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Teach better now – Where’s the new content for Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)?
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.
As always, you can find this content on Graeme’s blog first. It will be live on Pathways Awarua shortly.
If you do stop by Graeme’s Blog, please comment. Let us know what’s useful and what’s not. Our model is a dynamic one and we’re always tinkering with programme content and assessment tasks where we can. You can help us continue to improve the experience.
There are four sections in Collection 7:
- 7.1 Just do it: Progress assessment
- 7.2 What does it mean?
- 7.3 Collecting some final information
- 7.4 Reviewing your teaching and next steps
If you find that you already know what you’re doing for a particular part of this collection, then feel free to skip ahead to the next relevant section.
Or start with the assessment template and dip into this material as you need to. Email us if you don’t already have the template and checklist.
Otherwise, work your way through as usual. Here are the links you need to different parts of this collection.
Follow the links below
Here’s the overview for the final collection.
7.1 Just do it: Progress assessment
- Just do it…! Assessing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress
- What is collaborative assessment and how do I use it?
- What do I actually do for a collaborative assessment?
- What evidence do I need to start pulling together for Assessment 7?
7.2 What does it mean?
7.3 Collecting some final information
- Collecting some final information for your portfolio
- How is evaluation different to assessment?
- Why evaluate literacy and numeracy teaching in a foundation learning course?
- How should I carry out my learner evaluations?
- What’s the best way to write my own evaluation survey questions?
- Should I get help to administer the evaluation to my learners?
- What does a learner evaluation survey look like?
- Why do I have to involve my boss in the evaluation?
- Can you remind me what evaluation evidence I need to supply for the NZCALNE (Voc)?
7.4 Reviewing your teaching and next steps
- How do I review my teaching and reflect on the next steps?
- What are the reflection and review questions?
If you’re stuck, please get in touch with us by email here: assess@alec.ac.nz or by texting or calling Graeme on 0800-ALEC-1-2.
AFTER: What are the reflection and review questions?
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, don’t forget that the template is in Assessment module 7.
THE TEACHING SESSIONS OVERALL
What went really well for you?
- The best thing was …
- One thing that surprised me was …
What would you do differently?
- Something I’d do differently if I was doing this all over again, is …
- Also, …
How do you feel you managed the delivery of embedded literacy and numeracy?
- I think that …
What was it like collaborating with the learners on different things?
- For the learning plans, I thought that …
- Another thing was …
What about any collaboration with your supervisor? Any comments there?
- One thing …
Any comments on your learners’ evaluation of the sessions?
- They said that …
MOVING FORWARD
Are there any key changes or improvements that you will make to your teaching?
- One change that I’m considering is…
- I know I need to …
What kind of goals do you think you need to set for your learners from here?
- Learner A needs to …
- Learner B needs to …
What are the implications for you now for designing literacy and numeracy teaching and learning?
- One implication is that …
- Another thing is …
AFTER: How do I review my teaching and reflect on the next steps?
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.
Reflective teaching is simply the process where you think about your teaching practice and analyse how you did. The idea is to look at where you can improve or change what you’re doing to get better learning outcomes.
If you’re like most of the people who do work in foundation education, you are probably reflecting on what you do all the time. In this next part, we want to make this process visible. Once it’s visible you can use it as evidence to finish off the NZCALNE (Voc).
Here’s what we’re going to ask you to do:
Review your teaching
This includes your reflections and thoughts on:
- What went well.
- What you’d you do differently.
- How you managed the delivery
- Any collaboration with learners and supervisor
- Any comments on the learners’ evaluation
- Anything unexpected.
Reflect on what you need to do moving forward
This includes your reflections and thoughts on:
- Any key changes and improvements you might make.
- What kind of goals you might set for these learners from here.
- What the implications are now for designing your teaching and learning.
All we need to do this then is a set of questions for you to think about and answer. These questions are in the final section of your template for Assessment 7. We’ve also given you sentence starters as well to get you going. You can ignore these if you want.
If you know what you’re doing, you can just write up your reflections in the assessment template now. If you need some time to think about them, the questions are listed next.
AFTER: Can you remind me what evaluation evidence I need to supply for the NZCALNE (Voc)?
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 the form of learner evaluations. The other is comments from your supervisor. There’s a separate checklist for this as discussed.
Here’s it is again below. This checklist is also in the template for Assessment 7:
Checklist of Information supplied as supporting evidence
Learner evaluations
- These should be scanned or supplied digitally in some way.
- You should have evaluations for at least two learners.
Supervisor comments
- These should also be scanned or supplied digitally. We have a template for this as well. You can find it in the Assessment 7 module.
Coming up next is the last piece of work. This is your own final review and a place to reflect on what went well, what you’d you do differently and how you managed the delivery.
