Association of British Sign Language Tutors and Assessors

BSL Linguistics course

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:03:44 +0000

University College London and DCAL will be running a BSL linguistics course in the autumn.
The eleven week course will be on Thursdays, 12-6pm, the dates are 7th October – 16th December.

The venue is Wakefield Street, London, and the course fee is £880.

Full details of content, etc, can be obtained from The Course Director, Frances Elton, at DCAL, 49 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD, or f.elton@ucl.ac.uk
Course details can also be seen on the website www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal

BSL Tutor Vacancy

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:05:56 +0000

John Leggott College in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, are looking for a tutor to teach their BSL courses starting in September 2010.

For full details contact: CherylRiley@leggott.ac.uk

Useful Resources for teaching sign language to staff in nursery/early years

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:20:22 +0000

Two books that offer a curriculum and planned course for BSL tutors to introduce the basics of BSL to hearing staff in nursery and other early year settings – so that they can communicate with and teach Sign Language to the children in their care – have been published.
For more details about these books go to www.DeafBooks.co.uk or contact cath@deafsign.com

Are you thinking of becoming a BSL teacher?

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:54:00 +0000

Are you thinking of becoming a BSL teacher? If so you might be interested in the BSL Teacher Training Course offered at UCLAN [University of Central Lancashire].

All potential candidates will be interviewed and undertake a short assessment. Interviews will be held at UCLAN and conducted in BSL. The interview will take about 30 minutes and will be followed by a basic English / BSL assessment in order to ensure that applicants meet the core requirements for this course. In case applicants are unable to come to Preston for the interview we can arrange for them to be interviewed via webcam.

If you are interested please contact the below for further information.

Dr Hanna Eichmann

University of Central Lancashire

PRESTON

PR1 2HE

e-mail: heichmann@uclan.ac.uk

tel: (0044) 1772 893108

Comment: BSL Linguistics Workshop

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:38:37 +0000

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 know and have learnt so much on this workshop. I would go again to listen more. Many thanks again. Julie Parker

Training Courses for BSL Teachers

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:35:18 +0000

The City Lit in Holborn, London, will be running training courses for people who wish to train as BSL tutors.

The first course will start on 19th May 2010.

For full details of this and follow up courses contact deafed@citylit.ac.uk

Thanks for hosting an excellent training Day….

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:54:25 +0000

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 BSL LInguistocs, with time taken for exploring some Key (BSL) Skills from the NVQ3&4 assessment structure.

Penny Beschizza

Comment from a member who attended the BSL Linguistics Workshop

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:40:10 +0000

“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 some of them make me make me feel better knowledge more clearly explanation. I was really enjoyed that workshop”. Reita Bansal

I want write comment about the workshop on 20th February 2010

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:38:52 +0000

I was interesting and useful the workshop which I made review about BSL linguistics and some I don’t realised that was a more practice and useful to have a new knowledge about that.

I am happy to be know everything.

I advise all tutors and assessors to come workshop in ABSLTA

Regards

Alexandra Postawa

Letter about ABSLTA workshop on Saturday, 20th February 2010

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:35:12 +0000

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, Sentence structure and Classifiers. Robert set us some icebreaker tasks which helped us all to settle in. He was very professional and a natural born teacher and gave us BSL teachers plenty of opportunity to feedback with our own experiences.

I joined ABSLTA seven years ago and I haven’t missed a year because it really helps me to build my understanding and confidence in my BSL teaching and assessment methods. At just £15 to join ABSLT as a member, plus only £5 to join the ABSLT workshops it is great value for money. It would cost a lot more than that to attend an Linguistics course elsewhere – and it gives you a certificate that counts towards your Continuing Personal or Professional Development (CPD).

Many thanks to Charles Herd, Robert Adam and the committee for their commitment and passion to ABSLTA. I would strongly recommend any BSL teachers or assessor – whether you are new or experienced – to join ABSLTA.

Emma Iliffe
BSL teacher