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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

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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: What are strands, progressions and steps?

Mar 16, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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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…
Let’s just sort out the confusion around steps versus levels when it comes to literacy and numeracy

Oct 30, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I didn’t create this confusion, but I’d like to clear it up… One of the things that people I meet seem constantly confused about is the difference between some very similar sounding language that we use in education, and in particular, in the field of literacy and numeracy, to describe things like skills. Here are…
12 Steps You Can Take to Disrupt Education

Apr 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I know, I know… you’d rather not. Nor would any of us really, but I’m working on a manifesto for disrupting education. This is not because I think I know how to do it, but rather because I think it’s inevitable and I want to set myself something to work towards. These are some of…