Alison Pearson
alisonpearson1@yahoo.com

Paul Stych
pstych@icloud.com

ETF  South West Regional Lead for Maths and English
(Click the link below and select South West/Cornwall on the map)
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Create tailored practice exam papers for; Functional Skills English, Maths and ICT at L1 and L2 with Exam Wizard

Oxford University Press
A wide range of free resources that will help you evaluate VLE materials, plus free worksheets, tutor notes, and answers for you to download.

Supporting staff skills development to support assessor feedback
A useful starting point including; English and maths there are various online courses including Prevent, Leadership and Management, Equality and Diversity here. 

Imployable brings together all the elements of employment and makes them accessible to everyone. Imployable is a tool to help people identify, map and track their way in to meaningful employment.
Imployable are now testing with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Justice, and are close to launch. 
Imployable can be accessed here

This zip file contains fifteen flyers summarising maths and English dimensions of a variety of technical and vocational areas. They are designed to help providers and employers to embed maths and English skills into their study programmes and work experience placements.

Resource Type:
Teaching, learning and assessment
Scheme of work
Effective practice example

Audience: Practitioners, Learning support workers

The Study Programmes Exhibition Site. The site brings together in one place key information and resources to help post-16 providers of study programmes. Includes a wide range of resources that have been developed to support you in developing and improving your study programme provision. The collection is very diverse and includes flyers, case studies, checklists, leaflets, posters, videos, templates, and a toolkit.
Click here to access the following resources.

This toolkit is designed to help develop successful study programmes. The toolkit provides activities, supporting resources, tools and documentation to:

There are technical flyers, videos and posters in this section. The support resources are aligned with the new technical routes to help providers navigate effectively and meet the need of learners.

This toolkit seeks to support providers and practitioners who deliver study programmes in the FE sector to improve the way in which they manage the progress of learners. 

These case studies highlight some of the key characteristics and distinctive features of successful study programmes and improving learner outcomes. 

The first part of the AP Toolkit is now available to download. This set of professional development cards are a practical resource designed for APs to use in a variety of ways. For example:

·       to stimulate their own understanding and development;

·      support their practice when working with others; and 

·      to drive quality improvements in teaching, learning and assessment across the organisation.

You may want to share these as appropriate with managers, lead practitioners etc. 

At a time when people are spending more time using digital devices and going online to work, learn and socialise, our eight new modules on digital wellbeing offer a host of useful ideas.