Help! Functional Skills - is anyone teaching this?

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FunctionalSkills · 30/11/2022 19:09

Hello!

I am teaching functional skills maths to adults for the first time this year. (I am a qualified teacher but not used to teaching maths.)

I am really floundering with finding resources (using twinkl and photocopying a book at present) and also with the high level of additional needs in the class. I don't have the time to support all the learners, and even with an TA I feel the learners aren't grasping my lessons.

Does anyone teach this that can give me some pointers!?

Thanks :)

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FunctionalSkills · 04/12/2022 10:48

I absolutely feel I have been thrown in the deep end - I'll send you a pm. Thanks so much.

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TeenDivided · 04/12/2022 12:07

FunctionalSkills · 04/12/2022 10:32

We drew pizza/cake but I've already now used 2 lessons instead of one. And by the end of the lesson they needed to be ordering fractions/simplyfying/equivalent fractions/fractions of an amount... percentages I needed to get from first principles to percentage change and reverse percentages in one lesson.

It actually feels impossible.

I think it feels impossible, because it is impossible.

princessrose · 05/12/2022 20:42

Definitely Skillsworkshop as new resources are added all the time (I teach English at an SEN school though and found it tough after teaching GCSE/A Level in a mainstream school). There is a good Facebook page called Functional Skills Teachers for English and Maths.

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