Category: How do you

New Fiction: Te Kererū, Book 2 – Shaking the Nest is out…!

Jul 2, 2020

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Graeme Smith

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Are you looking for some new fiction to read? Wanna read some new New Zealand Literature? Check out Te Kererū by SG Smith After much editing, Book 2 in SG Smith’s Te Kererū series is finally out…! This is the second instalment and it’s about another 100 pages with more of Kate’s adventures. If you…
How do you grow your Twitter to 1K following with gusto?

Mar 20, 2020

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Graeme Smith

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How do I grow my Twitter following? What is the best scheduling app to use? Read on for the answers as well as some free stuff you can use to get started or improve what you do on Twitter
How do you write an essay?

Jan 22, 2020

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Graeme Smith

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Writing essays is nearly always a painful process. And that’s aside from the fact that programmes of study that require essay writing don’t seem to deliver the same return on investment that they used to. The flip side is that learning to write is really a great way to learn how to think. This is…
How can I use Twitter to grow my audience and sell stuff?

Aug 24, 2019

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Graeme Smith

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Since I’ve widened my scope in my writing including here on this blog, I’ve really been digging into Twitter. Facebook, I generally despise. Although, I keep using it to stay in touch with a few friends and family who don’t use anything else. Instagram, I do like. But I kinda have a love/hate relationship with…
TEACH: How should I plan my teaching sessions and activities?

Jun 9, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Every teacher, trainer or tutor involved in foundation education needs to plan ways they can meet their learners’ literacy and numeracy needs within the constraints of the limited amounts of time they have together. Planning happens in lots of different ways. Let’s have a look at a few different ways that tutors actually manage their…
Tuakana-teina: What is it? 4 Different Ways You Can Use It Positively In Education in New Zealand

Mar 6, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Tuakana-teina refers to the relationship between an older person (tuakana) and a younger person (teina). It is specific to teaching and learning in the context of Māori. In a more traditional Māori setting, the meaning is literally “older sibling-younger sibling”.
How do you really start using data from the TEC assessment tool to inform your teaching? Part 2

Mar 12, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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In my last post, I outlined a process for analysing the content of the Learner Reports generated by the TEC Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. The reason for this is that I think that tutors should be using the data that they have access to to help them make better decisions about what…
How do you improve maths and numeracy learning? Ask these four questions

Nov 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Ace maths and numeracy blogger Damon Whitten has written a couple of great posts here and here recently on how things you can do to improve maths learning for kids. I think his suggestions apply to adults as well. It’s super simple and boils down to this – ask the following four questions: “What did…