How to create a ‘fast track’ L2 FS English curriculum model, with positive impact on attendance and achievement rates
A 'fast track' method of delivery for the Level 2 Functional Skills curriculum.
A 'fast track' method of delivery for the Level 2 Functional Skills curriculum.
Encouraging vocational students to improve their literacy through a tailored Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) programme.
This project investigated the barriers preventing vocational trainers from embedding digital skills in their course delivery.
This project explored how to improve the embedding of digital tools within English sessions across Novus’ provision. The project set out to research, design, and deliver a bespoke training offer for teachers of English across prisons in the West Midlands.
This project evaluates the use of simulations to support learners in developing digital skills in practical contexts previously excluded in prisons, for example, performing online transactions, accessing social media. It also considers how prisoners with digital design skills can be involved as ‘learner-designers’ in the production of simulation prototypes.
This project aimed to investigate how to enable better two-way feedback with learners, drawing on digital tools that could be used in both remote and face-to-face teaching.
An anthology of action research accounts, containing 53 chapters written by practitioners from post-16 education settings across England, along with think-pieces from members of the OTLA programme team.
This project aimed to challenge the stereotype of male learners not engaging in the process of creative writing, by removing the constraints of the old exam style pedagogy.
This project aimed to challenge the stereotype of male learners not engaging in the process of creative writing, by removing the constraints of the old exam style pedagogy.
An ETF/sunCETT (2018-19) MA Short Course research report and poster exploring the impact of peer learning on GCSE Maths resit students