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Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...concept of teacher identity or sense of self as teacher the importance of potential and actual relationships with a number of ‘significant others’ the role of emotion in student teachers’ reasons for becoming a teacher and (more strongly) in their accounts of their early experiences in schools student teachers’ concerns about the relevance of ITP (Individual...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...concept that has many definitions, but is usually associated with being ‘comfortable’, happy, well-adjusted and healthy. Other definitions make reference to the quality of an individual’s life. In relation to children, their level of wellbeing can often be judged in relation to their behaviour. A child who is experiencing a poor sense of wellbeing is more likely to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...concept of ‘complementary skills’. A key difference between a group and a team is that team members work together to achieve the goal. Completing the task or goal would not have been possible alone for it needs skills that are shared across the team. The team is ‘mutually accountable’. While a group may use the same resources to meet their individual goals, it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...concept of ‘right conduct’ and the Te conduct in the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tse. Ethics derives from the Greek word ethos meaning ‘character’. Participant answer 2: Ethics is about balancing between rights and wrongs, rights and responsibilities, individual and society – the underlying concept of ‘good’ and how we can achieve the best possible balance of good...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...concepts that will enable a person-centred approach to care identify the different needs of a cared-for person, at different stages of their care understand the impact that caring may have upon carers, and how this might be managed explain some of the legal responsibilities within the caring role...Introduction and guidance: Before you begin - Spend a few moments thinking...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...concepts and skills required to learn languages successfully in this free course, How to learn a language. This course will introduce you to the skills and strategies you need for language learning. You will be encouraged to set realistic goals when learning a language, and you will be given advice on how to keep motivated to achieve these goals. You will practise...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...concepts of incidence and prevalence. Incidence is given as the rate of new disease cases over a defined period of time, whereas prevalence gives the total proportion of people affected at any one time. The value of antibody testing for SARS-CoV2 was outlined. For COVID-19, infected people usually undergo seroconversion 7-14 days after infection, and they then remain...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...concept of manipulation – comes in many shapes and forms. The Oxford Dictionary, for example, defines influence as ‘the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself’. The American psychologist, Robert Cialdini , in Influence: Science and Practice, (2001), identified six key principles of...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs