[PDF] Top 20 An overview of the ESOL Pathfinder evaluation

... new ESOL learning materials and the introduction of new diagnostic assessment ...Prison Pathfinder numbers of ESOL teachers at any one location were small and this made it particularly difficult to ... See full document

... their ESOL programme, and this varied widely: “They’re mainly older women, they’ve been in this country for 20 years without speaking more than a couple of words of English – they’ll be better in a year, but maybe ... See full document

... the evaluation, sought to reassure staff about confidentiality and to describe the data collection procedure in ...the ESOL Pathfinders, and it reassured learners that the information they provided would ... See full document

... [One barrier is the ] physical capacity of the building to provide a space for it. We’re a new PFI (private finance initiative) building and you’d have thought that PFI buildings would have been built with this provision ... See full document

... Eight pathfinder practitioners made explicit and developed their use of speaking and listening in initial assessment and ILP sessions, to help motivate offenders in custody and on community supervision to take up ... See full document

... them. ESOL students told us of their frustrations at asking for information in English and feeling that they are receiving conflicting information from different well-meaning ... See full document

... ‘ - Draw an escape route for your family in case of fire in your home when your normal exits are blocked.. ‘ - Plans to practice with your family a home fire drill.[r] ... See full document

... Pathfinder Financial Advisors, LLC representatives or personnel may buy and/or sell securities also recommended to clients. These transactions are in broadly traded mutual funds, stocks, and bonds and similar ... See full document

... Skills Pathfinder evaluation and the introduction of basic skills interventions into probation practice contained two key ...Skills Pathfinder evaluation and the small numbers of offenders who ... See full document

... the pathfinder, certain difficulties in partnership working were encountered in most ...the pathfinder and ambiguities over its scope in its initial ...the pathfinder and the low level of take-up had ... See full document

... Comment: formally equivalent to standard identification in displacement, but the transitory is mitigated in equivalent acceleration. Implementation: closed-loop optimization where the [r] ... See full document

... of pathfinder authorities have had private sector providers (particularly large chains) refusing to deliver the new entitlement, and one has had several providers drop out of the pilot because of funding ... See full document

... The local authority consultations confirmed broad commonality with respect to the general approach adopted to promoting the new entitlement to local providers. All local authorities either hosted workshops or events ... See full document

... Discrete optimization is always more mathematically complicated than con- tinuous optimization. The first can invoke refined mathematical techniques like graph theory. On the contrary, standard well-known numerical ... See full document

... / pathfinder and show its performance as compared to on different world scenarios using both uniform and non-uniform ...example pathfinder applications to maze solving and indoor navigation are ... See full document

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... Responding to the debate, the Minister, Brandon Lewis, acknowledged the role of English language proficiency “as a key enabler for integration and participation in society.” Arguing that it was important not just to ... See full document

... of Pathfinder activities had sometimes presented challenges for schools, and so in considering future plans, there was a general consensus that career-related learning needed to be spread not only across the ... See full document

... language skills are at least as important and in many cases are required before users reach the point of carrying out numerical calculations. When working with ESOL learners some have excellent numeracy skills and ... See full document

... Whilst the provision of a wholly new service was seen as unnecessary the need to ensure that within existing services NHS, advice agencies, Connexions, Job Centres, Sure Start Centres aw[r] ... See full document