Category: Facilitator

TEACH: Learning outcomes revisited – Reading

Jun 8, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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We’re in the process of trying to design an online Learning Outcomes configurator. You’ll be able to select all of these options from drop-down menus and create the learning outcomes you want to embed the literacy and numeracy that your learners need into your own context. Until this is online, here’s the manual version. Instructions…
TEACH: Learning outcomes revisited – Vocabulary

Jun 8, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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We’re in the process of trying to design an online Learning Outcomes configurator. You’ll be able to select all of these options from drop-down menus and create the learning outcomes you want to embed the literacy and numeracy that your learners need into your own context. Until this is online, here’s the manual version. Instructions…
TEACH – How do I know whether I need to change my learning outcomes?

Jun 8, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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How do I know when to change my embedded LN learning outcomes? It’s better for all of us if you can just stick with the learning outcomes that you designed in Assessment 4 and then used to create your contextualised diagnostics in Assessment 5. However, there are some scenarios when you might want to make…
TEACH – How do I plan my embedded literacy and numeracy teaching?

Jun 8, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s an overview of what we’re going to work through next. You’ll need to take each of these into account as you plan your embedded literacy and numeracy teaching. As a good teacher or trainer, you might already do a lot of this in your head. But for our purposes, we’re going to make it…
How to not suck at powerpoint, keynote or any slideshow? Follow this 1 rule

Jul 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Fight against documents pretending to be powerpoint slides This is a personal peeve of mine… And I know I’m guilty of breaking this rule. However, I see such badly put together slideshows sometimes that I feel I have to take a public stand. And this is especially the case because I work in education, and…
How can we open source our training and still make money working in education?

Jul 22, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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It’s a good question… and one that is constantly in my mind as the owner of a small niche education business in a very small country. I’m not sure I’ve got the answer, but this is how I see the way forward at the moment. What I’m describing below is a process that for us…
NZDipALN: Module 1 Content – The Educator as Facilitator

Apr 14, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The educator as facilitator What do we mean by the educator as facilitator? One of the characteristics of adult education is the idea of the teacher as learning facilitator. This means that as educators we need to go beyond traditional transactional ideas of teaching and learning and look to other models, such as the reciprocal…