eLearning Marketplace Launch Think Tank Academy Virtual Classroom Courses

eLearning Marketplace are delighted to announce a number of new Virtual Classroom online courses from our partner Think Tank Academy. These new Virtual Classroom courses are aimed at practitioners working in the child health and social care sector.

Think Tank Academy are experts in children and young people’s care, they recognise the barriers in staff development and offer stimulating courses for practitioners working in the looked after children’s sector.  Their courses are innovative and engaging, and their interactive format vastly improves the retention of knowledge, bringing revolutionary change to the care sector.

Think Tank Academy have been accredited the Badge of Excellence by Open Awards, a nationally recognised Awarding Organisation approved and regulated by Ofqual and QAA. Open Awards Badge of Excellence is the quality assurance mark that recognises excellent training, development and learning provision and meaningful outcomes.

What is a Virtual Classroom Course?

Virtual Classroom training offers a blended learning approach, combining thought provoking classroom conversations with content that meets regulatory compliance and raises industry standards.

This delivery method of training is designed to support all learning styles and includes visual and interactive resources supported through workbooks and trainer facilitated discussions. Auditory and theoretical learners will benefit from direct questions and research activities, stretching and challenging them to reach their full potential.

Join a virtual class where you can ask questions, be part of discussions, complete a learning pack and fully interact and engage with your trainer LIVE online.

• Fully Interactive Zoom meetings
• Real life classroom experience in a virtual environment
• Supportive and collaborative engagement
• Real time adaptable teaching methods to suit multiple learning needs
• Opportunity to engage in reflective practice

The Virtual Classroom is delivered live by a qualified lecturer with a background in:

• Health and Social Care
• Children and Families Social Work
• Residential Children’s Homes
• Foster Care

Benefits of Virtual Classroom Courses

Developed by care professionals, for care professionals, Virtual Classroom courses recognise the challenges in staff development and the importance of high-quality, cost-effective training.

• Accessible anywhere
• Time-efficient
• Cost-effective
• Multi-platform
• Fully accrediated by Open Awards
• Activity and reflective practice workbooks
• Embedded real-life scenarios
• Hosted by a live trainer
• Compliant with current legislation
• Interactive, engagine and innovative
• Trainng style adapted to learning needs
• Achieved in bite size chunks

Virtual Classroom Course Titles include;

We have just launched the following Essential Level Virtual Classroom Courses:

• Administration of Medication – Essential Level

This course aims to support learners to understand the homes procedures including recording.

• Child Sexual Exploitation – Essential Level

This course aims to raise awareness on the differences between Child Sexual Exploitation and other forms of abuse.

• Professional Boundaries – Essential Level

Designed to aid understanding and awareness of Professional Boundaries, it will introduce reflective practice and the importance of this to continually develop the learners approach and work practice. 

• Missing from Care – Essential Level

Learners will be supported to understand the importance of their role in preventing and proactively distracting children from going missing from care.

• Attachment – Essential Level

This course aims to provide learners with an understanding and awareness of attachment and encourages each learner to reflect on their own personal attachments and their practice in relation to working with attachment disorders.