Skills for Life connecting with museums, libraries and archives

We have produced a new booklet aimed at Skills for Life tutors entitled Skills for Life connecting with museums, libraries and archives.  The booklet highlights the variety of services and resources available in museums, libraries and archives to inspire and support learning and suggests how tutors might use these in their teaching of literacy and numeracy.

If you are interested in working with Skills for lifte tutors and would like a hard copy of this booklet please contact MLA East of England: info@mlaeastofengland.org.uk or 01284 723 100.

Advocacy Survey – Libraries 2007

During 2007 MLA East of England commissioned an advocacy survey to capture the considerable contribution of libraries in the region to Skills for Life provision.
To read a summary of the report with key messages and examples of good practice click on Advocacy Survey – Libraries 2007.

For advocacy messages to use with stakeholders click on Connecting Skills for Life with Libraries.

For tried and tested ideas for linking libraries and Skills for Life which emerge from the survey click on Ideas Bank

S4L TT L4 Literacy

MLA East of England/ACER Skills for Life Teacher Training Level 4 Literacy Project 2005/6

This partnership project focused on using the resources available in local archives to meet the teaching and learning objectives of one three-hour session of the Skills for Life Level 4 Literacy course.  There were also introductory web based tasks on dialect and personal and local history to be completed prior to the session.  A generic session plan is below and the teaching objectives have been referenced to FENTO standards.

Pilot sessions were held in Chelmsford, Hertford and Norwich.  The teaching resources used were film/audio archive material and documents that wre local to each area.  The resources were accessed with the help of staff at local Record Offices in Chelmsford, Hertford and Norwich.  Similar resources are available at all local Record Offices. 

Original resources provide a powerful teaching and learning experience. Studying an original document a Record Office is an experience that cannot be replicated by using a photocopy.  The teaching notes that are provided can be applied to similar original resources in any location.

Project Resources

Accessing Letters
City and Guilds Curriculum Links
Dialect
Dialect quiz - Essex
Dialect quiz - Hertfordshire
Dialect quiz - Norfolk
Generic session plan
Introduction to dialect web tasks
Introduction to letters and inventories
Inventories
Personal and Local History
Received Pronunciation
Standard English
Styles of Handwriting
Robert Opie Scrapbook Collection