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And don’t make assumptions about your students either…!

Aug 7, 2015

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This great clip courtesy of one our completing NCALNE students today as part of his wrap up… The point is that we shouldn’t make assumptions about our learners (even though we usually do…). There’s lots of benefits that come from completing the literacy and numeracy professional development that we offer through ALEC and Pathways Awarua. Realising that you…

Literacy & Numeracy Jobs Wanted: Setting Up LN Job Board

Jul 22, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Are you looking for staff with literacy and numeracy expertise and credentials? If you have a literacy and numeracy related job to advertise, I will post it here for free. The same thing applies if you are looking for a contractor or consulting expertise relating to adult literacy and numeracy. At the moment, I am only…

Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) Job Board: Anyone interested…?

Jul 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I’m thinking of adding a Job Board to my blog. Or alternatively, I might set up another site just to deal with this if it got a lot of traffic. There aren’t that many jobs relating to literacy and numeracy and foundation learning, but then again the pool of talent is quite small as well. Job…

Pathways Awarua is for educators: Share this video with someone today…!

Jul 15, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Pathways Awarua is a great free resource for learners and educators. Do you know someone that could benefit from improving their reading and maths? There’s a short video here explaining how they can use this free resource. Are you an educator or do you know someone who is? If your answer is yes, you need to watch…

Sign up to Pathways Awarua now…!

Jul 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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One of the best kept secrets in tertiary training in New Zealand is Pathways Awarua. It’s not really a secret, but up until recently, this has only been available to tutors and trainers. From now, however, this great suite of teaching and learning tools is available to everyone. Well, to Kiwis anyway. Check out the cool…

Literacy is important…

Jun 9, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Uh… that’s all. Nothing further Your Honour…

Four Things I Learned About Education Working With The Army

Apr 21, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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A few years ago I had the privilege of working with members of the NZ Army and NZ Defence Forces education team. It was lots of fun being on base and I learned a bunch of things that have really stuck with me over time. I’m generalising here, so you’ll have to allow me a bit…

Improve your literacy and numeracy outcomes by thinking more like an entrepreneur

Apr 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s my draft abstract for the literacy and numeracy conference later in the year. Tell me what you think or what you’d be most interested in hearing or discussing with this as the general theme (assuming it’s accepted). Literacy and numeracy is a tough business to work in due to the increasing demands of… well,…

How do you survive as a teacher or tutor in a rapidly changing education landscape?

Apr 1, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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So… what to do about it? If you’re like me you probably think a lot about what you need to do to survive and hopefully thrive in a rapidly changing educational landscape. Or if you don’t think about it you should… You can hide for a while from the massive changes ahead for work, education, and…

How do you improve your elevator pitch if you work in an obscure education niche…?

Mar 31, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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In my field, one of the things that we’re crap at is explaining to people in plain English what it is that we actually do. Not only is that ironic, but we tend to undermine our actual work with longwinded explanations that turn us into hypocrites. Here’s my solution. If you work in foundation education, or…

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