National Teaching and Learning
Change Programme
Improving teaching and learning in Adult Learning

Continuing professional development | Sport and fitness | Ready to exercise? | Step 5 - web-based research

Continuing professional development

• Introduction
• Generic
• ICT
• MFL
• Sport and fitness
  • Evaluate your own practice
  • Ready to exercise?
    • Step 1 - a lucky escape
    • Step 2 - self-assessment exercise
    • Step 3 - situations to consider
    • Step 4 - some common conditions
    • Step 5 - web-based research
    • Step 6 - the golden rules
  • Session planning: Differentiation
  • The challenges of community-based learning
  • Home practice

Step 5 - web-based research

The Internet is useful for the following activities.

• To find out more about how to work safely and effectively in your own discipline with any of the learners you have already met in stages 2 and 3.
• To find out more about how to work safely and effectively in your own discipline with learners with the following conditions.
  • high blood pressure
  • low blood pressure
  • osteoarthritis
  • asthma
  • diabetes
  • menstrual difficulties; or
  • migraine.

Be discriminating about the sites you use. Beware of those that just aim to sell you products. Look for the sites of respected professional organisations.

• Find some useful books to read on the above subjects.
• Find out what further training is available from the relevant professional association/s.