Book

Delivering Skills for Life / Department for Education and Skills.

Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills. (Added Author).

Summary:

Designed to help organizations deliver the British "Skills for Life" literacy strategy, this provides a brief background to all the measures in the strategy, essential information, suggestions on what providers can do to ensure they are implementing the measures, and sources for further information. The CD contains the key documents related to the planning and teaching of literacy, numeracy and ESOL learning programmes.

Record details

Physical Description: [iii], 56 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM.
Publisher: Nottingham : Department for Education and Skills, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Title from cover.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- National standards for adult literacy and numeracy -- Core curricula for adult literacy and numeracy -- The adult ESOL core curriculum -- Learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities -- Screening, initial assessment and diagnostic assessment -- Learning materials -- New Entry level qualifications -- ESOL qualifications -- National tests in adult literacy and numeracy -- Staff training and development -- Qualifications for staff teaching adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL -- Quality framework for adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL -- Funding and planning -- Commonly used acronyms.

CD ROM contents: National standards for adult literacy and numeracy -- FENTO's subject specifications for teachers of adult literacy and numeracy -- The adult core curriculum for literacy -- The adult core curriculum for numeracy -- The adult pre-entry curriculum framework -- Access for all -- The adult ESOL core curriculum -- PowerPoint presentation to accompany the "Delivering Skills for Life" booklet.