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How do I design numeracy diagnostic assessments for ESOL learners? Here’s the last scenario. This one’s a little different to the others: You’re an ESOL tutor. You teach refugees and migrants as part of a TEC funded workplace literacy programme. Your learners are very low level. Some of them are pre-literate. This means that they are…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my farming programme?

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Scenario 3: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my introduction to farming programme? Here’s the next scenario: You’re an agricultural tutor. Your learners are new to farming. They’re adults, but you have a wide range of ages and abilities. You suspect that you’ve got some learners who are used to hiding their…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my painting course?

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Scenario 2: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my painting and decorating programme? Here’s the next scenario: You’re a trades tutor teaching painting and plastering. Your learners are a group of adults with mixed backgrounds and abilities. You suspect that they don’t understand how to work with area calculations. 1. Consider what…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for a financial literacy class?

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Scenario 1: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic assessment for my financial literacy class? Let’s start with the same scenario as we did earlier when we were talking about a financial literacy class. Your approach doesn’t have to be the same, but how would you think about something like this for your own…

BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic I can use?

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How do I create my own contextualised numeracy diagnostic assessment? Once you’ve used the Assessment Tool to get some “broad brush” diagnostic information about the numeracy strengths and needs of your learners, you’ll need to drill down into some more specific areas where you want to focus your embedded numeracy teaching. You don’t have to…

BEFORE: More examples – Diagnostics for writing

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in BEFORE, Diagnosing, Diagnostic, Improving learner writing, Uncategorized, Write, Writing, Writing frame

Teaching Adults to Write to communicate We also mentioned this resource in Collection 3. If you need it, you can download it here. There are three ideas for diagnostic writing assessments that you can use or adapt to your trade or another training context. If you already know what you’re doing for your contextualised literacy…

BEFORE: More examples – Reading diagnostics

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in BEFORE, Diagnosing, Diagnostic, Reading, Uncategorized

We also mentioned this resource in Collection 3. You can download it here if you need it. There are three ideas for diagnostic reading assessments you may wish to use, adapt or modify. If you already know what you’re doing for your contextualised literacy assessment you can skip this. Using reading focus groups This is…

BEFORE: More examples – Listening and speaking diagnostics

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Examples of literacy diagnostic assessments from the Learning Progressions Resources You may already have a good idea of what you want to do for your contextualised literacy diagnostic. If you’re unsure, vocabulary is a good option. Or you may wish to tackle other specific literacy skills. If you do, the supporting resources for the Learning…

BEFORE: More examples – a contextualised vocabulary diagnostic for farming

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What are some more examples of other literacy diagnostics that you can adapt or modify? Contextualised vocabulary assessment for farming and agriculture Here’s an example of a set of contextualised vocabulary diagnostic questions plus learning outcome from a farming and agriculture context. This set of questions is part of a larger set the tutors brainstormed…

Pro tips for creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostic assessments

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