Tutors' corner

Here you will find guidelines for good adult literacy work and frameworks to assist providers of adult basic education to review and assess their work.

• Guidelines for good adult literacy work underlines the philosophy and basic principles of adult education.
• Preparing Learning Materials – a tutors guide
• Mapping the Learning Journey was designed to help learners and tutors identify and record progress in a way that supports the teaching-learning process.
• Intensive Basic Education programmes offer adult literacy tuition on a more concentrated level, e.g. FAS/ VEC Return to Education Model, Return to Learning Programme with Local Authorities, ITABE by the VEC Adult Literacy Service
• The Evolving Quality Framework for Adult Basic Education contains an outline of how to use the model to evaluate practice and plan improvements.
• Curriculum Development

Professional development

NALA has worked with a number of universities to develop certificate, diploma and degree programmes for literacy tutors. Read more.