Introduction to the Australian Core Skills Framework

This face-to-face workshop is for those who are new (or nearly new) to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) including:

• new or aspiring Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) practitioners
• 26TEN project managers
• participants in the Tutor Adult Literacy Learners (TALL) TasTAFE program who would like to increase their knowledge of the ACSF
• anyone involved in projects that use the ACSF.
  

Discover what the ACSF is and how it can be used to:

• assess learner core skills
• identify the core skill requirements of training and/or a work/job role
• develop your own core skill assessment tasks
• make assessment decisions in reading writing, oral communication and numeracy.

About the trainer

Harry Atkinson is a teacher who has been involved in adult literacy programs and foundation skills programs in Tasmania since 2003. He has used the Australian Core Skills Framework (and its predecessor the National Reporting System) to assess a broad range of learners in many different contexts.

Harry has managed and delivered a number of adult literacy and foundation skills programs including 26TEN Workplace Grants, Workplace English Language and Literacy Programmes, the Language Literacy and Numeracy Programme and the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) program.

More recently, Harry has been employed by Work & Training to manage and deliver Foundation Skills and Workplace Literacy Programs in collaboration with Tasmanian businesses, industry groups and community organisations.