Tag: Listening

NEW BOOK: Reading Between The Lines – The Secret Step-By-Step Guide on How 2 Check If People Really Understand What the Hell It Is You’re Saying

Nov 5, 2021

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Education, Checklist, comprehension, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, learner, Learner Centred, Learner success, Learners, Listening, Reading, Reading comprehension, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach better

You need to buy Reading Between the Lines – It’s a Secret Step-By-Step Guide on How to Check If People Really Understand What the Hell It Is You’re Saying
How To Hack Reading Comprehension: 18 Assessment Items for Teachers

Nov 4, 2021

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Education, Adult, Adult Learning, Adults, Amazon Book, Autonomous learning, Book review, Books, eBook, Foundation Learning, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, Learn anything, learner, Learner Centred, Learner success, Learners, Learning, Learning Outcomes, learning plans, Learning Progressions, Learning Strategies, Online learning, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach better

Reading Between the Lines: The Secret Step-By-Step Guide Hack Reading & Listening Comprehension So You Can Check If People Really Understand What the Hell It Is You’re Saying © 2021 Graeme Smith
How To Check Understanding: The Secret Step-By-Step Guide To Hacking Reading and Listening Comprehension in 18 Achievable Ways for Course Writers

Oct 30, 2021

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Education, Adult Learning, Amazon Book, Autonomous learning, banned books, Book review, Books, eBook, Foundation Learning, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, Learn anything, learner, Learner Centred, Learner success, Learners, Learning, Learning Outcomes, learning plans, Learning Progressions, Learning Strategies, Online learning, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, You can teach better

How To Check Understanding: The Secret Step-By-Step Guide To Hacking Reading and Listening Comprehension for Course Writers
TEACH: Can I see an example of some planning for a literacy activity?

Jun 9, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, plan, planning, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

Embedding reading comprehension strategies into a foundation hair and beauty class Here’s a scenario and example of some planning for an activity that embeds a reading comprehension strategy into a foundation learning course in a hair and beauty context. First, read through the scenario, learning outcome, and resources. Then have a look at the activity…
TEACH: How should I plan my teaching sessions and activities?

Jun 9, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, how, How do I, How do you, How to improve, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, plan, planning, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

Every teacher, trainer or tutor involved in foundation education needs to plan ways they can meet their learners’ literacy and numeracy needs within the constraints of the limited amounts of time they have together. Planning happens in lots of different ways. Let’s have a look at a few different ways that tutors actually manage their…
TEACH: What does it look like when you use teaching strategies in context?

Jun 9, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, plan, planning, Should we teach, Strategies, Strategy, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

What does it look like when you use teaching strategies in context? Here’s an example from a practical horticulture training course for adults. The tutor’s learning outcome is to get the students to: Estimate and then measure out a raised planting bed in the context of a learning to grow vegetables. The relevant numeracy, in…
TEACH: Using teaching strategies

Jun 9, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, plan, planning, Should we teach, Strategies, Strategy, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

Using teaching strategies When your teaching is deliberate and strategic it can make a huge difference to your learners’ progress. When you work with your own learners, whatever the context or subject, you use a range of instructional strategies to develop their knowledge, awareness and their own strategies for learning. Using good teaching strategies means…
TEACH: What are teaching strategies?

Jun 9, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, Instructional Strategies, Learning Strategies, plan, planning, Should we teach, Strategies, Strategy, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

In Collection 4, we talked about broad programme-level strategies. And you wrote short statements that summarised the “big picture” direction for your embedding. Here we want to talk about a different kind of strategy – teaching strategies. These are also called instructional strategies. In general terms, a teaching strategy is simply any teaching approach that…
TEACH: Learning outcomes revisited – Conversions

Jun 9, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, plan, planning, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized, You can teach better

We’re designing an online Learning Outcomes configurator. You’ll be able to select all of these options from drop-down menus and create the learning outcomes you want to embed the literacy and numeracy that your learners need into your own context. Until this is online, here’s the manual version. Instructions Choose a word on the left…
TEACH: Learning outcomes revisited – Area & Volume

Jun 9, 2017

—

by

Graeme Smith

in Facilitate, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Learning Outcomes, plan, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized, You can teach better

We’re designing an online Learning Outcomes configurator. You’ll be able to select all of these options from drop-down menus and create the learning outcomes you want to embed the literacy and numeracy that your learners need into your own context. Until this is online, here’s the manual version. Instructions Choose a word on the left…