Tag: Motivation

Foundation Stone: Everything Returns for Powerful Growth and Enduring Sustainability

Sep 16, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in Professional Development, Education Strategy, Personal Growth, Spiral Protocol

Discover the Foundation Stone: Everything Returns. Learn why true growth is recursive and why sustainable impact is built on cycles, not lines.
Pillar of Sanctum: Hold the Space for Essential Renewal and Sustainable Growth

Sep 11, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in Professional Development, Education Strategy, Personal Growth, Spiral Protocol

Discover the Pillar of Sanctum: Hold the Space. Learn why protecting time and space is essential for renewal, sustainability, and impact.
Pillar of Structure: Build What Lasts with Strong Systems and Sustainable Impact

Sep 11, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in Professional Development, Education Strategy, Personal Growth, Spiral Protocol

Discover the Pillar of Structure: Build What Lasts. Learn why systems and scaffolds sustain energy, signal, and impact in work and life.
Pillar of Signal: Clear the Noise for Coherence and Focus

Sep 8, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in Professional Development, Education Strategy, Personal Growth, Spiral Protocol

Discover the Pillar of Signal: Clarity is Transmission. Learn why clearing the noise and amplifying signal is vital for focus and impact.
Pillar of Energy: Fuel the Fire for Focus and Impact

Sep 2, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in Professional Development, Education Strategy, Personal Growth, Spiral Protocol

Discover the Pillar of Energy: Fuel the Fire. Learn why energy is the foundation of focus, impact, and sustainable projects in work and life.
Use Prior Knowledge, Increase Motivation and Develop Learner Agency to Pave the Way to Learning Success

Jan 14, 2020

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Executive Education, Knowing the learner, learner, Learner success, Learners, Motivation

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 things:
TEACH: Can I see an example of some planning for a literacy activity?

Jun 9, 2017

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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

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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

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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

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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…