Association of British Sign Language Tutors and Assessors

Training Workshops

It is good for BSL teachers to be aware of the BDA’s focus on the quality of the teaching of BSL. The BDA Academy website is only for members but others can access it, the address is www.bslqed.com

Clark Denmark gave a presentation about this at the ABSLTA AGM in 2009-10 and BSL teachers might find it a useful source of information.

People who are teaching, or hoping to teach, need to be aware that they need the proper qualifications to do so.

Following complaints from students, a tutor was taken to court recently for teaching a course when they were not properly qualified to teach at that level so you need to make sure that YOU have the language, teaching and assessing qualifications AT THE RIGHT LEVELS or you may find yourself – and possibly your college – in financial trouble.

The ABSLTA hope to set up some kind of register for teachers of BSL so colleges can check on the qualifications of teachers they employ to make sure they are properly qualified and the students will get value for money.

You have been warned.

The report on the UCLan project on ‘BSL Tutor Support’ is now available, go to the Penny Beschizza item in the ‘recent comments’ in the right hand column for the link.

The ABSLTA Constitution has now been added to the ‘pages’.

First of all I would like to say thank you to Robert Adam, as a tutor, on the above date, he had given ideas of understanding and made me realised what I didn’t Read more »

Thanks for hosting an excellent training Day for us BSL Tutors & Assessors. Rober Adam’s ‘Deaf-friendly’ presentation and workshops made us feel at home with the topic Read more »

“Roberts Adam was a great explanation about linguistic what meaning very clearly.  As many years ago I was attended linguistic course some forgetten now recap to recognise Read more »

Yesterday I attended Robert Adam’s wonderful lecture about BSL linguistics. Topics covered included Types of signs, Sign language phonology, Sign language morphology, Mouth patterns, Read more »