Embedding Literacy and Numeracy Module/Assessment

{{Outcomes|At the successful completion of this course, participants will have a Literacy and Numeracy portfolio. This portfolio can be presented as an electronic or paper based compilation of mapped tasks, assessment reports, lesson plans and associated materials, individual learning plans and written reflections as listed below.

Knowing the Demands
Learning Outcome:
 * 1) Determine the numeracy and literacy demands on learners in the context of the learners’ course of study and workplace.

What to include in portfolio:
 * A course outline (of a course you teach), in which literacy and numeracy teaching could be/is already embedded.
 * Examples of at least 3 texts and/or model answers to tasks, which you have ‘mapped’ against the appropriate literacy or numeracy progressions
 * Discussion of the literacy and numeracy demands of the workplace or higher level study students are training for. Discuss any difference between the course and workplace demands.
 * A contextualised literacy or numeracy assessment task for your course. This may have been developed from the mapped texts or tasks, or it may be one you already use based on your context. It may be a formative or summative assessment task.
 * A new literacy or numeracy learning outcome for your course if you do not already have them.

Knowing the Learner
Learning Outcome: What to include in portfolio
 * 1) Use a key assessment tool and develop strategies to assess a learner’s literacy and numeracy skills in relation to the Learning Progressions
 * 2) Demonstrate the use of appropriate methods for assessing literacy progress within a programme


 * 1) An assessnment of at least three students' literacy or numeracy skills which maps the learner's skill level to the Learning Progressions. Use the Assessment Tool (ALNAT)and other formative and summative assessment information.
 * 2) A discussion of your three learners’ reading and /or writing and/or numeracy skills, based on assessment information and the Learning Progressions.
 * 3) After a suitable period of time, carry out a summative assessment of your three learners to show progress. You may use L & N information from contextualised formative or summative  tasks and assessments, in addition to the ALNAT.

Knowing What to Do
Learning Outcomes:
 * 1) Plan and deliver activities that will enhance literacy and/or numeracy skill development, based on current theories of adult teaching and learning
 * 2) Reflect on the effectiveness of planning and delivering embedded literacy and numeracy skill development within a vocational course

What to include in portfolio: }}
 * A minimum of three lesson plans showing the methods and strategies you will use to embed the literacy or numeracy skills required for your course in response to the needs of the students above. Highlight any changes you have made to your current lesson plans as a result of this PD
 * Include any other teaching strategies you may use now or in the future with your learners to support their literacy or numeracy development (minimum 3). These may be entire lesson plans or a list of possible activities which can be inserted anywhere in a lesson.
 * Develop individual learning plans to track progress of at least one learner. Monitor how the learner(s) are coping with the literacy or numeracy demands of the course. You may wish to do this with the assistance of the Learning Centre.
 * Provide a reflection (written, verbal, presentation etc.) that describes how your ALNAT results and other diagnostic information have influenced your teaching methods and strategies. Include your ideas for improvements for the next delivery of the course.
 * You may choose to prepare a case study that describes how your evaluation results have influenced the teaching of the course. You may wish to use Action Research and enquiry processes.