Today’s workplaces demand high literacy and numeracy skills to problem-solve in an increasingly technology-rich environment. So, teaching literacy and numeracy is critical to enhancing an individual’s career success and life satisfaction.
Certificate of Adult Literacy and Numeracy is an online professional development course that provides the skills required to teach literacy and numeracy to adult learners.
In this adult literacy and numeracy course, you will learn to establish literacy and numeracy needs for adult learners, identify skills gaps, identify learning difficulties and implement strategies to suit learning styles. This course will also explore the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program, Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP), ACSF guidelines and Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF).
You’ll also learn to design educational materials, such as smartboards, data projectors, handouts, charts and graphs, mathematics games, assessments and lesson plans, to enhance learning outcomes and monitor student progress.
On completion of this course, you will have a foundation understanding of how to deliver a literacy and numeracy education program for adult learners.
Course Structure
Unit 1 - Respond to client language literacy and numeracy needs
- Establish clients (language literacy and numeracy) LLN needs
- Signs of needs
- Impacts of LLN needs
- Acquired brain injury (ABI)
- Parental education attainment
- Illiterate parents
- Socioeconomic status
- Access to resources
- People from remote and rural areas
- Refugee status/displacement
- Language other than English
- Interrupted formal education
- People with disability
- Youth experiences
- Strategies used to avoid revealing LLN issues
- Review scope of LLN skill requirements
- Practical civic and professional mathematics/numeracy
- Maths for leisure
- Identify LLN skills gaps
- Using body language to show interest
- Impacts of LLN needs
- Substance abuse
- ADD and ADHD
- Specific learning difficulties
- Symptoms of dyslexia and dyscalculia
- Symptoms of dyspraxia and dysgraphia
- Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
- Visual Processing Disorder (VPDs)
- Expressive language disorder
- Intellectual disability
- Agree on areas of LLN needs with client
- Assessing clients reading, writing
- Agree on areas of need
- Assessing oral communication and numeracy
- The Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program
- Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)
- Cultural needs
- Working with Aboriginal clients
- Learning styles
- Visual learners
- Auditory learners
- Kinaesthetic learners
- Prioritise areas for action based on needs
- Health literacy
- Adjusting delivery approaches
- Tools and aids used to support communication
- Visual and reading aids
- Auslan and braille
- Interpreters
- Community learning centres
- Home tutor schemes
- Assistive technology
- The reading writing hotline
- Records management
- ACSF guidelines
- Monitor and support clients
Unit 2 - Support adult language and literacy learning
- Confirm scope of own role and responsibility
- The Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF)
- Assessing a learner’s ability level
- Assessing a learner’s writing level
- Assessing a learner’s oral communication level
- Factors inhibiting the development of language and literacy skills
- Sharing experiences
- Using questions that facilitate two-way communication
- Using body language to show interest
- Factors that may inhibit the development of language and literacy skills
- Parents who are not literate
- Refugee displacement
- Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
- Childhood socioeconomic status
- Home language other than English
- Learning disorders
- Establish learning outcomes
- SMART goals
- Plan learning environment (mapping room)
- Noise and temperature
- Eliminating sensory overload
- Seating plans/patterns
- Well designed lesson plans
- Strategies for learners with identified inhibitors to language and literacy development
- Using games and pictures
- Smartboards and data projectors
- Use of written language
- PowerPoint presentations
- Designing handouts
- Oral communication
- Personal and cooperative communication
- Procedural and technical communication
- Systems and public communication
- Using language to interact effectively
- Speaking with learners from cultural backgrounds
- Scaffold learning
- Using cliches
- Three main forms of language
- Interpreting texts and literary genres
- Text selection based on the ability
- The process to teach illiterate adults to read
- Making educated guesses
- Encourage problem solving
- Three types of cues
- Specific literacy skills to be taught
- Evaluate learning outcomes
- Using appropriate terminology (terms and definitions)
- Implement planned strategies
- Scaffolding writing
- Develop performance features
- Purpose of a learner’s writing affects
- Evaluate learning outcomes
- Rubric for responding to customer complaints
- Monitor learners progress
- Review and adjust strategies
- Continuous improvement cycle
Unit 3 - Support adult numeracy learning
- Scope of own role and responsibilities
- Assessing a learner using the ACSF
- Assess a learner’s writing
- Asses a learner’s oral communication
- Assess a learner’s numeracy
- Factors that inhibit the development of numeracy skills
- Gender
- Refugee status
- Mathematics anxiety phobia
- Dyscalculia
- Visual Processing Disorder (VPD’s)
- Negotiating numeracy learning needs
- Establishing goals
- Learning environments activities and evaluation methods
- Noise in the learning environment
- Eliminating sensory overload
- Flexibility
- Seating plans and patterns
- Well designed lesson plans
- Monitor learner understanding to inform planning
- Resources
- Smartboards, data projectors
- Charts and graphs
- PowerPoint presentations
- Using manipulatives
- Adapting resources
- Numeracy demands and opportunities in daily life
- Uses and functions of mathematics
- Practical and civil mathematics
- Civic and professional mathematics
- Demonstrations
- Numerate understandings and age
- Numerate understandings and culture
- Numerate understandings and indigenous culture
- Numerate understandings and interests, needs and learning styles
- Visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners
- Applying mathematics skills and knowledge for numeracy
- Scaffold learning
- Using faded works sheets
- Teaching mathematics skills via modelling
- Small group/cooperative learning
- Use of computers/technology
- Learning support
- Mathematics games
- Enhancing learner abilities and needs
- Multi-level teaching
- Individualised instruction
- Encouraging learners to problem solve
- Using numeracy language to focus learners on mathematics
- List of words and definitions
- Evaluating learning outcomes
- Planning strategies
- Personal and cooperative communication
- Procedural and technical communication
- Systems and public communication
- Improving mental computation and calculation skills
- Making mistakes and reasonable solutions
- Encouraging learners and building their confidence
- Formative and summative assessment
- Review and feedback
- Continuous improvement
Study Hours
Estimated duration 45 hours
Course Delivery and Start
Start anytime, self-paced and 100% online
Assessment
Assessment will be comprised of written exercises, including short-answer questions, reflective tasks, short reports and/or projects. There are no examinations or due dates for assessment. As a result, you can complete training in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.
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Graduation
A Certificate of Attainment and Statement of Results will be issued upon successful completion of this course.
How to Enrol
Enrol Online: Click Enrol Now (Credit Card) or Enrol Now (Internet Banking/BPAY)
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Enrol via Telephone 1300 76 2221 (Business Hours)
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Payment Options
Visa, Mastercard, BPAY and Direct Deposit.
Course FAQs
Why Choose Australian Online Courses?
- Professional development that is widely recognised and respected;
- Improve your employment opportunities;
- Study online, anywhere via our elearning system;
- High-quality professional development programs written by industry experts;
- All course materials provided online – no textbooks to buy;
- Unlimited tutor support via email;
- We offer twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply);
- Course may be tax deductible; see your tax advisor.
Are there any entry requirements or pre-requisites?
To study online with Australian Online Courses you will need a computer (desktop PC/laptop) running a current/updated operating system with reliable high-speed internet access. You will need to use the Google Chrome browser to access your course.
Are there any computer requirements?
To study online with Australian Online Courses you will need a computer (desktop PC/laptop) running a current/updated operating system with reliable high-speed internet access. You will need to use the Google Chrome browser to access your course.
When can I start this course?
You can start within 60 minutes during business hours when you enrol and pay in full with a credit card!
Credit card: Within 60 mins during business hours.
BPAY: Within 1-2 working days.
Internet Banking: Within 1-2 working days.
Cheque/Money Order: Upon receipt of mailed cheque.
How is this course delivered?
This course is delivered online via our easy-to-navigate Learning Management System (LMS), where you will discover interactive online learning/written content, resources and assessment.
Do I need to attend classes or undertake any work placements?
No. All courses are delivered online via our LMS and there are no work placement requirements in this course.
What support can I expect from Australian Online Courses?
Unlimited tutor support is available throughout your studies via email only during business hours Monday to Friday. Our Administrative team are available Monday to Friday via email, live chat and telephone.
I am an international student. Can I enrol into this course?
Yes! We accept enrolments from individuals both within Australia and internationally; location is no barrier to entry into our programs.
Career Pathways
Future growth
Strong
Unemployment
Low
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- Tutors
- Adult educators
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