ESF Skills for Life Professional Development Project
1st August 2008 to 31st December 2010
The Skills for Life Professional Development Project (SfL PD) aims to increase the number of qualified and skilled literacy, language and numeracy teachers and support practitioners in the East of England. It will deliver accessible and flexible programmes and enable teachers and support staff from across the lifelong learning sector to train and achieve relevant and appropriate professional qualifications.
It will build the capacity of the region’s workforce to deliver high quality, engaging and motivating language, literacy and numeracy learning in order to meet the 2010 Leitch targets and support future sustainable activity towards the Leitch ambitions for 2020 of 95% of adults to achieve functional literacy and numeracy levels.
The Support Offered
Employers/participant
- Access to free, accredited Skills for Life professional development opportunities for anyone working in the East of England and wanting to teach, embed or support LLN.
- Contribution to other costs for all those who achieve partial/full qualifications.
Sub Regional Leads
- Payments for services based on recruitment and partial/full achievement.
- Specialist training on information, advice and referral.
- Strengthened links at a local level with providers.
- Financial support with marketing.
- Cross regional liaison and partnership
Providers
- Payments for course delivery to include course and registration fees.
- Payments for widening participation and achievement and mentoring for Additional Diplomas.
- Strengthened links at a local level with providers.
- Increased viability of programmes.
- Professional Development and networking opportunities for SfL teacher educators and practitioners:
- Regional training the trainers.
- Development and sharing events to increase collaboration.
- Collaboration with LSIS SfL Improvement Programme Workforce Development.
- Mentoring.
- Blended, e-learning and flexible programme design.
- Marketing.
- Coaching and support from ACER's regional training advisers:
- Embedding.
- Developmental observations.
- Co-teaching.
- Access to dedicated project and resource areas on ACER's moodle.
- Links with other initiatives and projects e.g. EECETT, Regional Maths Centre.
Targets: 800 practitioners across the region to undertake Skills for Life professional development qualifications at levels 2, 3, 4 and 5 with 50% achieving full and 25% partial qualifications.
Practitioner qualifications funded: Level 2 Award in LLN & ICT, Level 2 Certificate in Learning Support, Level 3 Certificates in Subject Support, Level 3/4 PTLLS contextualised to Language, Literacy and/or Numeracy, Level 4/5 Additional Diplomas, Level 5 Embedding Awards. Click here to download Qualifications and Roles document.
Eligibility
- Aged 19+.
- Working in EoE region.
- Employed - waged/unwaged.
- Working with individuals with SfL needs.
- Large companies/public sector included
- Emphasis on inclusion – FE, WBL, VCS, ACL/LEA, OLASS, Learn Direct, employers
Delivery providers include : Colchester Institute, Southend ACC, Epping Forest College, South East Essex College; West Suffolk College, Lowestoft College, Community Learning and Skills Development; Great Yarmouth College, City College Norwich, COWA, Augusta Training Partnership, Broadland Training, Norfolk Adult Education; Cambridge Regional College, Huntingdon Regional College, Cambridgeshire County Council; North Herts College, Herts Regional College, Oaklands College, Dunstable College. A programme of activity is currently being updated.
For details of providers planning to run Preparation and Diploma programmes and other teacher education and support qualifications between now and January 2010 in the East of England and the rest of the country http://www.talent.ac.uk/courses.asp
Further Information
Sub Regional Lead's role includes: Identifying and recruiting eligible participants; providing information, advice and referral to local providers; carrying out project administrative processes; encouraging providers to develop programmes in response to unmet demand. They are:
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