National Forum for Adult Literacy Tutors 2010

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Schedule:

10.30    Registration: - Tea/Coffee

11.00    Welcome address
Chair: Jenny Derbyshire, NALA

11.10     What does curriculum development mean for tutors? An overview of the NALA evolving model for curriculum development
Blathnaid Ni Chinnéide, Integrating Literacy Coordinator, NALA

11.25    How we plan and what we do: what worked for us could work for you!
Student and tutor together discussing their approach to curriculum

11.45    Valuing learners’ language and understanding different literacies: How does this affect practice?
Kieran Harrington, ALO, City of Galway VEC

12.05    Constructing curriculum: Building outside the box
Anne Looney, Chief Executive, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA)

12.25    Questions and Answers

12.50    Lunch

2.00    Workshops:
A. How can we help learners to identify the prior knowledge, experience and meanings they bring to a topic or a learning situation? – Theresa Byrne
   
B. Building everyday numeracy into curriculum – Mary Bevan
   
C. How to use review and evaluation as part of the learning sessions and use this to plan the next steps? - Helen McHugh

D.  Curriculum development and socialisation:  Through social experiences, we are socialised into and/or isolated from different kinds of literacy practices. How can tutors use this in planning and designing learning activities? -  Moira Greene      

E. Scaffolding: What is it, how can it be done and how does it benefit adult literacy students?   - Pauline Hensey

F.  How to do curriculum development in the context of FETAC - Ann Hegarty

4.00    Close

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