Tag: Approaches

How will you create cool learner centred teaching this year? 12 concepts you need to know

Jan 8, 2020

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Graeme Smith

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What is learner centred teaching? It’s the start of the new year. What are you going to do to make your teaching and training more learner centred?
NEW…! Three Simple Approaches You Need for Learner-Centred Teaching

Nov 28, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Education

Proven Ways to Use Prior Knowledge, Increase Motivation and Develop Learner Agency to Pave the Road to Learning Success Have you ever thought about how to improve your teaching? Have you ever wondered what it takes to create learner success in any teaching environment? Well, you need three things. Make that four.
NEW…! What is Learner Centred? 12 Concepts from Te Ao Māori You Should Embrace to Create Learning Success

Nov 21, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, Adult Learning, Adults, Anxiety caused by learning, Education, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, Foundation Learning, Improve learning, Indigenous education, International education, Knowing the learner, learner, Learner success, Learners, Learning, NCALNE (Educator)

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You talk too much

Aug 27, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Approaches, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Executive Education, Knowing the learner, learner, Learners

Do you work in education? Then let’s face it… You talk too much. And it’s not helping. It’s hard, if not impossible for anyone to learn anything with so much talking going on. From you, I mean. I want you to inspire, innovate, create and educate. And I want to do the same. But there’s…
Teach Better Now – Assessment 2 of the NZCALNE (Voc)

Aug 1, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Teach better now – Where’s the new content for Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)?

Jul 11, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Foundation, Foundation Learning, Literacy and Numeracy, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, Professional standards, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now

Kia ora and welcome to Collection 7 If you’re reading this then you are up to Assessment 7 in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc). That means you are up to the final assessment task in the programme…! This next part is about assessing learner progress, reviewing your teaching and working out the next steps.…
AFTER: What are the reflection and review questions?

Jul 10, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now

You’ll find the reflection and review questions to finish off this part of the programme below. Your answers are your own evaluation of what you’ve done and how effective it was. You can download the questions here in a form that you can print out and write on if you want to take notes. Otherwise,…
AFTER: How do I review my teaching and reflect on the next steps?

Jul 10, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now

It’s time for some R&R. For us, that means to review and reflection. This is the last thing. You have to think about what you’ve done in this programme and reflect on different parts of it. You don’t need to be doing advanced academic qualifications or read a lot of research to be a reflective teacher.…
AFTER: Can you remind me what evaluation evidence I need to supply for the NZCALNE (Voc)?

Jul 10, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, Teach better, Teach Better Now

Let’s pause for a moment and take stock of what you should be collecting as evaluation evidence for Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc). You still have to do your own final review, but by now you should have collected two kinds of evaluation evidence. One lot of evidence is from your learner and takes…
AFTER: Why do I have to involve my boss in the evaluation?

Jul 4, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, Teach better, Teach Better Now

Collaborating with your boss or supervisor to review your teaching delivery is one of the requirements of the NZCALNE (Voc). It’s also good teaching practice. We can’t sign off on the whole qualification unless we have some evidence of this. For our purposes, a supervisor may include any of the following: Your direct manager or…