Tag: ALEC
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DEMANDS – New Content for the new NZCALNE Assessment 3 with ALEC
Kia ora ano and welcome back You’re up to the third assessment task in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc). Kai pai you…! We’re working hard to get all new content for this and other modules live on Pathways Awarua, but until then you can find the first draft here. The new Assessment 3 still focuses…
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Demands: What are some specific measurement demands?
If you know what you’re doing, please skip ahead to the assessment task and finish this off. If you want to walk through the process one last time with the measurement progression, please carry on! 1. Print out the Make Sense of Number strand. Make sure you have the Measure and Interpret Shape and Space…
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Demands: What are some specific Number demands?
By now you might feel that you’re an old hand at mapping. Or at least, you might feel that you have an idea about how the process works. Here’s something to remember: All you’re doing is applying what you know about your own subject as an expert in your own field. The only thing that…
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What Are Some Specific Reading Demands? How To Map Them in 7 Surefire Steps?
Reading Demands – What Are Some Specific Reading Demands And How Do you Map Them?
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Demands: Thinking deeper about your big picture numeracy demands
Time to do some work Let’s pause here again. Here’s what you need to do next: Download the worksheet for numeracy, or use the chart below to get started on mapping the big picture numeracy demands for your situation. As you did for literacy, say what each numeracy progression is in plain English and then…
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Demands: Understanding what the numeracy progressions are…
What are the big picture numeracy demands? By identifying the most important literacy progressions for your own teaching situation, you’ve started to map the big picture demands. Now we need to do the same thing for numeracy. By the end of this module, you should have some ideas about: Which numeracy strands are relevant for…
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Demands: Writing up your big picture literacy demands
Make sure you keep your notes as you’ll want to refer to them when you write up your answers to the first part of Assessment 3. In your assessment template, in section 3.1 you’ll need to identify the top two overall literacy skill demands for your teaching. Remember, at this stage, we are just interested…
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Demands: Thinking deeper about your big picture literacy demands
Big picture literacy demands: Thinking deeper Hopefully, you’ve started thinking about some of the concepts that we use in the Learning Progressions. Again, don’t worry if some of the terminology is new or seems strange. You are, in many ways, learning a new trade and it’s important to know the names of things. Here’s what we’ve…
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Demands: What and where are the Learning Progressions support material?
There are other support materials that you can access as well. You don’t need these to complete the assessment for this part of the course. But you might want to come back to this material later on. For example, the support materials contain ideas for diagnostic assessment which is part of your Assessment 5. And…