Dear all,
A few weeks back I posted a message about adult basic skills sessions.
Apologies for not replying before now to those who had sent me
information (family illnesses and disasters have got in the way!) but
thank you - they were really useful.
I'm now asking a bit more specifically if anyone can help. Having done
a tour for the group, they are really keen to work on a longer term
project. The group (adults) all have mild to moderate learning
disabilities, and they are attending sessions designed to improve
their literacy, numeracy, confidence and so on.
If anyone has done any projects working with adults with learning
disabilities, I'd be really interested to hear what you have done.
For info, as someone asked, I work in a historic house museum, based
in a Jacobean manor house.
As before, if anyone wants collated responses, please do let me know -
and hopefully this time children with swine flu won't get in the way!
Many thanks
Rosie Barker
Community Learning Officer, Aston Hall
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From: Rosie Barker <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Subject: Adult basic skills/numeracy in museums
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Hi all,
We have a group coming on a tour in a few weeks (I work in a historic house)
and they were hoping to build some elements of literacy and numeracy into
their tour.
I'm OK (I think!) with the literacy side but was hoping someone might have
some examples of how to build in numeracy that they could send me - any
examples of the kind of questions to ask (probably via a worksheet but to be
used on a tour) would be gratefully received. I've not worked on adult
numeracy before so anything will help!
Let me know if you would like any collated responses as well. Thanks very
much
Rosie Barker
Community Learning Officer, Aston Hall
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