Clydebank College closed for a day in February so that staff could have a 'Professional Updating' day. I spent the day in Borders College and was impressed by what I saw. I use Mindjet Mindmanager and was interested to see it being in the planning of contextualised numeracy. I am now using Mindjet Mindmap 8 to put a contextualised numeracy course together.
To minimise the work I have split numeracy into two strands:
Life Skills
Everyone should be competent or at least aware of these.
This is things such as health (BMI, Food labelling etc), Travel (timetables, currency etc) and Financial Management (icome, tax, debt etc)
Vocational Skills
Each vocational area will have topics related to their vocational area. Sometimes there will be an overlap with 'life skills'
To minimise the work I have split numeracy into two strands:
Life Skills
Everyone should be competent or at least aware of these.
This is things such as health (BMI, Food labelling etc), Travel (timetables, currency etc) and Financial Management (icome, tax, debt etc)
Vocational Skills
Each vocational area will have topics related to their vocational area. Sometimes there will be an overlap with 'life skills'
1 comment:
Iam very much in support of relating numeracy teaching to student's vocational area. It goes a long way to support the functional skills methodology which is currently being piloted in my college. It makes every sense to relate teaching to the vocation. It would be extremely useful for numeracy teachers to have an insight into the vocation of the students they teacg This will enable more meaningful participation in class.
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