Tag: progressions
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TEACH: Cheat sheet for writing activities from the Learning Progressions
You may already have downloaded this resource. If you haven’t and you want to click the link below: Teaching adults to write to communicate These resources are filled with activities and ideas that you can use or adapt. But navigating them can be tricky. So we designed a cheat sheet. Cheat Sheet for Write to…
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TEACH: Cheat sheet for Starting Points & ESOL activities from the Learning Progressions
This resource is for teachers working with very low-level literacy learners. These are often ESOL students. If you want to have a look, you can download it from the link below: Learning Progressions – Starting Points Cheat Sheet for Starting Points Activities Here’s how to use it. Just look down the list at the second…
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TEACH: Cheat sheet for reading activities from the Learning Progressions
You may already have downloaded this resource. If you haven’t and you want to click the link below: Teaching adults to read with understanding These resources are filled with activities and ideas that you can use or adapt. But navigating them can be tricky. So we designed a cheat sheet. Cheat Sheet for Read with…
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TEACH: What are some guidelines for adapting someone else’s literacy and numeracy activities?
While we want to encourage you to develop and use your own activities for your context, we do understand that sometimes you need to start with what others have already done. And one good place to look is in the support resources that accompany the Learning Progressions. We’re going to sort through these and tell…
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TEACH: I have my own ideas for literacy and numeracy activities… What should I do?
If you’ve got your own ideas, you should experiment…! Go for it. Consider this your express permission to try new things. Here’s the catch though: Sometimes things don’t work out as planned. Even with the best plans. But that’s ok. It’s just feedback. It’s not a failure if you try something and it doesn’t work.…
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TEACH: Can I see an example of some planning for a literacy activity?
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…
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TEACH: How should I plan my teaching sessions and activities?
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…
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TEACH: What does it look like when you use teaching strategies in context?
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…
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TEACH: Using teaching strategies
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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…
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TEACH: What are teaching strategies?
In Collection 4, we talked about broad programme-level strategies. And you wrote short statements that summarised the “big picture” direction for your embedding. Here we want to talk about a different kind of strategy – teaching strategies. These are also called instructional strategies. In general terms, a teaching strategy is simply any teaching approach that…