Wyniki wyszukiwania:

The teacher training framework, introduced in September 2007, requires all teachers in the post-16 sector to possess knowledge, understanding and personal skills to at least level 2 in the minimum core for ICT. Coverage and assessment of the minimum core have to be embedded in all Certificate and Diploma courses leading to QTLS and ATLS status. This book is a practical guide to ICT for trainee teachers in the Lifelong Learning Sector. It enables trainee teachers to identify and develop their own ICT skills and to support their students in ICT.

Universally condemned and everywhere illegal, torture goes on in democracies as well as in dictatorships. Nonetheless, many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Nothing seemed extreme when it came to questioning real and imagined terrorists. Extraordinary rendition--sending people captured in the "war on terror" to nations long counted among the world's worst human rights violators--hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations....

Tackling some of the most important ideas in child psychology and human development, Human Resilience presents key theories from Ann and Alan Clarke's pioneering work in this field. The Clarkes discuss major interacting influences on development, including genetic and environmental effects, chance events and the tendency for people to influence their environments in ways that reinforce their personal characteristics. In particular, they address various issues surrounding IQ inheritance and outline factors affecting the success of several intervention programmes, including fostering and...

ICT has been formally identified as an essential life skill. This text provides teachers and trainers with the skills to develop successful ICT learning programmes in line with the new ICT Skill for Life Standard. It focuses on improving the quality of provision through extending the range of teaching and learning strategies, meeting individual needs while using participative methods, and motivating the learner. All aspects of a successful ICT programme are covered, from how to assess learners at the start of a course to ways of enhancing teachers' and trainers' professional development.

This book provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to evaluation research. The author illustrates the contribution both quantitative and qualitative methods can make to evaluation, and stresses the important part played by theory in the evaluation enterprise.

This book provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive introduction to evaluation research. The author illustrates the contribution both quantitative and qualitative methods can make to evaluation, and stresses the important part played by theory in the evaluation enterprise.

Tackling some of the most important ideas in child psychology and human development, Human Resilience presents key theories from Ann and Alan Clarke's pioneering work in this field. The Clarkes discuss major interacting influences on development, including genetic and environmental effects, chance events and the tendency for people to influence their environments in ways that reinforce their personal characteristics. In particular, they address various issues surrounding IQ inheritance and outline factors affecting the success of several intervention programmes, including fostering and...

International Hospitality Management: concepts and cases brings together the latest developments in global hospitality operations with contemporary management principles. It develops a critical view of the management practices and the traditional theories, analysing how appropriate they are to the hospitality and tourism industries in a multicultural context.

International Hospitality Management is designed to instil a greater awareness of the cultural factors influencing the strategies and performances of hospitality organization. This approach focuses on a...

"The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition "explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. This new edition features a brand new chapter entitled 'End of Life' which will help health and social care workers to respond with confidence to one of the most difficult and challenging areas of care. The 'End of Life' chapter includes information on changing attitudes to death, theories of death and dying, and palliative care. All chapters have been thoroughly updated to address diversity issues...

This book contains clear, practical guidance on how to use technology and e-learning effectively to enhance all aspects of teaching and learning.

International Hospitality Management: concepts and cases brings together the latest developments in global hospitality operations with contemporary management principles. It develops a critical view of the management practices and the traditional theories, analysing how appropriate they are to the hospitality and tourism industries in a multicultural context.

International Hospitality Management is designed to instil a greater awareness of the cultural factors influencing the strategies and performances of hospitality organization. This approach focuses on a...

The use of technology within the lifelong learning sector brings many benefits to learners, teachers and managers. Aimed at trainee and practising teachers, this book contains clear, practical guidance on how to use technology and e-learning effectively to enhance all aspects of teaching and learning in the post-compulsory sector.

Alan Clarke explains the technologies that are available and how to use them from whiteboards and virtual learning environments to digital photographs, podcasts and e-portfolios. Each chapter is fully aligned with the new LLUK standards and...

The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in these areas. This new edition features a brand new chapter entitled 'End of Life' which will help health and social care workers to respond with confidence to one of the most difficult and challenging areas of care. The 'End of Life' chapter includes information on changing attitudes to death, theories of death and dying, and palliative care. All chapters have been thoroughly updated to address diversity...

Olivia and her sister Georgia are looking forward to a Cornish holiday filled with sand, surfing and fish and chips. Instead, soon after arriving at their seaside cottage, the girls stumble across a crumbling old smugglers' tunnel hidden behind a wall. They venture inside and start exploring deep underground. Transported back in time, they find themselves in the thick of a magical and dangerous adventure. Their world collides with the smuggling era of the 1700s when they meet Joey, a boy who's in a lot of trouble and needs their help

This exciting tale will delight all children...