I like that the materials are editable here http://www.niace.org.uk/projects/esolcitizenship/create.htm

(it was a long time before I found this link !)

 

And I have just noticed that some have been updated in 2010 (something that usually annoys me about these things ... the figures and people change over time and the materials are quickly out of date .. so do need to be updated regularly – thanks NIACE team for doing that !!)

 

I personally have found the sections on jobs/salaries; legal age limits and comic relief of particularly of use and interest but have also used some of the accommodation; education; volunteering, MPs and health pages too .. I have developed some materials to augment the citizenship ones on the Legal system but have never quite managed to use them ! .. interesting stuff though !   I hadn’t realised how much I had used the Citizenship materials !   

 

I think I will revisit them next year .. especially as lots of the SfL materials are becoming very out of date now !

 

Sue

 



From: Isabel Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, 5 July, 2011 11:09:55
Subject: using the Citizenship materials

Using the NIACE materials
I have used several of the visuals with learners at E1 and E2, and even beginners, to promote spoken language especially.
I have not always printed off individual copies but just provided them, or cut them up,  as prompts for group activity.
For more advanced learners I have also used some texts to develop reading skills in particular. The description of websites is very helpful.
I can see that the materials were developed with input from practising ESOL teachers.
I have also found the information in the various units very helpful when compiling end of term quizzes etc!
I have never attempted to 'cover all the areas' but have used the materials selectively to support my part-time teaching in 2hr, twice a week termly community courses, accredited with SfL qualifications and achievement of ILP targets.  Perhaps I could say embedding Citizenship into ESOL? We are always going to find that some learners are repeating some elements but in language learning is this a bad thing? Personally, lack of technology in church halls, parents' rooms in schools etc has not affected my use or adaptation of the materials.
One point I would recommend to future publishers of downloadable material is to avoid block shading of borders and headings etc as it does use up a lot of printer ink! And looks very dark in B/W!

In particular I have used:
2  A4 maps in conjunction with larger wall maps,
and the places of interest with opening hours for reading for information - sometimes adapted
7  What's your job? visuals cut up
8  Childrens' health visuals; letter to school for reading and writing; adapted some over the counter medicine instructions
9  housing visuals
10 parents evening visuals; school subjects as basis for eliciting learners' experiences
13 Getting Involved visuals, and other texts to extend more advanced learners
12 Legal age activity has promoted a lot of discussion - a good mixed ability team activity for an end of term party too!
14.1 Diagram in conjunction with the table of figures with some E3 learners

Hope this is of some encouragement to others to revisit the materials for E1/E2 learners!
Isabel Arnold






Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:24:03 +0100
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Dear Chris
 
My students have particularly appreciated the pictures of children’s rashes and the English names for the diseases. The section on religious festivals is also popular, and students enjoy this as a discussion and writing topic. When classes include people with children about to start or change schools, the education section is appreciated. I have used the section on speaking and writing to your MP to develop exam skills.
 
Working in an Adult Education centre rather than a college, and having very limited access to technology or other facilities, has really limited the ways in which I could incorporate this material; more recently having an IWB in one room has made a considerable difference. It would make sense for colleagues to work together to incorporate the materials in other learning, but this is difficult to do in Adult Ed. I have had to put hours into things like creating past tense questions to go with the kings and queens materials to produce a reading and grammar exercise with differentiation. (In this case I was replacing a set of questions on a topic in which the students showed little interest.) Another problem is that many of our students don’t attend in a continuous block of years, as well as coming to us at all levels in the first place and we have no overall syllabus, so it is difficult to ensure that any one learner hasn’t missed an area or repeated another. Most of our classes are only 4 hours per week, which means that we really have to take an intensive rather than extensive approach to what we do.
 
There are other sections, however, where it is harder to engage interest, generally because the students don’t see these as applying to themselves.
 
I realise it is not possible to design something that meets all circumstances without adaptation, sometimes considerable adaptation.
 
Cheryl Thornett
ESOL & Adult Literacy Tutor
BAES
Birmingham
 
 
 
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Dear Eleanor

 

Ouch! Thanks for your feedback. 

 

The pack was put together by an experienced team at NIACE and LLU+.  (We are all ex-ESOL teachers.) This is how we did it.  First we put out a call for practitioners to submit draft materials, we got a fantastic response and chose the best to put together a pack of draft materials.  Then we sent out the draft materials to the following organisations that piloted the pack and provided more learning materials and valuable feedback: APEX Leicester Project, Bolton College, Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College, Chinese ICT Open Learning Centre, Newcastle, Croydon CETS, Hastings College, Leicester College, Liverpool Community College, NETT Sheffield, Newcastle College, Open Doors International Language School, Plymouth, Refugee Council, Sheffield College, Suffolk College, Thomas Danby College, Tower Hamlets College, Walsall College of Arts and Technology and Waltham Forest College.  Then we revised all the materials in the light of the feedback from the learners and teachers and published the final pack.

 

Best wishes

Chris

 

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From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eleanor MacKinnon
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Hi everyone
 
I used the citizenship materials when I was teaching ESOL and in my opinion a large part of it is beyond the level of E1/2 students.
 
I would have liked to see the people who put the material together actually deliver it to the students they expect to be able to use it.
 
E MacKinnon
 

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:55:24 +0100
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Hi All

 

I'd just like to confirm that the 'Citizenship materials for ESOL learners' should be selected, adapted and used to suit your context and learners. It was never the intention that they should all be used with every 'ESOL & Citizenship' class - I doubt if that were possible, anyway! There is a wide range of material covering topics relevant to the broad theme of 'citizenship', plus lists of related websites and other resources at the front of each section so that teachers/learners can explore particular topics as they wish.

 

Also, as Dominic said, there is frequently an overlap between topics in the Citizenship materials and the Skills for Life ESOL Learner Materials.

 

Judith Kirsh

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If you look on the website you will see that the  NIACE citizenship materials cover a wide range of interesting topics and can easily be used in conjunction with whatever other ESOL materials you are using, even if all your learners are not are wanting to gain Citizenship.
I find some of them need to be adapted to meet local contexts or the needs of particular learners; this is what I understand as 'derived from'. It is good that there is this source of useful material. I am sure it is not intended that only these materials are to be used nor that all of them are used.
Isabel Arnold
 

Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 06:20:10 -0700
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Thanks for this Chris.

 

Do they specifically list the materials that are seen to be derived from the NIACE citizenship materials or is their some wriggle room.

 

Cheers Dominic

 

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Dear Dominic

The advice you are giving is not quite accurate.  The Citizenship for ESOL Learners materials are actually part of the legislation for UK Citizenship and Settlement so only these learning materials or those derived directly from them, will be considered acceptable by the Home Office.  The current Citizenship letter specifically says that the ESOL qualification must be taken whilst studying these citizenship materials or “using materials derived from The Citizenship for ESOL Learners pack produced for the Home Office by NIACE and LLU+”.

Best wishes

Chris

 

Chris Taylor

Programme Manager, NIACE

21 De Montfort Street

Leicester LE1 7GE

0116 204 4267

 

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From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of dominic mccabe
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Subject: Re: Citizenship letter

 

 

The ESOL curriculum and associated materials/topics embed citizenship content (work, health, money, etc) so anyone who has done any ESOL and passed any external test can reasonably claim to have studied ESOL in a citizenship context and with citizenship embedded in their learning.

 

Cheers Dominic

 

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Sent: Friday, 1 July 2011, 10:18
Subject: Citizenship letter

I wonder if anyone can advise.

 

We have a student who passed S&L in 2005 and took a discrete Citizenship class in 2007, based around the ESOL Citizenship learning pack.  The current Citizenship letter specifically says that the ESOL qualification must be taken whilst studying citizenship materials: she did not specifically do this, but DID study Citizenship materials in a separate course alongside her ESOL course.

 

Do you think it is reasonable to say that yes, she did get her S&L certificate “after successful completion of an ESOL course provided by this institution. The course was delivered in a citizenship context by a suitably qualified teacher and used materials derived from The Citizenship for ESOL Learners pack produced for the Home Office by NIACE and LLU+” or not?

 

Barb.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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