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Functional Skills. Functional Skills. ‘Functional’ – providing learners with the skills and abilities they need to take an active and responsible role in their communities, everyday life, the work place and educational settings.
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Functional Skills ‘Functional’ – providing learners with the skills and abilities they need to take an active and responsible role in their communities, everyday life, the work place and educational settings. Functional mathematics requires learners to use mathematics in ways that make them effective and involved as citizens, operate confidently and to convey their ideas and opinions clearly in a wide range of contexts
Functional Skills ‘Functional’ – providing learners with the skills and abilities they need to take an active and responsible role in their communities, everyday life, the work place and educational settings. Functional English requires learners to communicate in ways that make them effective and involved as citizens, to operate confidently and to convey their ideas and opinions clearly.
Functional Skills • 2005 – Functional skills is announced as integral to the 2010 curriculum changes • 2007 – various models considered • 2008 – most likely model to be adopted is a hurdle – without L2 functional numeracy or literacy, grade C will not be awarded in Maths or English
Functional Skills • 2nd April 2009. OfQual decide that functional skills as a hurdle is not fair. • 2nd April 2009. Jim Knight MP writes to OfQual and states that they ‘still expect students to achieve a Level 2 functional qualification in Maths and English’
Functional Maths • April 2009 – New Subject Criteria for 2010 (exam 2012) are released stating that … • GCSE assessments in mathematics must allocate a weighting of 20-30 per cent on higher tier and 30-40 per cent on foundation tier for the functional elements of mathematics.
Functional Maths • Level 1 • Less familiar situations • Non – routine aspects to the situation • Choice of method or procedure • Models need to be selected and adapted • Guidance given, but autonomous decisions are required
Functional Maths • Level 2 • Unfamiliar contexts • The maths required may not be obvious • Non routine aspects • Methods may involve several steps, and may require identification of underlying structure • Guidance may be provided, but choices are independently made and evaluated
Functional Maths – an example 5 minutes planning 20 minutes doing
GCSE Statistics • In addition many students are studying GCSE Statistics. Statistics Maths Higher Statistical techniques Number Algebra Geometry Data Handling
English • All students take 3 qualifications: Functional Skills GCSE English GCSE English Literature Sets 1 – 6. OR Entry Level Sets 7,8,9.
Functional English To enable students to communicate in ways that make them effective and involved as citizens to operate confidently and to convey their ideas and opinions clearly. 3 skill areas: • Speaking and Listening • Reading • Writing
Functional English • Emphasis on ‘real life’ situations • Transferable skills Level 2: • Students must show accuracy and judgement in making the right choices to communicate effectively in a particular context. • They must show an organised approach and evaluate usefulness of a range of texts and information sources as well as make choices in terms of style, vocabulary, presentation and format. • They must demonstrate problem-solving skills in applying their knowledge in unfamiliar contexts.
Functional English • Speaking and Listening: articulating views effectively in discussions, presentations. • Reading: summarise a text succinctly; extract relevant information effectively across a variety of texts; detect point of view; implicit meaning and bias. • Writing: write concisely and clearly across a wide range of formats on paper and on screen; use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar; adapt style and format to suit audience; context and purpose.
