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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...management. I very much relinquished any leadership role, but was available to students for reference and suggestions. The time allowed me to get to know the class in terms of group dynamics, student initiative and motivation. Students led and supported each other in terms of their use of new technologies. Many automatically chose to go to the internet to find information...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...manage pain. The human condition includes pain. But the mind and body don't have to instinctively react to painful experiences. Mindfulness is a skill that allows us to be at least unthinkingly responsive to what is happening in the present so that our overall suffering might be reduced and our sense of well-being improved. Three: Most of us can get really stuck in...
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...management practices and crucially for us here, in the curriculum. A cornerstone of the new curriculum is that it ‘must be appropriate to every learner in every classroom’, with ‘equity and excellence at its core’ that helps to ‘develop our young people as confident, capable and caring citizens’ (Welsh Government, 2017, p. 17). An integral part of this...
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...management of his estates remains a puzzle. Up to the publication of his description of logarithms in 1614, three years before his death, Napier was best known to the world for his Protestant religious treatise A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of Saint John (1594), a well-received work which was translated into several foreign languages. Napier’s interest in...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...management, who receive a bigger service charge if it is calculated last). If VAT is added first, VAT is [Text] of £76. If VAT is added last, VAT is [Text] of £87.40. Hence legally VAT must be added last!...Ratio, proportion and percentages: 3.3.2 Try some yourself - Activity 22 Answer the following questions (a) How much will this tennis racquet cost if VAT at has to...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...managers use formulae when setting up spreadsheets; and special effects organisers use them to calculate safe distances when working with pyrotechnics. Thus practising writing and reading formulae is vital preparation for employment, since the ability to express relationships symbolically and work with algebra is essential in so many careers. Words: 0 Part 2 Consider a...
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...manage to communicate effectively in the pre-emoji era? Language first evolved around 100,000 years ago, allowing our ancestors to communicate simple ideas like 'fire' or 'cave' or more complex ideas like 'your cave is on fire'. About five and a half thousand years ago writing was invented in Mesopotamia, when people started engraving symbols on clay tablets. This marked...
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...management system is based on restorative justice. The impact is immeasurable in my eyes. I think, how you can quantify that is we were Ofsteded at the end of February this year and we came out good across the board and it was noted about our children’s good behaviour and their understanding of restorative justice and it’s just been really empowering for them. In...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs