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Minimum Core – What is it?
Three separate, but connected elements
• Personal, social and cultural factors influencing literacy, language, numeracy and ICT development.
• Development of your own literacy, language, numeracy and ICT skills
• Embedding the development of functional skills into your teaching
Minimum Core development will be developed and demonstrated
by:
• Dedicated sessions throughout the course
• Via your ILP
• Via session plans and observation
It’s OK to have difficulty with number but not OK to find
reading a challenge
TRUE
It is socially acceptable to say “I’m hopeless at maths” but people who have difficulty reading and writing
are generally embarrassed to admit it.
Poor literacy has a greater effect on low economic well-being for
adults than poor numeracy
FALSE Poor numeracy rather than poor literacy has found to be a greater influence on low economic well-
being
Very few adults can be described as illiterate
TRUE
Very few adults cannot read at all. More have difficulty with writing
5% (1.7 million) adults in England have literacy levels
below that of a 7 year old child
TRUE
This means they have difficulty understanding short straightforward
texts on familiar topics and in obtaining information from short
documents
Up to 30% of army recruits have have literacy or numeracy skills
at levels at or below those expected of an 11 year old.
FALSE Up to half of the 12,000 people
recruited each year have literacy or numeracy skills at levels at or below those expected of a primary school
leaver
True dyslexics have difficulty distinguishing some letters or
numbers eg b-d 6-9
FALSE This is a feature demonstrated by
only some dyslexics
Three years after attending a basic maths course, adults are likely to earn 13% more than
matched individuals who have not attended a course
TRUE
By the third year of study the former learners had an average annual take home pay of £558 more than in the
first year.
All dyslexics have some problems with organisational
skills
TRUE
Although the degree and the way this manifests itself will differ
Free tuition helps increase the number of adults enrolling on
Level 2 courses.
FALSE
Survey completed by the ALI found that free tuition did not help any
college to enrol more adults on level 2 courses.
The training of some FE teachers is being held back by their
inability to read, write and use ICT properly.
TRUE
Ofsted found that some trainees were “constrained by weaknesses in their literacy and numeracy which meant that many were unable to address errors in student assignments. ”