PEARSON EDUCATION Key Skills Action Plans

The new national framework of qualifications starts in September 2000. Key Skills will have a leading role in all qualifications in schools, colleges and in the workplace. Whether you are teaching GCSEs, GNVQs, A-levels, Vocational A-levels, Modern Apprenticeships, National Traineeships, City & Guides, or other vocational qualifications, Longman’s Key Skills Action Plans are the time-saving solution you have been looking for. The pack contains a ground-breaking set of action plans that allow students to demonstrate clear evidence-gathering activities which will form the basis of their portfolios. The pack isFULLY PHOTOCOPIABLE – you only need one pack to be able to provide ALL your students on EVERY course with the paperwork they need to get ALL their key skills units. The Action Plans have been written by Mark Houlton, an experienced key skills trainer, educational adviser and Whole-school Co-ordinator, Littleton House School, Cambridge, to save you time and help you to teach the new key skills qualification effectively and with real confidence. The Action Plans have been carefully designed to deliver an extensive, generic resource for students or trainees working in key-skill assessed courses OR stand-alone key skill awards. They cover ALL key skill areas at levels 1-3, through action plans and reviews and can also be used to build an evidence base for basic skills assessment. These plans can also be used by staff needing to get up to speed with the new qualification quickly and easily. Review  "It is clear to me that the Action Plans, actively and positively used with candidates whatever the delivery mode of the key skills in work-base training or education, are an effective and valuable part of the process for producing high-quality learning outcomes.  They help the candidate understand the requirements of the units by seeing them in the context of their learning programmes. The Action Plans enable candidate to independently evaluate their performance and encourage students to make plans to improve their performance."   Jacqueline Clarke, Principal Officer, Basic & Key Skills Team, QCA. FEDA conference 8.12.1999   The Key Skills Action Plans have helped to place the learner at the center of the Key Skills process and have improved trainers performance and ownership of Key Skills with learners'.    Jonathan Clarke, Training Manager, CambsTEC & Businesslink  "The dialogue of each Action Plan is user-friendly and geared at the needs of students. Technical terms are explained and definitions are provided. The sections provide the basic material that first-time teachers of Key Skills would also find useful for explaining how such skills work in practice."