Tag: ALEC
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Mana Atua: Wellbeing, Spirituality And Learner Support
Mana atua helps educators understand wellbeing, spirituality, wairua, and holistic learner support in learner-centred teaching.
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Whanaungatanga: What Is It? How can you use it to create learner success? 3 Things You Need to Know
Whanaungatanga refers to a sense of family connection. It’s a relationship through shared experiences and working together which provides people with a sense of belonging.
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What Is Whakapapa? 4 Powerful Reasons You Need To Embrace It In Your Classroom
What is whakapapa in education? Whakapapa refers to genealogy, lineage, connection, and the relationships that link people to ancestors, land, stories, identity, and each other. In education, whakapapa helps teachers recognise that learners bring histories, relationships, identities, and contexts into the learning space. It supports learner-centred teaching by making connection and story part of how…
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What is learner agency? 2 short videos with agency expert Dr Damon Whitten
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in Uncategorized, Adult Learning, Autonomous learning, Concepts, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, Learn anything, learner, Learner Agency, Learner Centred, Learner success, Learners, Learning, Learning Strategies, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterWhat is Learner Agency? Agency is when learning involves the activity and the initiative of the learner, more than whatever is passed on from the teacher, curriculum or resources. Listen to Dr Damon Whitten and I discussing learner agency Learner Agency Part 1 Learner Agency Part 2 What else? Learner agency is when learners have…
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Motivation: What is it? 2 Cool Things You Need To Know
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What is motivation? Intrinsic… extrinsic… Find out more with Dr Damon Whitten
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Teach better: What are some other ideas you need to know about teaching and learning?
Concepts we use to talk about teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand Like we said at the start of this section, concepts are just ideas. What follows next are a range of ideas from both mainstream education and Te Ao Māori that we use to talk about teaching and learning. Stand by for a…
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Approaches: What is prior knowledge?
Using prior knowledge What is it? In a nutshell, it’s the knowledge, experiences, beliefs, and attitudes you bring to any new learning or teaching. Can we dig a little deeper? Prior knowledge, also sometimes called prior learning, is the knowledge that someone has before they meet new information. Every one of your adult learners comes…
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What is Learner-Centred? How To Teach 100% Better with a Learner-Centred Approach
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in Education, Approaches, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, learner, Learner success, Learners, Should we teach, Success, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach betterWhat is Learner-Centred teaching? Find out more in these two new ebooks by Graeme Smith
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Teach better: How should we look at teaching and learning?
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…
