Category: Tutor
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Tuakana-teina: What is it? 4 Different Ways You Can Use It Positively In Education in New Zealand
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in Education, Adult, Adult Learning, Aotearoa, Approaches, Collaboration, Concepts, Cultural Competency, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, embedded, embedding, Foundation, Foundation Learning, Framework, Frameworks, Good ideas, How do I, How do I get started, How do I improve, How do you, How to, Improve, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Instructional, Instructional Strategies, Intensive, International education, kaiako, Knowing the demands, Knowing the learner, Knowing what to do, learner, Learner success, Learners, Learning, Learning Strategies, Maori, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Personal approach, Personal development, Professional Development, Professional Standards Framework, Should we teach, Success, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, This Is Graeme, THISISGRAEME, Tikanga, tuakana-teina, Tutor, Tutor Profile, Tutors, Uncategorized, Wananga, Whare Tapawha, You can teach betterTuakana-teina refers to the relationship between an older person (tuakana) and a younger person (teina). It is specific to teaching and learning in the context of Māori. In a more traditional Māori setting, the meaning is literally “older sibling-younger sibling”.
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Literacy & Numeracy Job Vacancies: Kaiako / Tutor Positions With Te Wananga o Aotearoa and Corrections
Here’s the first job vacancy announcement for the Job Board from my friends at Te Wananga O Aotearoa. Seems fitting that it’s International Literacy Day. Perhaps you should celebrate by getting a new job. Did I say that there are 14 positions available? This is exciting work moving forward in the most challenging teaching environment you…
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How do you survive as a teacher or tutor in a rapidly changing education landscape?
So… what to do about it? If you’re like me you probably think a lot about what you need to do to survive and hopefully thrive in a rapidly changing educational landscape. Or if you don’t think about it you should… You can hide for a while from the massive changes ahead for work, education, and…
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Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now
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in Education, 2.0, 2015, Adult, Antifragile, Design, Disruption, Economy, Ed, Edtech, Education delivery model, Education resources, Evernote, Graeme Smith, Improve learning, Influence, Khan Academy, Knowing what to do, Leadership, Learn anything, Lifestyle, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNAAT, LNPro, New Zealand, NZCALNE (Voc), Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal approach, Personal development, podcast, Practitioners, Productivity, Profession, Professional Development, Questions, Sal Khan, Salman Khan, Self development, Training, TutorHow to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…