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What is numeracy? Number 2 of 6 Dynamic Definitions You Need To Know

Feb 5, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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What is numeracy? Number 2 of 6 Dynamic Definitions You Need To Know. By Graeme Smith.
What Is Literacy? 1st of 6 Dynamic Definitions You Need To Know

Feb 5, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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What is literacy? What do we mean when we talk about literacy and numeracy? What is a definition for literacy?
Teach Better – Understand Your Context

Jan 31, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Last time I said that we had simplified the structure of the new qualification and assessment tasks. It now looks like this: Context Approaches Demands Strategies Before Teaching After Here’s how the first part breaks down. These are also stripped back from the previous version of the course: 1. Understanding Your Context 1.1 What do…
50 Things You Can Do To Embed Vocabulary Into Training

Apr 27, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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There are lots of ways to teach and learn new and unfamiliar words. Here’s a list of 50. None of these are new or any kind of rocket science. All 50 are ways of explicitly teaching vocabulary. It’s also possible to learn vocabulary through exposure to new vocabulary incidentally. But that’s another thing altogether. For…
When I become a teacher…

Apr 22, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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Numeracy For ESOL Teachers: You Might Not Even Realise You’re Doing It

Nov 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, Assessment, Education, ESOL, Literacy, NCALNE, NESB, Numeracy, Numeracy for ESOL, Portfolio, Teachers, Training, Tutors, Voc

This might seem like a challenge. But it’s not. The real challenge is to think about what ESOL teachers already do through a different lens. If you teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) or have Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) learners you might be surprised to realise that you are possibly already embedding numeracy…
Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…
7 More Trends In Education That Will Disrupt Our Work as Teachers

Aug 19, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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A while ago I wrote about 7 trends in education that will disrupt our work as teachers. Here are 7 more. There is some crossover between them. But 18 months is a long time in internet years and the situation in education is changing. 1. Consolidation In New Zealand, there is a good trade in private training establishments…
How to win $15 million dollars for developing a literacy and numeracy training solution: Global Learning XPRIZE

Nov 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Autonomous learning, Children, Developing countries, Education, Future, Global, How to win, Literacy, Market Failure, Maths, Numeracy, Read, Solution, Sschools, Tablet based, Teachers, Write, XPRIZE

If you could develop a scalable, tablet based, individualised learning solution for teaching basic literacy and numeracy to kids in developing countries, you could win $15 million dollars. It’s a competition and it’s happening right now. You can read about it here on the xPrize website, and I’ve pasted in the details below as well.…