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A resource kit, including video and guide, designed to support teachers, trainers, and assessors who use the National Reporting System (NRS) to assess and report on oral communication skills. The resource includes a range of activities to assist the user to identify oral communication indicators and language feature displayed. It also takes the user though a range of typical scenarios to aid in learning. To purchase the KIT, contact Phillipa McLean on (03) 9657 8113. |
Strategies For Low-Level Literacy Students  (917.6 KB) |
A research report that examines strategies for teaching literacy to low-level learners. The report investigates, using qualitative and quantitative methods, what strategies are successful and provides a foundation for resource and curriculum development. |
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The Certificates in General Education for Adults (CGEA) website provides teachers with a one-stop shop for the CGEA. It provides information about the curriculum, assessment, delivery strategies, moderation and teaching resources; online moderation, and database of CGEA resources; and teaching strategies which can be downloaded and printed off for use by students. |
SciWeb  |
Sci Web supports and promotes scientific literacy. It provides a range of science teaching ideas and activities that support teachers and trainers in science teaching and technology in their literacy, numeracy and ESL classrooms. It also provides information and links to other useful sites. |
A resource to assist teachers, Progressing Numeracy is a resource to support learning outcomes in numeracy for adult Indigenous learners undertaking the course for Preliminary Spoken and Written English (Pre CSWE) and Certificates I and II in Spoken and Written English. It contains a range of activities to assist learning and examples of student learning activities for learning outcomes. The resource is available in booklet form, and online. The resource is available for purchase through Batchelor Press on (03) 89397352.
A resource to assist with assessing the spoken English of people from language backgrounds other than English, using the National Reporting System (NRS). Includes samples of what language behaviour described in NRS level one and level two looks and sounds like, and provides examples of assessment tasks for oral communication. Resource kit includes video and Trainer/Assessor Guide.
Negotiating Workplace Training
This website was developed by a consortium led by Communication in Education and Training Pty Ltd. It contains lots of excellent resources and links useful for all Registered Training Organisation (RTOs) and workplace trainers setting up training systems integrating language, literacy and numeracy and meeting the AQTF quality standards. It contains mapping of Training Packages to the NRS; tips on how to read the language, literacy and numeracy in Training Packages; tips on customising training, examples and proformas for pre-training assessment or training needs analysis tools; and case studies and materials from those who have done it.
NRS Snapshots an ANTA Adult Literacy National Project, 1999, produced a series of case studies that demonstrated the versatility of the NRS framework in developing innovative curriculum.
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Applying the NRS to an Industry Training Package by Sally Mitchell
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The Mushroom Project by Barbara Lorey, Morrison House, Mount Evelyn, Victoria
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A Skills Map for the Learning Journey by Barbara Lorey, Morrison House, Mt Evelyn, Victoria
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Being Australian by Jenni Oldfield
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Using the NRS in a Workplace by Jenny Lees, Enterprise Teacher, Victoria University
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Science in the Adult Literacy Classroom by Barbara Gleeson, Council of Adult Education, Victoria
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Bridging the Barriers by Cathrena McRae, The Learning Workshop, Queensland
Using the National Reporting System to evaluate best practice in the development and delivery of literacy training to indigenous health workers in remote North QLD using Audiographic Conferencing.
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Voting in Elections: A snapshot of how we brought some understanding of the election process to our learners from other countries by Brigid Bangay and Sue Clements, Linda Wyse and Associates, Victoria
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The Wood and the Trees by Barbara Goulborn, Curve Projects Pty Ltd
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Engaging Young People in Literacy by Tracey Fenton and Rebecca Lienert, Activate Training Centre, Prahran, Victoria.
The NRS web site provides principles of assessment and mechanisms for ascertaining the language, literacy and numeracy skills of learners.
The NRS case studies show practical examples of NRS use across a range of provision.