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Taking the Lead: literacy and numeracy and the need for deep change VET Practitioner’s Conference 18 July 2008

Taking the Lead: literacy and numeracy and the need for deep change VET Practitioner’s Conference 18 July 2008 Workshop 2 Something to climb: building a literacy scaffold for learners. Jana Scomazzon, Service Skills Australia. This workshop.

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Taking the Lead: literacy and numeracy and the need for deep change VET Practitioner’s Conference 18 July 2008

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  1. Taking the Lead: literacy and numeracy and the need for deep change VET Practitioner’s Conference 18 July 2008 Workshop 2 Something to climb: building a literacy scaffold for learners Jana Scomazzon, Service Skills Australia

  2. This workshop • How does my practice take account of learner’s LLN skills and the level of skills required in the training specification when developing vocational training and assessment? Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  3. Service Skills Australia’scommitment tolanguage, literacyand numeracy • Taking the Lead website:a purpose built ‘one-stop shop' for those in the service industries seeking help with language, literacy and numeracy • LLN ideas forums • LLN service industry ‘champions’ Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  4. Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  5. X The ability to: • understand and employ information • achieve one's goals • develop one's knowledge and potential Literacy = Source: OECD Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  6. _________________ Australia’s literacy and numeracy levels • Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS) 2006 to find out how well adults use information to function in society…to assist answering questions of whether Australians’ literacy skills are adequate for the challenges they face in work and daily life. Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  7. ALLS 2006: Australians at levels 1 and 2 _________________ • Document • Prose 46% • Numeracy 53% 47% 70% • Problem solving Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  8. ALLS 2006: the snapshot _________________ Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  9. Taking the Lead ALLS Ideas Forums _________________ • facilitated by Service Skills Australia • identify a way forward for the service industries in response to ALLS data Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  10. ALLS Findings _________________ In your work or practice do youintuitively validate these findings? How are they evidenced … what are the problems that support the findings? What mechanisms do we have available to address these findings? Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  11. Training Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  12. Understand _________________ learners’ skills • the job demands • learner needs Illustration by Lulu Wilson taken from ‘Working from strengths: Venturing towards strength-based adult education’ Peter Waterhouse, Crina Virgona (2008) and reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher, NCVER. Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  13. LLN pressure points _________________ Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  14. _____________ PD mapped to TAALLN401B Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  15. _________________ PD mapped to TAALLN401B Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  16. PD mapped to TAALLN401B _________________ Step 1, Question 3.1 in TTL PD How does my training take account of learner’s LLN skills and the level of skills required in the training specification when developing vocational training and assessment? Performance Criterion 3.1 in TAALLN401B Vocational learning programs are customised to take account of individual learner's language, literacy or numeracy skills and the level of skills required within the training specification Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  17. Step 2 of Q3.1: Keep the balance _________________ Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  18. Tip 15 TTL site _________________ What simple things can I do to support learners in developing LLN skills? One method: scaffolding Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  19. The practice of scaffolding _________________ • Reading • Writing • Speaking and listening • Numeracy Choose one of the LLN skills above and list 3 simple things (in order of importance) that you do to support learners in developing that LLN skill. Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  20. _________________ Focus on strengths Illustration by Lulu Wilson taken from ‘Working from strengths: Venturing towards strength-based adult education’ Peter Waterhouse, Crina Virgona (2008) and reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher, NCVER. Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  21. How do you get help? _________________ Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

  22. Where to? _________________ • Guidance • specialist LLN support (e.g. Advanced Diploma of LLN Practice in VET) • vocational trainer with LLN skills • multi-disciplinary team that can co-deliver • Help • DEEWR WELL program funding (www.dest.gov.au/well) • Information and PD • Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au) Taking the Lead (www.takingthelead.com.au): LLN skills for the service industriesJana Scomazzon: E: jana@ltg.net.au T: 03 9532 8809

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