This guide is to help learning support staff. It provides examples of Covid-19 safe strategies that can be employed for different performance criteria within the National Occupational Standards for learning support staff. In addition is an activity for learning support staff to reflect on their own working practices and the strategies they can adopt.
An OTLA project by the Education Training Collective to meet the requirements of the revised Functional Skills English Curriculum and to build on Ofsted feedback regarding the delivery of maths and English.
As more courses move online and tutors deliver more content through webinar style sessions, it becomes vital to understand both the benefits and the barriers of webinar-based lessons. The tools and platforms you have available may put constraints on how inclusive your webinar can be, this presentation accompanies the Making webinars more inclusive which explored some of the common issues and suggest ways to minimise their impact.
There are multiple causes for literacy difficulties, but whatever the cause, students working in isolation via online learning are more vulnerable to discouragement and failure. However, technology offers many ways of supporting learners with their online reading skills. The presentation document is from the Supporting learners with online reading skills webinar where these opportunities were explored.
How do we motivate and engage learners suddenly faced with learning independently online? This webinar will look at tools that can be used within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) help to motive and engage learners by adding collaborative activities and gamification. The session will use Moodle to demonstrate features within a VLE to support online learning. The webinar will look at the use of forums, wikis, quiz and badges.
How do we support learners suddenly faced with learning independently online? This webinar will look at tools that build a route through learning content and provide offline support to learners. The session will use Moodle to demonstrate features within a VLE to support online learning. The webinar will look at the use of tracking, conditional statements, glossaries and forum. Supporting learners in VLEs is supported by modules on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform.
This webinar show how you can take a class presentation (PPT) and quickly adapt it for online use. We’ll look at the inclusion of audio, video and the use of notes to help learners here all the extra information you normally say in class. We’ll explore how you can combine tools (Nearpod with Skype/Zoom or Teams) to make structured but interactive online sessions using your presentation as a starting point.
Webinar Making the most of online learning in a time of crisis
A HM Prison and Probation Service, Skills for Life Advocate CPD toolkit developed in conjunction with HMPPS Learning and Development and the Education and Training Foundation.
The Skills for Life Advocate training materials contain everything needed to deliver the session which helps participants develop the knowledge and skills to encourage their colleagues to develop their maths, English and ICT skills and to signpost them to learning opportunities. The toolkit contains:
This Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA 3) project, led by Newcastle College working with Community First North East, from 2017 to 2019, was initially designed to encourage collaboration and research among practitioners working in alternative education. It gave practitioners opportunities to explore the ingredients to create truly ‘alternative’ education programmes for young people not in education, employment or training. Early findings revealed the potential the alternative curriculum also had for improving most programmes targeting 16-19-year-olds.
