Guroo Functional Skills Newsletter 19/01/10

Our bi-weekly look at the world of functional skills.

Functional Skills resources at BETT, QCDA bringing out case studies, news about Apprenticeships, and links to request the BETT presentation delivered by Jonathan Wells.

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Functional Skills BETT. Here's a summary of what we saw at BETT with a quick opinion of how it fits into the Functional Skills standards, and we did look very hard indeed but apologies if we missed something out, we did lots of on-line searching but there are 600 stands!

Guroo presented Functional Skills resources covering all subjects and all levels mapped back to the Functional Skills standards and available on-line, off line and in pre-packaged SCORM wrappers for LP/VLE use

Royal Albert Hall launched high quality content based around the jobs of workers at the Royal Albert Hall available free on download and with links to Functional Skills level 1 and level 2

Vision2Learn announced their on-line functional skills courses will be available at Easter

BKSB advertised the publication of booklets containing Functional Skills scenarios at Level 1 and Level 2

Stock Market Challenge have included links to Functional Skills at Level 1 and Level 2

Most of the exam boards are supporting their assessments with tutor and student workbooks with some whiteboard materials

North West Learning Grid have the ICT materials launched last year but haven't developed the Maths resources previously announced by them

QCDA special supplement on Functional Skills. QCDA are publishing new written and filmed case studies on the challenges of functional skills for learners and practitioners in different settings in February 2010 to coincide with a special functional skills supplement in SecEd magazine. Let us know quickly to jwells@guroo.co.uk if you have a good story to tell about using Functional Skills, particularly as part of the GCSE curriculum. This also links clearly to the Delivering Diploma conference in March.

SASE. With thanks to Guroo's friend John Pallister for sending us the link It is quite turgid stuff about Level 2 Apprenticeships and it says that depending on the course, Functional Skills will be required at either level 1 or level 2!

BETT Presentation. Lots of people who saw Jonathan Wells speak at BETT have asked for his presentation. Just email jwells@guroo.co.uk if you'd like a copy of the presentation he used to deliver "The Bluffers Guide to Functional Skills" last week.

Jonathan's Functional Skills blog - 170 entries and counting.......

Click here for the new website for functional skills support from National Strategies and LSIS

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