Teaching & Training

Welcome to Han's teaching pages.

My specialist subjects are Numeracy and ICT in the Skills for Life sector, and MS Office applications. I also cover Literacy.

Currently I'm working for a charity delivering IT training to adults with mental health issues. Prior to this I was an IT trainer for several years with a commercial training provider, and graduated in 2008 from Canterbury Christ Church Uni with a Professional Graduate Certification in Education. It's in the post-compulsory sector, that is ages 16+ (FE colleges, adult and community education etc). I'm also a holder of the coveted TAP accreditation, the Institute of IT Trainers' lead qualification for trainers. I've also joined the Institute for Learning as an Affiliate member.

Here's my CV, and here are some comments about my teaching and training from past delegates and students.

Here I aim to give a range of tips in teaching ICT, using ICT in learning and teaching, and to provide a few links to some fantastic resources websites I've found for Skills for Life/Basic Skills. * = still to be fully completed

Teaching IT Using IT in learning and teaching Basic/Essential Skills resources websites
Please note most of these relate to versions of Office 97/98, 2000, 2002/XP and 2003. Office 2007 will follow soon.

For basic IT users:

General IT help - Office & multimedia

Some wonderful online resources

  • Project Renaissance - a great resource for excellent creativity and accelerated learning techniques
  • Wordle - for generating "wordclouds" of key words for learning and consolidation of any topic
  • Mutapic - website for designing great copyright-free graphics and images

 

 General:

Literacy:

Online wordsearch makers:

Numeracy:

  • Shodor pages - interactive Java-based resources
  • Some great handling data pages, and the overall number page with some fab counting systems
  • Yahoo's Maths page (American)

Govt agencies:

 

Credit where credit's due:

Many many HUGE thanks to Tim, Matt, Jatinder, Phil, Kenneth, Abi, Lesley, Anna, Dhru, and all the other trainers I was privileged to learn from at WWP, and to Nathalie and Tracey for their faith in me; Alison, Liz, Lyn, Sally, Diane and all the other teaching and admin staff at Orpington College's SaSC; Lorraine, Patsy, Lesley, Susie, Naseem, Jackie, Andy, Larry, Andrew, Sinan, Mike, Dave and all the other teaching staff at Canterbury College. My time at Canterbury Christ Church University was augmented and enriched by the Post-Co team, namely Karen Flanagan, Jacki Cartlidge, Michelle Tyler and Ian Jasper.

Thank you sincerely, all. You're all lovelysmashinpeeps. :-)

Last updated: 31/08/2009