Scottish Book Trust, in partnership with Learning Connections, are offering training on storytelling and reading aloud to children. For further details and how to apply.

 

As you will see from the attached flyer the Scottish Book Trust, in partnership with Learning Connections, are offering training on storytelling and reading aloud to children. While family literacy and adult literacies tutors might rarely read aloud or tell stories in the course of their work, it could be very useful to be able to offer strategies to learners which will make them feel more confident about doing this.

 

Many of us will have worked with learners who want to be able to read aloud to their children or grandchildren, and using storytelling as a focus could be helpful to learners who are interested in creative writing or speaking more confidently. Reading aloud is now acknowledged to be one of the key strategies for improving fluency in reading and I hope that the training will offer suggestions for reducing embarrassment felt by learners when doing this.

 

You will also see that there is a cost attached to the training; unfortunately tight budgets this year mean that we are not able to fund the training and we realise that partnerships may also be constrained financially. I do hope though that it will be possible for tutors to take advantage of this opportunity.

 

To register for the course please email Catriona Wallace by 23rd October . Catriona will send you further details and a booking form.

 

Over a period of approximately 2½ years, a group of practitioners from Adult Literacies, Community Learning and Development, Voluntary Organisations and independent consultants, has been collaborating to develop training and resources for adults who use British Sign Language. This summary history outlines the work of the group and contains links to the resources and reports they have produced.

 

The group is not currently meeting but all its members, and others, continue to keep in touch through an email network and the Disabilities pages on the Learning Connections website.

 

For further information, please contact John Leavey.

 

The CLD Standards Council is launching a new e-newsletter to keep you up to date on developments across the organisation.

 

The newsletter, which will be published initially on a quarterly basis, will contain a mix of news, events and updates from the council and the wider CLD field. It will also provide updates from the four Standards Council committees - Approvals, CPD, Registration and Executive - who currently meet every three months.

 

To subscribe to the newsletter, either follow the link button on the home page of the Standards Council website to take you through to the sign up area, or email your details to The CLD Standards Council.

 

And if you have any news or events you'd like to promote in the e-newsletter we'd love to hear from you! Simply send an email or tel:0300 244 1369

 

An updated easy-to-use guide to comparing qualifications in the UK and Ireland has been published. Quality Assurance Agency and the authorities responsible for the maintenance of credit and qualifications frameworks in the five countries of UK and Ireland have produced the guide.

 

Qualifications Can Cross Boundaries - A Rough Guide to Comparing Qualifications in the UK and Ireland compares the main qualifications in each country and clarifies the numbering of levels adopted in the various frameworks across the UK and Ireland. It enables comparisons to be drawn between qualifications and their levels rather than direct equivalences. Examples of major qualifications at each level are provided. Email for printed copies.

 

The Lifelong Learning Programme team at ECOTEC invite you to attend one of their nine UK Information Days for the Leonardo, Grundtvig and Transversal Programmes.

 

 

 

This is your chance to find out all you need to know about European Lifelong Learning Programme opportunities in: 

Find out how you can benefit from transnational partnerships, European study visits, work shadowing and much more. Events take place across the UK, so you won't have to travel far.

 

Who will be there? 

 

Representatives from all kinds of organisations have attended our Information Days in the past, including:

...and many more.

 

 

Hurry! Places are strictly limited so register your place now at the Leonardo, Grundvig or Transversal websites.

 

 

The workplace literacies practitioners' network will meet from 10.30am to 3.00pm at Highlander House, 58 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA, on Tuesday 10, November 2009.

 

 

To book a place at the meeting, please complete this online booking form by Tuesday, 27 October. Places will be limited so if you book a place and later find that you are unable to attend, please email Jackie Borge so your place can be allocated to someone else.

 

The new date for the literacy network meeting is Tuesday, 1 December. This meeting replaces the one planned for Wednesday, 7 October. The network will meet at The Edinburgh Office, 16 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH Included in the programme will be a presentation by Catherine Macrae on resources which she has developed around the National Museum of Scotland's One Nation: Five Million Voices; an update about Adult Literacies on Line (ALO) and Communities of Practice in Adult Literacies (CoPAL); and an introduction to a pilot version of Learning Connections' new awareness raising training on undetected visual problems in adult literacy work.

 

 

For further information about the literacy network contact Katherine Ashe, and to book a place at the meeting please complete the survey monkey booking form by Thursday, 19 November.

 

The Supporting Young People's Literacies discussion threads have now been reorganised and there's a request for information about what you've been doing for Family Learning Week (27th September - 3rd October 2009). See Scotland's Learning Partnership site for more details.

 

Recent additions to ALO include a PowerPoint and supporting guidance designed as a generic introduction to Core Skills for CLD, the Teaching Reading to Adults Handbook, and some research on Learning Literacies for the Digital Age.

 

This month's website is a new Literacy and Health site - part of the Public Health Resource Unit.