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Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...et al. (2002) found that 91 per cent said they sometimes withdrew children from classrooms. [Described image] Figure 3 Cindy Bhuhi, bilingual teaching assistant, Lee Infants School, Slough There is a further sense in which teaching assistants have needed to find ‘space’ for their work. As part of a relatively new workforce, they have had to integrate their support...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...et al. (2003) established that formative assessment can make a huge difference to students’ attainment as well as to their attitudes towards learning. This course will ask you to question what it means to make progress in mathematics, to consider what and how to assess, and to challenge assumptions about assessment. Most importantly, you will learn how to use assessment...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...et al., 2017). The next activity gets you to think about how you might have used the internet for health and care. Activity 3 Using the internet for health information Think about how you might use or have used the internet for the purpose of health and care. In the box below, type in three things that describe how you have used the internet for these purposes. Discussion...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...et al. (2010). An individual’s health is enabled or inherited by their social context. Social class and a woman’s context shapes her life, it affects access to material resources and the amount of control women have over their lives. The body is simultaneously social, psychological and biological. It is both through and with a woman’s body that her self-identity is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...article ‘London 2012: Banksy and street artists’ Olympic graffiti’ from the BBC News website (Cafe, 2012), which describes different reactions to the removal of graffiti in London in 2012. What do the comments cited in this article tell us about when graffiti can be considered to be street art worthy of preservation? Make some notes in the text box below. Discussion...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...article from the Guardian on the Kobe earthquake. City consumed by flames Activity 1 Using a newspaper report on the Kobe earthquake The newspaper article reproduced in the above document, reporting the effects of the Kobe earthquake, was published on the front page of the Guardian on 18 January 1995, the day following the earthquake. You may encounter a lot of scientific...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...article from The Guardian...Technology, innovation and management: 2 What is innovation? - As we noted in the introduction, Joseph Schumpeter, a seminal thinker on innovation and economics, argued that capitalism is fundamentally a system of change; capitalism is incapable of remaining static (Schumpeter, 1934). He describes the ‘perennial gales’ of ‘creative...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...article, which includes a video explaining what you can expect to learn....Introducing global development: Introduction - Development is about change that is a result of human activity, and such change has happened throughout human existence. In this course, you will first examine a particular framing of change processes − that associated with industrialisation and the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs