Tag: NZQA
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Sections 2 – 6: ALEC Organisational Self Assessment & Internal Review
Below is the rest of our ALEC summary document for the upcoming NZQA review. You can read our revised ALEC Policies here and the intro to this document here and Section 1 here. Hopefully, I’ll finish the revisions to the new system I’m using for our ALEC internal processes and post those shortly as well. 2.…
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Section 1: ALEC Organisational Self Assessment and Internal Review Summary
Since I posted our revised ALEC Policies the other day and the introduction to our ALEC Organisational Self Assessment and Internal Review Summary I thought I probably don’t have much to lose to post the rest of it. Here’s part 1. Parts 2 – 6 to follow shortly. Please comment. It shows stakeholder engagement… You’ll have…
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ALEC Policies: An Update and Review
I’ve got my head stuck in our QMS at the moment… Right now I’m trolling through all of ALEC’s Policies at the moment as part of our preparation for the upcoming NZQA mandated External Evaluation and Review (EER) which is happening to us later in the year. I’m much clearer this time around on the difference…
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Intro to ALEC’s Organisational Self Assessment and Internal Review
This is the introduction to the document that I’ve been grinding away at all day. Had to post something… Introduction Adult Literacy Education & Consulting (ALEC) Limited is a small private training establishment (PTE) with a focus on delivering high quality adult literacy and numeracy education (ALNE) professional development. This happens via the National Certificate…
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Mandatory Review of Teacher Education Qualifications – Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education Working Group
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Design, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Mandatory review, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZDALN, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal approach, Personal development, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Teaching philosophy, TECI’m very pleased to have been part of the working group looking at the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) qualifications this week. These qualifications are part of the Mandatory Review of Teacher Education Qualifications that is underway at the moment. It feels a little weird doing this after being asked to put my name forward…
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Diploma Brainstorming: Describing your personal approach to embedding or contextualising literacy and numeracy
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, email, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, Mastery, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZCALN, NZDALN, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Professional Development, Qualifications, Software, TEC, Technology, Tutor, Tutor ProfileThis is possibly the first assessment task – or part of the first assessment task – in the Level 6 Diploma of Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education. The name of this qualification is going to change shortly, but we’ll leave that for now: Part 1 Describe your personal philosophy of teaching adult literacy and numeracy: Write…
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Please tell the NZQA that we need to keep the NCALNE (Voc) Qualification…!
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, LNPro, Mandatory review, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZDALN, NZQA, Personal development, Professional Development, QualificationsYour opportunity for feedback closes on Friday. Reading between the lines, there are some in the governance group who will recommend that the NCALNE (Voc) qualification is folded into a generic level 5 adult teaching qualification. My personal view (and ALEC’s view) is that this would be a bad move. Disclaimer: Obviously, we’re biased with…
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Discussion questions (And my answers) for the Revised Tertiary Landscape
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in 21204, ALEC, Compliance, Design, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Edtech, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Mandatory review, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZCALN, NZDALN, NZQA, Professional Development, Qualifications, TECThese are the discussion questions from the governance group at NZQA looking at the review of adult tertiary teaching qualifications at the moment. I’ve inserted my answers. Discussion questions and prompts from the NZQA The following questions are designed to prompt thinking and feedback as you consider the landscape and rationale. 1. To what extent…
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Adult Tertiary Teaching – The Revised Landscape
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It’s kind of a poetic metaphor for a large bureaucracy like the NZQA to use, but they insist on talking about the tertiary landscape. I get it… and I kind of like it… but my mind automatically goes to science fiction novels where the characters are terraforming planets. And perhaps there is a certain amount…
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NZQA Review of Adult and Tertiary Teaching Qualifications (including NCALNE) Update
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Design, DipALNE, Edtech, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Mandatory review, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZDALN, NZQA, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading comprehensionFor those of you tracking these changes or just interested. The NZQA governance group has just published their first discussion document and minutes. You can access it on the NZQA website here. I’ll post further comments when I’ve had a chance to digest it carefully. However, for now: It looks like the NCALNE (Voc) Qualification…