Tag: Plain English
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Plain English Definitions for the Numeracy Progressions
In my reductionist quest to make things in education more accessible, I’ve started revising the definitions we use. The reason for this is that they get in the way a lot of the time. And this is because they are too hard to understand. Or not explained well. Or used as a kind of mental…
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Plain English Definitions for the Literacy Progressions
I’ve started writing new course content for the new NZCALNE (Voc) – the latest version of our course. I want to revise the definitions that we use to talk about the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. The terminology is confusing for most people. And some of the existing definitions are not very helpful…