Learning Unlimited offers a wide and varied list of CPD opportunities.
Our sessions can be delivered online, in-person and in some cases, in a hybrid model. Session length and content can be tailored to meet your needs. Contact us to find out more.
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Developing family learning provision for refugee/asylum seeking families
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ESOL & Maths
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Healthy families (health literacy)
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Participatory Photography and ESOL
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Recognising dyslexia and strategies for support
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Running a conversation club
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Setting up family learning provision
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Teaching ESOL Literacy Learners – in-person
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Teaching ESOL Literacy Learners – online course
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Training and supporting volunteers
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Working with bilingual families
Developing family learning provision for refugee/asylum seeking families
ESOL & Maths
Healthy families (health literacy)
This training explores the concept of health literacy and introduces a number of interactive tools available to family learning tutors
Participatory Photography and ESOL
This CPD will explore using participatory photography in the ESOL classroom. We will look at how the smartphone, taking and sharing photos, is an extraordinary language learning tool, a way of building community and understanding and how it supports creativity and wellbeing. We will introduce and try out activities and discuss how they can be adapted for different learning environments and contexts. We will look at how photography can give the learner a voice and an opportunity to be heard, how it can be used for personal expression, sometimes unlocking hidden narratives and perspectives. We will also explore bringing the learners languages into the classroom and how photography can be a spring board to creative writing including poetry, for every level including beginners.
For examples of our work using participatory photography and to have a look at our ESOL and photography toolkit for ESOL practitioners please click here https://www.learningunlimited.co/projects/picture-this/
Recognising dyslexia and strategies for support
This CPD introduces dyslexia with an outline of the cognitive differences that can affect learning and specifically reading and writing skills.’ It also introducing some strategies that support learners to overcome barriers and develop their reading and writing skills
Running a conversation club
This interactive CPD covers all the basics in running a conversation club for adult ESOL participants including: the role of the facilitator/volunteer; negotiating topics; strategies for getting the conversation going; facilitating not ‘teaching’; keeping planning simple; approaches and activities to actively involve participants; using published resources, images and everyday things; what to do if things go wrong.
This CPD is aimed at people who are new to running conversation clubs although anyone who would like a refresher is very welcome.
Setting up family learning provision
This CPD explores:
• what is meant by family learning
• the benefits of engagement in family learning
• different model of family learning
• potential funding sources
Participants also have the opportunity to begin developing a plan of action to enable them to start the process of setting up family learning.
Teaching ESOL Literacy Learners – in-person
The course covers the theory and practice of working with ESOL learners who have basic literacy needs. It aims to equip participants with ideas, strategies and skills enabling them to:
- explore and analyse the development of reading and writing skills
- develop their knowledge of teaching and learning approaches, including phonics
- design and select appropriate materials and resources
- assess and respond to their learners’ needs more easily
- differentiate, manage and plan individual sessions and courses
- develop their understanding of dyslexia and individual learning styles
The TELLs course can be commissioned for groups of ESOL teachers and/or volunteers as either a 2-day, 3-day or 4-day course. It can be delivered either in-person at your centre, online, or a combination of both.
Teaching ESOL Literacy Learners – online course
The TELLs course is aimed at all those teaching, working with, or supporting ESOL learners who have no or very limited literacy skills (in any language). It is ideal for those who have taken an initial TEFL/TESOL training course which, although it may have covered many aspects of teaching and learning English, did not include a focus on the acquisition and development of initial literacy.
Training and supporting volunteers
With good training and support, volunteers can play a really significant role in a wide range of projects and community-based activities – and get a lot from the experience themselves. This interactive CPD covers all the basics in training and supporting volunteers to help make sure that everyone gets the most from the opportunity.
The CPD includes: being clear about the role of the volunteer – opportunities and parameters; supporting volunteers to understand the project/opportunity and the people they will be engaging with; safeguarding and signposting; strategies and approaches to keep volunteers engaged and getting the most from their role; what to do if things go wrong. This CPD is aimed at people who are new to training and supporting volunteers.
Working with bilingual families
This CPD session looks at ways of communicating more effectively with learners still in the process of learning English. We explore barriers preventing bilingual families from engaging in family learning and other community activities. We also look at some of the wide range of languages spoken as first languages in the UK and begin to develop our understanding of how they differ from English. Above all this training enables participants to deepen their understanding of the advantages of bilingualism and how to help families to support their children’s bilingualism and celebrate it.