Adult Literacy Teaching Theories, Frameworks And Strategies

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Portfolio Question/Activity

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1 Analyse & apply conceptual frameworks and theories underpinning literacy teaching

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Andragogy is a special teaching theory developed specially for adults. This theory is influenced by the children teaching theory pedagogy, which made high similarity between these two theories. The basic principles of this theory is allowing the adult learner to know the purpose of their learning, practical implementation, problem solving learning, immediate usage of the subject.  Through this, Each student can develop their own learning checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track about their learning activities and due activities  

Multiple intelligence is a specific teaching theory for adult learners that allows the holistic growth of learner in tremens of reasoning capability, communication, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, bodily kinaesthetic intelligence and spatial intelligence. In this teaching practice, the learning objectives are equally distributed to every direction of intellectual growth of the student. It allow the students to Participate in Quality Improvement processes in the workplace, considering the priorities and commitments of self and other members

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National Foundation Skills Strategy for Adults or NFSSA is a ten years long educating framework for adult learners. This framework focuses on the holistic improvement of the adult learner considering their lingual, numeracy, literacy and employability growth. The education department in the government of Australia promotes this strategic framework. The framework helps to develop the lesson plan to be more practical, viable and tangible in order to make the learner skilled for employment.  

The 2003 NAAL or National Assessment of Adult Literacy Framework is a government promoted framework in United state. As per this framework, 3 primary measures are available to develop a adult literacy learning process that comprises prose, document and quantitative. The selection of these components depends on the implication of the literacy learning programs for the adults.  

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In Adult learning theories and frameworks in Australian education system, an educator needs to take account of the principles as well to develop a successful and feasible lesson plan for adult learners.

Before developing a program of adult literacy through language learning lesson plan the current English language skills of the adult learners need to be identified and analysed. It will help to determine the needs of their language skill.

Verbal communication: Talking with the surrounded peoples in English language can help to detect the verbal communication skill of the students

Writing skill: Regular maintain a personal diary in English can help the assessors to identify the specific issues in writing style and their knowledge of English sentence making.  

Reading skill: Trying to read every text written in English can help the students to demonstrate their reading capability from which their level of skill in reading can be identified.

Listening: Through involving in a drama and movie watching event the students have to display their listening capability in English language. Then the student have to reflect on that particular topic which they had seen. From this description their capacity of listening and understanding English

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Adult literacy program can occur in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for English literacy training. The major disadvantage in this context is diversity that requires additional effort to make cultural competency within the students.  

For the literacy training of isolated community in rural area and for indigenous peoples who still do not receive proper academic support the adult literacy program can be formed. In this situation the awareness of education and literacy should be built up within the target student.

Adult literacy program can be also needed in refugee camp where immigrants from different nation come live a normal life under the umbrella of this nation. The major disadvantage is reaching to these people is very complicated process for any program.

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2. Research literacy requirements of those participating in literacy provision

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Through the literacy programs and lesson plans the Student will be able to understand verbal communication and the utilisation of language as well as the knowledge

Through the literacy programs and lesson plans Student will able to verbally communicate with other peers as well as the teacher through various literacy based discussion and language development trainings.

Through the literacy programs and lesson plans Students can present good written paper with less sentence and grammatical error that can present any informative document to the receivers

Through the literacy programs and lesson plans the students will have the skill develop knowledge in English language in terms of grammar, vocabulary and literatures.

Though reading newspaper, magazine, flayers and banners the students can learn from text .

Keeping a list of frequently used words and applying them in regular basis to be accustomed with the English language can help the student to learn new vocabularies. Making a key words and finding the basic information about the words or a practical life object will allow the learners to develop learning skill. Each student can develop their own learning checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track about their learning activities and due activities  

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My verbal communication ability will make the student able to learn from acoustical learning process. The written presentation can improve their reading skill and knowledge of literacy. My analytical assessing capability will make them comprehensive in writing a flawless English paper. I can take several interviews for each of the students to learn about their difficulties and strength. Apart from that, a survey can be conducted to understand the loopholes in the learning and teaching plan for literacy. I can provide some additional study materials as well as specific lesson as per their preference and interest.

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3. Select from a range of teaching approaches to develop participants’ literacy skills and knowledge

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In Literacy program Learners can learn in a variety of ways. There is no single way to learn. As a practitioner I need to use a variety of teaching approaches to engage your students. Some effective teaching approaches would be useful to support the development of your students’ literacy skills and knowledge. At the same time the learning needs of the students will be the driver force of choosing the these approaches. In the literacy program for adult students, the most effective learning strategy will be practical based approach where the students can understand their learning outcomes and their importance in regular life. This curriculum based lesson plan will help them to develop more interest in the learning activities.

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Acknowledging the relationship between language and social, cultural, political and religious identity will help the student to analyse the various perspective of literacy. It will help to make the students aware of the importance of learning the language in various utilisable forms such as written and oral. The analysis and influence of socio cultural identity will also help to students to get accustomed with the regular utilisation of English language.

Discussing the role language plays in meeting work requirements effectively in workplace setting will help them to involve in regular activities which can increase the skill of the literacy learning of the student. Though this strategy, the students can understand their learning outcomes and their importance in regular life. This curriculum based lesson plan will help them to develop more interest in the learning activities.

Teaching differences between spoken and written forms can help the student to identify the differences in implementation. It will help the student to learn the dynamic use of English language, which can improve their spoken as well as writing skill effectively. Understanding different style of language presentation can also help to enlarge the stock of words.

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4. Select from a range of learning resources to develop participants’ literacy skills and knowledge

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 The learning materials or equipments should comprise various vocabulary and grammatical skill developing study materials including short stories, poem, interesting reports, presentation and others. Apart from that various traditional books like “Learning Basic English”, “Primary understanding of reading and writing English”, “Developing Grammar” will be helpful.

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The perception of verbal and non verbal presentation of emotions in their own language can influence the learning style of English language as well. The word distribution and vocabulary of their own mother tough can hinder the ability of grasping new sentence making technique easily

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5. Apply and evaluate strategies for teaching literacy skills and knowledge

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To develop the basic understanding and literacy skill the learner will try to read several simple English text with loud voice that can help them to improve their pronunciation. Apart from that, reading can also help the learner to develop their understanding about sociological factor and practical knowledge.

They should engage in debates or constructive discussion on a simple but interesting topic that can influence their sentence making and verbal communication capability. Apart from that listening speech from another participant will also allow them to increase their understanding of language and literature.  

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They will have the skill develop own problem solving method in real live mathematical problems including currency change, calendars. Verbal understanding is a skill that can allow the learner to understand the context of someone’s speech in English

Reading is a basic literacy skill that will allow the learner to understand the written text with appropriate meaning and interpretation. Trough taking part of mathematical puzzle games the learners will be able to boost up their interest in reasoning skill and calculation while improve their logical thinking capacity.

Writing skill can enable the learner to write their expression in meaningful sentences. It is a part of proficiency as well. Calculates cost of two items and estimates change due after making a payment by comparing different prices of purchased material.

Speaking skill with appropriate pronunciation will allow the learner to express their words in English language though verbal communication.

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To write English at Level 2 ACSF, the learner should envelop well understanding of sentence construction with various worlds. In this phase, the students will also develop their parts of speech and other grammatical elements accurately. The reading and verbal communication will help to increase their stock of words. Making a key words and finding the basic information about the words or a practical life object will allow the learners to develop learning skill.

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To make the student able to respond to simple enquiries relevant to personal needs, the student will be engaged in regular basis verbal communication with each other in English.

To make the learners able to express their emotion they have to be engaged in a group discussion activity on a particular topic or for describing any experience.

Students can be asked to develop their own speech regarding day to day precaution system including hygiene, emergency evacuation and others.

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Keeping a list of frequently used words and applying them in regular basis to be accustomed with the English language can help the student to learn new vocabularies.

Making a key words and finding the basic information about the words or a practical life object will allow the learners to develop learning skill.

Each student can develop their own learning checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track about their learning activities and due activities  

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To evaluate the lesson plans I can take several interviews for each of the students to learn about their difficulties and strength. Apart from that, a survey can be conducted to understand the loopholes in the learning and teaching plan for literacy. I can provide some additional study materials as well as specific lesson as per their preference and interest. It will help the student to learn the dynamic use of English language, which can improve their spoken as well as writing skill effectively. Understanding different style of language presentation can also help to enlarge the stock of words.

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Required Skills

Response

In your management or delivery or development of literacy programs, how do you incorporate the appropriate adult learning and development strategies?

To Incorporate appropriate learning strategy I have researched several government and international level learning and lesson planning policies regarding literacy training for adult learners. It includes the adult literacy teaching practices, current teaching strategies in adult Literacy learning contexts, basic adult learning principles, independent teaching approaches, concepts of traditional learning resources and  5 levels of achievement in the ACSF. These materials has been collected from online study materials, including research articles, journals, published reports and others. At the same time for traditional resources I had to gather knowledge form several hardcopies of Literatures and handbooks.

In review or development of resources for literacy learners what are you looking for? What would make you select one resource over another?

For this study I had to collect several information from different independent resource. Each of these resources has their own strategic explanation on adult literacy learning styles, approaches and success factors. Therefore, to prioritise these issues and comparing them with other resources I had to compare each of the resources with another. It gave me the set of most suitable and appropriate resources that can provide adequate information of Australian Adult literacy and learning program.  The resources are sorted in hierarchical manner through which the less important study materials could be neglected and the critical resources could be prioritise.

How do you see literacy delivered most effectively? What tools have you used or encouraged others to use that would support literacy development?

To evaluate the lesson plans on literacy I have taken several interviews for each of the students to learn about their difficulties and strength. Apart from that, a survey has been conducted to understand the loopholes in the learning and teaching plan for literacy. I have also provided some additional study materials in a simulated learning environment as well as specific lesson as per their preference and interest. It will help the student to learn the dynamic use of English language, which can improve their spoken as well as writing skill effectively. Understanding different style of language presentation can also help to enlarge the stock of words.

When you participate or provide professional development sessions or moderate with colleagues what are the definitive stories on literacy learning that you can share? Why choose those?

After each of the strategic outcomes of my lesson planning on literacy planning I used to communicate with my peers regarding my experience. At the same time, they also shared their experience in a group discussion environment. In this environment I can listen about other’s experience and also share my experience freely. At the same time, listening about a larger pool of adult students helped me to analyse the perspective of the chosen group on which I have to carry out my study report. These discussions acted as a partial assessment tool for my study.

Required Knowledge

Response

How do you manage a mixed cultural group of literacy learners in terms of creating a cohesive group? What do you have to know to enable this?

I have visited an adult literacy program that occurred in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for English literacy training. The major disadvantage in this context is diversity that requires additional effort to make cultural competency within the students.  I have also visited the literacy training of isolated community in rural area and for indigenous peoples who still do not receive proper academic support the adult literacy program can be formed. In this situation the awareness of education and literacy should be built up within the target student. I visited many refugee camps Adult literacy program can be also needed in refugee camp where immigrants from different nation come live a normal life under the umbrella of this nation. The major disadvantage is reaching to these people is very complicated process for any program.

How do you manage the mixed level group and facilitate their learning? What knowledge of the Reading and Writing Skills in the ACSF do you have that would support your management?

Keeping a list of frequently visited place and applying them in regular basis to be accustomed with the English language can help me to learn about new groups of students who need literacy training. Making a key words and finding the basic information about the words or a practical life object will allow me to develop appropriate learning skill development training materials. I have developed own teaching and learning based activity checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track my teaching activities and the learning progress including the due activities  

Does using the Training Package or units of competency restrict or create opportunities for literacy development? What stories can you share of these experiences?

These training packages and units are not restricted for a particular group of students. However, these activity sets were developed for any individual participant who wants to develop their learning skill through literacy development program.  During these activities some of the experience became more valuable and unique for my personal and professional development as well. I have visited an adult literacy program that occurred in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for English literacy training. All of the participants were active and interested about learning new activity based knowledge.  

How do you deal with age diverse groups and what tools would you use to maximise their participation in a literacy class?

To deal with diverse groups of adult student social, cultural and demographical background I had to maintain a friendly and cooperative environment where they can express their abilities and ambiguities. Apart from that the group of adult learners are also separated by different section according to their interest and age. It helped the learning strategies to be implemented effectively. Though this students also excepted the learning techniques as well as the activities while increasing their interest on the topic and learning outcomes.

Activity

Performance Criteria

Portfolio Question/Activity

Completed & Provided

1. Analyse and apply conceptual frameworks underpinning numeracy teaching

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Multiple intelligence is a specific teaching theory for adult learners that allow the holistic growth of learner in tremens of reasoning capability, communication, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, bodily kinaesthetic intelligence and spatial intelligence. In this teaching practice, the learning objectives are equally distributed to every direction of intellectual growth of the student. The basic principles of this theory is allowing the adult learner to know the purpose of their learning, practical implementation, problem solving learning, immediate usage of the subject.  Through this, Each student can develop their own learning checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track about their learning activities and due activities  

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Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) is a useful tool to assist in reviewing the balance across the five levels of the students and to help guarantee a more even spread of mathematical knowledge and skills. The education department in the government of Australia promotes this strategic framework. The framework helps to develop the lesson plan to be more practical, viable and tangible in order to make the learner skilled for employment.  

Victoria’s Certificates in General Education for Adults(VCGEA)  include numeracy and mathematics units across five levels ranging from an Initial Level Course, through to Certificates at Levels I, II and III of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). In Adult learning theories and frameworks in Australian education system, an educator needs to take account of the principles as well to develop a successful and feasible lesson plan for adult learners. As per this framework, 3 primary measures are available to develop a adult literacy learning process that comprises prose, document and quantitative. The selection of these components depends on the implication of the literacy learning programs for the adults.  

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To make the student able to identify and compare familiar items, their quantities, sizes and costs several real life components will be used to improve their ability including size comparison, weight comparison, length comparison and others.

To make the students able to maintain the records of numbers or quantities several spread sheet maintaining process can be with figures though utilising the data onto manual spreadsheet or familiar workplace computers.

To make the students aware of the usage of  appropriate technological devices to measure and record data and report and act on results several equipments and measurement method will be introduced including blood pressure machine, micrometer, temperature gauge.

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Adult numeracy program can occur in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for numeracy and measurement training. The major disadvantage in this context is diversity that requires additional effort to make cultural competency within the students.  

For the Numeracy training of isolated community in rural area and for indigenous peoples who still do not receive proper academic support the adult Mathematics lesson can be formed. In this situation the awareness of numerical presentation and analysis should be built up within the target student.

Adult Numeracy program can be also needed in refugee camp where immigrants from different nation come with different ideas or measurement method than traditional measurement units in Australia. The major disadvantage is reaching to these people is very complicated process for any program.

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2. Research numeracy requirements of those participating in numeracy provision

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Student will be able to understand numerical units and measurement system. students should be introduced with the arithmetic based problem where the mathematical problem will be presented in a story format to allow the student learn literacy as well.

Student will able present the readings as per the stored numerical records. From this Students can demonstrate their understanding and experience about new measurement system in a group.

They will have the skill develop own problem solving method in real live mathematical problems including currency change, calendars it will includes usage of appropriate technological devices to measure and record data and report and act on result, lengths of familiar objects using metric units

Trough taking part of mathematical puzzle games the learners will be able to boost up their interest in reasoning skill and calculation while improve their logical thinking capacity.

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Calculates cost of two items and estimates change due after making a payment by comparing different prices of purchased material

Records numbers or quantities of materials distributed or sales figures and data by making budget sheet, purchasing list and sales record.

Accesses and compares information contained in two-column tables for forward and backward calculation in budget plan making

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The following mathematical skills and knowledge required to be competent in numeracy to level 3 in ACSF

Working in a group to undertake a simple survey and documents the results including at least one everyday or routine graph can help to develop the measurement and calculation skill

Using appropriate technological devices to measure and record data and report and acting on results including blood pressure machine, micrometer, and temperature gauge can improve the measurement skill and estimation capability of the students.

Identifying and explaining uses and application of shape in different contexts specifically in geometry can help the student to increase their mathematical concept as well as reasoning capacity, For this 2D and 3D shapes can be used as learning material both in house or building construction

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3. Select from a range of teaching approaches to develop participants’ numeracy skills and knowledge

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In the Numeracy training program for adult students, the most effective learning strategy will be practical learning based approach where the students can understand the measurement system and their importance in regular life.

Curriculum based problem solving can be also used for numeracy learning which includes various puzzle games.

The tool based lesson plan will help them to understand the measurement system with the implied mathematical calculations.

Arithmetic based written mathematical calculation and problem solving approach will help them to understand the documentation system in the numerical study.

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Reasoning: Puzzle based Math game can help to develop the reasoning skill while making the students more interested. Image based cards game can also do the same.

Problem Solving: realistic simulation involving currency exchange, comparison and mix-min analysis can help to improve the problem solving skill. Describing a problem situation by graphical usage can help the students to understand the problem with proper conceptualisation.

Estimation: Several numerical dataset based problems can be used to develop viable estimation capability within the students.

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Lack of knowledge in Australian measurement system can cause lengthy learning process for the immigrant learners. The differences in currency system and national economy hinder the conceptualisation of budget based estimation. The numerical expressions in English area completely new for some candidates that hinders their learning process as well. To make the learners able to express their emotion they have to be engaged in a group discussion activity on a particular topic or for describing any experience. Students can be asked to develop their own solutions day to day problems including financial calculation, measurement system, regular computing activities hygiene, emergency evacuation and others.

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4. Select from a range of learning resources to develop participants’ numeracy skill and knowledge

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The traditional learning materials or equipments should comprise various numerical and reasoning skill developing study materials including Arithmetic problems, geometrical images, computation games and others. Apart from that various advance learning materials including numerical study presentation, commuters,   measurement tools, math based games, will be very helpful. From the visualised presentation of numerical relationship of different problem solutions the student can easily understand the concept of primary and secondary level mathematical concepts.

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Practitioners has to be aware of the social and cultural background of all the participating learners in their numeracy classes. Through this a practitioners can use materials and resources that are relevant to their social or cultural needs and so make their numeracy learning more meaningful and therefore more effective. Acknowledging the relationship between numeracy and social, cultural, political and religious identity can help the student to accept the numeracy learning process easily. It will help to make the students aware of the importance of learning the measurement in various utilisable conditions such as problem solving and mathematical induction. The analysis and influence of socio cultural identity and scientific knowledge sharing of different nations will also help to students to get accustomed with the regular utilisation of numerical usage and calculation techniques. The following approaches can be useful in developing proper lesson plan:

Shaping language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) levels using validated tools, including those based on the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF), for 3 learners Identifying  the necessities of training, based on the ACSF. Planning training and assessment that incorporates LLN support strategies relevant to at least two different learners, or groups of learners, in response the ACSF assessment and learners’ goals could be helpful. Reviewing own strategy, and strategies of others, used to support LLN Leading others to extend practice.

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5. Apply and evaluate strategies for teaching mathematical skills and knowledge

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In order to involve numeracy in the literacy program students should be introduced with the arithmetic based problem where the mathematical problem will be presented in a story format to allow the student learn literacy as well

Student can engage in group discussion regarding a particular mathematical problems with their peers through utilising only English as their spoken languages.

Students can demonstrate their understanding and experience about new measurement system in a group by using English based oral communication and English representation.

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Number: Calculates cost of two items and estimates change due after making a payment and Records numbers or quantities of materials distributed or sales figures and data onto spreadsheet

Measurement: Uses appropriate technological devices to measure and record data and report and act on result, lengths of familiar objects using metric units, e.g. a person’s height, lengths of fabric or lengths of wood used in everyday work

Space and location: Interprets and uses ratios and scales to read and discuss the design and dimensions on the plan of a property in order to allocate working space and furniture, e.g. a building/workplace, a sports building/facility

Statistics: Researches and investigates statistical data gathered through individual research or experimentation, organises data into groups in a frequency table, represents data graphically, calculates and records measures of central tendency and spread and analyses and discusses the results including their relevance and impact on the topic of research/investigation 

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Required Skills

Response

In your management or delivery or development of numeracy programs, how do you incorporate the appropriate adult learning and development strategies?

To Incorporate appropriate learning strategy I have researched several government and international level learning and lesson planning policies regarding Numeracy training for adult learners. It includes the adult Numeracy teaching practices, current teaching strategies in adult Numaracy learning contexts, basic adult learning principles, independent teaching approaches, concepts of traditional learning resources and  5 levels of achievement in the ACSF. These materials has been collected from online study materials, including research articles, journals, published reports and others. At the same time for traditional resources I had to gather knowledge form several hardcopies of Literatures and handbooks.

In review or development of resources for numeracy learners what are you looking for? What would make you select one resource over another?

For this study I had to collect several information from different independent resource. Each of these resources has their own strategic explanation on adult Numeracy learning styles, approaches and success factors. Therefore, to prioritise these issues and comparing them with other resources I had to compare each of the resources with another. It gave me the set of most suitable and appropriate resources that can provide adequate information of Australian Adult literacy and learning program.  The resources are sorted in hierarchical manner through which the less important study materials could be neglected and the critical resources could be prioritise.

How do you see numeracy delivered most effectively? What tools have you used or encouraged others to use that would support numeracy development?

To evaluate the lesson plans on Numaracy I have taken several interviews for each of the students to learn about their difficulties and strength. Apart from that, a survey has been conducted to understand the loopholes in the learning and teaching plan for Numaracy. I have also provided some additional study materials in a simulated learning environment as well as specific lesson as per their preference and interest. It will help the student to learn the dynamic use of skills of, reasoning, problem-solving and estimation and explanation of the utilisation of geometric theories. Understanding different style of Mathematical presentation can also help to enlarge the skills of, reasoning, problem-solving and estimation.

When you participate or provide professional development session or moderate with colleagues what are the definitive stories on numeracy learning that you can share? Why choose those?

After each of the strategic outcomes of my lesson planning on Numeracy learning, I used to communicate with my peers regarding my experience. At the same time, they also shared their experience in a group discussion environment. In this environment, I can listen about other’s experience and also share my experience freely. At the same time, listening about a larger pool of adult students helped me to analyse the perspective of the chosen group on which I have to carry out my study report. These discussions acted as a partial assessment tool for my study.

Required Knowledge

Response

How do you manage a mixed cultural group of numeracy learners in terms of creating a cohesive group? What do you have to know to enable this?

I have visited an adult literacy program that occurred in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for English literacy training. The major disadvantage in this context is diversity that requires additional effort to make cultural competency within the students.  I have also visited the literacy training of isolated community in rural area and for indigenous peoples who still do not receive proper academic support the adult literacy program can be formed. In this situation the awareness of education and literacy should be built up within the target student. I visited many refugee camps Adult literacy program can be also needed in refugee camp where immigrants from different nation come live a normal life under the umbrella of this nation. The major disadvantage is reaching to these people is very complicated process for any program.

How do you manage the mixed level group and facilitate their learning? What knowledge of the Numeracy skills in the ACSF do you have to have that would support your management?

Keeping a list of frequently visited place and applying them in regular basis to be accustomed with the English language can help me to learn about new groups of students who need literacy training. Making a key words and finding the basic information about the words or a practical life object will allow me to develop appropriate learning skill development training materials. I have developed own teaching and learning based activity checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track my teaching activities and the learning progress including the due activities  

Does using the Training Package or units of competency restrict or create opportunities for numeracy development? What stories can you share of these experiences?

These training packages and units are not restricted for a particular group of students. However, these activity sets were developed for any individual participant who wants to develop their learning skill through literacy development program.  During these activities some of the experience became more valuable and unique for my personal and professional development as well. I have visited an adult literacy program that occurred in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for English literacy training. All of the participants were active and interested about learning new activity based knowledge.  

How do you deal with age diverse groups and what tools would you use to maximise their participation?

To deal with diverse groups of adult student social, cultural and demographical background I had to maintain a friendly and cooperative environment where they can express their abilities and ambiguities. Apart from that the group of adult learners are also separated by different section according to their interest and age. It helped the learning strategies to be implemented effectively. Though this students also excepted the learning techniques as well as the activities while increasing their interest on the topic and learning outcomes.

Activity

Performance Criteria

Portfolio Question/Activity

Completed & Provided

1. Analyse English language skills required in the delivery context

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Before developing a program of adult literacy through language learning lesson plan the current English language skills of the adult learners need to be identified and analysed. It will help to determine the needs of their language skill.

Verbal communication: Talking with the surrounded peoples in English language can help to detect the verbal communication skill of the students

Writing skill: Regular maintain a personal diary in English can help the assessors to identify the specific issues in writing style and their knowledge of English sentence making.  

Reading skill: Trying to read every text written in English can help the students to demonstrate their reading capability from which their level of skill in reading can be identified.

Listening: Through involving in a drama and movie watching event the students have to display their listening capability in English language. Then the student have to reflect on that particular topic which they had seen. From this description their capacity of listening and understanding English

1.2……………………………………………………………………….

Andragogy is a special teaching theory developed specially for adults. This theory is influenced by the children teaching theory pedagogy, which made high similarity between these two theories. The basic principles of this theory is allowing the adult learner to know the purpose of their learning, practical implementation, problem solving learning, immediate usage of the subject.  Through this, Each student can develop their own learning checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track about their learning activities and due activities  

Multiple intelligence is a specific teaching theory for adult learners that allows the holistic growth of learner in tremens of reasoning capability, communication, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, bodily kinaesthetic intelligence and spatial intelligence. In this teaching practice, the learning objectives are equally distributed to every direction of intellectual growth of the student. It allow the students to Participate in Quality Improvement processes in the workplace, considering the priorities and commitments of self and other members

YES / NO

Date

2. Select teaching approaches

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In the literacy program for adult students, the most effective learning strategy will be practical based approach where the students can understand their learning outcomes and their importance in regular life. This curriculum based lesson plan will help them to develop more interest in the learning activities.

This framework focuses on the holistic improvement of the adult learner considering their lingual, numeracy, literacy and employability growth. The education department in the government of Australia promotes this strategic framework. The framework helps to develop the lesson plan to be more practical, viable and tangible in order to make the learner skilled for employment.  National Assessment of Adult Literacy Framework is a government promoted framework in United state. As per this framework, 3 primary measures are available to develop a adult literacy learning process that comprises prose, document and quantitative. The selection of these components depends on the implication of the literacy learning programs for the adults.  

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For Adult learners with differing ACSF skill profiles the most appropriate approach will be visual and cognitive practice base English learning and training approach. This will allow the student to involve in the learning process with increasing interest.

For Adult learners with a range of linguistic backgrounds can creates a diversity in learning session that can create some barriers during translation based language learning process. For this, the lesson plan should more focus on the curriculum based approach where they have to interact by non verbal representation.

The Adult learners needing to learn in a specific work environment requires most practical based learning approach that is viable for their professional field. For this the learners should learn in a application based linguistic development lesson that will allow them to focus on the utility of their learning materials.

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3. Select range of learning resources to develop English language skills

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The learning materials or equipments should comprise various vocabulary and grammatical skill developing study materials including short stories, poem, interesting reports, presentation and others. Apart from that various traditional books like “Learning Basic English”, “Primary understanding of reading and writing English”, “Developing Grammar” will be helpful.

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4. Apply and evaluate activities to develop learners’ English language skills

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To be effective teachers of adult learners from diverse backgrounds who can feel intimidated and exhibit a lack of confidence when participating in programs that focus on the development of English language skills, practitioners need to create an environment that is conducive to language learning. Therefore, a practitioner can create a friendly learning environment where the learners can discuss about their ambiguities clearly. It will help the to create a learning environment in which adult students feel safe, secure and supported. Your answer needs to provide five or more strategies/skills that would help create such an environment.

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Acknowledging the relationship between language and social, cultural, political and religious identity will help to make the students aware of the importance of learning the language in various utilisable forms such as written and oral. The analysis and influence of socio cultural identity will also help to students to get accustomed with the regular utilisation of English language.

By discussing the role language plays in meeting work requirements effectively in workplace setting, the students can understand their learning outcomes and their importance in regular life. This curriculum based lesson plan will help them to develop more interest in the learning activities.

Teaching differences between spoken and written forms will help the student to learn the dynamic use of English language, which can improve their spoken as well as writing skill effectively. Understanding different style of language presentation can also help to enlarge the stock of words.

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Involving in a group discussion that can allow them to interact with peers through English language can increase their understanding of English language and their utilities in verbal communication.

Listening English movie, drama and other entertainment program can help the students to develop their understanding of English language along with the listing capability.

Students can participate in debate where they can listen the English speaking system and approaches. It will help them to develop their perception and conceptualisation of English words and sentences.

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Participating in a story writing competition in English language will allow the students to use range of words in  a proper order that can help to develop their knowledge in English language and grammar.  

Making a key words and finding the basic information about the words or a practical life object will allow the learners to develop learning skill.

Each student can develop their own learning checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track about their learning activities and due activities  

Keeping a list of frequently used words and applying them in regular basis to be accustomed with the English language can help the student to learn new vocabularies.

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Creating a short report that describes previous English classes or other training course can be helpful for this students.

Writing a list of tasks, which have to be completed by the specific members of the group including the roster, action plan can help to develop knowledge

Writing a brief text message for a peers or co-worker which could be shift changeover note and others can help the students to write cautions

Abiding by the touch screen instructions to search for information and locating a specific shop in large shopping complex can help them to improve their learning and position identification skill as well.

Locating a particular information from a short text which can be a table of employee benefits or a pay slip or an employment documentation or even own job description or work update from staff memo can help the student to utilise their learned knowledge.

Reading dials and scales on machinery/equipment including automatic weigher on packaging machine or temperature dials in counters, franking machine, sewing machine tension, air pressure gauge can help students to improve their English language knowledge as well as numeracy skill.

Participation in Quality Improvement processes in the their workplace while considering the priorities and commitments of self and other members can help their to be accustomed with the English language and utilisations.

Developing and using personal organisation systems including files, notebooks, folders and checklists help the students to take the advantage of everyday practice.

Negotiating communication in Professional Development plan according to the personal and workplace needs while taking the responsibility for organising the formal training component can improve the self confidence of the students

Shaping language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) levels using appropriate tools, including those based on the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF), for 3 learners will be helpful

Identifying the necessities of training as per the ACSF can improve the overall student’s performance.

Planning training and assessment that incorporates LLN support strategies relevant to at least two different learners, or groups of learners, in response the ACSF assessment and learners’ goals

Reviewing individual’s strategy, and strategies of others, can support the LLN learning and teaching practices and others extended practices.

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To evaluate the lesson plans I can take several interviews for each of the students to learn about their difficulties and strength. Apart from that, a survey can be conducted to understand the loopholes in the learning and teaching plan for literacy. I can provide some additional study materials as well as specific lesson as per their preference and interest.

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Required Skills

Response

In your management or delivery or development of language skills programs, how do you incorporate the appropriate adult learning and development strategies?

To Incorporate appropriate learning strategy I have researched several government and international level learning and lesson planning policies regarding literacy training for adult learners. It includes the adult literacy teaching practices, current teaching strategies in adult Literacy learning contexts, basic adult learning principles, independent teaching approaches, concepts of traditional learning resources and  5 levels of achievement in the ACSF. These materials has been collected from online study materials, including research articles, journals, published reports and others. At the same time for traditional resources I had to gather knowledge form several hardcopies of Literatures and handbooks.

In review or development of resources for language skills learners what are you looking for? What would make you select one resource over another?

For this study I had to collect several information from different independent resource. Each of these resources has their own strategic explanation on adult literacy learning styles, approaches and success factors. Therefore, to prioritise these issues and comparing them with other resources I had to compare each of the resources with another. It gave me the set of most suitable and appropriate resources that can provide adequate information of Australian Adult literacy and learning program.  The resources are sorted in hierarchical manner through which the less important study materials could be neglected and the critical resources could be prioritise.

How do you see language skills delivered most effectively? What tools have you used or encouraged others to use that would support language skills development?

To evaluate the lesson plans on literacy I have taken several interviews for each of the students to learn about their difficulties and strength. Apart from that, a survey has been conducted to understand the loopholes in the learning and teaching plan for literacy. I have also provided some additional study materials in a simulated learning environment as well as specific lesson as per their preference and interest. It will help the student to learn the dynamic use of English language, which can improve their spoken as well as writing skill effectively. Understanding different style of language presentation can also help to enlarge the stock of words.

When you participate or provide professional development session or moderate with colleagues what are the definitive stories on language skills learning that you can share? Why choose those?

After each of the strategic outcomes of my lesson planning on literacy planning I used to communicate with my peers regarding my experience. At the same time, they also shared their experience in a group discussion environment. In this environment I can listen about other’s experience and also share my experience freely. At the same time, listening about a larger pool of adult students helped me to analyse the perspective of the chosen group on which I have to carry out my study report. These discussions acted as a partial assessment tool for my study.

Required Knowledge

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How do you manage a mixed cultural group of language skills learners in terms of creating a cohesive group? What do you have to know to enable this?

I have visited an adult literacy program that occurred in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for English literacy training. The major disadvantage in this context is diversity that requires additional effort to make cultural competency within the students.  I have also visited the literacy training of isolated community in rural area and for indigenous peoples who still do not receive proper academic support the adult literacy program can be formed. In this situation the awareness of education and literacy should be built up within the target student. I visited many refugee camps Adult literacy program can be also needed in refugee camp where immigrants from different nation come live a normal life under the umbrella of this nation. The major disadvantage is reaching to these people is very complicated process for any program.

How do you manage the mixed level group and facilitate their learning? What knowledge of the Macro-Skills in the ACSF do you have that would support your management?

Keeping a list of frequently visited place and applying them in regular basis to be accustomed with the English language can help me to learn about new groups of students who need literacy training. Making a key words and finding the basic information about the words or a practical life object will allow me to develop appropriate learning skill development training materials. I have developed own teaching and learning based activity checklist on weekly basis that can help to keep track my teaching activities and the learning progress including the due activities  

Does using the Training Package or units of competency restrict or create opportunities for language skills development? What stories can you share of these experiences?

These training packages and units are not restricted for a particular group of students. However, these activity sets were developed for any individual participant who wants to develop their learning skill through literacy development program.  During these activities some of the experience became more valuable and unique for my personal and professional development as well. I have visited an adult literacy program that occurred in multilingual and multicultural context, where all students are from different cultural and lingual background and they are seeking for English literacy training. All of the participants were active and interested about learning new activity based knowledge.  

How do you deal with age diverse groups and what tools would you use tho maximise their participation?

To deal with diverse groups of adult student social, cultural and demographical background I had to maintain a friendly and cooperative environment where they can express their abilities and ambiguities. Apart from that the group of adult learners are also separated by different section according to their interest and age. It helped the learning strategies to be implemented effectively. Though this students also excepted the learning techniques as well as the activities while increasing their interest on the topic and learning outcomes.