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Speaking and Listening in NLT initiatives are featured on a separate page.
The Hanen programme, developed in Toronto, Canada, has been designed to give parents the skills to encourage speech-delayed children to talk. Visit www.hanen.org
Also see news archive item 'Hanen programme helps parents help speech-delayed children at home'
The Language and Play Programme (Wales) is designed to give information to
parents/carers of 0-3 year olds and focuses on communication, language, literacy
and play. The programme was developed in response to the concerns expressed by
headteachers about young children's speaking and listening skills on entry to
school. The programme is intended to complement the work currently undertaken by
early years organisations such as Bookstart, Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin, Twf,
Wales PPA and Sure Start. The programme is a means of reaching families outside
Sure Start areas and can be used in parent and toddler groups, playgroups,
clinics, family centres, nurseries and schools. Over six thousand parents and
young children, across Wales, took part in a Language and Play programme in the
first year 2003/04. For more information visit www.basic-skills-wales.org .
Discover is a community-based children's centre opened in Stratford, East London in 2002. It aims to provide entertaining and educational experiences for two to seven-year-olds, and their parents, families, carers and teachers from East London and further afield. Children and adults explore and savour the value of stories and the blocks on which they are built: words, language and imagination. With hands-on activities, creative workshops, play, performances and storytelling, visitors are encouraged to express themselves and communicate in diverse and enjoyable ways. Discover visits schools with an educational outreach programme, Space to Imagine.
Contact: Discover, 1 Bridge Terrace, London E15 4BG. Tel: 020 8536 5555. Email: team@discover.org.uk.
BT's Education Programme aims to “help everyone in the UK understand and enjoy the benefits of improved interpersonal communication skills”. BT does this by:
• providing primary and secondary schools with a unique range of free educational resources, dedicated to supporting the teaching of speaking and listening skills.
• encouraging schools to become more active at promoting better communication.
• offering funds to schools that demonstrate novel ways for students to improve their communication skills.
For more information visit www.bteducation.org
Hull's Talk Project aims to develop talk-based learning through interactive group work, using techniques and strategies inspired by the work of the National Oracy Project. These strategies are generic and can be applied from foundation stage through to key stage 3, across all subjects.
The project was developed by the Education Development Unit (part of St Martin's College, Ambleside) on behalf of Thorpe Park Primary School and Foredyke Primary School, with links to their partner secondary schools, Sir Henry Cooper and Isaac Newton.
An article on the project can be read on the Basic Skills Agency website at www.basic-skills.co.uk.
(June 2005)
Talking partners is a programme to boost speaking skills. It was developed by Education Bradford and the Centre for British Teachers. The scheme was originally developed for pupils with English as an additional language, but was expanded for any pupil who has poor speaking skills. Assessments reveal the 10 week programme can improve children's progress by more than a year, enabling them to achieve the level expected for their age. Teachers or teaching assistants work with small groups of three children. The 20 minute sessions involve activities such as children describing objects to one another for the other to draw it and role play games, where children take on character's roles from books, and are quized by others.
Discover is a community-based children's centre opened in East London for two to seven-year-olds. See entry above for more information.
BT's Education Programme aims to “help everyone in the UK understand and enjoy the benefits of improved interpersonal communication skills”. See entry above for more information.
Investing in Voice: a resource from ESSA, Investing in Voice is a programme to give the whole school community a means by which they can communicate their ideas. It provides schools with a way of measuring success of student participation activities and develop future student voice initiatives. For further information visit www.studentvoice.co.uk/useful/voice/
Jack Petchey's "Speak Out" Challenge
is a public speaking competition for teenagers in the Southeast. Run by Speakersbank, a not-for-profit organisation, the competition begins with every participating teenager receiving a day of training in public speaking and effective communication. There are no restrictions on what the teenagers can talk about, no use of notes, no podiums and no barriers. For more information visit www.speakoutchallenge.com
News article - Teenagers speak out
Pupil2Pupil Peer Coaching from the NUT was initiated to support the QCAs Taking English Forward Initiative. Pupils are encouraged to coach one another to find their own solutions. Speaking and listening skills are crucial so that students can communicate with one another and be a source of learning to others. A booklet, Pupil2Pupil Peer Coaching, When Harry helps Sally (and vice-versa) has been produced, looking at how peer coaching worked in 30 schools and to act as a starting point. Order the booklet by calling the NUT 0207 380 4725.
Schools Question Time is an intiative supported by BT, the Institute for Citizenship and the BBC, with the aim to help improve students' public speaking and listening skills and encourage participation in society and politics. It is running for a fifth time in the academic year 2007-2008. For more information visit news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/schools_question_time/
Skills for Life is a national strategy for improving language, literacy and numeracy amongst adults in England. The ESOL speaking and listening curriculum lays out the national targets for learner's achievements. For more information visit www.dfes.gov.uk/curriculum_esol
General ESOL/EAL initiatives
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