Category: Learning Progressions
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Demands: Thinking deeper about your big picture numeracy demands
Time to do some work Let’s pause here again. Here’s what you need to do next: Download the worksheet for numeracy, or use the chart below to get started on mapping the big picture numeracy demands for your situation. As you did for literacy, say what each numeracy progression is in plain English and then…
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Demands: Understanding what the numeracy progressions are…
What are the big picture numeracy demands? By identifying the most important literacy progressions for your own teaching situation, you’ve started to map the big picture demands. Now we need to do the same thing for numeracy. By the end of this module, you should have some ideas about: Which numeracy strands are relevant for…
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Te Whare Tapa Whā – 4 Dimensions That Will Influence Your Teaching in a Super Positive Way
Te whare tapa wha What is it? How do you use it?
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Plain English Definitions for the Numeracy Progressions
In my reductionist quest to make things in education more accessible, I’ve started revising the definitions we use. The reason for this is that they get in the way a lot of the time. And this is because they are too hard to understand. Or not explained well. Or used as a kind of mental…
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Plain English Definitions for the Literacy Progressions
I’ve started writing new course content for the new NZCALNE (Voc) – the latest version of our course. I want to revise the definitions that we use to talk about the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The terminology is confusing for most people. And some of the existing definitions are not very helpful…
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Where do I find the full versions of the Learning Progressions?
The TEC have decided that they will not print any more copies of the Learning Progressions resources. Nor do they have any plans to print them again. Rather these are available online only now, and you can just use them as electronic documents or you can print them out yourself. You can download the main books…