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Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...simple. Clutterbuck (2008) highlights the features that they seem to have in common; both: require, and draw upon, the helper’s experience involve giving advice in some form coaching and mentoring are based on goals set by, or for, the learner methods deal with significant transitions the learner wishes to make deal with personal growth ambitions. However, there are key...
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...code human and divine’. It would only be natural that an author reading such reviews of their work would feel disheartened, and Charlotte Brontë wrote to her publisher on 17 November 1847, ‘The Spectator seemed to have found more harm than good in Jane Eyre, and I acknowledge that distressed me a little’ (UK RED: 28479). But for the most part, Brontë accepted the...
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...codes of society and human desire to push against them, self-consciously and sometimes subversively. To access these operations Greenblatt is interested in those aspects of culture that don’t fall neatly into place. Texts and images are marked not by coherence and unity but, as he writes elsewhere, by ‘fields of force, places of dissension and shifting interests,...
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...codes, values and norms that govern scientific practice...’ (Chapter 1, page 19) and Merton's ‘CUDOS norms of Communalism, Universality, Disinterestedness, Originality and Scepticism’ (Chapter 4, p. 48). These ‘norms’ – by which we mean the types of informal social rules that are learnt and enacted, as people practice science professionally – are examined in...
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...simple decimal system based on the number 10. One way to do this is by imagining a clock and saying, ‘From 9:35 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. is 25 minutes; 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. is an hour and 11:00 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. is an extra ten minutes. So the journey time is 1 hour and 35 minutes, assuming the train runs on time.’ Now you have one more step. To find out how much you...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...simple functions. Section 3 introduces rates of change by looking at real life situations. Section 4 looks at using the derivative of a function to deduce useful facts for sketching its graph. Section 5 covers the second derivative test, used to determine the nature of stationary points and ends by looking at rates of change, including the real-life situation, using...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...simple and straightforward, but truly listening – without interrupting or making any possibly unwanted suggestions – can be surprisingly difficult. Non-judgemental listening ensures the coachee has space to reflect and think of actions or next steps. Within a coaching dialogue, the coach’s ability to listen is considered particularly important (Cheliotes and Reilly,...
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...Simple circuits form first, providing a foundation for more complex circuits to build on later. [MUSIC PLAYING] Through this process, neurons form strong circuits and connections for emotions, motor skills, behavioural control, logic, language, and memory during the early critical period of development. With repeated use, these circuits become more efficient and connect...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs