Category: Knowing the demands
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Demands: Writing up your big picture literacy demands
Make sure you keep your notes as you’ll want to refer to them when you write up your answers to the first part of Assessment 3. In your assessment template, in section 3.1 you’ll need to identify the top two overall literacy skill demands for your teaching. Remember, at this stage, we are just interested…
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Demands: Thinking deeper about your big picture literacy demands
Big picture literacy demands: Thinking deeper Hopefully, you’ve started thinking about some of the concepts that we use in the Learning Progressions. Again, don’t worry if some of the terminology is new or seems strange. You are, in many ways, learning a new trade and it’s important to know the names of things. Here’s what we’ve…
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Demands: Understanding what the literacy progressions are…
What are the big picture literacy demands? From here you’ll be working towards completing Assessment 3. In the first part, we look at the big picture demands. By the end, you should have an idea about: Which literacy strands are relevant for your teaching. Which progressions from these strands are relevant. Not everything is going…
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Demands: What and where are the Learning Progressions support material?
There are other support materials that you can access as well. You don’t need these to complete the assessment for this part of the course. But you might want to come back to this material later on. For example, the support materials contain ideas for diagnostic assessment which is part of your Assessment 5. And…
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Demands: What are my resources for mapping? Where are the strand charts?
Your organisation may already have printed copies of the Learning Progressions support materials or strand charts. But there are a couple of other ways that you can access the reference material. The Strand Charts You can download the strand charts here. We’ll provide these download links again later. But if you want them now, you…
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Demands: What are strands, progressions and steps?
As we learned in the first part of this course, the strands are the big content areas. These are the big grids that we’ll use for mapping. Literacy has four strands and numeracy has three. These are as follows: Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy Listen to understand Speak to communicate Read with understanding Write to…
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Demands: Things you need to know about the Learning Progressions
The most important thing here is to know how to use the progressions. We’ll get that shortly. But some background information is also useful. Feel free to skip ahead if you already know it. What do I need to know? The Learning Progressions: Cover both literacy and numeracy. Are a national resource. Can help you…
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Demands: Introducing mapping
If you remember back to the first assessment for the NZCALNE, you’ll recall that we introduced a framework for literacy and numeracy called the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. In these next modules, we look at how you can use the Learning Progressions to analyse your teaching material. What are literacy and numeracy…
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Looking at the big picture: Identifying key literacy and numeracy demands
Getting started the right way So far, what we’ve covered is the basics of what you need to know about your context and approaches. There’s still plenty more to learn and know, but from here the focus is more on things you need to do. We like to start this part of the training with…