Tag: adult learners
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Assessment 6 of the NCALNE (Voc) – Measuring Learner LN Progress: Talking through the assessment task with Graeme
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in ALEC, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, podcast, Professional Development, QualificationsThis one’s a bit shorter. Here’s my run down on Assessment 6 for the NCALNE (Voc) to do with measuring and assessing learner literacy and numeracy progress… if you need it. Let me know in the comments if anything is not clear. Like the other podcasts relating to the NCALNE (Voc), this one also aligns…
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The Great Comprehender Part 2: What Are Reading Comprehension Strategies?
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in 2015, 21204, ALEC, Edtech, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehensionThe other day, I started a mini series on reading comprehension strategies and you can read about the profiles of a poor, good, and great comprehender here in relation to the steps in the reading progressions. I want to talk more about the Great Comprehender and the strategies that she uses. One of the hidden gems…
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Churn: Dealing with the chronic turnover of tutors and trainers in the education sector
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in ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Business model generation, Coaching, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Diagnostic, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Learning Outcomes, Learning Progressions, Lifestyle, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Mandatory review, Mastery, Meaning, MOOC, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal approach, Personal development, PhD, Productivity, Professional Development, QMS, Qualifications, Rules, Self development, Teaching philosophy, Technology, workThe tutors are revolting…! Well.. they’re not actually revolting, but they do keep leaving. This is a major problem for the tertiary education sector including private and public. Maths and education blogger Damon Whitten has absolutely nailed this issue in his most recent post. Here’s the skinny: There are some great things happening in the entry levels…
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Revisiting Literacy and Numeracy Focused Individual Learning Plans (ILPs): Part 1 – Tweaking the Format
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in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, Professional Development, QualificationsI’ve been revising my ideas for individual learning plans (ILPs) based on several things: The work I’ve done recently on the online version of our NCALNE (Voc) in Pathways Awarua which updates older templates that I had created; and The need to more closely align learning plans with the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy; plus Some…
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Using the online vocab profiler – Part 4
Generating assessment items for my vocabulary diagnostic I started on this earlier My outline is here. And the initial results from the profiling software are here. And the way that I generated some useable word lists is here. What follows below is an outline of my final selection of words and the sample sentences that I used. Everyday…
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Using the online vocabulary profiler – Part 2
I’m using the online vocabulary profiler to create a new vocabulary diagnostic assessment to use as a model in my course. Here’s my first post describing what I’m working on. This is a bit technical. So if it’s not your thing, just watch some cat videos. The screenshot above shows the output from the vocabulary…
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Cover Sheet for Embedded Reading – Rough Ideas
I’m currently working on developing a set of generic project templates that tutors can use to bring together unit standards 22664 (Reading) and 22662 (Writing) in the context of some other narrowly focused topic of study. I’ll add 26625 later as well if this works well enough. Here’s what I’ve done so far: My initial…
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Big changes ahead for adult literacy & numeracy educator qualifications
I’m excited about the fact the the tertiary landscape for adult literacy and numeracy educator qualifications is about to change dramatically. I’ll have more details as we get closer to 2015, but look out for the following: The 40 credit level 5 New Zealand Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational) or NZCALNE (Voc)…
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ALEC Policies: An Update and Review
I’ve got my head stuck in our QMS at the moment… Right now I’m trolling through all of ALEC’s Policies at the moment as part of our preparation for the upcoming NZQA mandated External Evaluation and Review (EER) which is happening to us later in the year. I’m much clearer this time around on the difference…