Category: ELN Tutor
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Shift Happens: How to get embedded literacy and numeracy out of stealth mode
I love this slide… I use it when we kick off the training we deliver around embedded literacy and numeracy. I also use it at the end of our training when I wrap things up. For me it really summarises what happens when people engage with the content and concepts. We get to work with…
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Metaphors to train by…
Being a literacy kind of guy, I really like metaphors. I was thinking about this recently, and I realised that there are a whole bunch of metaphors that I constantly use and refer to. I just haven’t really made them explicit with my learners. However, I did today. These metaphors work for me with the…
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Setting the scene for tutor professional development with managers and others
How do you convince managers and others of the value of professional development for possibly resistant staff? This is especially an issue for us when dealing with something that sounds inherently mysterious and difficult, i.e. embedding literacy and numeracy. Here’s part of the approach I’m planning for this year as I get ready for a…
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The Educator’s Journey Revisited
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I’ve written previously about the Educator’s Journey here and here and here. This is a shorter more visual version of essentially the same thing. This version is influenced by Robert Green’s new book Mastery which I’ve just started listening to. We see this progression in basic terms when we deliver our NCALNE (Voc) professional development. Our…
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Writing Skills Workshop: Improving Literacy Learners’ Writing Skills
Another project that is on my mind for this year is a writing workshop for dealing with common kinds of writing texts and issues that learners face. Here’s the basic idea: Employ a structure that teaches a specific approach to writing Planning: Using free writing and mindmaps and other tools to generate ideas for writing; Organising…
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Tutoropoly: A Board Game to Transform Your Teaching
You and your colleagues are highly skilled members of an expert teaching team waging a battle against low literacy and numeracy levels in a context of low productivity, historical educational failure and increasing technological complexity. Your team will work across organisations, inside classrooms, and directly with learners to stem the rising tide of poor educational…
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Pandemic: Cooperative Board Game Analogue
If you’re following my post about the cooperative board game I want to create to teach principles of adult teaching and learning with a focus on embedding literacy and numeracy, you’ll remember that I mentioned another board game that I’m using as my model. It’s called Pandemic. You can order it from Amazon or read…
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NCALNE (Voc) with ALEC and Graeme Smith in 2013
Kia ora, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year I’ve been on leave for the last couple of weeks so only just back in my office clearing emails now and catching up with admin work. If you are interested in NCALNE (Voc) training for 2013 get in touch with me as soon as you can as…
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Improving your teaching practice: What do you do next?
Since you’ve started down this path with embedding literacy and numeracy you might be wondering what you need to do next. The answer is simple. But it’s not simplistic.