NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council

The professional body for adult literacy and numeracy in NSW

'Workplace Language Literacy & Numeracy Delivery: Doing WELL well'

Family Literacy who cares!

Exploring Critical Numeracy with Barbie (and Ken)

Whatever happen to Adult Basic Education

Submission to IBSA Foundation Skills Training Package Development Project

The Council subsmission provides professional informed feedback on the IBSA project on the development of a training package for Foundation Skills.

Submission for Smart and Skilled discussion paper

"Teachers who can critically reflect on their practice from a sound theoretical based about pedagogy are more likely to be able to devise, implement, evaluate and refine appropriate pedagogical interventions that can make some sustained difference in the students’ learning and in their confidence and self-esteem as learners.'

Submission to National Foundation Skills Strategy consultation paper

NSWALNC response to the National Foundation Skills Strategy consultation paper firmly placing LLN as a fundamental human right for all Australians.

Submission to Skills Australia

NSWALNC response to Creating a future direction for Australian vocational education and training: a discussion paper on the future of the VET system

Quality of Teaching in VET Submission

NSWALNC response to the quality of teaching in VET report

Submission to IBSA

NSWALNC response to IBSA (Innovation & Business Skills Australia) VET workforce LLN capability project 2010: VET workforce skills in language, literacy and numeracy.

Innovation & Business Skills Australia is one of 11 Industry Skills Councils.

Submission to NVEAC

NSWALNC response to the draft Equity Blueprint: Creating Futures: Achieving Potential through VET.

LLNP provision

NSW Literacy, Language & Numeracy Conference 2010

Letter to Minister Crean

The NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council is the peak professional body representing teachers, workers and others interested in the field of adult literacy and numeracy. It was established in the late 1970s and is affiliated with the Australian Council of Adult Literacy ACAL).

2012 NSW ALNC Conference

Reading the digital word, to read the digital world? December 10 - more information coming soon.

Seminar 2012

A Council project for the National Year Of Reading

To celebrate National Year of Reading, the NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council invites your learners to share their stories of reading. We will give a voice to these reflections by publishing a book of student writing.
The April 26 seminar led by experienced adult literacy teachers workshopped ways of supporting learners to reflect and write about their experiences and journeys in reading. Participants added to the range of 'prompts' teachers can use to engage their students in the project, a procedures sheet and a coversheet for submitting students' stories. these will be available soon

Seminar NSW ALNC 2011

'Engaging low-level adult learners both on and off-campus'

Desiree O'Regan, Marian Koo, Jenny Kelly and Lynne Robson

Thursday 15 September, 2011 at UTS, Building 10, Level 5, Room 580

This presentation gave a snapshot of various means used to address
the language and literacy needs of low-level learners both on and off-
campus in the Lidcombe / Auburn area.

Teaching is an artful blend of a variety of methods. There is seldom one
best method. This presentation is about some teachers’ journey into
exploring different ways of maximising student learning and developing
students into self-directed learners.

See photos, listen to the keynote addresses, and access many of the presentations from the 2010 ACAL Conference hands up... hands on... ACAL held its annual conference in Darwin this year, attracting some 200 participants from all states and territories and Timor Leste. .

Numeracy teaching - value free and culture free?

Dave Baker, Reader in Numeracy and post-16 Numeracy at the London Institute of Education in the UK, was a keynote speaker at the ACAL Conference in Fremantle last year. Baker's presentation "What counts, who counts; developing understandings of numeracy teaching from international and cross cultural experiences", is available online.

It sounds so obvious, but maybe if we start numeracy teaching with what adult students actually know, they may better understand some of the more difficult aspects of numeracy.

Dave Baker’s work in developing understandings of numeracy teaching from international and cross cultural experiences leads him to argue for seeing numeracy as social practice, rather than a more abstract and theoretical approach, or from a deficit model.