Castle College Nottingham, Diploma, Skills for Life Specialists Adult Literacy, Mathematics and ESOL (level 5)

The programmes have been developed to support the Government’s drive to improve literacy, numeracy and language skills in the UK; literacy: This course develops the knowledge of the barriers to learning, the relationship between language andsociety and language as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon; students learn to identify language elements in phonics, graphology, semantics and grammaticalframeworks; theory is balanced with practical teaching knowledge such as working with dyslexic students and students with other special needs; students are also taught to deliver reading, writing, speaking and listening skills; mathematics: this course should encourage teachers of adult numeracy to extend their understanding of the subject by promoting awareness of the wider social and learning issues related to the development of numeracy skills, and a high level of personal numeracy skills; the 1st section deals with the social and learning issues, including the learning difficulties and disorders that challenge some learners, and some of the social contexts that shape number skills learning and development; the 2nd section addresses personal numeracy skills; English as a Second or Other Language: this course is similar to the literacy programme but emphasises the knowledge and skills needed to teach English to speakers of other languages (ESOL).