Category: Embedding numeracy
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AFTER: Just do it…! Assessing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress
Reusing your contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments Ok…! You should be set up for this already. Now is the time for you to go ahead and assess your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress. For most people, this means simply reusing your contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments from Assessment 5. This means that it’s more of…
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AFTER – Kia ora and welcome to Collection 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)
Kia ora and welcome back once again…! This is the final collection and you’ll complete your last assessment task. Let’s do a quick review and then get on with finishing everything off. Here’s an updated outline of what you’ve learned and done so far. Collection 1 – CONTEXT: We learned about definitions, frameworks and factors…
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Online Configurator for Embedded Learning Outcomes
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in Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Learning Outcomes, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Read, Read better, Reading, Reading comprehension, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Uncategorized, Vocab, VocabularyThis is an experiment and it’s far from perfect… But tell me what you think in the comments. I’ve designed an online configurator to help you write embedded learning outcomes. There are two versions of it below. The first deals with the reading strand of the Learning Progressions. The second is much more specific and deals…
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What’s the big picture for embedding literacy and numeracy via the new NZCALNE (Voc)?
What’s the big picture? Here’s the big picture for embedding literacy and numeracy and an update on our work at ALEC. This is the big picture for our revised embedding process and pipeline. And it’s the big picture for the new NZCALNE (Voc) training and qualification that we’re feverishly working on. New content for Collections…
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Numeracy Strategies: 3 More Useful Examples
Numeracy strategies for vocational tutors Here are some more examples of numeracy strategies developed by tutors for embedding numeracy into their programmes. These are the kind of concise summaries that you’ll also need to write for your assessment if you’re doing the NZCALNE (Voc). Don’t forget, for assessment purposes for this course, you only need…
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What’s causing the problem? Thinking deeper and taking notes
By now you should have had some time to think about what’s causing the problem of low adult literacy and numeracy? Or at least, you’ve had some time to think about the factors that we associate with low literacy and numeracy levels. Here’s what we’ve covered: The impact of colonisation Socio-economic factors Cycles of poverty…
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What’s the problem? Technology
The impact of technology and the accelerating technological change is one of the themes that often comes up in discussions about why we face literacy and numeracy problems in the 21st century. The relentless march of technology and increasing technological complexity mean that the demands of work and life have changed significantly in recent years…
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The Devastating Effect of Low adult literacy and numeracy levels: What’s causing the problem?
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The problem of low adult literacy and numeracy in Aotearoa I have an updated post about this here. It’s difficult to say exactly what is causing the problem of low adult literacy and numeracy in Aotearoa New Zealand. What we can say though is that low adult literacy and numeracy skills are associated with certain…
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Under the hood: Taking notes on the five frameworks
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in Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Framework, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach betterAs with the definitions, it’s a good idea to pause here and think about what we’ve covered so far. You need to know about each of these frameworks and how they apply to you as a teacher or trainer: Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy Learning Progressions for Adult Numeracy Te Whare Tapa Whā Fonofale Pasifika…
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Under the hood: Learning progressions for adult numeracy
The Learning Progressions for Adult Numeracy are part two of the Learning Progressions framework. We use the numeracy progressions to help us understand how to embed numeracy. Part one is the Literacy Progressions discussed in the last section. Where does it come from? The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). What’s it for? The numeracy progressions are…