Category: Teach better
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AFTER: How should I carry out my learner evaluations?
One standard method, if it’s appropriate to your learners’ literacy levels, is to use some kind of evaluation questionnaire. This should be anonymous if possible. Learners or trainees should have the option to reflect on your teaching without fear of penalty. You can do an evaluation survey like this either verbally, with a paper-based format…
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AFTER: Why evaluate literacy and numeracy teaching in a foundation learning course?
There are all kinds of different reasons and purposes for building evaluation processes into your training. You may wish to use evaluation to achieve any or all of the goals listed below. Measure your own effectiveness in delivering embedded literacy and numeracy training. Help you plan, design and manage future literacy and numeracy interventions. Assist…
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AFTER: How is evaluation different to assessment?
Evaluation is often confused with assessment. Some people use these two words interchangeably when they talk about assessing learners. For our purposes, evaluation means something different to assessment. Let’s have a look at the differences. Assessment asks questions like this: Have my learners improved? What gains did they make? Did Damon pass the test? Does…
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AFTER: What does it all mean? Analysing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress
Next, you need to analyse your learners’ results in relation to key programme demands by: Summarising progress results including identifying strengths and needs for each learner. Describing implications from the results that can inform the design of future literacy and numeracy teaching and learning strategies We have prompts for all of this to guide you…
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AFTER: What evidence do I need to start pulling together for Assessment 7?
There’s a short list below. These aren’t the only things, but now is a good time to recap what you should be doing and supplying as evidence so far. Here is the checklist from the start of Assessment 7. This is the same as in your assessment template. You need to use and then supply…
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What is collaborative assessment? A clear explanation and 2 questions to compare with self assessment
What is collaborative assessment and how do I use it?
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AFTER: Just do it…! Assessing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress
Reusing your contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments Ok…! You should be set up for this already. Now is the time for you to go ahead and assess your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress. For most people, this means simply reusing your contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments from Assessment 5. This means that it’s more of…
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Teach better now – Where’s the new content for Assessment 6 of the NZCALNE on planning and facilitating embedded literacy and numeracy?
Kia ora and welcome to Collection 6 If you’re reading this then you are up to Assessment 6 in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc). Good work…! This next part is heart of the programme. The focus is on planning and teaching embedded literacy and numeracy as part of what you do. Like the other…
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TEACH: What’s your supporting evidence?
Right-O…! To finish this off, you need to provide evidence that supports the teaching that you’ve done. We’d prefer it if you provided scans or digital images of your learners’ work. And where possible, we’d like it if you included pictures of your learners doing the work (as well as the actual work that they…
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TEACH: Session 3 in review
As well as details of where and when your third session took place, here are the questions you should respond to again. Use the sentence starters if you like. Otherwise, ignore. There’s a PDF version here that you can print and write on. Also, as before, remember that these same questions are in your assessment…