Multifangled

Are you an educator in the fields of Adult literacy, numeracy or basic education? Are you a VET or ESL teacher? Or do you volunteer in the adult literacy or numeracy space?
Come and meet fellow educators, connect and share, and hear from a wide range of thought-provoking leaders in their field, including keynote speaker Professor Vicky Duckworth.
Held at the Angliss Centre in Melbourne on the 17th May.
Book here: https://valbec.org.au/event-5672262

The adult literacy workforce crisis continues to overshadow work at the Hotline. As well as making it difficult to refer our callers, the lack of skilled teachers puts at risk other initiatives to address literacy, numeracy or digital gaps around the country. Public awareness campaigns, accessing free TAFE places, First Nations projects, tutoring in libraries....the long-term success of so many initiatives depends on a robust professional workforce.
Brendan O'Connor MP Prue Car MP Di Farmer MP Paul Kirby: Member for Port Darwin

Our research shows Australian students who are behind in primary school can catch up by high school A new study looked at NAPLAN results in reading and numeracy and tracked the same students all the way from from Year 3 to Year 9.

Employers are being forced to teach reading and writing: BCA Over 2 million adult Australians lack the foundational skills: reading, writing, maths, and digital literacy. That has profound flow on consequences for employers.

Fantastic results

'A life changing experience': how adult literacy programs can keep First Nations people out of the criminal justice system After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.

Check out what's new in our ACE Shop. We now have digital adult LLN resources from Multifangled – including Lee Kindler's new teaching resource for EAL learners. https://ala.asn.au/members/cart/index/product/id/1401/c/

New resource from Multifangled!!

The activities are designed for learners with very limited English (Course in EAL or ACSF Pre-level 1 and Level 1).

Available at http://multifangled.com.au

Real life numeracy contexts – the spark to ignite mathematics learning Justine Sakurai, Carly Sawatzki and Dave Tout discuss contextualised teaching and learning of mathematics through the exploration of six numeracy contexts, and provide several examples of what this could look like in the classroom.

How we can improve adult literacy According to the OECD, 40 to 50 per cent of adults in Australia have literacy levels below the international standard required for participation in work, education and society.

Dave Tout, Justine Sakurai and Carly Sawatzki discuss numeracy, its relationship with mathematics and the research that has influenced them in shaping and writing Victorian senior secondary curricula that better supports the development of critical numeracy and maths skills.

Supporting critical numeracy and maths skills in teaching and learning In today’s article, Dave Tout, Justine Sakurai and Carly Sawatzki discuss numeracy and its relationship with mathematics.

Improving adult literacy and numeracy everybody’s business ACER experts say Australia must increase its adult literacy and numeracy workforce, and implement a range of workplace, community and family literacy programs.