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Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...adults learn. There are a number of programs intended to teach children basic mathematics and English skills. Other examples include programs designed to train people in computer skills or to help them learn new languages. Games represent a large sector in the computer software market. While many run on dedicated game consoles rather than PCs, some make use of the PC's...
Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...adult leaders retain power over the spaces to be heard, they exclude voices that they see as not acceptable, relevant or intelligible. Despite the efforts of the teacher to facilitate leadership amongst the students and facilitate interactions with the staff, the goals and structures of activities are framed by the institution and as a result seem to reinforce existing...
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...adult social care complaints [Online]. Available at www.lgo.org.uk/news/2012/jul/lgo-reports-key-emerging-trends-adult-social-care-complaints/ (Accessed 8 January 2014)...Social care in the community: Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...Adults regularly use aspects of logical thinking in their organisation and decision making processes, doing mathematics can develop cognitive ‘muscles’ such as proportional reasoning, pattern-spotting and visualisation. Mathematics lessons have the potential to teach learners how to think, preparing them not only for specific everyday contexts or commonplace careers,...
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...adult reader is unlikely to ‘just read’ Ovid for the stories but will rapidly become engrossed in interpreting their motifs, themes and mixed messages. This is not to suggest that Ovid is producing a theory or theories of myth but he is clearly manipulating myths to yield their full potential as cultural, social and ideological barometers...Icarus: entering the world...
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...adults’, Current Psychiatry Reports, vol. 17, no. 2, article 7. doi: 10.1007/s11920-014-0543-z. Barclay, T.H. and Barclay, R.D. (2014) ‘A clinical trial of cranial electrotherapy stimulation for anxiety and comorbid depression’, Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 164, pp. 171-17. Benning, T.B. (2015) ‘Limitations of the biopsychosocial model in psychiatry’,...
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...adults, but I wish they’d act that way. Some days it’s like they’re fighting in a school playground. I don’t know if they expect me to be their headteacher, but it’s not something I’m comfortable with. Previous attempts to talk to any of them about this have wound them up further. That said, I’ve got to do something; it can’t go on like this – it seems...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...adult and child athletes? In doing so, you will focus on three preventative strategies: preventing overtraining needs supportive coaching, and creating a mastery motivational climate. Each strategy is illustrated by a video example – sometimes the strategy relates to adults and sometimes to children but the strategies can equally be applied to either. In the final...