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Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...adults in a child’s life should be able to relate to them and encourage them in similar ways. To get a sense of the extent to which parents and carers can be involved in children’s education, you will now explore how they: are educators give ‘background’ support to practitioners work alongside practitioners...2. A ‘partnership with parents and carers’?: 2.2.1...
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...adult service users (Gilligan, 2009; Smith and Hollinger-Smith, 2015). Simply defined, it refers to people’s capacity to constructively protect themselves – and rebound – from stress. In the workplace, stress is ‘the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work’ (Weinberg and Murphy, 2013). It is important...
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...adult stage they continue to be carnivorous. They eat midges and gnats and mosquitoes, butterflies, bees, very often each other. That's what they eat. And they're eaten in turn by birds. Hobbies, for example, make a particular speciality of catching dragonflies. NARRATOR Now part of the terrestrial food web, adult damselflies and dragonflies are also prey for a diversity...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...adults (mainly pregnant women attending for antenatal care) and there is a delivery couch in a side room. However, around 90% of rural women choose to give birth in their own homes with a Health Extension Worker present or a traditional birth attendant. Postnatal sepsis and haemorrhage are the main reasons for the high mortality rate: remember it was 4.4 maternal deaths...
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...adult woman with her cloak pulled up over her head. Figures 8-10 are all children standing in the foreground and interacting in various ways with the adults. Figure 8 is a small boy wearing an imperial toga. Figure 9 is a slightly older boy wearing an imperial toga. Figure 10 is a girl of around 10-14 wearing a toga.] Figure 21 Relief showing a religious procession on the...
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...adults. For example, teachers in universities normally address their adult students using vy, while school teachers use ‘normal’ singular ‘you’ –ty when they address children. However, adults use ‘ty’ talking to their friends. Now listen to the dialogue again. Audio 3 Take a closer look (Audio 3 transcript) Let’s look at the dialogue in Audio 2 in more...
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...adults and children actually need to see it happen in order to believe it. After the first cut, you should have a band that was twice as long as the original and half the width. The second cut produces two connected bands of the same length but half the width – a less obvious result. A useful general strategy for stimulating pupils’ curiosity and channelling the...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...adult status. Conversations between two adults, where one is the teacher and the other the student teacher, can be uncomfortable and non-productive unless both participants feel that their contributions are valued. This can particularly be the case if the student teacher has had previous experience of other school contexts or alternative approaches to subject pedagogy....