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Why haven’t I self-published a book on how to embed literacy and numeracy into vocational training yet?

Aug 20, 2018

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Graeme Smith

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No good reason really… But today I spent about 12 hours learning how to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing suite of tools and resources. It was most interesting. I especially like that you can generate these previews above that show you what the final publication will look like. The actual editor tool is a bit…
How can vocational teachers from Vietnam improve their teaching practice?

Aug 14, 2018

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Graeme Smith

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One of the ways is to come to New Zealand…! Yesterday I was very lucky to spend some time with a group of vocational teachers from Hanoi in Vietnam. They are in New Zealand for a three-month study tour with Massey University in Auckland learning how to improve their teaching practice. We spent the afternoon…
Talking about NZ’s embedded literacy and numeracy approach with Indonesian vocational teachers at AUT

Nov 2, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Recently, I had the tremendous privilege and pleasure of spending a day at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) talking about literacy and numeracy with a group of vocational teachers and tutors from Indonesia. The group was large. The image above shows half of the team and I need to paste in a second photo below…
Nearly 80,000 words later…! All collections for the NZCALNE (Voc) are now live on Pathways Awarua.

Sep 29, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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If you follow my blog, you’ll know that over the last eight months I have only posted content relating to the new NZCALNE (Voc). Well… we’re done. I finished the writing a few months back, but I’m very happy to report that all seven collections including all the new and revised content are now live…
Teach better now – Where’s the new content for Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc)?

Jul 11, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Kia ora and welcome to Collection 7 If you’re reading this then you are up to Assessment 7 in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc). That means you are up to the final assessment task in the programme…! This next part is about assessing learner progress, reviewing your teaching and working out the next steps.…
AFTER: What are the reflection and review questions?

Jul 10, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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You’ll find the reflection and review questions to finish off this part of the programme below. Your answers are your own evaluation of what you’ve done and how effective it was. You can download the questions here in a form that you can print out and write on if you want to take notes. Otherwise,…
AFTER: How do I review my teaching and reflect on the next steps?

Jul 10, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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It’s time for some R&R. For us, that means to review and reflection. This is the last thing. You have to think about what you’ve done in this programme and reflect on different parts of it. You don’t need to be doing advanced academic qualifications or read a lot of research to be a reflective teacher.…
AFTER: Can you remind me what evaluation evidence I need to supply for the NZCALNE (Voc)?

Jul 10, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Let’s pause for a moment and take stock of what you should be collecting as evaluation evidence for Assessment 7 of the NZCALNE (Voc). You still have to do your own final review, but by now you should have collected two kinds of evaluation evidence. One lot of evidence is from your learner and takes…
AFTER: Why do I have to involve my boss in the evaluation?

Jul 4, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Collaborating with your boss or supervisor to review your teaching delivery is one of the requirements of the NZCALNE (Voc). It’s also good teaching practice. We can’t sign off on the whole qualification unless we have some evidence of this. For our purposes, a supervisor may include any of the following: Your direct manager or…
AFTER: What does a learner evaluation survey look like?

Jul 4, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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Below you’ll find a generic evaluation survey that you may be able to adapt for your own purposes. Download the learner evaluation template There are two pages. One has questions based around a 5-point rating scale. It looks like this: The other has open questions like we discussed earlier and looks like this: You can…