Tag: Numeracy
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Taranaki Workplace Literacy Contract Tutors Wanted
From time to time people ask me to post job advertisements for the adult tertiary teaching sector in NZ. Here’s an opportunity below. Training For You seeks expressions of interest from experienced literacy and numeracy tutors in the Taranaki region who have: NZ Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education or equivalent Proven skills in…
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Literacy Numeracy Trainer Jobs Available
From time to time I post job advertisements for work in the adult education sector in New Zealand. If you’ve got the right skills and experience, here’s an opportunity below for you to get involved in workplace literacy and numeracy training. This is from Chris at Proven Performance. Cheers, Graeme Are you an A player…
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Ako Aotearoa Professional Learning & Development Workshops
Here’s something new below for this year from the team at Ako Aotearoa. I’m involved with Ako Aotearoa as a contractor in relation to the Tapatoru framework. Have a look and see if there is something there for you.
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What is Tuakana-Teina? You Carry One Handle of the Kete and I Carry the Other
This is an excerpt from an upcoming eBook and collaboration by Aroha Puketapu with Graeme (Kereama) Smith. Watch this space for more…! If you carry one handle of the kete and I carry the other handle we share the load. If I am left to bear the load on my own I become discouraged and…
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Buy My Book: Teach better Now
This is an act of shameless self-promotion for my new book which I’ve self-published on Amazon. The cost is less than what you pay for your trim soy-raspberry-mocha-latte-cappuccino. So click here and buy it now. You can download it to your phone, tablet or Kindle. I’m going to run a free book promotion shortly, so…
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Why haven’t I self-published a book on how to embed literacy and numeracy into vocational training yet?
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in eBook, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Executive Education, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, inform teaching, International education, Lean education, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Numeracy, self-publishing, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterNo good reason really… But today I spent about 12 hours learning how to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing suite of tools and resources. It was most interesting. I especially like that you can generate these previews above that show you what the final publication will look like. The actual editor tool is a bit…
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What is cultural competency? What does cultural competency mean in education?
Here’s one definition adapted from what others have said: Culturally competent means possessing the knowledge, skills, and values required to achieve a better understanding of, and enhance relationships with learners of different cultures. I wanted to share this for a couple of reasons. One is that it’s more topical than ever. Another is that it’s potentially…
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12 Reasons Education Is A Wicked Problem (AKA What’s Broken In Education And How Do We Fix It?)
Education is a wicked problem (AKA What’s broken in education and how do we fix it?)