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Written by Steve Dale   
Friday, 05 February 2010 15:37
Guroos mission is to provide a fantastic range of learning resources that students use for learning Functional Skills in mathematics, English and ICT at level 1 and level 2.

 

Guroo uses a mixture of on-line and off-line learning resources including videos to engage students in the learning tasks, podcasts which are great for revision, test questions to re-inforce learning and provide instant feedback and a great range of learning tasks with solutions and learning feedback, all based on real life themes.

Teachers and tutors get access to usage reports, a large bank of lesson plans for both whiteboard and one/one teaching and curriculum reference guides that map individual leanring skills to our learning resources.

At the heart of guroo are realistic, relevant and appropriate on-line learning materials that support 14-19 year old students in the three Functional Skills subjects. Our materials include:

46+ Learning Challenges covering Mathematics, English and ICT at level 2, level 1, and entry level 3
50+ Videos and Podcasts
500+ Interactive questions based on Functional Skills tests
600+ Interactive questions based on Key Skills/ALAN tests
150+ Contextualised downloadable learning tasks supporting underlying learning for Functional Skills and KS/ALAN
150+ Learning feedback and solutions to learning tasks
90+ Lesson plans
Plus, additional resources being developed and added continually:

Additional Challenges practicing the functional skills in different scenarios
Additional Challenges based on the same scenario, but at a different level - especially entry levels 1,2 and 3
Task-specific support materials comprising spreadsheet, word processing and other application templates
But that's not all!

Guroo subscribers also receive:

The guroo "beyond-training" Active Engagement Plan for all tutors - our education consultants working on-site with your teachers
Printed packs for each functional skills department including all materials, lesson plans, curriculum mappings and more
Regular management usage reports