Curriculum

Enable Learners to get the most Out of Maths and English in a Vocational Setting – FE

Make sure the maths and English your learners use in the workshop is still there when they sit their functional skills or GCSE.

  • 58 minutes
  • 8 modules
  • 1 CPD hour
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Use six retrieval strategies so learners remember the English and maths they've embedded
  • Plan with English and maths specialists so workshop and classroom reinforce each other
  • Set English and maths targets learners can see themselves progressing towards
  • Give feedback that gets learners checking and correcting their own work
  • Build early success so learners believe they can do the English and maths

About this course

You've spotted the VAT calculation and the email to an awkward client, and your learners did them well. Two weeks later, in their English or maths class, it's as if it never happened.

Six simple habits help close that gap, among them quick retrieval starters and questions that make learners think hard, like "what would happen if your angle wasn't 90 degrees?". You'll also see how to work with the English and maths specialists as a two-way conversation, so their classroom and your workshop point in the same direction. And it covers targets, feedback and motivation that fit vocational learners, including getting them to check their own work the way a good quality control manager would.

There's also a practical look at how British values can feed good discussion and real maths, like comparing renting with buying a home.

  • For early career teachers, governors and 2 other roles. Post-16.

8 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    3 min
  2. Wrap up

    6 min
  3. How we Make sure the Maths and English is Learnt and Remembered?

    9 min
  4. Communicating with Specialists

    11 min
  5. The importance of assessment and target setting

    9 min
  6. Providing effective feedback

    10 min
  7. Engaging and motivating students

    9 min
  8. British values

    6 min