Category: NZCALNE

What Do The New Standards For Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education Look Like?

Apr 18, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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I’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…
Do you want to help review the ALNE or ATT unit standards?

Oct 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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The NZQA is inviting expressions of interest to below to the unit standards review panel for the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) and others in similar domains. I’ve pasted in their recent letter below. There are contact emails at the end of the letter ——————– Kia ora tātou In October 2015 the New Zealand…
Embedding Literacy & Numeracy Case Study: Cashflow 101 – Part 1

Sep 15, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I’m trying an experiment. I own this game above. It’s kinda cool… like monopoly on steroids. It teaches principles of investing and financial literacy. Numeracy, in other words. Anyway, I’m going to use it as a case study. I want to apply the embedded literacy and numeracy process that we teach in our professional development to…
NCALNE (Voc) For Managers: Do My Staff Need Literacy & Numeracy Professional Development?

Sep 8, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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If you want to print this out, click here for a PDF version. This is based on the TEC guidelines that I reposted recently. Please forward or send the link to people who need this. Any questions? Hit me up in the comments or you can email us apply@alec.ac.nz
Literacy & Numeracy: Now With Bacon…!

Aug 25, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I had an epiphany recently. I realized that there is something missing from our main product offering. Now I know what that missing something is. It’s bacon.
NCALNE (Voc) => NZCALNE (Voc) Update

Apr 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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For anyone who’s interested in the progress of the replacement qualification for the NCALNE (Voc), my summary of the work to date happening on the NZQA side is below: Towards the end of last year the Teacher Education Governance Group, based on a summary of sector feedback recommended that the NZCALNE (Voc) was submitted for…
How do I get started on Assessment 5 of the NCALNE (Voc) and demonstrating that I’m actually embedding literacy and numeracy into my training?

Nov 5, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re up to this stage, you’re actually about, or even over, half way. This section is a big chunk… but it’s also the teaching component of the qualification. Basically, after having mapped the literacy and numeracy demands, and diagnosed your learners literacy and numeracy needs, you actually need to get out there and do some…
How do I get started on Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment – and Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc)

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If 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…
How do I get started on Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc) including Mapping with the Learning Progressions?

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If 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…
How to get started embedding vocabulary into your training by creating a word bank

Oct 30, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Vocabulary 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…