Category: 21204
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Revisiting Te Whare Tapa whā for adult literacy and numeracy teaching
Te Whare Tapawha Another concept from Te Ao Maori that you may also remember from your NZCALNE (Voc) studies is Te Whare tapawha, or the strong house. Dr Mason Durie’s Te whare tapawha model reminds us that we need to consider our learner as a whole person taking into account the many dimensions that make…
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NZDipALN: Module 1 Content – Learner Centredness
Learner centredness What is a learner centred approach? Learner centred learning is an approach to education which focuses on the interests of the learners. It means that, in your role as facilitator, you put the learners’ interests, knowledge, experience, and learning styles first. Teacher-centred Teacher talks Feels more like an information dump or a lecture…
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NZDipALN: Module 1 Content – The Educator as Facilitator
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NZDipALN Module 1 Content – Anxiety Caused by Learning including Maths Anxiety
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Diploma Brainstorming: Describing your personal approach to embedding or contextualising literacy and numeracy
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Literacy and numeracy for non-experts (Or how do you recognise low levels of literacy and numeracy?)
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OMG I’m so OCD (Or Digital Tools for my Digital Toolbox)
I have a new goal… I’m trying to significantly reduce the amount of paper that I file and store. I’d like to eliminate three huge filing cabinets and shift everything, or nearly everything, to a completely online and mostly paperless system. I’m planning on using Evernote to do this in combination with the camera on my…
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Good News: TEC’s Report to the Minister on Adult Literacy & Numeracy Qualifications
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Embedding literacy and numeracy into basic trades training in prisons
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And another ALEC All-star graduate embedding literacy and numeracy into building and painting in the prison system
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