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Cooking Is The Best Metaphor For Understanding What Actually Happens In Teaching

Sep 8, 2015

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Cooking is the best metaphor for understanding what actually happens in teaching.

4 Reasons Why Working In Education Is Like A Knife Fight (And What I’m Going To Do About It)

Jan 16, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I don’t know why anyone would choose to work in education. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s very rewarding. Not financially, of course. But all that feel good stuff you see in those teacher movies is quite true. Having said that (and let me also say that I am pretty excited about the start of this…

How can we open source our training and still make money working in education?

Jul 22, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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It’s a good question… and one that is constantly in my mind as the owner of a small niche education business in a very small country. I’m not sure I’ve got the answer, but this is how I see the way forward at the moment. What I’m describing below is a process that for us…

Practice and practitioners: How would Bruce Lee do literacy and numeracy?

May 9, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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I’m still thinking about metaphors for training and for literacy numeracy professionals. One that is stuck in my head at the moment is the idea that we are in the business of trying to create and enable practitioners. Here’s a definition from the Wikipedia: A practitioner is someone who engages in an occupation, profession, religion, or way…

11 Terrific Metaphors for Mastery in Teaching & Training (I know what a hammer’s for, but what’s a metaphor?)

May 8, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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I know what a hammer’s for, but what’s a metaphor? Working with trades and vocational tutors a lot of the time, means I need ways of communicating concepts and ideas from the world of literacy and numeracy that are easy to understand and don’t sound overly academic. One of the ways I do this is…

Metaphors to train by…

Feb 4, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Being a literacy kind of guy, I really like metaphors. I was thinking about this recently, and I realised that there are a whole bunch of metaphors that I constantly use and refer to. I just haven’t really made them explicit with my learners. However, I did today. These metaphors work for me with the…

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Cooking Is The Best Metaphor For Understanding What Actually Happens In Teaching

4 Reasons Why Working In Education Is Like A Knife Fight (And What I’m Going To Do About It)

How can we open source our training and still make money working in education?

Practice and practitioners: How would Bruce Lee do literacy and numeracy?

11 Terrific Metaphors for Mastery in Teaching & Training (I know what a hammer’s for, but what’s a metaphor?)

Metaphors to train by…