I am a Progress Tutor in an FE College, teaching employability skills, British Values and Prevent, personal skills and well being. I create high quality resources for my own use and make them available to buy and download on TES.
I am a Progress Tutor in an FE College, teaching employability skills, British Values and Prevent, personal skills and well being. I create high quality resources for my own use and make them available to buy and download on TES.
A nice little worksheet for learners to think about what makes them who they are. This is where they can acknowledge what they are good at, what type of person they are, what they value and what interests they have. This can be used to think about personal statements, CVs, writing applications or used for self esteem or self respect lessons.
Are you a tutor with lots of groups and struggle to remember what subjects you’ve covered? I have that problem so I use a tracking sheet. This one is almost blank; fill in the subjects along the sides and tick them off when you’ve done them (copy and paste tick).
I designed this to record week by week attendance for individual learners and the overall classes, enabling me to flag any issues with learners, and to compare to previous years. The spreadsheet is colour coded to show increases and decreases in attendance for each learner. I have included a 2 page instruction on how to use the spreadsheet and the chart, and how to personalise it for your courses/groups. There is also instructions on how to connect the learner to their page on EBS/ProMonitor or whatever software you use which contains their contact details/profile etc.
I use this spreadsheet as my ‘desktop’, using it to navigate to different systems and to compile reports for area review meetings etc.
These are 6 pictures i designed for students to describe to each other. They can sit back to back or facing each other as long as the picture is hidden. The student holding the image must describe it to the other student who must then draw as instructed. They must not use words to describe the item, like “boat” or “tree”, but rather describe lines and shapes.
These can also be used for team working activity, where one person describes it to a group of people, who must between themselves, draw the image - this means learners discuss among themselves where they think lines should go, they might delegate one person to do one stage each, or elect someone to draw with others guiding.
Lots of useful resources for printing off - lined paper and square paper in different sizes, black lines for placing under plain paper as a writing guide, comic strips, stage planners, and lots of others!
This is my attendance lesson with activities. I have included a brief lesson plan, the Power Point, and activity resources. The learners look at how their attendance would look to employers and highlights the importance of high attendance.
This is an activity which encourages learners to design their own world, using information they have learned regarding population, landscape, culture etc. There are 8 pages, plus 3 extra blank pages for you to add your own sections, or to use as continuation sheets.
This is an activity designed to create debate and discussion amongst learners around the subject of equality and diversity, employment and discrimination.
The cards can be used to identify the 9 protected characteristics, and to identify things that might affect them getting a job.
This is a great activity to do with learners around the subject of bullying and banter.
Learners must work together to decide how serious each word is, which generates conversation about the definition of each one, how serious they believe it is, if they have witnessed this or been subjected to it, and if they have found themselves doing it and not realised that its bullying.
You can cut out and laminate the arrows for stability and longevity. The scale can be cut and laminated and stuck together later in a strip.
An activity for learners to discuss different signs and risks of radicalisation. They can discuss which ones they think are signs of it, and which are not. All the cards can either be a sign of radicalisation or not. They could be set a task to roleplay a scenario with some of the cards, or brainstorm in groups, other reasons for this change of behaviour. The end goal should be that the learners have an idea of what Prevent is for and to recognise signs of radicalisation. They should know the procedure within your establishment for reporting concerns.
This is a bundle of 6 crosswords with answer sheets on the following subjects:
Soft skills
Rights and Responsibilities
Work Ethic
Interviews
Growth Mind-set
Customer Services
A set of 16 cards with various myths and true statements about domestic abuse. Students can use these for discussion and debate and to decide which are true and which are false, and why.
This is a presentation to teach and engage learners in conversation about healthy eating. It covers each food group, what could happen if you have a poor diet and what a balanced diet is. The activity takes learners through a McDonald’s meal to understand calories and proportions, and how much exercise is needed to use up the energy.
Here are 90 different cards with various subjects to either use as warm up exercises, projects, or to get passed the ‘creative block’.
Of the 90 cards, 27 are coloured orange. This is so the learner can take one blue card with a subject, and one orange card with a visual element or style to focus on for a stretch or challenge activity. Both orange and blue cards can be used on their own to produce work around that word, subject, visual element or style.
This is a set of 24 cards with various rights and luxuries for students to sort and decide which they believe are rights and which are luxuries. Good for facilitating conversation and debate.
This can be used as a two page A4 handout or can be cut to be stuck in an A5 sketchbook. Students can mix colours using the colour wheel, investigate warm and cool colours, practice tonal mark making and investigate grades of pencils.
For equality and diversity, or disability awareness, this card sort activity encourages learners to experience completing an activity with a disadvantage. Afterwards, they discuss the activity, how they felt, what adjustments could be made to make the task accessible. You will need a deck of cards. The instructions are included with the activity.
A great form to guide learners to think about what they might be asked at interview and to think of situations they have been in that they can use as examples for situation based questions.