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Speaking and Listening
Speaking and Listening are the tools which build closer families, confident communities and contribute to an effective and vibrant economy
The first conference of the Alliance for Lifelong Learning (ALL) of NIACE and Tribal, supporting all-age literacy, language and numeracy
| Date: | Tuesday 30 October 2007 |
| Venue: | Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE |
| Ref: | C16-13/10/07 |
| Fee*: | Event fee per person: £90 (includes lunch,
tea/coffee) There are bursary places for Tutors and Teachers The event fee is subsidised by the Department for Innovation, Universities
and Skills |
[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Programme]]
Background
‘Reading and writing float on a sea of talk ………..’ Britton, James (1970)
 | How do we use research, policy and practice on Speaking and Listening to develop the skills of our students? |
| What is the wider context for Speaking and Listening if we look at it through the lens of an all-age approach? |
| What can we learn from an early years specialist if we work in post-16 education? |
| What can a teacher with young offenders teach us about developing the skills of seven years olds? |
Speaking and Listening is an area of great concern and interest to us all – policy makers and practitioners alike – and is the basis on which literacy, language and numeracy sit. As James Britton (1970) says: ‘Reading and writing float on a sea of talk...’.
Speaking and Listening are the tools which build closer families, confident communities and contribute to an effective and vibrant economy.
Speaking and Listening has long been a vital part of teaching and learning in early years and primary education but it is only relatively recently that policy-makers and practitioners have realised how important this aspect of the government’s Skills for Life strategy is.
In addition, employers, through their Sector Skills Councils, have reported how important the skills of effective communication are to the success of their workplaces. There is much to learn from across the phases of learning, in order to ensure continuing development.
The Alliance for Lifelong Learning (ALL) has been formed to take forward and develop the work of the Basic Skills Agency at NIACE, in partnership with Tribal, and to ensure that issues of literacy, language and numeracy across all ages are kept high on everyone’s agenda. The splitting of the Department for Education and Skills into two departments has made this even more pertinent – there is a need for a body which encourages working across the pre- and post-16 divide, which understands that research, policy and practice in both sectors impacts upon the other.
We know that:
| employers are increasingly worried not only about the literacy, language and numeracy skills of young people joining the work force but about their communication skills. |
| health and social workers are concerned about communication within families |
| teachers in schools are under increasing pressure to develop the Speaking and Listening skills of their pupils |
| teachers in the FE sector are continually exploring how they can assess, and then develop skills of adults. |
The aims for the event
The conference will:
| look at the research and policy contexts of Speaking and Listening, across all age ranges, with leading specialist speakers; |
| examine effective practice in Speaking and Listening, lifelong and life-wide; |
| provide opportunity for participants to share challenges and opportunities for developing Speaking and Listening in interactive sessions; |
| examine, in a market place, imaginative and interesting approaches to the teaching and learning of Speaking and Listening. |
By attending the event, participants will have the opportunity to:
| hear from leading specialists about current research, policy and practice and to engage in moving forward the thinking in this relatively under developed area of work |
| engage in round-table discussion about the challenges and opportunities we face and share ideas for practice across the phases of learning |
| examine interesting developments and initiatives and engage in dialogue with key colleagues involved, in order to influence and develop their own practices. |
How participants can use the information gained from the event when they
get back to their institutions
Participants will:
| gain insight into the latest research and policy developments to inform reflections on their organisational policies and approaches |
| use a ‘shared problem’ approach to examining solutions together so that they can address real challenges |
| take away updates about current developments and ideas. |
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Audience
The event will be of particular interest to:
| Teachers in Youth Services, Further Education, Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Primary, Secondary Education sectors |
| Those working in work-based training, offender learning, workplace learning and the voluntary sector who want to develop the Speaking and Listening skills of learners for whom English is their first language |
| Managers who want to develop policies and practices within their organisations |
| Researchers and policy makers working in the field of literacy, language and numeracy. |
There are bursary places for Tutors and Teachers
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Programme
| Chair (morning): Carol Taylor, NIACE | |
| 09:45 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:30 | Welcome and introduction to the
day Alan Tuckett, Director, NIACE Barry Brooks, Director for Education and Skills Strategy, Tribal |
| 10:45 | Keynote address: What does
research about Speaking and Listening tell us John Bynner, Professor of Social Sciences in Education, Institute of Education, University of London |
| 11:25 | Round Table activity (cross
phase groups) What implications does research have for policy and practice? What do we question and challenge? What further insights and understanding do we seek? |
| 11:45 | Questions to presenters |
| 12:00 | What are the key policy drivers
for Speaking and Listening? Department for Children, Schools and Families Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills |
| 12:40 | Round Table activity (cross
phase groups) How joined up with the research evidence do policies appear to be? What impact does policy have on your organisation and your practice? What messages would you want to give to policy makers? |
| 13:00 | Questions to presenters |
| 13:15 | Lunch During lunch there will be a billboard market place where delegates will be able to engage in discussion and take away handouts on a wide range of developments across all ages, in relation to Speaking and Listening |
| Chair (afternoon): Jan Eldred, NIACE | |
| 14:20 | Keynote address: Application of
Speaking and Listening in numeracy: in the compulsory education sector in the post-compulsory education sector Dr. Els de Geest, Research Officer, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford |
| 14:55 | Round Table activity (in
learning phases) What challenges do we face in teaching and learning? What ideas/practice can we share? What seems to work? What resources can we share/recommend? What would help us to be better practitioners/providers? |
| 15:15 | Questions to presenters |
| 15:30 | Close of conference (tea/coffee available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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