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Essential Skills Lecture

Essential Skills Lecture. Aims: To provide background into the Essential Skills for Living Strategy To define functional, embedded, and contextualised literacy To devise some strategies for embedding essential skills within your own teaching. Essential Skills. Previously Basic Skills

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Essential Skills Lecture

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  1. Essential Skills Lecture Aims: • To provide background into the Essential Skills for Living Strategy • To define functional, embedded, and contextualised literacy • To devise some strategies for embedding essential skills within your own teaching

  2. Essential Skills Previously Basic Skills Skills for Living in England/Wales • Literacy • Numeracy • ICT

  3. International Adult Literacy Study(1996) • No. of adults unable to perform basic tasks: • Sweden 8% • N. Ireland 24% • RoI 23% • England 22% • 19% of all young people not achieving 5 GCSEs (Kenway et al, 2006)

  4. Reasons • Undiagnosed condition (dyslexia, dyscalculia etc.) • Teaching methods • Large classes • Missed schooling • No family support ** But they will have developed coping strategies**

  5. Implications • Difficulties in getting and keeping employment • Low paid, transient jobs • Lack of training opportunities • Family literacy issues • Crime and anti-social behaviour • Difficulties in everyday life

  6. Essential Skills Strategy • 1996 IALS • 1999 A Fresh Start’ - Moser Working Group Report • 2000 Skills for Living (England) • 2002 Essential Skills (NI) • 2004 FE Means Business – DEL • 2005 Skills in the UK: Leitch • 2006 FE means business implementation plan • 2011 IALS

  7. Actions • Free provision • Essential Skills Curriculum • Targets set • New teacher qualifications • New student qualifications • Recognition of qualifications • Monitoring and inspection

  8. Making sense of the levels Essential Skills NQF Other qualifications Entry Level 1 OCR Word Power OCR Number Power CLAIT Below Level 1 Entry Level 2 Entry Level 3 NVQ Level 1 BTEC First Certificate OCR Vocational Cert Level 1 Level 1 GCSEs at A*-C Key Skills Level 2 BTEC First Diploma Level 2 Level 2

  9. Literacy Curriculum Speaking and Listening Writing Reading Listen & Respond Engage in Discussion Text Sentence Word Speak to Communicate Text Sentence Word SLlr SLc SLd Rt Rs Wt Ws Rw Ww

  10. Numeracy Curriculum Handling Data Measure, Shape & Space Number Common Measures Shape and Space Data and Statistical Measure Probability Whole Numbers Fractions, Decimals & Percentages N1 N2 MSS1 MSS2 HD1 HD2

  11. Definitions • Functional Literacy • Contextualised Literacy • Embedded Literacy

  12. Functional Literacy ‘Using printed information in order to function in society in order to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.’ OECD (1996) Moser described ‘functional’ numeracy & literacy as; ‘’the ability to read, write and speak in English and use mathematics at a level necessary to function at work and in society in general’

  13. Contextualised literacy • Contextualised literacy and numeracy is primarily an essential skills programme, not a workplace skills/vocational programme

  14. Embedded literacy • In embedded programmes, literacy and numeracy learning happens through a workplace skills/vocational programme

  15. Literacy, language and numeracy skills Vocational skills and knowledge What is embedded learning? Embedded teaching and learning

  16. Research shows: • Embedded approaches lead to ……… • Higher retention and achievement rates on vocational courses • Achievement of literacy/language qualifications • Achievement of numeracy qualifications • Learners stating that they felt better prepared for work in the future NRDC, 2006, ‘Embedding literacy, language and numeracy in post-16 vocational programmes – the impact on teaching and learning’

  17. Using this in the classroom • Avoid dense text based resources • Consider your learner - Visual/Auditory/Kinaesthetic • Be careful with Powerpoint • Provide class-notes

  18. Using this in the classroom • Provide lists of complicated words • Provide worked examples (numeracy) • Using technology • Provide methods for memorising Liaison with Essential Skills tutor

  19. Spelling test • Write down the words • Check your spelling

  20. Diarrhoea • Accommodation • Separate • Rhythm • Necessary

  21. Spelling test How did you do?

  22. Techniques • Mneumonics Example of a mnemonic • Acronyms • Look/cover/write/check • Cloze procedures • Words within words • Word/picture association Example • Rhyming Eg. righty tighty/lefty loosey

  23. TaskDeveloping your own Resource • Think about a topic for a lesson taken from your own vocational area. • Identify the literacy and numeracy requirements for this topic. • Develop a resource or resources to support essential skills during the delivery of the lesson.

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