Training & Development

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Training and development are two important components of performance appraisals, but they’re not the same. Training involves teaching employees specific skills and knowledge to help them perform their current job or develop skills that may be beneficial for future positions. Training focuses on providing the necessary information, assisting in acquiring new abilities and honing existing ones, so employees can use their capabilities effectively and efficiently. Development is more comprehensive than training since it focuses on enhancing an employee’s career prospects by helping them acquire broader-based skills such as soft skills like communication, problem solving and teamwork. It also provides guidance to employees on how to best pursue their career objectives in order to achieve maximum success within the organization.  

Lamb, S (1997) portrays the idea that poor literacy and numeracy achievement is linked to early school leaving and periods of unemployment. Evidentially, having the key fundamental skills in numeracy and literacy are essential. Students should not be able to leave school without the very minimum knowledge to be able to implement these skills in all aspects of life. Quinn, R (2011) stated that literacy and numeracy are amongst the most important life skills that schools teach. Without these skills, students would not be able to access the different subject areas; moreover be successful and have a positive effect on society. The importance’s of these skills are the responsibility of each individual subject area and should not just be thought of as being a focus for the English and Mathematics departments. Numeracy is defined as ‘the ability to use mathematics in everyday life’ (National Numeracy, 2015). Not being able to apply mathematics in life would result in not being able to carry out the simplest of tasks needed every day. For example, being able to count change or telling the time. Besides, regardless of the subject, the National Curriculum states that being confident in numeracy and other mathematical skills is a necessity to help students be successful across the curriculum. (DfE, 2014, p.9). Undoubtedly, by incorporating basic numeracy skills in my lessons, I am not only preparing students to be successful in education but for everyday life tasks. In the activities to be conducted, a basic knowledge of numeracy is crucial in order to solve simple programming tasks, where students are required to use standard arithmetic operators and data types. Furthermore, students need to know about these basic skills for example; adding or subtracting two integers together in order to be able to work out whether the output from their program is correct before executing it. The National Curriculum framework says that: