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New TEC Publication: Adult Literacy & Numeracy: An Overview of the Evidence

Feb 10, 2014

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The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) have released a new summary of the available evidence on adult literacy and numeracy. It’s kind of a meta-review – a summary of a lot of other literature reviews, but it’s quite brief and worth a look if you’re interested in this kind of thing. They’re not going to print…
Literacy Numeracy Pro: Naked Tape in Action – XXX Rated

Dec 11, 2013

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One of the coolest things we did this year was design our own branded packaging tape. We just happened to turn it into a teaching resource as well. We call it the Naked Measuring Tape. It’s basically, a measuring tape without the numbers. Or if you like, it’s a blank number line that just repeats.…
Yikes…! Mandatory Review of Educator Qualifications including NCALNE (Voc) and Dip ALNE

Dec 11, 2013

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This review has kind of taken me by surprise. I actually disregarded the email from NZQA as it was titled “teacher education review” or something similar. However, NZQA rang me (luckily) to make sure that I attended due to the fact that we deliver the NCALNE (Voc) and we’re looking at delivering the DipALNE next…
Free online Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development Training via Pathways Awarua NCALNE Lite

Nov 18, 2013

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If you teach trades or do vocational training of some kind you need to check out our free NCALNE Lite modules on Pathways Awarua. We’re just finalising the last two modules, which means the whole programme will be online. This is the lite version of the National Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational/workplace) –…
Embedding reading into trades and vocational training

Oct 9, 2013

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Working with my ComCol tutors today… we were looking at unit standard 26624: Read texts with understanding. And we came up with this as a draft template for trying standardise reading comprehension questions for trades-based or vocational training texts that they have to work with anyway. Reading Text Title Read through the text and then…
Creating Quality Assured Trades & Vocational Tutors who Know How to Embed Literacy and Numeracy

Oct 8, 2013

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This post updates other thoughts I’ve had on what the profile of a good tutor should be. Here I’m talking about vocational or trades tutors who have to embed literacy and numeracy into training at levels 1 – 3 on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework (NZQF). Question: How do you spot quality assured tutors who…
But I don’t have any numeracy in my course… Why do I still have to teach and assess it…?

Oct 3, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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This question seems to come up a bit. The answer isn’t entirely straightforward. However, the received wisdom is that it’s all about literacy AND numeracy these days. The idea that you can just focus on literacy alone is something left over a few years back. Numeracy is possibly more important for people’s lives than literacy.…
ALEC Allstars & Corrections Presentation at this year’s Literacy and Numeracy Symposium

Sep 12, 2013

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This might not work on your mobile devices as I think it’s using flash video player, the quality is not terrific, and you can’t see the slides for the presentations… but, here’s the link to our presentation from earlier in the year where our newly minted ALEC graduates stole the show with their awesome work…
NCALNE Lite on Pathways Awarua – Update

Sep 12, 2013

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Just a brief update… Module 4 of our NCALNE Lite online course that we’re writing for the Pathways Awarua suite of online literacy and numeracy resources is now live. I’ve also just finished the draft for module 5 which should be finalised and live within a couple of weeks. That leaves Modules 6 and 7…
Exporting the NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy

Sep 6, 2013

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I’ve been excited about this before… Usually, my elation is crushed by some annoying practical reality of funding or compliance. However, a new set of draft NZQA rules may make it possible for us to export NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy. I think there is a market for it, especially…