The Minimum Core for Numeracy: Knowledge, Understanding and Personal Skills

Download or read book The Minimum Core for Numeracy: Knowledge, Understanding and Personal Skills written by Sheine Peart and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teacher training framework, introduced in September 2007, requires all teachers in the post-16 sector to possess knowledge, understanding and personal skills to at least level 2 in the minimum core for numeracy. Coverage and assessment of the core have to be embedded in all Certificate and Diploma courses leading to QTLS and ATLS status. This book is a practical guide to numeracy for trainee teachers in the Lifelong Learning sector. It enables trainee teachers to identify and develop their own numeracy skills and also to support their students′ numeracy.