Embedding Literacy Development

Please note that the revised Standards for Registered Training Organisations were publicly released on 1 October 2024 and will come into full regulatory effect from 1 July 2025.

The Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 will continue to apply until then.

This webinar recording refers to, and is based on, the requirements for the current regulatory environment.

Topic

Foundation skills need literacy support, and the responsibility of literacy development often falls to vocational educators. Not everyone is an English language teacher, though.

This session introduced a range of practical ideas to assist learners with new vocabulary and reiterate industry language and meta-language used in training so that learners can graduate with a higher level of literacy than when they commenced to help them thrive in the workplace. Learn practical and helpful (hidden) literacy strategies to help your learners.

Presented by John Blake (M. Ed. Literacy Education, Grad. Cert. Adult LLN) these easy-to-apply strategies will benefit students while studying and contribute to supporting their employers in the future.

Participants will walk away with practical websites and adaptable activity ideas that will assist learners in language learning.

What was covered in the session:

• Strategies to enable active learning 
• Foundation Skills Progression Overview 
• Word activities designed to develop literacy 
• websites to support resource development and lesson planning

Webinar content targeted towards:

Anyone looking for ideas on how to embed literacy support in their training/assessment.

• Trainers/Assessors
• Instructional designers
• Curriculum developers
• Training Managers
• Intervention support staff.

Webinar duration: 60 minutes

Bio of presenter:

Having taught or presented in nearly 20 countries, John Blake is passionate about making in difference through education at all levels.

John has a background in hospitality and professional writing and in more recent years has taught in VET at TAFEs, Universities, conferences, schools, RTOs, prisons and in hotels.

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