Skills for Life Improvement Programme Numeracy Teachers in London, 22/10/2008 Woburn House Building the foundation for “Building the numbers” What needs

Skills for LifeImprovement Programme

Numeracy Teachers in London, 22/10/2008 Woburn House

Building the foundation for “Building the numbers”

What needs to happen?

Noyona ChandaOctober [email protected]


Numeracy Teachers in London, 22/10/2008 Woburn House Noyona Chanda, LLU+ at LSBU 2

Regional / national role

Teacher education

Research and review -Numeracy provision , practice and curriculum

Curriculum support

drafting professional standards for numeracy teachers

Materials, resources and models

National numeracy professional development centre

Building capacity – teacher, teacher trainer and trainer of teacher trainers

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Numeracy Teachers in London, 22/10/2008 Woburn House Noyona Chanda, LLU+ at LSBU 3Numeracy Teachers in London, 22/10/2008 Woburn House Noyona Chanda, LLU+ at LSBU 3



The Skills for Life Improvement Programme is delivered on behalf of the Quality Improvement Agency by CfBT Education Trust and partners

LLU+ recent research and development work : mostly qualitative, organic, dynamic and evolutionary

M4L pathfinder projectNational Audit Office

– inquiry into current situation re numeracy provision (2008)

Numeracy overview - QIA Skills for Life

Improvement Programme (2007 – 2008) review of the Adult Numeracy

Core curricula




LLU+ numeracy research and development role within SfLIP…….

1. to gain an overview of the numeracy activity and issues across all strands of the programme

2. to support regional numeracy development work in collaboration with project partners and development advisers

3. to report findings from this and other related research to QIA



Findings from LLU+ research

1. Numeracy smaller than literacy.2. Invisibility of numeracy3. Managers have no interest in numeracy4. Poor marketing of adult numeracy provision - uninspired5. Not enough numeracy specialist teachers and teacher educators 6. Not enough full-time posts for numeracy7. Need for stronger links between language, literacy and numeracy

teacher educators8. Lack of innovative approaches in teaching numeracy9. Mismatch between national concerns for levels of numeracy and

individuals’ perspective10. Evidence of numeracy in all settings (education, training, workplace, society)

PERSON – PERCEPTION – PROVISION – PROFESSION




Foundation - Cornerstones and base

Provision – who’s championing for expansion and innovation? - Why is funding not prioritising numeracy?

Workforce – why is it not ready to meet the demand?

Curriculum offer – is it what learners want or need?

Potential learners – why aren’t they getting the message about numeracy improvement and increased earnings?

Some key questions




What needs to happen?

Organisational priority / senior management

commitment

Improving quality of numeracy teaching

Promoting numeracy to potential learners

Expanding provision

Organisational priority

Capacity building




Measure, scope and prepare the groundwork

Build the blocks and numbers

A golden future – a numerate workforce!

Documents

Skills for Life Improvement Programme Numeracy Teachers in London, 22/10/2008 Woburn House Building the foundation for “Building the numbers” What needs