Category: Reading comprehension
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NZQA Review of Adult and Tertiary Teaching Qualifications (including NCALNE) Update
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Design, DipALNE, Edtech, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, 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, Mandatory review, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZDALN, NZQA, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading comprehensionFor those of you tracking these changes or just interested. The NZQA governance group has just published their first discussion document and minutes. You can access it on the NZQA website here. I’ll post further comments when I’ve had a chance to digest it carefully. However, for now: It looks like the NCALNE (Voc) Qualification…
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New TEC Publication: Adult Literacy & Numeracy: An Overview of the Evidence
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Book review, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, TECThe Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) have released a new summary of the available evidence on adult literacy and numeracy. It’s kind of a meta-review – a summary of a lot of other literature reviews, but it’s quite brief and worth a look if you’re interested in this kind of thing. They’re not going to print…
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Embedding reading into trades and vocational training
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Design, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Hacking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low literacy levels, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, Reading, Reading comprehension, ResourcesWorking with my ComCol tutors today… we were looking at unit standard 26624: Read texts with understanding. And we came up with this as a draft template for trying standardise reading comprehension questions for trades-based or vocational training texts that they have to work with anyway. Reading Text Title Read through the text and then…
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What literacy and numeracy-related content would you like to see on YouTube?
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in ALEC, Design, 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, infographic, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Maori Literacy, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, Resources, VocabularyI’m looking to develop further content to go on our YouTube channel for embedding literacy and numeracy. What kind of video content would you like to see on YouTube? I’m particularly interested in material that supplements our professional development process, but open to any ideas at this stage. Here’s what I’m currently considering creating or…
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Hacking Reading Comprehension: Part 4 – Having a Go
teach better now by hacking reading and listening comprehension
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Hacking Reading Comprehension: Part 3 – Some other special words you need positively need to know
Teach better now by hacking reading comprehension
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Hacking Reading Comprehension: Part 2 – The Super Hacks List
Hacking Reading Comprehension Graeme Smith
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How To Hack Reading Comprehension: Part 1 – When to Hack
Teach better now by learning how to hack reading comprehension and listening comprehension. Every teacher needs to know this!