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Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...attention to something you’re listening to, […] a separate ‘top-down’ pathway comes into play. Here, the signals are conveyed through a dorsal pathway in your cortex, part of the brain that does more computation, which lets you actively focus on what you’re hearing and tune out sights and sounds that aren’t as immediately important. Some people are naturally...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...attention, nevertheless I will endeavor, as well as I can, to show why I believe that Shakespeare can not be recognized either as a great genius, or even as an average author. For illustration of my purpose I will take one of Shakespeare's most extolled dramas, "King Lear," in the enthusiastic praise of which, the majority of critics agree. "The tragedy of Lear is...
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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...attention to the sections: Which are the big concepts in geography? Is a division between substantive and second order concepts helpful? Comment Your ‘big concepts’ will differ from those of colleagues and students and may change over time. Distinguishing between substantive and second order concepts can help you to plan in the medium and long term and to generate...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...attention to the idea that mathematics is a human activity. As a teacher of mathematics, you are faced with a national curriculum and, at the school level, a scheme of work with short-, medium- and long-term plans. Your aim may be to help learners use mathematics to ‘make sense of their world’ and, to this end, you may wish to see them equipped with mathematical...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...attentive to the situation in which we believe the tablets to have been produced and used. Please read the short extract from Friberg attached as a pdf. We shall then move on to consider this wider aspect of the social context of Babylonian mathematical activity. The purpose of Plimpton 322 by Joran Frïberg...Babylonian mathematics: 1.6 The social context of Babylonian...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...attention and focus… Emotional occurrences are remembered more than neutral ones [and] intense emotion…overshadows background information’ (Timostsuk and Ugaste, 2012). Secondly, ‘a person’s mood at the time of receiving information influences its memorization… high anxiety, for example, can reduce the resources for working memory’ and finally ‘teachers...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...attention from historians of prison education. However, schemes to educate prisoners could be found in all four nations of the British Isles – England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland (i.e. present-day Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland combined) – from the beginning of the 1800s. In 1801, the nations which comprised Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...attentively to what a person is saying, while also noticing what verbal and non-verbal messages may be being conveyed and then providing appropriate feedback to the speaker. The concept was developed in the 1940s by American psychologist Carl Rogers as part of his client-centred therapy and continues to be utilised today in a range of caring and psychoanalytical settings...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs