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Pathfinders: Learning for Living
Adult Pre-Entry Curriculum Framework training for staff working in health and social day care services
[Background] [Aims] [The Framework] [The Training]
Background
In March 2001 the Government published Skills for Life, the national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills. As part of this strategy, the government has prioritised work with adult learners with disabilities and/or learning difficulties – a diverse group of around 8.5 million people in Britain with a wide range of abilities and needs.
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Aims
Provide staff working in health and social day care services with an opportunity to become familiar with the pre-entry curriculum framework in order to support service users, in ways appropriate to their individual needs.
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The Curriculum Framework
For many years staff in day centres have been helping service users learn and develop their skills. Day centre staff would not usually describe themselves as teachers, but learning is taking place, and this learning needs to be recognised and celebrated as it happens.
The Pre-Entry Curriculum Framework (PECF) helps you understand this learning and share information about it so that everyone involved with that service user is working along the same lines – including college tutors and activity leaders from outside the daycentre. Using the PECF will give you the opportunity to develop your observation skills, and give you a language to describe progress that service users are making.
For the first time there is a fully inclusive post-16 curriculum framework that sets out the entitlement to learning literacy and numeracy for those who have not yet reached Entry 1 in the Adult Literacy and Numeracy core curricula. The framework can be used by teachers and trainers including workers in the health and social care sector to identify the starting points of their learners, plan teaching and learning and monitor learner progress. The curriculum framework is available from the DfES Publications Department, telephone 0845 6022260.
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The Training
Four 3 day training courses were delivered between May and July 2005. The training reflected the centrality of the learner. The Training was aimed at assisting staff working in health and social day care services.
If you are interested in receiving information about any future courses please contact the Conferences and Training Courses Team, Tel: 0116 2859661, email: courses@niace.org.uk
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