Learning Partners

		Guidance and support for managing learning
	Guidance and support	The shift in education from teacher-centred to learner-centred approaches places more emphasis on learning management, academic guidance and student support. Time previously spent in presenting information can be used to manage learning activities and the development of students' study, professional, analytical and critical skills. This series of publications provides practical guidance for teachers and tutors in an easily accessible format.
	- Accrediting Lifelong Learning
	- Learning Without Hearing
	- Tutoring for Achievement: Frameworks and Skills
	- Supporting Learning
	E-learning	Other relevant resources can be found on the e-learning pages.
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	Accrediting Lifelong Learning
	Sharing good practice in assessment and evidence
	Sarah Connell and Jenny Sanderson
	This publication provides a clear, concise guide to developing portfolio-based assessment in Open College Network accredited provision. The authors have extensive experience in developing assessment strategies in adult and community education.
	The pack is based on guidance they have developed within a local OCN and can be used for tutor training or as individual guidance notes.
	It includes sections covering:
	Assessment of skills, knowledge and understanding
	Making assessment judgements
	Assessment activities
	Evidencing learning and achievement
	Quality assurance of assessment
	Also included are 40 pages of examples, photocopiable resources and sources of further information, guidance and support. The publication is ring-bound with a photocopying licence for the purchasing organisation.
Accrediting Lifelong Learning	ISBN 1 899692 18 5	Available from bookshops or direct	Price and ordering information

	Learning Without Hearing
	Rob Rodgers
	This resource pack is designed to help schools, colleges and universities support students in mainstream post-16 education, who experience hearing loss. The pack provides information, activity and other materials for training, awareness raising and for developing programmes of support for deaf students.
	The materials are simply and directly written by an experienced teacher of deaf students and cover:
	The problems of hearing loss
	Common stereotypes and misconceptions
	Learning and support needs
	Overcoming communication difficulties
	Strategies for support provision
	A study skills development programme
	Learning Without Hearing is designed for ease and flexibility of use. It is ring-bound and simply presented. The pack comes with a site licence which allows the materials to be photocopied and used for teaching and development purposes across the purchasing institution.
Learning Without Hearing	ISBN 1 899692 01 0	Available from bookshops or direct	Price and ordering information

	Supporting Learning
	John Hurley
	This comprehensive modular pack takes you through the strategies for supporting the development of learning skills at all levels of post-16 education.
	The materials can be used flexibly to:
	Identify needs and define priorities
	Develop and review strategies for learning support
	Provide training and development activities
	Disseminate good practice
	Supporting Learning is designed for ease of use. It is ring-bound and simply presented in a modular format. Users can locate the sections that address their current needs and employ them selectively in any order. The materials come with a photocopying licence for use within the purchasing organisation.
Supporting Learning	ISBN 1 899692 09 6	Available by special order directly from Learning Partners	Price and ordering information

	Tutoring for Achievement - Frameworks
	John Hurley and Lynette Hurley
	This comprehensive set of modular materials offers a dynamic but non-prescriptive approach to developing and managing tutorial support. This clear and stimulating guide can be used from sixth form to higher education and includes:
	The guidance process from entry to exit
	The functions of tutorial systems
	Action planning and progress review
	Tracking, monitoring and recording
	Developing learning
	Pastoral support
	Staffing, organisation and delivery
	Tutoring for Achievement - Skills
	Lynette Hurley and Jane Smith
	This lucid and accessible resource pack provides an overview of the skills required for guidance-based tutorial systems and tutorial review systems. Drawing on counselling and management techniques the pack is an invaluable resource for tutors, team leaders and staff development.
	The materials cover all aspects of tutoring skills including initial assessment of students, the use of counselling techniques in tutoring and the skills of listening, giving feedback, challenging and negotiating.
	Tutoring for Achievement - Frameworks and Skills are designed for ease of use. The ring-bound materials come with a photocopying licence for use in the purchasing institution.
Tutoring for Achievement - Frameworks	ISBN 1 899692 10 X	Available by special order directly from Learning Partners	Price and ordering information
Tutoring for Achievement - Skills	ISBN 1 899692 11 8