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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 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…
Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now

Jan 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…
How do I get started on Assessment 5 of the NCALNE (Voc) and demonstrating that I’m actually embedding literacy and numeracy into my training?

Nov 5, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re up to this stage, you’re actually about, or even over, half way. This section is a big chunk… but it’s also the teaching component of the qualification. Basically, after having mapped the literacy and numeracy demands, and diagnosed your learners literacy and numeracy needs, you actually need to get out there and do some…
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…