This training is designed to support a change in confidence to deliver informal literacies activity within youth work opportunities. It will help people who work with young people to feel equipped to make use of the informal, situated literacies opportunities that arise in the course of their work with young people.   The anticipated course outcome is that practitioners will feel more confident to support integrated youth literacies opportunities within youth work.  Training is based on 3 underpinning principles that support effective learning in literacies:

• Promoting self determination
• Developing an understanding of literacies
• Recognising and respecting difference and diversity

 Aims of trainingTo enable Youth Workers

• to have an increased awareness of Youth Literacies within Youth Work – theory and practice
• to develop an understanding of their role in supporting and developing young people’s literacies

•  to develop positive approaches to informal literacies learning in youth work contexts
• to understand and practice techniques which will support and develop young peoples literacies skills, knowledge and understanding

•  to increase their confidence in delivering and developing youth literacies work
• to develop their understanding of learning styles
• to increase their awareness of literacies resources

  Delivery Mode:2 days training, with 4 week gap between training day 1 and training day 2.   There is an expectation that participants will begin to take opportunities to put training into practice and to share and reflect on their experiences of doing so on training day 2. Attendance on both days is desirable.   Claire Stewart  August 2007