www.freerice.com

A UN sponsored website where for every question you get right 10 grains of rice are donated.
The subjects covered are being added to all the time, but you can choose times tablesⁱ and basic maths (pre-algebra).

I have students practicing their timestablesⁱ each session and keeping a running total of the amount of rice they have earned.

This can spin off into other activities, charting their score for each day, weighing rice to find out how much their scores actually translate to in real rice etc.

Vocabulary, word recognition and phonics Rw/E1.1
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Skills, knowledge and understanding Example
Adults should be taught to:

1 . possess a limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs and symbols Social sight vocabulary.

Key words from Dolch list.

understand that written words carry meaning and that adults will already be familiar with many of the words they will meet in print, from their experience of spoken language

These worksheets are there to make it easy for tutors that may not know some of the less common features of Word to quickly and easily create resources tailored directly to the students’ needs or interests.

There are currently 4 sheets in the set
Capital Letter Practice
Capital Letters and Full Stops
Instant Cloze Exercises
Handwriting Practice

When to click or double click
How to cut, copy and paste

The other documents are work in progress and I will update them as and when I develop this set.

NIACE Annual Autumn Policy Conference
Local Power and Adult Learning:
What can adult learning do for local government?
Monday 1 December 2008, London, 10:00am - 3:40pm

http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/Conferences.htm

• How can adult learning support and extend the work of local authorities in developing vibrant, economically successful and socially inclusive communities for the twenty first century?

• How might government systems provide a framework for successful joining of learning and local government agendas at a time of system change?

New RARPA Training Dates (November - December 2008)

In response to changing policy context and building on our successful series of one-day RARPA training days for managers delivered since 2006, NIACE has developed two interrelated training programmes.

Each one-day training programme is based on the RARPA approach and the staged process:

Demonstrating Impact for Quality using the five-stage process (RARPA)
• Monday 24 November 2008, London
• Friday 28 November 2008, Birmingham

How to use the Spelling Pack as a CPD resource: a practical workshop
Thursday 6th November 2008, 9.30am - 3.45pm, London
-Are you responsible for initial teacher training or CPD for teachers of adults?
-Do the teachers you work with support adults to improve their spelling - in literacy classes or within other contexts?
-Are you looking for up-to-date resources to use for CPD in your organisation?

NIACE Seminar

An introduction to the Foundation Learning Tier
Tuesday 28th October, 12.15pm - 4pm, London
Thursday 30th October, 12.15pm - 4pm, Sheffield
Monday 3rd November, 12.15pm - 4pm, Taunton
Friday 21st November, 12.15pm - 4pm, Birmingham
Summary
This half day seminar is aimed at strategic and operational managers in the FE system as an introduction to the Foundation Learning Tier (FLT).
Background

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China 89 70 52 211
2 Great Britain 42 29 31 102
3 United States 36 35 28 99
4 Ukraine 24 18 32 74
5 Australia 23 29 27 79
6 South Africa 21 3 6 30
7 Canada 19 10 21 50
8 Russia 18 23 22 63
9 Brazil 16 14 17 47
10 Spain 15 21 22 58
11 Germany 14 25 20 59
12 France 12 21 19 52
13 South Korea 10 8 13 31
14 Mexico 10 3 7 20
15 Tunisia 9 9 3 21
16 Czech Republic 6 3 18 27
17 Japan 5 14 8 27
18 Poland 5 12 13 30
19 Netherlands 5 10 7 22
20 Greece 5 9 10 24
21 Belarus 5 7 1 13

NIACE Conference

Media Literacy: Opening Access to Adults

Monday 17 November 2008, 10am - 3:30pm

Thistle Marble Arch Hotel, Bryanston Street, London W1H 7EH

Participants fee: Free (includes lunch, tea/coffee)

For more information, to download an application form or to reserve a place online, visit: http://www.niace.org.uk/conferences

Enquiries to NIACE Conferences Team - Tel: 0116 204 2833 / E-mail: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk

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