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Family Numeracy CPD

Module 1: Planning and Delivering Family Numeracy Programmes

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The aim of the training programme is to:

• support family numeracy teachers in teaching numeracy effectively to the full range of learners across levels E1 to L2, with particular emphasis on E3 and below.

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Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, participants will be able to:

• plan a family numeracy programme to address the needs of individual learners

• use a variety of strategies to support bilingual parents and carers and those with difficulties and disabilities

• plan a family numeracy session showing differentiation to meet a wide range of individual needs

• evaluate the effectiveness of a family learning session.

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Features of a family numeracy session:

• activities with adults only

• activities with children only

• joint sessions with parents and children together

• activities that value the learning that goes on in families at home.

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Benefits of family numeracy

• 84% of parents who enrolled stayed until the end, and attendance was 83%.

• Children’s progress on number scale and mathematical language scale was statistically significant.

• 88% of family numeracy children had improved concentration and perseverance.

Taken from Family Numeracy Adds Up, Basic Skills Agency, 1998

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What parents said:

• ‘I’m far more into it all. I’ve made a lot of progress with my own maths.’

• ‘I always thought that maths was adding and taking away that you had to try to do on paper.’

• ‘This course has taught us that maths isn’t just sums. We’ve counted, measured, played games, read stories, sung songs . . .’

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Outcome 1:

• Plan a family numeracy programme to address the needs of individual learners

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National Curriculum levels

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The Primary National Framework

The seven strands are as follows:

• Using and applying mathematics

• Counting and understanding number

• Knowing and using number facts

• Calculating

• Understanding shape

• Measuring

• Handling data.

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Mapping of the adult and children’s curricula

Adult core curriculum Primary Framework

N1/E1.1: Count reliably up to 10 Foundation: Count reliably up to 10

N1/E2.1: Count reliably up to 20 Year 1: Read and write numerals 0-20

N1/E3.5: Recall multiplication facts (2, 3, 4, 5, 10)

Year 2: Count up to 100 in twos, fives, tens

N1/E3.2: Add and subtract using 3-digit whole numbers

Year 3: Partition 3-digit numbers into multiples of 100, 10 and 1

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Outcome 2:

• Use a variety of strategies to support bilingual parents and carers and those with difficulties and disabilities.

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Bilingual education and mathematics

• The learner’s first or home language plays a significant role in the learning of the second language in terms of cognitive, linguistic and socio-cultural influences.

• Bilingual education can be very beneficial in the development of the second language.

• Learning a second language will not necessarily proceed in an orderly and systematic fashion. Learners will use prior linguistic, learnt and world knowledge, learners will learn when there is a need to communicate and to learn, and learners will learn when they are motivated to learn.

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Outcome 3:

• Plan a family numeracy session showing differentiation to meet a wide range of individual needs.

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Features of an effective family numeracy joint session:

• Outcomes for adults and children linked to both curricula.

• Range of activities to suit learners at different levels.

• Activities relevant to everyday life and easy to replicate or follow up at home.

• Use of familiar resources for adults and children.

• Sessions should be fun!

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Meeting the needs of all learners

• Differentiate by quantity

• Differentiate by task

• Differentiate by level of support

• Differentiate by outcome

• Challenge learners

• Spiky profiles so levels not always helpful

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Outcome 4:

• Evaluate the effectiveness of a family learning session.

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Main reasons for evaluating:

• Evaluation informs programme planning and new developments.

• It ensures that learners’ needs are being met.

• It measures progress

• It ensures that the target group is being reached (funding is often for specific target groups).

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Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, participants will be able to:

• plan a family numeracy programme to address the needs of individual learners

• use a variety of strategies to support bilingual parents and carers and those with difficulties and disabilities

• plan a family numeracy session showing differentiation to meet a wide range of individual needs

• evaluate the effectiveness of a family learning session.