Explore a range of practical ideas that you can easily incorporate into your own teaching to fully engage Functional Skills learners, stretch and challenge them and achieve excellent results.

This course will explore the challenges of what content to cover in maths and English across the year, taking into count different starting points and needs where students have missed significant amounts of maths and English teaching.

This course will explore different ways to motivate students by looking at alternative ways to teach essential maths and English skills to provide the essential knowledge students need for the exam and the next steps in their lives.

Phonics-based approaches are a key part of the new Functional Skills English at Entry Level and can have particular benefits with ESOL learners. This webinar explores how to use phonics-based approaches appropriately, building on insights from the Post-16 Phonics Toolkit.

Drawing on lessons learnt from lockdown, this course focuses on supporting differentiation on maths and English courses, in terms of learners' prior knowledge and experience of their subject, through non-linear curriculum planning and meeting the needs of learners with different levels of self-belief and resilience.

Effective study skills have been identified as ways of improving the performance of all learners and of closing the gap between boys and girls. This course will look at a range of tried and trusted techniques but will also move beyond the recognised approaches we see online to look at specific approaches to learning that will help learners in both functional skills and GCSE

Drawing on lessons learnt from lockdown, this course will focus on how to engage and motivate learners to attend and remain on English courses and will include supporting learners remotely and issues surrounding resilience and self-efficacy. The course will support practitioners to use innovative approaches to engage learners in reading and writing, drawing on recent practitioner research findings (from OTLA 6).

The first of three sessions Identifying key points from CPD and conferences during lockdown. Based on the CPD courses, chat room insights and conferences we will summarise the key learning areas from a range of CPD sessions

The second of three sessions Identifying key points from CPD and conferences during lockdown. Based on the CPD courses, chat room insights and conferences we will summarise the key learning areas from a range of CPD sessions

The third of three sessions identifying key points from CPD and conferences during lockdown. Based on the CPD courses, chat room insights and conferences we will summarise the key learning areas from a range of CPD sessions.

In this webinar we will explore the domain of maths and English - moving away from the syllabus and looking at the complex interplay of numeracy and literacy beyond the exam and in a variety of career paths.

This course will explore essential aspects of reading skills and provide practical ideas to help students maximise their achievement not just in exams but at work and in the community.

This webinar can be taken as a stand alone or as a supplement to appropriate blended learning courses. 

This course will explore essential aspects of writing skills and provide practical ideas to help students maximise their achievement not just in exams but at work and in the community.

This webinar can be taken as a stand alone or as a supplement to appropriate blended learning courses.