Objectives
- The literacy and numeracy levels of children in the Docklands will be on a par with the national norms
- Children in the Docklands will experience a seamless development of their numeracy skills from 0-6
- Parents will have an understanding of their children’s literacy and numeracy development and be able to monitor their children’s progress
- Parenting strategies, personal skills and involvement of the parents in their children’s education, particularly in numeracy, will be improved
- Increased awareness throughout the community of the role that community, family and school can play in promoting successful learning, particularly in numeracy (DES 2010b)
- To provide on-going support to student and educators in the Docklands in order to help them continue and achieve in education
- To enable students to improve their social and emotional functioning and raise their own sense of self-efficacy
- In the long term, participation in higher education by the local population within the Docklands will have increased
Erasmus+ EU Literacy Project: Making Literacy Meaningful
Teaching staff in a multi-faceted Europe are continually
confronted with questions around facilitation of children from a multitude of backgrounds.
The Making Literacy Meaningful project, funded by the European Union under the
ERASMUS+ Programme, has developed practically-oriented knowledge in the area of
language and literacy development, with a specific focus on addressing the
needs, challenges and opportunities resulting from multilingual and
multicultural classrooms. The project participants span universities, as
well as a college and a school, from five different countries (Germany,
Luxembourg, Ireland, England and Spain).
You can find out more information on the Making Literacy Meaningful website,
which hosts papers and materials specifically developed for the project as well
as providing links to the two custom-designed MOOCs (Massive Open Online
Courses) around Language Facilitation and Literacy Facilitation. Reflective
tasks and practical implementation tips are designed to help practitioners to
link theory to practice.
The first MOOC Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms focused on supporting the teaching of
children who do not have the national instructional language as their primary
language (in the Irish context this will be children who have English as an
additional language).
The second MOOC Teaching Literacy focused on the teaching of literacy for all
children.