Category: Literacy indicators
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Why Don’t Half of Kids with NCEA Level 1 Meet Literacy and Numeracy Benchmarks?
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in Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCEA, Numeracy, Uncategorized, Unit StandardsI’m not going to answer the question. But you might want to read below if you have your own ideas. I want to talk about a presentation that did the rounds today. If you click this link below, you’ll be able to download the slides. It’s on literacy and numeracy levels in relation to NCEA…
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Submissions open for workshops and presentations for the National Centre Symposium 2016
Submissions are open until 20 May if you are thinking of presenting a workshop or conference paper at the Literacy and Numeracy Symposium this year. With the demise of ALPA, this is essentially our industry conference for adult literacy and numeracy education in New Zealand. We’ll be there and hopefully presenting in a couple of…
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How Do I Give My Feedback On The New Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education Unit Standards?
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in ALNE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Embed literacy and numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low literacy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, National Qualifications, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NDipALNE, Not Literacy, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALNE, NZQA, Pacific Literacy Initiatives, Qualification, Qualifications, UncategorizedIf you are involved in foundation focused tertiary education in New Zealand, we need you to give us your feedback on the new Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) unit standards. These new unit standards replace US21204 and many other unit standards used for the NCALNE (Voc) and related qualifications. From my side, I’m biased……
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What Do The New Standards For Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education Look Like?
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in Adult Learning, ALNE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Embed literacy and numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low literacy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NDipALNE, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALNE, NZQA, Pacific Literacy Initiatives, TRoQ, UncategorizedI’m glad you asked… There are 11 new unit standards in draft stage at the moment. I’m particularly interested in four of these (and you should be too if you’re involved in foundation education). The four below will form the basis for assessment against the revised NZCALNE (Voc) qualification. Unit 1: Describe adult literacy and numeracy education…
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How do I get started on Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment – and Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc)
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, ALEC, Assessment, Assessment 4, Assessment Tool, Blog, Box and Whisker, Complete NCALNE, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Graeme Smith, Improve teaching practice, Knowing the demands, Knowing the learner, Knowing what to do, Learning, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, New Zealand, NZCALNE, Observation, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Reading, Reading comprehension, TEC, VocabularyIf 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…
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How do I get started on Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc) including Mapping with the Learning Progressions?
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, ALEC, Assessment 3, Blog, Complete NCALNE, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Graeme Smith, Improve teaching practice, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, MOOC, MOOC 2.0, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, New Zealand, New Zealand Context, NZCALNE, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, QualificationsIf 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…
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Group Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking
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in 2.0, 2015, 21204, Activities, ALEC, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Listening, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, SpeakingThis post carries on my collection of a few different diagnostic assessment tools for use with learners with literacy and numeracy issues. So far I’ve looked at: A basic, but fairly broad numeracy diagnostic assessment. Creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank to help you do this. A learner observation checklist for…
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Learner Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking Skills
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in Diagnostic, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Learning Progressions, Listening, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, make better, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, QualificationsThe 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…
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How to get started embedding vocabulary into your training by creating a word bank
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, ALEC, Complete NCALNE, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, embedded, embedding, Finish NCALNE, Graeme Smith, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, Lean literacy, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Map the literacy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Personal development, Professional Development, Reading, Reading comprehension, Resources, Spelling, VocabularyVocabulary rocks…! If you’re going to focus on just one thing when it comes to embedding literacy into your trades or vocational training it has to be vocabulary. Vocabulary runs through all of the literacy progressions and it’s probably the best bang for your buck in terms of time spent embedding anything on the literacy side of…
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The scariest thing I’ve read all year about literacy and numeracy provision and funding…
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in 2015, 21204, ALEC, Customer Service, Design, Economy, Education, Education delivery model, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZ, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, PhD, Qualifications, TECThere’s not much that catches me off guard these days. However, this did. I’ve posted in a section of it below. You need to go to here to get the rest. McDonell: I’m going to be asking you questions pertaining to two different but related areas. The first is to gain clarifications regarding your organisations’ definition…