Category: teach
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How do I enrol in TEACH BETTER NOW…? How do I enrol in the NZCALNE (Voc)…?
If you are teaching foundation education at any level, you need to be qualified and on a continuing professional development journey. You need to start this journey through the Teach Better Now programme available on Pathways Awarua. At the heart of this is the new New Zealand Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace)…
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Teach better now – Where’s the new content for Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)?
Kia ora and welcome to Collection 7 If you’re reading this then you are up to Assessment 7 in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc). That means you are up to the final assessment task in the programme…! This next part is about assessing learner progress, reviewing your teaching and working out the next steps.…
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AFTER: What are the reflection and review questions?
You’ll find the reflection and review questions to finish off this part of the programme below. Your answers are your own evaluation of what you’ve done and how effective it was. You can download the questions here in a form that you can print out and write on if you want to take notes. Otherwise,…
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AFTER: How do I review my teaching and reflect on the next steps?
It’s time for some R&R. For us, that means to review and reflection. This is the last thing. You have to think about what you’ve done in this programme and reflect on different parts of it. You don’t need to be doing advanced academic qualifications or read a lot of research to be a reflective teacher.…
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AFTER: Should I get help to administer the evaluation to my learners?
There are lots of things to think about before you go ahead and do the evaluation with your learners. Here are a few questions that you need to ponder: Is their level of literacy going to impact on their ability to do the evaluation? Do they need a translator? Does anyone need a reader-writer? Would…
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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: 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?