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Teach better: How should we look at teaching and learning?

Mar 6, 2017

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in Approaches, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

Introducing Approaches In these next modules, we look at some of the approaches and concepts used in adult teaching. Here are a few things you need to know first. Feel free to skip ahead if you want. What’s a teaching approach? When we talk about teaching, an approach is simply a way of looking at…

What’s the problem? Socio-economic factors

Feb 20, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Problems, Uncategorized

There is a range of socio-economic factors associated with low levels of adult literacy and numeracy. This includes things relating to education, income and occupation that have a negative influence on someone’s position in relation to others in society. Sometimes this relates to the kind of home environment that a person grew up in. For…

Plain English Definitions for the Literacy Progressions

Nov 28, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Learning Progressions, Uncategorized

I’ve started writing new course content for the new NZCALNE (Voc) – the latest version of our course. I want to revise the definitions that we use to talk about the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The terminology is confusing for most people. And some of the existing definitions are not very helpful…

Where do I find the full versions of the Learning Progressions?

Jul 28, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Learning Progressions, Literacy, Numeracy, Progressions, Strand Charts, Uncategorized

The TEC have decided that they will not print any more copies of the Learning Progressions resources. Nor do they have any plans to print them again. Rather these are available online only now, and you can just use them as electronic documents or you can print them out yourself. You can download the main books…

NCALNE (Voc): Essential But Not Sufficient

Sep 21, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, ALEC, Aotearoa, educator, embedded, embedding, Emergent, Graeme Smith, Literacy, Mature, NCALNE, Numeracy, Partial, Practice, Voc

Skip this post unless you manage foundation tutors or work as a tutor in the adult literacy and numeracy sector. Here’s the question: Will the NCALNE training help my organisation develop more mature embedded literacy and numeracy practices? Here’s the answer: Yes. It’s a great start. But it’s the beginning of the journey. Not the…

Gamification 101: How To Turn The Course I Teach Into A Game

Sep 18, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, ALEC, Board Game, Card game, Design, Education, gamification, gamify, Graeme Smith, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, teaching, Voc

Technical stuff is hard to teach. This is because it’s… well… technical. As a trainer you have to work hard to make things understandable. One way to do this is to turn it into a game. Or a series of games. I’m interested in this at the moment because I’m experimenting with Cashflow 101. This is…

Damon Says: Do We Need A Literacy of Learning? A Kind of Meta-Literacy?

Aug 17, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, ALEC, Beliefs, Contextualised, Damon, embedded, embedding, Learning, Literacy, Numeracy, Whitten

I think i’m going to start a new series of posts that all start with “Damon Says”. My family frequently hear this refrain around the house when the conversation turns to learning (which it does a lot since we work in education and we homeschool as well). My friend and colleague Damon Whiten really has his…

7 Things You Need To Do To Totally Dominate Literacy and Numeracy

Aug 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Ronda Rousey

The other day I listed a bunch of reasons why you need to punch literacy and numeracy in the face. Today I want to tell you how to be the Ronda Rousey of adult literacy and numeracy education. Some of this you can do on your own. Mostly, though you need to do this as an…

5 Reasons Why You Need to Punch Literacy and Numeracy in the Face

Aug 12, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, Adult, ALEC, black belt, crushing it, Education, embedded, face, Graeme Smith, how to dominate, in the face, KO, Literacy, Numeracy, Punch, Role model, Ronda Rousey

Ronda Rousey is my new hero and celebrity crush. In case you don’t know, she’s a mixed martial artist, actress, and Olympic judoka who is currently undefeated in her field and the current consensus is that she’s the world’s most dominant athlete. She’s strong, beautiful, and doesn’t take $!@# from anyone. She’s also a great role…

Sign up to Pathways Awarua now…!

Jul 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assessment, Graeme Smith, How do I improve, Literacy, Maths, Numeracy, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Reading

One of the best kept secrets in tertiary training in New Zealand is Pathways Awarua. It’s not really a secret, but up until recently, this has only been available to tutors and trainers. From now, however, this great suite of teaching and learning tools is available to everyone. Well, to Kiwis anyway. Check out the cool…

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