Category: Low literacy levels

NCALNE Lite: Now Available Free on PathwaysAwarua.com

Jul 2, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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The new NCALNE Lite programme by ALEC is now available free on www.PathwaysAwarua.com. This interactive online professional development pathway is for tutors and trainers delivering trades or vocational training at levels 1 – 3 on the NZQA framework. For tutors: this is the way that you will significantly shift your professional practice towards a practical approach…
Embedding literacy and numeracy: What’s on your radar?

Jun 19, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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What’s on your radar? If you are a trades tutor or involved with vocational training, you need to have literacy and numeracy on your radar. Good tutors and trainers have always embedded the literacy and numeracy that their learners need. However, this usually happens in what I call stealth mode. It’s hard to identify the…
Embedding literacy and numeracy: The funnel of context

Jun 19, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Sometimes, it’s too easy to just jump straight into the fun stuff. When you’re enthusiastic about using a new resource or teaching activity or you’re just coming to grips with this whole embedding literacy and numeracy thing you might be tempted to just jump into the deep water without thinking things through. This approach does…
Embedding literacy and numeracy: What’s your plan?

Jun 16, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Here’a another one from the Literacy Numeracy Pro infinite content generation engine… It’s important to have a plan. If you are a trades trainer or vocational tutor you need to have a plan on how you’re going to deal with the literacy and numeracy needs of your learners. Why? Well… because the same stuff that…
What are some of the indicators of low literacy and numeracy? How can you recognise low literacy and numeracy as a “non expert”?

Jun 11, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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You don’t have to be a literacy or numeracy “expert” to recognise some of the indicators for low literacy and numeracy in your clients or workforce. If you work with people who have low levels of literacy and numeracy they may be highly intelligent and will often have coping or avoidance strategies to avoid drawing…
NCALNE (Voc) YouTube Channel

May 20, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Just to let you know I’ve uploaded 180+mins of video content to Youtube covering the basics of NCALNE (Voc) training in a series of about 35 mini-lectures. These use the same slides and korero that I use when I’m delivering these live (just without the interactive discussions of course). These are available free with no…
New Zealand Context for Literacy and Numeracy – NCALNE (Voc) Section 1

May 16, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s the revised playlist for Section 1 of the NCALNE (Voc) on the New Zealand context for literacy and numeracy including details on the assessment tasks required. See your ALEC NCALNE (Voc) Assessment Guide and Study Guide for further details on templates and examples.
New Zealand Context for Adult Literacy & Numeracy – NCALNE (Voc) Task 1

Apr 24, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s some video content that I created earlier for Task 1 of the NCALNE (Voc). I’ll redo this at some stage, but for now:
Coaching emails for Task 1 of the NCALNE (Voc)

Feb 17, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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A few people have asked me to write coaching emails to guide people through the various parts of our training. This is particularly relevant for participants who are working by distance. I’ve been putting this off for a while, but it’s a great idea. Here’s the first draft/batch… these relate to writing the 1500 word…
Developing Writing Skills: Purpose and Audience

Jan 21, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, NCALNE, Resources, Uncategorized, Writing

Here’s a set of questions that I might use as a generic pre and post activity for a portion of my proposed Writing Workshop that I’ve been thinking about. I want to have various interchangeable parts that tutors can put together, so this is one attempt at constructing a set of questions that learners…