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    Toolkit: Using competition activity in the vocational curriculum with learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

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    Competition activity is a great way to raise aspirations, improve learners’ skills and employment prospects, strengthen learning programmes and introduce an element of excitement into the vocational curriculum.  While competition activity is relatively well-established as a feature of the curriculum at higher levels, it is less commonly used with learners at Entry level and Level 1.  However, providers who have been exploring the use of competition with learners with SEND report that it is just as beneficial for their learners – and easy to implement.

    Quick Reads - A Reading Resource for Further Education and Training Learners

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    Quick Reads are short accessible books written by best-selling authors, and are ideal for adults wanting to improve their literacy skills and to discover reading for pleasure. The resources include a range of activities from reading, discussion & reflection, writing, ICT, Maths and further exploration, as well as notes for practitioners. You can find out more about Quick Reads at www.readingagency.co.uk/quickreads.

    Functional Skills Reform Factsheet

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    English and mathematics Functional Skills qualifications are both respected and well-known. They help students to gain important real world skills for the future. Starting in September 2019, the current qualifications will be replaced by reformed Functional Skills qualifications to make them even more relevant and credible for the world of work. The content of the reformed qualifications is more specific and detailed than before. It will be easier to compare Functional Skills with other qualifications.

    Toolkit: Co-creating the Curriculum with Learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

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    Co-creating the curriculum is a great way to involve learners in deciding what to learn and how they might be taught. It can help you personalise study programmes, as well as providing an excellent context for helping learners with SEND to take more control over their lives as they practise making decisions and expressing preferences about their learning.

    Making Great Use of Learning Support Assistants in FE settings

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    Learning support assistants (LSAs) are the most commonly used form of support in the FE sector – and the most expensive. That makes it especially important for providers to deploy LSAs efficiently and effectively, so that they have a positive impact on learner progress and independence. We have put together an in-house development activity to help you consider how to make the most of the LSAs in your setting. The activity has been designed to be facilitated by managers with SEND responsibilities and undertaken by teams of tutors and LSAs working together.

    Supported Internship Leaflet

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    Employers who have been involved in supported internships tend to be very enthusiastic about them, but we know that initial engagement with employers is not always easy for learning providers. To help you explain supported internships, and secure more supported internship work placements, we have created a downloadable leaflet for you to personalise, print off and give to employers. In the zipped folder you will find a template leaflet that you can customise it and guidance on the information to include.

    AP Guide: Coaching and Mentoring in Action: Additional Approaches, Tools and Techniques

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    This guide is part of a suite of four guides designed for those working in Advanced Practitioner-type roles across the Further Education and Training Sector as part of the Education and Training Foundation's 'Professional Development Programme for Advanced Practitioners' (Feb 2018-). The guide will help Advanced Practitioners (APs) to rediscover things they already know and will add to their toolkit of skills, competencies, models and approaches.

    AP Guide: Facilitating Professional Development and High-Performance Teams Through Situated Learning

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    This guide is part of a suite of four guides designed for those working in Advanced Practitioner-type roles across the Further Education and Training Sector as part of the Education and Training Foundation's 'Professional Development Programme for Advanced Practitioners' (Feb 2018-). The guide will help Advanced Practitioners (APs) to rediscover things they already know and will add to their toolkit of skills, competencies, models and approaches.

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