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DEMANDS – New Content for the new NZCALNE Assessment 3 with ALEC

Mar 23, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Kia ora ano and welcome back You’re up to the third assessment task in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc). Kai pai you…! We’re working hard to get all new content for this and other modules live on Pathways Awarua, but until then you can find the first draft here. The new Assessment 3 still focuses…
What Are Some Specific Reading Demands? How To Map Them in 7 Surefire Steps?

Mar 21, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Reading Demands – What Are Some Specific Reading Demands And How Do you Map Them?
Narrowing the focus: mapping to progressions and steps

Mar 20, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Knowing the demands, Learning Progressions, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, Progressions, Uncategorized

In the last two modules, you learned how to map your teaching programme to the strands and progressions of the Learning Progressions. Next, we’ll be looking at how you map some specific samples of your teaching materials or other content to the progressions and steps of the Learning Progressions. In the modules that follow, you’ll learn…
Demands: Understanding what the numeracy progressions are…

Mar 20, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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What are the big picture numeracy demands? By identifying the most important literacy progressions for your own teaching situation, you’ve started to map the big picture demands. Now we need to do the same thing for numeracy. By the end of this module, you should have some ideas about: Which numeracy strands are relevant for…
Demands: Understanding what the literacy progressions are…

Mar 18, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Knowing the demands, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Uncategorized

What are the big picture literacy demands? From here you’ll be working towards completing Assessment 3. In the first part, we look at the big picture demands. By the end, you should have an idea about: Which literacy strands are relevant for your teaching. Which progressions from these strands are relevant. Not everything is going…
Demands: What are strands, progressions and steps?

Mar 16, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Knowing the demands, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, Uncategorized

As we learned in the first part of this course, the strands are the big content areas. These are the big grids that we’ll use for mapping. Literacy has four strands and numeracy has three. These are as follows: Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy Listen to understand Speak to communicate Read with understanding Write to…
3. Knowing the demands: Analysing the literacy and numeracy demands of your programme

Mar 15, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Kia ora and welcome…! This is the third of seven collections covering the knowledge and skills you need to teach better by embedding literacy and numeracy into your training. By the end of this third part, you will have covered: What you need to know to map the literacy and numeracy demands of your programme.…
Under the hood: The Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy

Feb 15, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Embed literacy and numeracy, Learning Progressions, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Progressions, Uncategorized

The Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy are one of the main frameworks we use for understanding how to embed literacy. We often refer to it as just the Literacy Progressions. It’s part of a pair of progressions we use in adult teaching. The other one is the Learning Progressions for Adult Numeracy. More on that…
What’s under the hood? Frameworks for teaching better

Feb 15, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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As well as knowing what we mean when we use words like embedding and literacy or numeracy, we also need to know what kind of thinking sits behind these concepts. Getting to this is like popping the bonnet or hood of your car and having a look at what’s underneath. You can drive a car…
Plain English Definitions for the Literacy Progressions

Nov 28, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Learning Progressions, Uncategorized

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…