Category: Professional Development
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How do I get started on Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment – and Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc)
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, ALEC, Assessment, Assessment 4, Assessment Tool, Blog, Box and Whisker, Complete NCALNE, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Graeme Smith, Improve teaching practice, Knowing the demands, Knowing the learner, Knowing what to do, Learning, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, New Zealand, NZCALNE, Observation, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Reading, Reading comprehension, TEC, VocabularyIf 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…
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How do I get started on Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc) including Mapping with the Learning Progressions?
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, ALEC, Assessment 3, Blog, Complete NCALNE, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Graeme Smith, Improve teaching practice, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, MOOC, MOOC 2.0, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, New Zealand, New Zealand Context, NZCALNE, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, QualificationsIf 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…
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Group Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking
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in 2.0, 2015, 21204, Activities, ALEC, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Listening, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, SpeakingThis post carries on my collection of a few different diagnostic assessment tools for use with learners with literacy and numeracy issues. So far I’ve looked at: A basic, but fairly broad numeracy diagnostic assessment. Creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank to help you do this. A learner observation checklist for…
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Learner Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking Skills
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in Diagnostic, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Learning Progressions, Listening, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, make better, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, QualificationsThe other day I posted my versions of the some tools to use with learners for numeracy diagnostic assessment. I’ve also written before about creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank. This post continues along the same line, but with a learner observation checklist for listening and speaking skills. This is…
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Numeracy diagnostic questions: Before there was the Assessment Tool there was this…
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, Assessment, Assessment Tool, Diagnostic, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Janet Hogan, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, LNPro, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, Maths, Maths Anxiety, Numeracy, Numeracy activity, Numeracy Indicators, Professional DevelopmentBefore the assessment tool we had this handy set of questions (see the Youtube clip below). You can still use it and it works great…! Just click below to watch it as a movie with 5 sec intervals between questions. No audio on this one. If you use it with your learners just read the…
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Let’s just sort out the confusion around steps versus levels when it comes to literacy and numeracy
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in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, LNPro, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand, New Zealand Context, Professional Development, Qualifications, UncategorizedI didn’t create this confusion, but I’d like to clear it up… One of the things that people I meet seem constantly confused about is the difference between some very similar sounding language that we use in education, and in particular, in the field of literacy and numeracy, to describe things like skills. Here are…
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How to get started embedding vocabulary into your training by creating a word bank
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, ALEC, Complete NCALNE, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, embedded, embedding, Finish NCALNE, Graeme Smith, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, Lean literacy, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Map the literacy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Personal development, Professional Development, Reading, Reading comprehension, Resources, Spelling, VocabularyVocabulary 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…
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What can you actually do if your tutors are not embedding literacy and numeracy as well as they should be?
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in ALEC, Coaching, Complete NCALNE, Education, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, make better, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Personal development, Professional Development, TutorWell that’s a curly question… The other day I reposted part of a transcript between a prosecuting lawyer and the CEO of large tertiary organisation. It was one of the scariest things that I’ve read in this field all year. Spoiler Alert: In case you didn’t realise, it was fiction. But I didn’t realise that when I…
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How to get started on Assessment Task 1 of the NCALNE (Voc): The New Zealand context
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in 2.0, Activities, ALEC, Assessment, Coaching, Complete NCALNE, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Graeme Smith, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori literacy initiatives, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NZCALNE (Voc), Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, podcast, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Tutor, Tutor ProfileUPDATED FOR 2015: Please go here. If you need to complete the NCALNE (Voc) and you’re having trouble getting started (or even if you’re not!), here’s your special care package: Make sure that you are registered to use Pathways Awarua. The latest version of our entire ALEC course for the NCALNE (Voc) is now online in…
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How do you get started mapping literacy and numeracy demands with the Learning Progressions (and for Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc)?
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in 2.0, Activities, ako, ALEC, Area, Assessment, Assessment Tool, Complete NCALNE, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Graeme Smith, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, LNPro, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, Measurement, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCLANA, Numeracy, NZCALNE (Voc), Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional DevelopmentOk… so you’ve enrolled in the NCALNE (Voc) training to upskill yourself around literacy and numeracy. Or perhaps someone has twisted your arm and now you’re up to your neck in this stuff. If you’re lucky you’ve been to one of the ALEC workshops and been introduced to the Learning Progressions and had a chance…