaborate, and philanthropy.

1. CAREERS,
THE WORLD,
AND ME
Academic Vocabulary

2. Continuing
Education
Classes or training
to learn new skills
or to stay certified
and knowledgeable
of current
information in a
specific profession.

3. PENSION PLAN:
A REGULAR PAYMENT
MADE DURING A
PERSON'S RETIREMENT
FROM AN INVESTMENT
FUND TO WHICH THAT
PERSON AND/OR THEIR
EMPLOYER HAS
CONTRIBUTED DURING
THEIR WORKING LIFE.
PLAN FOR SETTING ASIDE
MONEY TO BE SPENT
IN RETIREMENT..
My neighbor lives on his pension, he was a
mailman for 30 years.

4. Transferable Skills
The skills you've
gathered through
various jobs,
volunteer work,
hobbies, sports, or
other life
experiences that
can be used in your
next job or new
career.
Volunteering at KC Pet Project gave me the opportunity to
plan a fundraiser. I was involved in all aspects of the social
media marketing.
(This experience would be a great example of a
transferable skill.)

5. Resignation
A formal statement or
document, stating that
one gives up
an office, position, job
etc...

6. Colleagues:
A fellow member
of a profession,
staff, or academic
faculty; an
associate.
The professor’s colleagues started a scholarship in
his name after he died.

7. Nonpartisan:
not partisan;
especially free
from party
affiliation, bias, or
designation.
Unbiased
decision making
or choices.
For the country to move forward it will take a
non-partisan effort.This means both political
parties must work together.

8. Information
Technology: the
technology involving
the development,
maintenance, and use
of computer systems,
software, and
networks for the
processing and
distribution of data
Every large company has an information
technology department.

9. Teamwork: work
done by several
associates with
each doing a part
but all subordinating
personal
prominence to the
efficiency of the
whole. Working
together to achieve
a common goal.
Winning the state championship
took a great deal of teamwork!

10. Collaborate: to
work jointly with
others or together
especially in an
intellectual
endeavor.
My boss asked my colleagues to collaborate on the fundraiser
for the American Cancer Society.The goal is to raise $20,000.

11. Philanthropy: altruistic
concern for human welfare
and advancement, usually
manifested by donations of
money, property, or work to
needy persons, by
endowment of institutions of
learning and hospitals, and
by generosity to other
socially useful purposes. The
United Way is a philanthropic
organization.
If you donate money to a charity or volunteer to help
people in need, you can call your good
deeds philanthropy.

12. Diversity: the condition
of being diverse.
Non-likeness between
people or things.
People of different
backgrounds, cultures,
ideas, or belief
systems.
There are more than 50 languages spoken in the North Kansas City
school district.This diversity allows for students to appreciate other
cultures!