Acon learning with Irish numeracy tutors Angela Cahill, Antoinee Delamere, Mary Bambrick, Daniel Sellers and Tina


Byrne Angela Cahill has worked as an adult literacy and numeracy tutor for the last nine years with Louth and Meath Educaon and Training Board (LMETB) on the east coast of Ireland. She is currently working with the Community Educaon service within LMETB.


Antoinee Delamere works for The Naonal Learning Network Arklow as a Resource Teacher. In her role she supports learners that have literacy and numeracy difficules aain person-­‐centred learning goals and QQI maths and communicaons qualificaons.


Mary Bambrick is a literacy and numeracy tutor with the City of Dublin Educaon and Training Board. She has most recently undertaken tutoring a class in literacy and numeracy through the backdrop of history.


Daniel Sellers grew up in Leeds. He worked as a numeracy and literacy tutor in Liverpool and East Kilbride before taking on a secondment developing adult numeracy for the Scosh Government. He is now a freelance consultant and has lived and worked in England, Scotland, Ireland and Finland.


Tina Byrne is Research Officer at the Naonal Adult Literacy Agency (NALA). She has extensive experience in the area of social research parcularly adult literacy and numeracy. Her research work includes case studies on literacy and numeracy pracce in Ireland, family literacy research, training needs analysis and ESOL


Background


In 2013, the Naonal Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) published a set of case studies describing numeracy pracce in Ireland. The report, What really counts: case studies of numeracy pracce in Ireland (hps://www.nala.ie/ resources/numeracy-­‐report-­‐what-­‐really-­‐counts-­‐case-­‐studies-­‐adult-­‐numeracy-­‐pracce-­‐ireland) focused largely on the strategies employed by tutors to teach numeracy to adult learners. Following the launch of the report, NALA invited adult numeracy tutors to take part in an acon learning project to measure the impact of What really counts by implemenng the pracce contained in the case studies.


Ten adult numeracy tutors from around Ireland took part in the acon learning project. This arcle describes the experiences of three of these tutors in their own words. The tutors are:


• Angela Cahill, Louth Adult Learning Service, Louth and Meath Educaon and Training Board • Antoinee Delamere, Naonal Learning Network, Arklow • Mary Bambrick, Colaiste Dhulaigh College of Further Educaon, Coolock, City of Dublin Educaon and Training Board


The Project


The project was designed to provide support to ‘improve the quality of teaching and learning’ (NALA, 2014) and to share learning from a set of case studies about numeracy pracce. As part of the project the tutors examined the pracce described in the case studies, took ideas and inspiraon from them, and set about pung these ideas into pracce. They were asked to report back on their findings and on what they had learned about themselves as praconers.


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