The Skills Workshop
The Skills Workshop website has free downloadable resources for teachers and learners of maths, English, ESOL and digital skills.
Main Tag: Functional Skills
Remote assessment and invigilation of functional skills
A progress update on the remote assessment and invigilation of functional skills.Â
OTLA English and maths
Fifty-one providers joined the Outstanding Teaching Learning and Assessment English and maths programme to develop new support models to improve learner engagement.
Maths and English assessment and qualifications
An update on the assessment and awarding of GCSE and functional skills maths and English qualifications in 2021.
Literacy in Lockdown – a case study in best practice
Literacy in lockdown: what has made ‘Yes We Can Read’ work so well at HMP Winchester? And why is its strength so evident in lockdown? This case study illustrates how this one-to-one phonics based reading programme is proving so successful in supporting learners who have previously experienced difficulty learning through traditional approaches.
High value courses for school and college leavers: a 1-year offer Â
The Education and Skills Funding Agency has now published information on additional funding that will be available for one-year for the delivery of high value subjects to prevent young people from becoming NEET. Subjects include maths, English and digital.
GCSE exams and functional skills assessments
An overview of assessment and awarding arrangements for GCSE maths and English and functional skills qualifications in 2020 and 2021.Â
Essential Digital Skills
An update on the free digital skills qualifications for adults that will be available from the 1st of August.
The Skills Toolkit
The Skills Toolkit gives people access to free digital and numeracy courses to help build up their skills, progress in work and boost their job prospects.
OTLA English projects
This booklet contains summaries of 12 projects which researched new approaches for teaching English in the post-16 sector.
The AP Toolkit
The AP Toolkit aims to support those operating in Advanced Practitioner (AP)-types roles across the sector, and consists of a set of five guides and a set of development cards.
#APConnect Live Event 2020Â
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in 2020, our Conference plans had to change, and so #APConnect Live was born!