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Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...family tree Unit test: writing Unit test: listening Speaking test: out of 28 Classwork: reading Unit 3, page 6 Vocabulary test: schoolbag items, out of 12 Student 1 ✔ Level 2 Level 2 25 B 11 Student 2 ✔ Level 1 Level 2 24 B 11 Student 3 ✔ Level 1 Level 1 24 C 8 Student 4 ✔ Level 2 Level 2 27 A 12 Student 5 ✔ Level 3 Level 3 26 A 12 Student 6 ✔ Level 2 Level 3...
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...family may be locked into a cycle of underachievement. Reflection point Are tests fair?...Assessment in secondary mathematics: 2.1 Marking students’ work - [Described image] Figure 3 What should you be marking? If making progress in mathematics is about getting lots of questions correct, remembering procedures and being able to reproduce them, then marking and giving so...
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...familial ! Sciences et Avenir : Que reprochez-vous le plus à l’enseignement des mathématiques aujourd’hui ? Stella Baruk : De fabriquer toutes ces détresses d’enfants. Je les vois, précoces clients des instituts médico-pédagogiques ou des hôpitaux de jour, se débattre avec une logique qui n’est pas la leur. Je reproche à l’institution de ne pas savoir...
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...history – the students are, in a sense, learning about that subject. That is, they are learning facts and skills, as well as learning how to interpret and apply that knowledge to new situations. In a modern language lesson, the students are not learning about the language, be it French, Spanish, German or Chinese. They are learning the language itself – how to...
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...family, so this may be an important target for improving health of not only the individual but their subsequent offspring...The gut microbiome – balancing the body: 3.2 Early exposure to microorganisms - The gut microbiome starts to develop in a fetus during pregnancy and continues to change rapidly during the first 2-3 years of life (Roswall et al., 2021). There are...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...history of risk management - The word ‘risk’ is thought to derive either from the Arabic word ‘risq’ or the Latin word ‘risicum’. The two possibilities quite neatly combine to give us the meaning for the English term in this context. The Latin word originally referred to the challenge presented to seafarers by a barrier reef and so implied a possible negative...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...family or friendship groups that are formed to meet a wide range of needs such as affection, security, support, esteem, belonging or identity. Some may be committees whose members represent different interest groups and who meet to discuss their differing perspectives on issues of interest. In this reading the term 'work group' (or 'group') is often used interchangeably...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...history – some more successful than others. Some of the earliest examples date back to 3000 BC, when the ancient Egyptians were using copper sulfate to sterilise the water used in their tonics. Zinc was also reportedly used by the Romans to promote the healing of wounds. You will consider some examples of the historical uses of metals in medicine next – starting with...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs