Tag: Strategy
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Numeracy Strategies: 3 More Useful Examples
Numeracy strategies for vocational tutors Here are some more examples of numeracy strategies developed by tutors for embedding numeracy into their programmes. These are the kind of concise summaries that you’ll also need to write for your assessment if you’re doing the NZCALNE (Voc). Don’t forget, for assessment purposes for this course, you only need…
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Strategies: How to write your own strategy for embedding measurement into your programme
If you are going to focus on measurement, it makes sense to combine this with a focus on number as well. For example, many learners need to strengthen their knowledge of our number system and how place value works if they have to use metric measurement and related calculations in their trade. In other words,…
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Strategies: How to write your own strategy for embedding number skills into your programme
Time to do some work It’s your turn again. Design your own numeracy strategy by choosing from the options below. Download the worksheet to record your ideas. As always, you can skip ahead to the Assessment template and get started on this part right away. For your assessment, you only need to focus on one…
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Strategies: How do you write a numeracy strategy?
If you know what you’re going to write for your numeracy strategy, feel free to skip ahead to the assessment template and get started. If you want to walk through the process again for numeracy, please read on. As with your literacy strategy, there should be three parts. The process is the same as before.…
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Strategy: Thinking more deeply about your literacy strategy
In order for your literacy strategy to be effective, you need to consider your answers to the following questions. These are all on the worksheets and are the same as what you’ll find in your assessment template. Here’s a list of the questions below. Then we’ll work through each one. If you know what to…
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Strategy: How to write your own strategy for embedding writing
This time you need to create your own strategy for embedding writing into your programme. You can download it here if you need it. Choose one or two items from the box and then add your own context below. Write out a final draft summarising your strategy. If you need to, make any changes to…
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Strategies: How to write your own strategy for embedding reading
Time to do some work It’s your turn. Design your own literacy strategy by choosing from the options below. Download our worksheet to record your ideas if you want to. Alternatively, you can skip ahead to the Assessment template and get started on this part right away. Have a play with the ideas here, but keep…
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Strategies: How do you write a literacy strategy?
A good programme-level strategy should feel broad in scope. It should be broad enough that you can apply the strategy to your programme over time. But it should also set some more specific direction in terms of what kinds of skills you’re hoping to develop. We think there should be three parts to your strategy.…
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Strategies: What are your broad strategies for literacy and numeracy?
You’ve had some time to think about your own context for teaching, and to look at what opportunities and constraints you’re facing. Now you need to design at least two broad strategies that you intend to use for embedding literacy and numeracy into your programme. These should be “big picture”, high-level strategies that apply across…
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TEC Literacy and Numeracy Implementation Strategy 2015 – 2019
The TEC released the latest version of their literacy and numeracy strategy the other day. I’ve pasted in the info and links from their website below. From my side, the following things stand out: The TEC remains committed to strengthening the literacy and numeracy skills of New Zealanders. The NCALNE (Voc) remains the baseline qualification for…