Unit 1: Introduction

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1.5 Starting your learning journey

This section explores your reasons for studying this course and considers what you already know about safeguarding.

Activity 1.1 What’s your motivation for taking this course?

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Please consider the following questions – this is a good time to start using your learning journal:

  • What is your motivation for taking this course?
  • What knowledge and skills would you like to develop?
  • Which areas of safeguarding would you like to know more about?

The activity which follows this one – reviewing what you already know – might help prompt issues you would like to add to your list.

Activity 1.2 What do you already know?

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We would like to capture your knowledge, expertise and experience before you start this course.

It’s important to us as the authoring team to capture what you already know, your motivation for doing this course and your confidence level when going into this course to ensure the content is appropriate to its intended learners.

So please Ctrl + click on this pre-course survey that will take about five minutes to complete. It’s also really important that you complete the course and provide your feedback in the post-course survey at the end of Unit 6, so that we can continually improve the course.

Your feedback will additionally help the academic team gauge if this course has made any difference to your knowledge, skills, practice or your confidence level, but please don’t worry; all responses are anonymised so we will not be able to know or identify individual respondents.

Thank you in advance!

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