Category: Education delivery model

What is Learner-Centred? How To Teach 100% Better with a Learner-Centred Approach

Mar 6, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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What is Learner-Centred teaching? Find out more in these two new ebooks by Graeme Smith
Fonofale Pasifika: 6 Essential Factors To Create the Best Chance of Success

Feb 17, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Fonofale Pasifika – what is the fono fale Pasifika?
Do you mind if I chop off your legs?

Apr 6, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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This is one of the problems working in education. We keep trying to cut off people’s legs. Or their heads. What do I mean? Here’s a quick story: A long time ago, in Greek mythology, there was rogue smith and bandit who lived along the way to Athens named Procrustes. He’d lure in guests with the promise…
Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…
Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now

Jan 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…
5 Questions That Will Make You Uncomfortable If You Work In Education

Nov 22, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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It’s an uncomfortable business Working in education is a tricky and often uncomfortable business. Especially if you want to get paid… And if you work in education sometimes even just using words like money and customers make you feel uncomfortable. You’d better click away now if you’re offended already. The “Customer” is not a straightforward matter Still, it…
Using teaching strategies (also known as instructional strategies) with embedded literacy and numeracy teaching

Nov 10, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Sometimes people in the education world talk about using teaching strategies… or in slightly fancier language, instructional strategies. This terminology can be confusing for a couple of reasons. One is that if you google the terms (most people’s first port of call these days), you’re likely to find everything from cooperative learning to discussion-based activities…
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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Graeme Smith

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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 on Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment – and Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc)

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re like a lot of people doing the NCALNE (Voc) literacy and numeracy professional development, you realise there’s a bit of what I call “heavy lifting” to do when you get to this stage. This not because literacy and numeracy diagnostic assessment is any harder than any other part (well… it might be), but the main…
How do I get started on Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc) including Mapping with the Learning Progressions?

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you need a hand getting cracking on your Assessment 3, which involves doing an analysis of the literacy and numeracy demands of your course, there are several resources online that might be useful: If you haven’t seen it already, all of our course content is now online in interactive modules as part of the Pathways Awarua…