Category: Embed numeracy
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NZQA Review of Adult and Tertiary Teaching Qualifications (including NCALNE) Update
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Design, DipALNE, Edtech, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Mandatory review, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZDALN, NZQA, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading comprehensionFor those of you tracking these changes or just interested. The NZQA governance group has just published their first discussion document and minutes. You can access it on the NZQA website here. I’ll post further comments when I’ve had a chance to digest it carefully. However, for now: It looks like the NCALNE (Voc) Qualification…
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New TEC Publication: Adult Literacy & Numeracy: An Overview of the Evidence
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Book review, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, TECThe 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…
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Literacy Numeracy Pro: Naked Tape in Action – XXX Rated
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Department of Corrections, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Naked Measuring Tape, Naked tape, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Numeracy, Personal development, Prison literacy, Professional Development, Qualifications, Resources, UncategorizedOne 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.…
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Yikes…! Mandatory Review of Educator Qualifications including NCALNE (Voc) and Dip ALNE
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, International education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Mandatory review, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZQA, Online learning, Professional Development, QualificationsThis 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…
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LN Related Job Opportunity: SENIOR ADVISER OFFENDER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
There’s a job going with the Department of Corrections… The original advertisement is linked here to SEEK. [Pasted in from here] SENIOR ADVISER OFFENDER EDUCATION AND TRAINING WELLINGTON We wish to appoint an enthusiastic education specialist to help us to support community-based offenders to address lifelong learning barriers and gain recognised qualifications. The Training and…
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Free online Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development Training via Pathways Awarua NCALNE Lite
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Edtech, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Free, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, QualificationsIf 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) –…
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ALEC Good Tutor Guide Part 2
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, Tutor ProfileThis is still a work in progress, but it’s a visual update of my post a few weeks back about the Good Tutor Profile that we’re going to start promoting. We’re trying to address this question: How do you spot quality assured tutors who possess the baseline knowledge and skills required for embedding literacy and…
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Creating Quality Assured Trades & Vocational Tutors who Know How to Embed Literacy and Numeracy
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Education, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, Numeracy, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, Tutor ProfileThis 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…
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ALEC Showcase 2 min pitch: selling our literacy and numeracy infrastructure to the world
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in ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, International education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Jokes, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, workI’m going to a business development thing tonight. I’ve got a 2 min slot to promote my work moving forward. Here’s my draft. Comments welcome…! —————————————————————————————- Kia ora Tatau Graeme Smith here from ALEC. I work in the least funny profession in the world. This is the field of literacy and numeracy professional development. It’s…
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But I don’t have any numeracy in my course… Why do I still have to teach and assess it…?
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low numeracy levels, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, Professional Development, ResourcesThis 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.…