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Numeracy For ESOL Teachers: You Might Not Even Realise You’re Doing It

Nov 10, 2015

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This might seem like a challenge. But it’s not. The real challenge is to think about what ESOL teachers already do through a different lens. If you teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) or have Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) learners you might be surprised to realise that you are possibly already embedding numeracy…

Cashflow 101 Experiment – Part 3: Developing a Contextualised Numeracy Assessment

Sep 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Feel free to skip this one as well. This is an outline of how I developed the numeracy diagnostic I’m using in my experiment with the Cashflow 101 game. The vocabulary diagnostic is here from the other day. To play the game, you have to maintain a balance sheet. Like the one in the image above.…

Cashflow 101 Experiment – Part 2: Developing a vocabulary assessment

Sep 18, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Feel free to skip this one… It’s a bit on the technical side. But I wanted to document how I developed a couple of targeted diagnostic assessments. These relate to my Cashflow 101 experiment that I’m running at the moment. This one relates to the vocabulary used in the game. I’ll do a separate post on…

Sign up to Pathways Awarua now…!

Jul 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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One of the best kept secrets in tertiary training in New Zealand is Pathways Awarua. It’s not really a secret, but up until recently, this has only been available to tutors and trainers. From now, however, this great suite of teaching and learning tools is available to everyone. Well, to Kiwis anyway. Check out the cool…

Using the TEC Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool for Adults: Video Content

Mar 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Using the TEC Assessment Tool The video below should cycle through the four videos discussing the TEC assessment tool. These are: Administering the initial assessment Administering the progress assessment Discussing the assessment tool results with learners Learners’ messages about good practice and the assessment tool. In our live workshops we usually only get time to…

How do you really start using data from the TEC assessment tool to inform your teaching? Part 2

Mar 12, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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In my last post, I outlined a process for analysing the content of the Learner Reports generated by the TEC Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. The reason for this is that I think that tutors should be using the data that they have access to to help them make better decisions about what…

How do you really start using data from the TEC assessment tool to inform your teaching? Part 1

Mar 12, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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This is going to be a big deal… We are at the start of a more data-driven approach to education. The TEC are several years down this track with their Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. The tool generates massive amounts of data about learners’ literacy and numeracy achievement levels. The TEC already uses this data…

How to deliver a presentation… for your NCALNE (Voc) professional development

Nov 13, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Delivering a short presentation is part of the coursework requirements if you are completing the NCALNE (Voc) training and you’ve been part of one of our groups around the country. From 2015 it will also be something that all our distance and online students will need to do and upload to Pathways Awarua. Read this…

How do I get started on Assessment 5 of the NCALNE (Voc) and demonstrating that I’m actually embedding literacy and numeracy into my training?

Nov 5, 2014

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If you’re up to this stage, you’re actually about, or even over, half way. This section is a big chunk… but it’s also the teaching component of the qualification. Basically, after having mapped the literacy and numeracy demands, and diagnosed your learners literacy and numeracy needs, you actually need to get out there and do some…

How do I get started measuring learner literacy and numeracy progress for Assessment 6 for the NCALNE (Voc)?

Nov 5, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Actually, if you’re at this stage you’ve really done most of the “heavy lifting” that I’ve referred to elsewhere in terms of producing evidence for this qualification. This particular assessment task is about figuring out whether you’ve seen any progress in terms of your learners literacy and numeracy skills, or at least the narrow selection of…

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