Category: Low literacy levels
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Writing Skills Workshop: Improving Literacy Learners’ Writing Skills
Another project that is on my mind for this year is a writing workshop for dealing with common kinds of writing texts and issues that learners face. Here’s the basic idea: Employ a structure that teaches a specific approach to writing Planning: Using free writing and mindmaps and other tools to generate ideas for writing; Organising…
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Tutoropoly: A Board Game to Transform Your Teaching
You and your colleagues are highly skilled members of an expert teaching team waging a battle against low literacy and numeracy levels in a context of low productivity, historical educational failure and increasing technological complexity. Your team will work across organisations, inside classrooms, and directly with learners to stem the rising tide of poor educational…
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Pandemic: Cooperative Board Game Analogue
If you’re following my post about the cooperative board game I want to create to teach principles of adult teaching and learning with a focus on embedding literacy and numeracy, you’ll remember that I mentioned another board game that I’m using as my model. It’s called Pandemic. You can order it from Amazon or read…
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Reasons for low levels of literacy and numeracy in the adult population
There’s plenty of reasons why we see low levels of literacy and numeracy skills in the adult population. However, the problem is that none of them have really been empirically studied. This short poll isn’t going to fix that. However, I’m interested… What do you think? Choose up to three from the list below.