ADULT AND COMMUNITY LEARNING

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ADULT AND COMMUNITY LEARNING

• DIVERSITY PATHFINDER CLUSTER LEADS
• 5 DECEMBER 2002
• Marianne Stevenson
• Community Development Manager

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WHAT IS ACL ?

• ACL is an umbrella term that covers
• Non vocational and leisure learning
• Programmes that aim at achieving social inclusion
• Community development and capacity building
• Family and inter-generational learning
• ACL seeks to balance
• Universal access to learning with participation
  of disadvantaged groups
• Needs and aspirations of the individual with that
  of the community
• A curriculum based on disciplines with that
  evolved from issues
• A curriculum devised by educators with that
  determined by learners

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POLICY DRIVERS FOR ACL

• Meeting LSC national and local targets
• Widening participation
• Contributing to neighbourhood renewal
• Contributing to Basic Skills
• E - Learning

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SCHOOLS AND ACL

• A powerful tradition - village and community
  colleges
• A rich range of activities informal and formal
  that engage adults
• Growing programmes of family education
• The contribution of adults from the community in
  the schools learning environment

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POLICY INITIATIVES

• Building Learning Communities - Concept of
  Schools Plus
• Diversity Pathfinder - Community Plans
• Extended Schools - integrated local community
  services that focus on the child and the family

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WHERE ARE WE NOW?

• CSF needs to
• Map the involvement of schools in adult learning
• Further strengthen the consultancy and support
  service for schools to develop their community
  engagement and role in adult learning
• Ensure school premises meet ALI standards
• Link adult learning to the Schools Self
  Evaluation Framework
• Ensure the development of adult learning in
  school settings is included in the ACL Plan for
  2003/04

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QUALITY OF ACL PROVISION

• ACL provision including family learning
  needs to comply with Adult Learning Inspectorate
  (ALI) requirements and the Common Inspection
  Framework. We need to address the following
  issues
• Access
• Assessment of learners needs
• Lesson Plans
• Qualified staff
• Demonstrable evidence of learner achievement
• Evidence of listening to learners
• Progression opportunities clearly signposted

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WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO?

• Further strengthen working relationships with
  CEDOs
• Develop a consistent framework for ACL delivery
  in schools
• Improve the ACL strand of community plans
• Further strengthen partnership collaboration
  with colleges and other local adult learning
  providers
• Align schools community funding streams
• Include schools in the ACL Schedule of Activities
• Encourage schools to participate in Learning
  Forums

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SCHOOL/COLLEGE COLLABORATION

• Currently Schools act in any of three capacities
  in respect of Colleges and ACL delivery as-
• - premises
• - partners in the planning and delivery of
• programmes
• - providers
• A set of working arrangements/protocol needs to
  be devised that addresses
• who is responsible for what
• what the funding arrangement should be
• how quality will be assured

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WHAT NEXT?

• Develop a draft School/College partnership
  protocol for ACL Delivery
• Share the draft at the next ACL Provider Group
  Development Session Adult Learning in Schools
  on Thursday, 13 February 2003, 9.00am to 1.00pm
  at the Fielder Centre