Emmbedding Functional Skills In Teaching

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Evaluate a range of ways to embed elements of Functional Skills in your specialist area My role as a teacher is to pass my knowledge and experience of the Moving and Handling matter onto the learners that are attending the course that I am teaching. There are some specific areas in this subject that would necessitate the learners to have some functional skills. Functional skills include Mathematics/Numeracy; English/Literacy and Communication Technology (ICT) (Petty G, 2009:470).Elements of these core subjects are incorporated to improve existing skills / knowledge of the learners and enables them to gain greater confidence when faced with issues which may need basic knowledge of numeracy, literacy or ICT skills outside of the teaching environment. These skills could also be taught separately and it works quite well, however it rarely provides sufficient practice. The best way to teach skills is to habitually embed them into ordinary teaching practice. (Petty G, 2009:470). In Moving and Handling functional skills are required to ensure that learners are able to calculate a person’s weight and ensure that lifting equipment is designed to take their weight. Weights may be calculated in metric or imperial measure; therefore learners must be able to carry out conversions. As the course is not designed to teach functional skills it is essential that these are tested initially to ensure that the learner has sufficient functional skills to successfully complete the course and carry out the task of moving and handling in a safe way. Initially the assessment would be undertaken by requiring the learner to complete a simple application form; this would allow the teacher to indentify literacy skills. As the course goes on assessments should include assessments of functional skills required for the course. Mathematical functional skills can be assessed
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