Category: Teaching philosophy

Buy My Book: Teach better Now

Aug 22, 2018

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Graeme Smith

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This is an act of shameless self-promotion for my new book which I’ve self-published on Amazon. The cost is less than what you pay for your trim soy-raspberry-mocha-latte-cappuccino. So click here and buy it now. You can download it to your phone, tablet or Kindle. I’m going to run a free book promotion shortly, so…
Why haven’t I self-published a book on how to embed literacy and numeracy into vocational training yet?

Aug 20, 2018

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Graeme Smith

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No good reason really… But today I spent about 12 hours learning how to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing suite of tools and resources. It was most interesting. I especially like that you can generate these previews above that show you what the final publication will look like. The actual editor tool is a bit…
Teach Better Now – Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)

Aug 30, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Teach Better Now – Assessment 6 of the NZCALNE (Voc)

Aug 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Teach Better Now – Assessment 5 of the NZCALNE (Voc)

Aug 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Teach Better Now – Assessment 4 of the NZCALNE (Voc)

Aug 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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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?

Jun 27, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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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…
TEACH: Session 3 in review

Jun 22, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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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…
TEACH: Session 2 in review

Jun 22, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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As well as details of where and when your second session took place, here are the questions you should respond to. As before, use the sentence starters if they’re helpful. Otherwise, you can ignore them. There’s a PDF version here you can print and write on if you need it. Also as before, remember that…
TEACH: Joining the dots – approaches, assessments, evaluation

Jun 22, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Joining the dots In real life, a lot of your planning happens in your head. Sometimes this is explicit. In other words, you’re aware of what you’re doing as you go about planning how you will teach something. At other times, your planning process might be much less explicit. Planning is a bit like literacy…