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Introduction

 

  

Do you teach students whose ability to learn is affected by poor literacy/numeracy skills?

Have you wondered what you can do to assist them, and where you can get extra support?

Welcome to the professional development program: The 3 R's Revisited - Supporting students with literacy/numeracy needs.

This program is aimed at staff in delivery teams, and addresses three questions:

  • what can you do yourself to support students with literacy/numeracy needs?
  • when do you need to work collaboratively with literacy/numeracy experts?
  • when should you refer students on to specialists for targeted support?

In particular the program will help you to:

  • identify the literacy and numeracy demands of your training package, and the workplace
  • identify learners who may need support with literacy and numeracy in training and assessment
  • design a variety of teaching and assessment strategies which will help your learners develop their literacy and numeracy skills
  • review your teaching and assessment materials to ensure they are not making undue demands on the literacy and numeracy skills of learners.

You can work through this program yourself by simply following the menu above. However a better approach would be to work with a facilitator, either one-to-one, or with a group of other teachers. For more advice about this, contact your local ALBE team leader, or a member of the Learning and Innovation team.

Links to the TAA Training Package

Your work in this professional development program will provide a significant amount of evidence towards the TAA unit, TAALLN401A Address language, literacy and numeracy issues within learning and assessment practice.

Click the link on the right for a chart which maps the program topics against the unit requirements.

The chart also provides advice about the steps you should follow to seek credit towards the TAA unit.

 TAA and the 3 R's program (49 kb)
Workshop Booklet    

If you would prefer a print-based version of this PD program, you can download a workshop booklet from the link opposite. The booklet includes all introductions, activity directions and documents used in this site.

 Workshop booklet (527 kb)