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

Sep 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Assess, Assessment, Cashflow 101, Diagnostic, Education, embedded, embedding, Fagmify, Financial, Game, gamification, Literacy, Numeracy, Poor Dad, Rich Dad

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

in Assessment, Cashflow 101, Diagnostic, Experiment, Financial literacy, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, Vocabulary, vocational

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…
Embedding Literacy & Numeracy Case Study: Cashflow 101 – Part 1

Sep 15, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I’m trying an experiment. I own this game above. It’s kinda cool… like monopoly on steroids. It teaches principles of investing and financial literacy. Numeracy, in other words. Anyway, I’m going to use it as a case study. I want to apply the embedded literacy and numeracy process that we teach in our professional development to…
What to do if your adult learners have dyslexia

Mar 24, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 2015, 21204, Adult, Adults, Diagnosing, Diagnostic, Dyslexia, Dyslexic

This is another issue that comes up from time to time in our training. Effectively diagnosing and working with dyslexia falls outside of the narrow range of skills that we tend to focus on with our literacy and numeracy professional development and training with trades and vocational tutors. However, it does come up in discussions with…
Learner Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking Skills

Nov 1, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The other day I posted my versions of the some tools to use with learners for numeracy diagnostic assessment. I’ve also written before about creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank. This post continues along the same line, but with a learner observation checklist for listening and speaking skills. This is…
Numeracy diagnostic questions: Before there was the Assessment Tool there was this…

Oct 31, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Before the assessment tool we had this handy set of questions (see the Youtube clip below). You can still use it and it works great…! Just click below to watch it as a movie with 5 sec intervals between questions. No audio on this one. If you use it with your learners just read the…
Printable learner attitude questions for reading and maths for adult literacy and numeracy learners

Oct 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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There are some great resources in the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Unfortunately, many of them are simply buried. Here’s my variations on a couple of things that I think are really useful: Learner attitude survey questions for Maths and Reading. Just click the links below to open them as printable PDFs. The images below…
How do you develop embedded numeracy learning outcomes that are relevant to trades tutors?

Oct 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Recently, we did some work around developing learning outcomes with group that had a lot of painters and plasterers in it. This is a summary of my notes relating to how, as a group, we developed a draft learning outcome for an embedded approach to some very specific numeracy skills around measurement and area. We…
Churn: Dealing with the chronic turnover of tutors and trainers in the education sector

Aug 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The tutors are revolting…! Well.. they’re not actually revolting, but they do keep leaving. This is a major problem for the tertiary education sector including private and public. Maths and education blogger Damon Whitten has absolutely nailed this issue in his most recent post. Here’s the skinny: There are some great things happening in the entry levels…
NZDipALN Module 1 Content – Anxiety Caused by Learning including Maths Anxiety

Apr 14, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Anxiety caused by learning What is stress or anxiety caused by learning? For many of our learners, and perhaps for us as well, learning often causes stress and anxiety. This anxiety can get in the way of learning. The anxiety that many adult learners feel is rooted in fear. This could include: The fear of…

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