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A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...working within the Welsh education system, but the messages about the principles of effective mentoring and coaching and the important role mentors have as teacher-educators within the school-based context remain the same across education systems. The course will aid your understanding of the role of a mentor supporting a beginner-teacher as they progress along a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...work of poetry published. Finally, her childhood reading reveals the paucity of previous women poets as role models. While 15 of the 50 books in the search results are by women, only one volume of poetry, her own long poem The Battle of Marathon (1820), is by a female author (UK RED: 16095). Her reading and response to Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...work of some famous illustrators for children understand how the use of images in children’s books has changed over time and what it means to create books for the specific audiences of children and their carers...Exploring books for children: words and pictures: 1 Words and pictures in children’s fiction through the ages - There is evidence that children were reading...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Folkestone
Education & Development

Folkestone

...works and what the risks are. French as you can stand on the cliffs in Folkestone and see Boulogne in France on the other side. France and England are linked by the Channel tunnel and regular ferry services, so learning the language would come in handy if she decided to visit France. Key political issues in the town including Brexit and people crossing the border. [Banner...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Much more than an archive
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Much more than an archive

...work-in-progress. [A selection of photographs from our meetings.]A selection of photographs from the meetings. [A selection of photographs from our meetings.]A selection of photographs from the meetings. Download the archive (PDF, 37MB)[Image link to download of full archive in a PDF file] Acknowledgements With thanks to project photographer Marie Therese Hurson, Stills...
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Article 5 mins
A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?

...work support, and student services. Additionally, below is a list of useful resources and helplines: Mind's information and support pages Call the Samaritans on 116 123, for free or look at the other ways of contacting them. The NHS Mental health - live well pages The NHS overcoming addiction pages This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection'...
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Activity 20 mins
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...work out how to deal with some of the associated challenges of caring for a family member with learning disabilities as they grow older. Based on case studies from our research, the course will do this by exploring planning for the future and some of the skills and resources that are useful to do this. Links to useful sources of information and organisations are provided...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...work with a carer, or know someone who one? This free course, Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role, is designed to give an insight into the demands, both physically and mentally, of the caring role and look at how taking part in physical activity can offer benefits to the health and wellbeing of carers. Given the demands of the caring role, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs