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TEACH: Planning your resources

Jun 22, 2017

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By now you should have a clear idea of the kinds of resources you need to support your activities. If you know what you’re doing, then make sure that you’ve downloaded Assessment template 6. Please do add a few brief notes there about what you’re planning. If you’re unsure about what resources you need or…
More Maths and Numeracy Jigsaw Puzzles – Multiplication and Division

Jan 27, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I’ve posted our ALEC subtraction jigsaw puzzles here if you want to download and print, or if you want to tinker with them yourself you can also download the original word doc files as well. Here’s the rest of them below… they’re all based around the standard 10 x 10 multiplication and division tables. You…
Try These Maths and Numeracy Jigsaw Puzzles – Subtraction

Jan 27, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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For those of you who have attended our literacy and numeracy professional development workshops, you might have seen these cool maths jigsaw puzzles. If not, we’ve done the hard work… all you need to do is print them, cut them out, and use. Learners can complete individually or in pairs. Let me know how you get…
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 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…
Assessment 7 of the NCALNE (Voc) – Evaluating your embedded LN project: Talking through the assessment task with Graeme

Sep 22, 2014

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Here’s a short blurb from me on the final assessment task. Congratulations if you’re up to here.
Dice of fortune: Numeracy activities that work

Aug 29, 2014

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Dice of Fortune is another never fail favourite… Enjoy! Resources Dice of Fortune grid for each player like the one in the picture below 10 sided die or cards with 0-9 on them Purpose The aim is to create the biggest number. Activity Roll the die and learners put the number in the top…
Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc) – Mapping training demands: Talking through the assessment task with Graeme

Aug 29, 2014

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Here’s all you need to know with regards to Assessment three of the NCALNE (Voc). Of course, don’t forget to refer to what’s in Module 3 and Assessment 3 in Pathways Awarua and any of our other material.
Calling all Literacy Numeracy Professionals…

Aug 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I’ve been turning this over in my mind for a while… I’m not sure whether there are so many opportunities for this, but having worked in such a narrow area of education since 2007 I feel that I’ve now got a fairly sharp lens through which to analyse certain kinds of training. This is particularly…