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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...autonomous practices managed by a network of formal and informal leaders across an organization’ (Ancona, quoted in Somers, 2022). Another, more radical approach, known as ‘Holacracy’, attempts to distribute leadership between all employees, removing the traditional leader–follower relationship altogether. You’ll find out more about this in Week 7. Even within...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...autonomous adults. Owen, who you met in Section 1, acknowledged that his views changed when he became responsible for his sister Dora. I recall all the comments that my parents used to say: Make sure Dora is okay; Dora must be looked after. All these thoughts come back to me and it does get a bit scary when you've eventually got to take the leap. The carer doesn't believe...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...Système international), was chosen to match the duration of the astronomical second as measured by atomic clocks in 1958. Since 1972, a time scale derived from TAI, known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), has become the basis for all civil and scientific timekeeping. UTC attempts to keep in step with the rotation of the Earth by introducing an occasional ‘leap’...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...autonomous in that sense. I then also began to ask the question, well, what is my role? And I felt that I wanted to see whether I could possibly accelerate this learning so that they might be able to learn faster just as comfortably. And as a consequence, I think I've begun working in ways where I'm quite controlling what's happening in the classroom. I'm very much...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...autonomous and related to others, and enhances self-motivation and mental health. Talk and informal reader-to-reader conversations play a key role in nurturing children’s interest in reading as they recommend books to each other and build reading networks and relationships. In the next section, you will bring together what you have learned so far in Sessions 1 and 2 and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs