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Category: Improve teaching practice

Want to help your kids with reading?

Sep 20, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, learner, Learners, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Online learning, Read, Read better, Reading, Reading comprehension, Reading Comprehension Strategies, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized

My friend James is developing free resources for parents to help kids with reading. There’s video tutorials, PDF downloads, comprehension questions, and all kinds of stuff. This is very cool Kiwi content that you should support. You can also watch and listen to James reading the stories out loud. You can have a look at…
50 Things You Can Do To Embed Vocabulary Into Training

Apr 27, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, embedded, embedding, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, teach, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized, Vocab, Vocabulary

There are lots of ways to teach and learn new and unfamiliar words. Here’s a list of 50. None of these are new or any kind of rocket science. All 50 are ways of explicitly teaching vocabulary. It’s also possible to learn vocabulary through exposure to new vocabulary incidentally. But that’s another thing altogether. For…
When I become a teacher…

Apr 22, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Should we teach, teach, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized
How do you feel about data-driven decision making in education?

Jan 28, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Our education system is built around outcomes. This is a good thing. Here’s how it works in a nutshell: You work out what kind of outcome you want to see, hopefully check to see what your learners already know and can do, you might find or develop some resources, then you do some teaching, your…
Using teaching strategies (also known as instructional strategies) with embedded literacy and numeracy teaching

Nov 10, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Sometimes people in the education world talk about using teaching strategies… or in slightly fancier language, instructional strategies. This terminology can be confusing for a couple of reasons. One is that if you google the terms (most people’s first port of call these days), you’re likely to find everything from cooperative learning to discussion-based activities…
How to learn anything: Part 1

Nov 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 2.0, Adult, ALEC, comprehension, Education, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, Learn anything, learner, Learners, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Personal approach, Personal development, Professional Development, progress, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, Self development, Technology, Theory

Let’s face it. Learning stuff can be hard. It’s not easy to go through a new learning curve for new content that you need for work, study, or even just for a hobby. However, what if it was possible for you to learn anything? Find an expert right? Get a teacher or a tutor? Join…
How do I get started on Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment – and Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc)

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re like a lot of people doing the NCALNE (Voc) literacy and numeracy professional development, you realise there’s a bit of what I call “heavy lifting” to do when you get to this stage. This not because literacy and numeracy diagnostic assessment is any harder than any other part (well… it might be), but the main…
How do I get started on Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc) including Mapping with the Learning Progressions?

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you need a hand getting cracking on your Assessment 3, which involves doing an analysis of the literacy and numeracy demands of your course, there are several resources online that might be useful: If you haven’t seen it already, all of our course content is now online in interactive modules as part of the Pathways Awarua…
Learner Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking Skills

Nov 1, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The other day I posted my versions of the some tools to use with learners for numeracy diagnostic assessment. I’ve also written before about creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank. This post continues along the same line, but with a learner observation checklist for listening and speaking skills. This is…
Numeracy diagnostic questions: Before there was the Assessment Tool there was this…

Oct 31, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Before the assessment tool we had this handy set of questions (see the Youtube clip below). You can still use it and it works great…! Just click below to watch it as a movie with 5 sec intervals between questions. No audio on this one. If you use it with your learners just read the…

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