The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) has a wide range of CPD courses and resources to support maths, English and ESOL delivery.
Our offer has been carefully designed to provide solutions to concerns around progress in post-16 maths, English and ESOL attainment and to develop subject specific skills.
The courses are for practitioners at all levels and stages of their development and include:
A fully accredited teaching award with a designated focus on ESOL teachers, delivered over 12 weeks, 2 x 2 hour sessions per week.
These can be packaged and delivered in-house and tailored to meet the needs of the organisation, either online or face-to-face.
Short courses are designed to run between 2-2.5 hours, with the option to be packaged in pairs and delivered over a full day face-to-face.
Prices for CPD courses start at £55 for an individual to book onto our 2-hour open sessions. For an in-house group booking, discounts are available for packages of modules, and prices start from £1045 for 5 hours of online training for up to 15 people – contact us for details.
This CPD course, designed to be similar in difficulty to a Level 5 module, supports practitioners working with Functional Skills maths learners. You will explore and experience how to engage and motivate learners and undertake assessment to build on their prior learning. It is designed to meet the needs of all parts of the sector, including independent training providers, offender learning and adult and community education.
This CPD course, designed to be similar in difficulty to a Level 5 module, will explore and experience how to engage and motivate learners and undertake assessment to build on their prior learning. You will experience digital approaches and other effective practices for leading GCSE maths courses.
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This interactive course will support technical and vocational tutors, trainers, and assessors to identify naturally occurring opportunities to develop learners’ maths skills needed to successfully complete their study programme, apprenticeship, or vocational or technical course.
This interactive course will support all practitioners delivering substantial maths content in how approaches to planning can support deeper learning and develop learner engagement.
This interactive course will provide a deeper look into how we approach questioning learners and how to develop learners’ ability to transfer knowledge across contexts.
This course explores a range of methods and modelling that support skills development and deep learning of fractions, decimals, percentages, negative numbers, indices, and standard form. It introduces a range of rich collaborative tasks, tackles misconceptions and uses technology effectively.
This is an interactive course that will support all practitioners in developing learners reasoning and problem-solving skills. Whilst also examining a range of activities that can be used with learners for supporting them in improving confidence in tackling more complex multistep problems.
This course explores Concrete, Abstract and Pictorial (CAP) representations that support deep learning and a better understanding of algebraic skills, geometric connections and number work, including conversions.
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This course will provide participants with the opportunity to plan effectively to meet the needs of the learners and explore a range of techniques and activities to increase motivation and engagement.
This interactive course will explore how to support learners to value maths skills and investigate coaching and resilience strategies to support teaching practice and encourage learners to engage.
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