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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

in Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Graeme Smith, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Pathways Awarua, Uncategorized

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…
How Should We Evaluate Our Training?

Apr 21, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Evaluation, Game design, Good Design, Instructional, Question, Questions, Uncategorized, UX

I’m changing how I think about course evaluation… And how everything should be evaluated. Here’s a new set of questions. Try them out for yourself after the next training session you deliver. Or attend. Or after any new experience: What did that experience enable? What can I now do? What can I now show others? What will…
Adobe Illustrator Is Transforming How I Develop Teaching Materials

Sep 4, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adobe, Design, Development, Education, Illustrator, Instructional, Literacy, Materials, Numeracy, Resource, teaching, Training, Transforming

I’m really slow at this, but I’m enjoying how using Adobe Illustrator is changing and improving how I go about developing teaching resources. There’s a lot jammed on this page, but it’s also high definition. It’s designed to be printed at A3 or larger if possible. This is everything that my students need to know…
7 Things You Need To Do To Totally Dominate Literacy and Numeracy

Aug 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Ronda Rousey

The other day I listed a bunch of reasons why you need to punch literacy and numeracy in the face. Today I want to tell you how to be the Ronda Rousey of adult literacy and numeracy education. Some of this you can do on your own. Mostly, though you need to do this as an…
What do entrepreneurs do that you could do if you work in education? Part 1: Ideas, concepts, tools

Jun 29, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 2.0, ALEC, Edtech, Education, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, entrepreneur, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

Literacy and numeracy is a tough business to work in due to the increasing demands of… well, everything. I have a conference workshop coming up soon and I’m going to argue that one of the things that has worked well for me (in terms of daily survival) is training myself to think and act more…
NCALNE (Voc) => NZCALNE (Voc) Update

Apr 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, Adult, Education, Literacy, NCALNE, NZCALNE, NZQA, Qualifications, Review, Training, TRoQ, Voc

For anyone who’s interested in the progress of the replacement qualification for the NCALNE (Voc), my summary of the work to date happening on the NZQA side is below: Towards the end of last year the Teacher Education Governance Group, based on a summary of sector feedback recommended that the NZCALNE (Voc) was submitted for…
What to do if your adult learners have dyslexia

Mar 24, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 2015, 21204, Adult, Adults, Diagnosing, Diagnostic, Dyslexia, Dyslexic

This is another issue that comes up from time to time in our training. Effectively diagnosing and working with dyslexia falls outside of the narrow range of skills that we tend to focus on with our literacy and numeracy professional development and training with trades and vocational tutors. However, it does come up in discussions with…
2015 NCALNE (Voc) Options with Pathways Awarua and ALEC

Feb 4, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Embed, embedded, embedding, Fees, For, Free, Graeme, Literacy, MIT, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Numeracy, Professional Development, Scholarships, Smith, TEC, Training, You

Pathways Awarua NCALNE (Voc) 2015 Introducing the NCALNE (Voc) The National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace) is a 40 credit level 5 entry level professional development qualification for trades, vocational and other specialist content-area tutors required to embed literacy and numeracy into their training. This qualification, abbreviated to the NCALNE (Voc), is…
Group Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking

Nov 1, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This post carries on my collection of a few different diagnostic assessment tools for use with learners with literacy and numeracy issues. So far I’ve looked at: A basic, but fairly broad numeracy diagnostic assessment. Creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank to help you do this. A learner observation checklist for…
How to get started embedding vocabulary into your training by creating a word bank

Oct 30, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Vocabulary rocks…! If you’re going to focus on just one thing when it comes to embedding literacy into your trades or vocational training it has to be vocabulary. Vocabulary runs through all of the literacy progressions and it’s probably the best bang for your buck in terms of time spent embedding anything on the literacy side of…