Category: Tutor
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ALEC Good Tutor Guide Part 2
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, Tutor ProfileThis is still a work in progress, but it’s a visual update of my post a few weeks back about the Good Tutor Profile that we’re going to start promoting. We’re trying to address this question: How do you spot quality assured tutors who possess the baseline knowledge and skills required for embedding literacy and…
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Txting lrnrs: Using ALEC’s new SMART phone
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Ok, so i bought an android phone… I’m pretty much a staunch apple iphone user and I’ve had pretty much every version of the iPhone since it was released. Mostly it’s been a great experience, but I’ve had some issues with my iPhone 5 recently including battery and lightening dock connector failure. Hopefully, these will…
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Creating Quality Assured Trades & Vocational Tutors who Know How to Embed Literacy and Numeracy
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Education, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, Numeracy, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, Tutor ProfileThis post updates other thoughts I’ve had on what the profile of a good tutor should be. Here I’m talking about vocational or trades tutors who have to embed literacy and numeracy into training at levels 1 – 3 on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework (NZQF). Question: How do you spot quality assured tutors who…
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ALEC Showcase 2 min pitch: selling our literacy and numeracy infrastructure to the world
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in ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, International education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Jokes, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, workI’m going to a business development thing tonight. I’ve got a 2 min slot to promote my work moving forward. Here’s my draft. Comments welcome…! —————————————————————————————- Kia ora Tatau Graeme Smith here from ALEC. I work in the least funny profession in the world. This is the field of literacy and numeracy professional development. It’s…
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The Department of Entrepreneurial Education 2.0
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in Business improvement, Business model generation, Cartoon, Creativity, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Online learning, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Software, Technology, Tutor, Tutor ProfileThis was the title slide from my recent talk at the NCLANA Symposium on Literacy and Numeracy. It represents a question in my mind: Why aren’t we teaching educators to be entrepreneurs? The idea is blatantly stolen from Jeff Jarvis’s Department of Entrepreneurial Journalism at New York City University. His idea is roughly as follows:…
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The Educator’s Journey Revisited
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I’ve written previously about the Educator’s Journey here and here and here. This is a shorter more visual version of essentially the same thing. This version is influenced by Robert Green’s new book Mastery which I’ve just started listening to. We see this progression in basic terms when we deliver our NCALNE (Voc) professional development. Our…
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ELN tutor profile: What should a tutor profile look like for someone working on an embedded LN programme at levels 1-3?
Assumptions Given the large number of new Youth Guarantee (YG) programmes submitted to NZQA for approval we are going to see an influx of new tutors involved with teaching in this space. This means that these tutors will be teaching courses that by definition need to be embedded literacy and numeracy (ELN) courses. These tutors…