There were charts, pictures, and any other teaching aid he thought would help me understand what he was teaching.

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Admittedly, this is a sensitive topic for most people, so I have turned to an unlikely resource namely, comic books to aid in teaching about complex and evolving gender issues.

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The architect, who studied in Wisconsin, had been shocked when, on a visit home to the town of Buea, he was confronted with a community ravaged by AIDS. Though aid workers were teaching the message of prevention, Menyoli found that most locals trusted foreigners more readily when they said that HIV was not a lie or a conspiracy but a fatal disease.

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Encouraging people to become active citizens in the so-called Big Society was one of the Conservatives' key themes, he said, and citizenship teaching was the ideal subject to aid this.

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As debate on the Queen's Speech resumed on 2 June 2010, the education secretary said the General Teaching Council for England did not help children learn or aid teachers' development so it had to go.

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