Shared Resources
This area lists a variety of resources, hints & tips, case studies and examples of good practice provided by our network of SfL colleagues.
This area is facilitating peer to peer exchange, therefore EMCETT does not endorse any resources listed here.
If you would like to contribute to this bank of resources please email admin@eastmidlandscpd.co.uk
| Thinking Skills | 04/06/2010 |
| North Nottingham College share an interesting selection of lesson plans and activities based on Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. These examples demonstrate how English and Maths can be embedded into the learning. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. |
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| ESOL and Numeracy as part of the Whole Organisation Approach | 03/06/2010 |
| Leicester Adult Skills and Learning Service share examples of resources created to support their work towards a Whole Organisation Approach (WOA). Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. The examples provided look at: |
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| Pathway to Discovery - Casestudy |
02/06/2010 |
| Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Trust "Pathway to Discovery was born from a realisation of the need for individuals living through personal difficulties as a result of a personality disorder to share their experiences." A book containing their thoughts, art and poetry was created. (Literacy & numeracy support was embedded into the process of creating this book with the support of the LSIS SfL Support Programme.) |
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| Introduction to food, drink and cooking with numeracy - Resources | 01/06/2010 |
| HMP Long Lartin share samples of resources and lesson plans for ’Introduction to Food, Drink and Cooking’ with embedded numeracy. These resources are set at Entry 3. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. |
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| Chicken Feed Web Quest - Resources | 24/05/2010 |
| PALS (Nottinghamshire Probation Service and Dyslexia Action) share a Quick Reads inspired resource. ”The ‘Chickenfeed’ web quest has been designed to be used by adult literacy learners, who voted the book as their favourite from the Quick Reads’ series.” The web quest provides a range of activities and can be used for literacy levels Entry 3 up to Level 2. The quest can be used in a number of ways. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. |
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| Embedding Functional Skills into Hospitality | 21/05/2010 |
| Loughborough College share some examples of how they have embedded Functional Skills into the Hospitality Diploma. The examples provided here include; |
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| Health & Fitness - Using RARPA – Spotting difficulties with maths and English (Resources) | 21/05/2010 |
| HMP Rye Hill share some examples of resources created to support learning related to Health and Fitness. These include: |
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| Introduction to equality and diversity - also - Maths words handout. | 21/05/2010 |
| HMP Leicester share resources created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. 1. An example of an introduction to equality and diversity. |
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| Employability Resources - Embedded Schemes of Work & Skills Scan | 21/05/2010 |
| Options 2 share resources that focus on employability skills. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. The documents include: |
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| A Guide to supporting Skills for Life and Functional Skills using a Virtual Learning Environment | 20/05/2010 |
| Leicester College share their guide to supporting SfL and Functional Skills using moodle. They have set up a VLE accessible 24 hours a day from any location. It is available to all their staff and learners regardless of subject. It offers support with developing English, ESOL, Maths and ICT skills. Created with the support of the LSIS SfL Support Programme. |
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| Embedding English and Maths into Motor Vehicle Study - Resources | 20/05/2010 |
| Derby College share materials created to support vocational tutors to embed english and maths. The example activities provided here are related to Motor Vehicle Studies at Entry 3 and Level 1. |
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| Using MP3s to teach Warehousing - Resources | 05/05/2010 |
| Nottinghamshire County Council share resources created to embed literacy and numeracy learning within warehousing training. The examples provided here include lesson plans, worksheets and audio lessons. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. |
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| Landbased learning and numeracy - Resources | 05/05/2010 |
| Riseholme College share some resources that embed numeracy within land based learning. The examples provided here include: |
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| Commercial Assembly Skills - Resource | 05/05/2010 |
| Pelican Trust share a Learner Workbook created to support literacy and numeracy skills development as part of their Commercial Assembly Skills training. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. |
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| Examples of schemes of work with Functional Skills links | 27/04/2010 |
| Chesterfield College share 4 schemes of work embedding Functional English and Functional ICT into the subjects of Plumbing, Woodwork, Beauty and Health & Social Care. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. |
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| Literacy and Numeracy Activities on the Farm - Resource | 14/04/2010 |
| HMP North Sea Camp share some examples of resources created to support literacy and numeracy related to farming. They are for Entry 3 moving to Level 1. Created with support from the LSIS SfL Support Programme. Documents enclosed in the attached file: |
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| Addressing personal skills of staff - Resource | 13/04/2010 |
| HIT Training share a resource bank of web-links created to support staff to improve their literacy and numeracy skills. It has been designed to allow learners to work through a programme of self study using tools available online. Tutors can easily adapt this resource to their learners level of ability and add new links before forwarding it onto the learner. Created with support from the SfL Support Programme. |
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| Awareness Raising - Resource | 30/03/2010 |
| Brooksby Melton College share this presentation and quiz created using Quizdom. It outlines the benefits of a Whole Organisational Approach to SfL with specific focus on the benefits to careers. It has been designed to run automatically with a few hard facts to gain attention and realisation. Created with support from the SfL Support Programme. Resources include: |
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| Becoming a teacher in later life | 25/10/2007 |
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| Traveller Family Learning Project - Read On Write Away! | 10/10/2007 |
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| My Route to ESOL | 16/06/2007 |
| Alison Mirza provided this case study as part of Derbyshire's CPD project which supported practitioners to gain their subject specailist qualifications. | |
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| Tutor Development Project | 20/09/2006 |
share how their Tutor Development Project has strengthened their staffs professional development in relation to the needs of learners with learning difficulties. |
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| Whole Organisation Approach with an E2E provider. | 22/08/2006 |
shares how they have used the WOA to improve their E2E provision. |
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| Whole Organisation Approach and the GO Award | 22/08/2006 |
| Nottinghamshire County Council share how the WOA was used to raise awareness within the organisation and help them work towards the GO Award. |
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| Whole Organisation Approach within a Prison | 22/08/2006 |
| HMP Ranby in Nottinghamshire share how they used the WOA to demonstrate ways in which all staff could support learning regardless of their background in Skills for Life and then went onto create a resource bank for all staff to access. |
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| Whole Organisation Approach and the Voluntary Sector | 22/08/2006 |
| Derbyshire Learning and Development Consortium share how they accessed the WOA with an aim to empower their members to understand their organisation's relationship to skills for life as either a deliverer, (aspirational deliverer), broker or sign-poster for the future. |
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| Test Derbyshire | 04/08/2006 |
| Test Derbyshire was a week of events that focused on encouraging people to test their maths and english skills using the Move On mini test. Based on the Move On 'Test the ....' model, many learning providers across Derbyshire joined forces to provide a fun week of activities to raise awareness. | |
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| The GO Award in Derbyshire | 03/08/2006 |
share how they used 'Test Derbyshire' to get the GO Award off to a flying start. |
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| Whole Organisation Approach and 'Test the University' | 03/08/2006 |
| University of Derby - Buxton share how they successfully launched the 'Whole Organisational Approach' across campus as part of 'Test Derbyshire'. |
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| Embedded Learning - NVQ and Key Skills | 05/04/2006 |
| Lowdham Grange Prison share how they have embedded SfL learning into their NVQ and Key Skills delivery. Recording examples of good practice. Produced as part of the SfLQI. |
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| Raising Awareness | 05/04/2006 |
| Northampton Soup Kitchen Raising Awareness. Coaching/mentoring session during which participants developed skills to identify, advise and signpost skills for life learners. Recording Examples of Good Practice. Produced as part of the SfLQI. |
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| Best practice hints and tips. | 05/04/2006 |
| A look at some providers from across the East Midlands. Recording Examples of Good Practice. Produced as part of the SfLQI. |
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| Embedding Skills for Life | 05/04/2006 |
| ISIS share how they have embedded SfL. Recording examples of good practice. Produced as part of the SfLQI. |
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| Raising Awareness | 05/04/2006 |
| Boston CVS Raising awareness of SfL amongst volunteers, staff and partners organisations. Recording examples of good practice. Produced as part of the SfLQI. |
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| Derby College help local employers support staff training with SfL | 09/11/2005 |
| Embedded Literacy – Exercise and Healthy Living The NHS Escalator – Preparation for Nursing Course |
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| Chesterfield College help local companies develop their staff with SfL courses | 09/11/2005 |
| Local restaurants feed the learning needs of staff. Fitness for the over 50's. |
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| Building the Capacity to Deliver Basic Skills | 30/10/2005 |
| Leicestershire and Leicester City Local Learning Partnership Approach | |
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| Dan and the Third Space Theory | 03/08/2005 |
| Story of a young learner joining an adult class. 'One October morning a boy called Dan found himself in the small attic classroom of the town-centre learning shop. His dad had brought him along, and when the tutor suggested it wasn’t worth him staying, his dad had sighed with relief and left' | |
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| Evaluation Report: Basic skills support for Lincolnshire and Rutland. | 18/05/2005 |
| commissioned by the Manager of the Lincolnshire and Rutland Learning Partnership | |
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| Brooksby Melton help Rushy Mead Nursing Home introduce SfL opportunities for staff | 24/04/2005 |
| Delivering the NVQ level 2 in Care and also providing supportive basic skills to all learners. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Brooksby College working with Ground Control | 24/04/2005 |
| Building SfL learning into the NVQ Level 2 Landscaping. Delivery of these sessions had had to be creative and entertaining. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Saxby's Pie-oneering - with help from Tresham Institute | 24/04/2005 |
| Saxby’s Pork Pies identified that a number of their employees were not successfully completing their Food Hygiene qualifications as English was not their first language. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| ABITEC Group were interested in Tresham's Communication for Team Leader courses | 24/04/2005 |
| Through the programme staff were encouraged to think about their English and how they could improve their reports to management. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Tresham Institute working with Golden Wonder | 24/04/2005 |
| Tresham tutors designed a 5 week course, based on Golden Wonder’s induction programme, mapped to the Numeracy and Literacy National Curriculum. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Delos Community is a charity that provides support for adults with learning disabilities and to those who may also have mental health problems | 24/04/2005 |
| Tresham Institute carried out an analysis of documentation used by Delos and designed a bespoke course, mapped to the National Literacy curriculum that covered report writing, form filling, accurate message taking and speaking at meetings, based on scenarios from Delos. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Boden a catalogue of culture! | 24/04/2005 |
| "For us, training isn’t just about getting better skilled employees – it is about culture, and a way for us to build a positive relationship or partnership’ with the people who work here." Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Boston College and DGM Growers | 20/04/2005 |
| Boston College promoted basic skills as part of workplace development, took learning to the learners and encouraged employers to see the benefit of a better skilled workforce. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| A partnership solution to deliver SfL to address Health and Safety issues | 20/04/2005 |
| Northampton County Council Adult Learning Services and GIST working together. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Ideal Specialised Industrial Services (ISIS) employees brushing up on their literacy skills and are becoming whizzes with a mouse as they go | 20/04/2005 |
| The courses were arranged in partnership with ISIS, The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), TUC Learning Services and Derby College. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Loughborough College was invited into Kettleby Foods to teach English to their employees | 20/04/2005 |
| Before we began to teach, the company introduced us to the food processing plant. There we met many of the new students in their working environment. This was extremely useful as we were able to understand their language needs more fully. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Hex Holdings identified Numeracy skills as a priority for them | 20/04/2005 |
| Loughborough College worked with Hex Holdings and identified Numeracy skills such as costing/invoicing, calculating percentage discounts, ratios for mixing fillers/paints, metric units, understanding sales charts, as a priority for them. Company brochures, charts and other materials were used or adapted as teaching materials for the course and staff were supported to achieve the National Test. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Council house workers train as ‘ambassadors’ | 20/04/2005 |
| New College Nottingham worked with Nottingham City Council to integrate SfL training into training aimed at providing a more professional service from the workers who repair and maintain the homes of council tenants. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Improve Your English Using Computers | 20/04/2005 |
| ROWA! working together with the Union Learning Rep at Rolls Royce developed a subtle approach to addressing and supporting the SfL needs of the company's workforce. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Kingsmill Hospital and West Notts College working in partnership | 20/04/2005 |
| A weekly session designed to help staff improve their English/ Maths/ Communication skills, has been running each Friday for the last 2 years. It is open to ALL staff groups irrelevant of grade or role. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| Arriva working together with West Notts College to offer employees SfL opportunities | 20/04/2005 |
| No other bus companies within the East Midlands were encompassing the whole workforce within their development training. This support and training mechanism has proven a valuable asset to employees and the company, impacting significantly on the company’s bottom line and morale. This is evident throughout the company, for example at the Derby site the annual employee turnover has dropped from 12% to 2%. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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| University of Lincoln embed ESOL into Food Hygiene Training with Geest Industries | 20/04/2005 |
| A Food Hygiene Specialist worked with the Basic Skills tutor to develop the Food Hygiene ESOL programme. Produced as part of the Learning and Skills Council Employer Engagement programme. |
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