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Judith Gawn
Regional Development Officer, Basic Skills, NIACE London
Judith Gawn (BEd.) was appointed as Regional Development Officer with responsibility for literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) at NIACE London in January 2004. Since joining NIACE she has worked on the regional achievement programme (RAP) working with key strategic bodies and providers in the region to raise achievement in LLN. She lead on a capacity building project with the voluntary and community sector in three English regions. She has undertaken evaluations of a range of Skills for Life projects in the London region, including voluntary and community sector programmes, Skills for Life and Skilled for Health in museums, libraries and archives and the Change Direction, SfL teacher recruitment project. She was involved in research into formative assessment in LLN provision as part of a national 2-year project and was part of the NIACE team working on persistence, progression and achievement (PPA) project known as Stick With It.
Judith has over 25 years’ experience in adult literacy work, from part-time evening class tutor to full-time literacy teacher and trainer in East London. She co-piloted one of the first Level 4 literacy specialist teacher training courses within the East London Pathfinder and was the Basic Skills Teacher Training Co-ordinator at the Community College, Shoreditch in Hackney. She also worked as a trainer with talent (Training Adult Literacy, ESOL and Numeracy Tutors) on courses for Adult Literacy and ESOL teacher trainers.
Publications include:
Gawn, J. and Lindsay, A. (2005) Developing literacy: supporting achievement. NIACE: Leicester.
