Category: NCALNE
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How can I register as an educator on Pathways Awarua so I can access the NCALNE (Voc) professional development for free?
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in ALEC, Assessment, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Mastery, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, Numeracy, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Professional Development, Qualifications, TechnologyGood question… I’m glad you asked… You can sign up for free to access all of the content and some of the assessments for the National Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace). This qualification, otherwise known as the NCALNE (Voc) will soon be the compulsory minimum standard for anyone delivering training at levels…
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Dealing with tutor churn in tertiary organisations: What we need is new business models…
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in ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Business model generation, Collaboration, Design, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Leadership, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, MOOC, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal approach, Personal development, Professional Development, QMS, Qualifications, Self development, Teaching philosophy, Technology, workColleague and fellow education blogger Damon Whitten posted a great analysis of what is possibly one of the key issues facing foundation level tertiary education: the churn factor. I wrote a brief summary here. In short, lots of tutors leave their jobs (and possibly their teaching careers) before they have a chance to really come to grips with…
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How do I make writing learning outcomes accessible to vocational and trades tutors? FRAME => TARGET => CONTEXTUALISE
This question has been plaguing me for several years. The heart of the NCALNE (Voc) relates to the teaching practice that trades and vocational tutors have to do. For this assessment, the tutors need to have a go at creating and delivering some embedded literacy and numeracy training. This assessment has diagnostic and formative assessment…
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A format for designing activities for your embedded literacy learning outcomes
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in 2015, 21204, ALEC, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, NCALNE, Pathways Awarua, Professional Development, Qualifications, UncategorizedThis post extends my previous one on how to write embedded literacy learning outcomes. Once you’ve come up with a really clear and narrowly focused learning outcome for your literacy intervention, you need to design or adapt some teaching and learning activities to go with it. For example, you might have come up with something like…
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Writing Embedded Literacy Learning Outcomes
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in 2015, 21204, ALEC, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Pathways Awarua, Professional Development, Qualifications, UncategorizedThis is the next iteration of my ideas on how to write embedded literacy and numeracy learning outcomes. I’ve tried to simply the process as it tends to come across as more complicated than it needs to. What I’ve written here updates my Youtube clip on this. I’ll re-record it at some stage soon. What…
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Revisiting Literacy and Numeracy Focused Individual learning Plans (ILPs): Part 2 – New Format You can Download
I’ve been revising the learning plan template that we use with tutors in our NCALNE (Voc) training… Due to the process involved in getting our course online via Pathways Awarua, I’ve made changes to the process and the information that we want tutors to collect. My first attempt at revising this is here along with…
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Revisiting Literacy and Numeracy Focused Individual Learning Plans (ILPs): Part 1 – Tweaking the Format
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in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, Professional Development, QualificationsI’ve been revising my ideas for individual learning plans (ILPs) based on several things: The work I’ve done recently on the online version of our NCALNE (Voc) in Pathways Awarua which updates older templates that I had created; and The need to more closely align learning plans with the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy; plus Some…
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Using the online vocab profiler – Part 5 (Sample you can download)
Here’s the last part… You can review how I put together my new vocabulary diagnostic via these links or just read through below and download the sample if you want to modify it. My outline is here. The initial results from the vocabulary profiling software are here. The way that I generated some useable word lists is…
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Using the online vocab profiler – Part 4
Generating assessment items for my vocabulary diagnostic I started on this earlier My outline is here. And the initial results from the profiling software are here. And the way that I generated some useable word lists is here. What follows below is an outline of my final selection of words and the sample sentences that I used. Everyday…
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Using the online vocab profiler – Part 3
So I’m working on a new vocabulary diagnostic and I want to model the process as well as the actual template… There’s an outline of what I started on here. And the initial results from the profiling software here. The next thing is to come up with a bank of words that I can use…