APPROACHES in adult literacy and numeracy education

Kia ora and welcome…!

This is the second of seven collections covering the knowledge and skills you need to teach better by embedding literacy and numeracy into your training.

By the end of this second part, you will have covered:

• What you need to know to understand some of the approaches and concepts we use in adult literacy and numeracy education.

This next big content area breaks down into two modules. Here’s what’s coming up:

• How should we look at teaching and learning?

We’ll take a look at some of the approaches that we use in adult literacy and numeracy education. Some of these are from adult teaching and others come from the world of Māori education.

• What are other key ideas you need to know?

As well as different approaches for teaching, you need to know a few key ideas and concepts that we use to talk about adult literacy and numeracy learning. Again, some come from more general teaching approaches and methods, and others come from Te ao Māori.