What Works Professional Learning Series – Teaching numeracy to adults

This third webinar of the eight-part series, run in April 2022, looks at practical strategies that support adults to make connections between fractions, percentages, and decimals, identifying what is essential to include in your teachings using everyday activities that cover values, conversions etc.

1 hour in duration.

Investment: $65.00 inc GST.

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ALA's What Works Professional Learning Series focuses on adult numeracy teaching practice.

This eight-part online professional learning series brings together experts in adult numeracy education to explore effective numeracy teaching for adults – with a strong emphasis on fun and engagement. Each session is co-facilitated by Ros Bauer and Jo Medlin with presentations from a combination of expert presenters, addressing how to teach a particular aspect of numeracy, covering different mathematical content areas and strategies to use in individual, small or whole group work.

Overall the series:

• Provides a practical framework for teaching numeracy
• Create critical connections between literacy, maths and language
• Provides strategies and resources that will enhance numeracy teaching practice
• Explores dimensions of numeracy for work and life

Unpacking the language of fractions, percentage & decimals so can use clear and helpful terminology
Visual explanations were great
Love the idea of being excited about teaching numeracy so students can catch the excitement of learning numeracy
Love that I can get a certificate of participation as evidence for my PD

A Statement of Participation is issued on completion of activities.

EXTENSION AREAS

TRAINING 

• Language, Literacy & Numeracy
  
  • Identify employability skill demands
  • Identify integrated foundation skill resources, strategies, and advice
  • Identify learner and candidate employability skill support needs