This book supports the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the further education and skills sector. Full of informed practical guidance and supported by meaningful links to theory and educational research, it covers all mandatory units included in the diploma and has been carefully designed to be your indispensable guide to successfully achieving the qualification. Thought-provoking activities in every chapter highlight key points and show how you can apply them in practice allowing you to enhance your teaching skills. This book clearly communicates what underpins high-quality teaching and empowers you to succeed as a teacher of learners in the further education and skills sector. New to this edition: * Reflective activities in every chapter encouraging you to engage critically with key concepts * New coverage of employability offering pragmatic guidance for succeeding in the workplace * Content updated to reflect current policy directions within the sector * Links to further reading throughout highlighting key literature on each major topic

It takes courage to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun This wise book, filled with surprises, describes a life lived on its own terms. Jim Gold touches our passions, fears, and hopes in ways that reveal us to ourselves with humor and insight. Comfortable in contradiction, its free spirit makes us sing, laugh, dance, and often leap. Jim Gold brings a love of people, music, languages, humor, old cultures, and new discoveries to his life's work. His adventures as author, musician, folk dance teacher, tour leader, and entrepreneur form the basis of this, his fifth book. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in New York City, he studied violin at the Eastman School of Music and spent a year at the University of Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. He returned to earn a B.A. in history from the University of Chicago and, later, an M.A. in music from New York University. A classical and folk guitarist, he has brought his World of Guitar concert program to schools, colleges, and community concerts throughout the United States. He founded the classic guitar department at Montclair State University, has appeared on radio and television, and recorded three classical and folk guitar records. He heads his own company, Jim Gold International, teaching folk dance classes, and organizing folk music and dance weekends. Through his Mad Shoe Tours, Mr. Gold leads travel groups to exotic countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Spain, Romania, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Croatia, and Tunisia to experience history, culture, and folklore. Jim is an avid student of languages, yoga, running, history, the Bulgarian bagpipe (gaida), and mysteries of the human mind-especially his own. In the whirlwind of vicissitudes, he struggles daily to start fresh, turn over a new leaf, and live a New Leaf life.

These utterly fanciful stories make us smile. In so doing, they affirm the resilient magic of the human condition. This new edition of Jim Gold s shorter work includes rare tales of magic and daring-do chronicles of a clever entrepreneur launching a Holy Land tour business during the Crusades, stories of talking vegetables and stories of half-mad dreamers, stories of love and of devotion in a world where Up is often Sideways. If you like reading P.G. Wodehouse and S.J. Perelman, you ll love this book. A tonic for the flagging spirit and a reminder of the joy of living, it will make you an appreciator of wild imagination and leave you feeling younger than it found you.

This book is a gas-a carbonated novel whose bubbly mirth and flagrant lunacies mask a deeper aim. Will Sylvan Woods, it asks, ever manage to shed his callow cynicism and become a fully realized innocent? He is, to be sure, the least likely of heroes, and the road before him is murky and perilous. Demons await him at every turn. He will be tempted by money, fame, common sense, even by truth. Will he transcend them? You'll have to read Mad Shoes to learn the answer. You'll be laughing at the end of it, and your heart will be as light as a feather.

World-renowned concert violinist Zoltan Zany has been sitting in his living room armchair for an entire year, contemplating-with the help of his unconventional friends and Austrian housekeeper-the future direction of his life. Meanwhile, his etymologist son, Attila, along with an israeli linguist and archaeologist named isaac Mashugi, is traveling-in search of the first word uttered by Man-to eastern turkey's Mt.Ararat, where they believe this original Ur-word can be found by discovering Noah's ark. They are joined there by the elder Zany. They discover the word and, on a quest for further adventure, return to America to launch a new kind of travel business-Posthumous tours, specializing in dead customers and raising funds by selling reincarnation insurance. Wildly off-beat, whimsical, humorous, and philosophical, here is an adventure story to engross the mind, warm the heart, and quicken the imagination.

This book supports all trainee teachers in the Lifelong Learning Sector working towards QTLS in their understanding of the key learning theories and how these can be applied to their teaching. Existing teachers within the sector will also find this book a valuable resource for refreshing their knowledge and continuing their professional development.

Each learning theory is explored in clear and accessible language, considering the implications for planning, teaching, assessment and classroom management. Readers are encouraged to think critically about learning theories and the implications for classroom practice. Points for reflection, teaching and learning activities, and useful summaries are included throughout. This new edition has been fully revised to include a wider range of learning theories as well as annotated further reading and a glossary of useful terms.

Previously known as Achieving Your PTLLS Award, this third edition of the popular book comprehensively covers the new requirements for the new Level 3 Award in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the Further Education and Skills sector or broader workplace and adult learning settings. This updated third edition includes: Clear guidance on responsibilities and requirements for working in the Further Education and Skills sector How to motivate and communicate with learners through engaging teaching Pragmatic advice on planning and assessing learning Enhanced discussion of working with others, safeguarding, risk management, quality assurance requirements More case studies and activities that demonstrate how to link good practice to the classroom To further support your learning, visit www.sagepub.co.uk/francisgould3 for additional online resources.

Previously known as Achieving Your PTLLS Award, this third edition of the popular book comprehensively covers the new requirements for the new level 3 Award in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the Further Education and Skills sector or broader workplace and adult learning settings.

This updated third edition includes:

- Clear guidance on responsibilities and requirements for working in the Further Education and Skills sector

- How to motivate and communicate with learners through engaging teaching

- Pragmatic advice on planning and assessing learning

- Enhanced discussion of working with others, safeguarding, risk management, quality assurance requirements More case studies and activities that demonstrate how to link good practice to the classroom

Additional web resources can be found at www.sagepub.co.uk/francisgould3.

This book supports the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the further education and skills sector. Full of informed practical guidance and supported by meaningful links to theory and educational research, it covers all mandatory units included in the diploma and has been carefully designed to be your indispensable guide to successfully achieving the qualification. Thought-provoking activities in every chapter highlight key points and show how you can apply them in practice allowing you to enhance your teaching skills. This book clearly communicates what underpins high-quality teaching and empowers you to succeed as a teacher of learners in the further education and skills sector. New to this edition: * Reflective activities in every chapter encouraging you to engage critically with key concepts * New coverage of employability offering pragmatic guidance for succeeding in the workplace * Content updated to reflect current policy directions within the sector * Links to further reading throughout highlighting key literature on each major topic

Previously known as Achieving Your PTLLS Award, this third edition of the popular book comprehensively covers the new requirements for the new Level 3 Award in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the Further Education and Skills sector or broader workplace and adult learning settings. This updated third edition includes: Clear guidance on responsibilities and requirements for working in the Further Education and Skills sector How to motivate and communicate with learners through engaging teaching Pragmatic advice on planning and assessing learning Enhanced discussion of working with others, safeguarding, risk management, quality assurance requirements More case studies and activities that demonstrate how to link good practice to the classroom Previously known as Achieving Your PTLLS Award, this third edition of the popular book comprehensively covers the new requirements for the new level 3 Award in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the Further Education and Skills sector or broader workplace and adult learning settings. This updated third edition includes: * Clear guidance on responsibilities and requirements for working in the Further Education and Skills sector * How to motivate and communicate with learners through engaging teaching * Pragmatic advice on planning and assessing learning * Enhanced discussion of working with others, safeguarding, risk management, quality assurance requirements More case studies and activities that demonstrate how to link good practice to the classroom