Category: learning plans

How To Hack Reading Comprehension: 18 Assessment Items for Teachers

Nov 4, 2021

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Graeme Smith

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Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Step-By-Step Guide Hack Reading & Listening Comprehension So You Can Check If People Really Understand What the Hell It Is You’re Saying © 2021 Graeme Smith
How To Check Understanding: The Secret Step-By-Step Guide To Hacking Reading and Listening Comprehension in 18 Achievable Ways for Course Writers

Oct 30, 2021

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Graeme Smith

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How To Check Understanding: The Secret Step-By-Step Guide To Hacking Reading and Listening Comprehension for Course Writers
How can I use Zoom for teaching online during the lockdown but make it more interactive? 9 instantly achievable ideas

Apr 16, 2020

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Graeme Smith

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Have you been wondering how you can use Zoom for teaching during the lockdown? So have I. Here are some of the things that I’ve used that work.
Tapatoru – The Foundation Learning Professional Standards Framework

Nov 30, 2018

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Graeme Smith

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Tapatoru framework for Foundation Learning This has been a long time coming… However, I’m very pleased to share the new Tapatoru framework with you. I’ve been working on this for the Tertiary Education Commission and Ako Aotearoa since August 2018. This framework is for you if you work with learners, workers or clients who need…
TEACH: Learning outcomes revisited – Units & Estimation

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…
How do you really start using data from the TEC assessment tool to inform your teaching? Part 1

Mar 12, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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This is going to be a big deal… We are at the start of a more data-driven approach to education. The TEC are several years down this track with their Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. The tool generates massive amounts of data about learners’ literacy and numeracy achievement levels. The TEC already uses this data…