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Jobs for Literacy & Numeracy Tutors in the Waikato Region

Jan 31, 2019

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Graeme Smith

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Land-Based Training is seeking expressions of interest from passionate and suitably qualified Literacy and Numeracy specialists in the Waikato region. Land-Based Training is an award-winning Private Training Establishment (PTE) offering courses throughout the North Island. They provide tertiary education which prepares people for employment. The position requires you to have the following: NCALNE Level 5 Excellent computer…
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…
Numeracy Strategies: 3 More Useful Examples

Mar 27, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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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…
Experienced Workplace Literacy Contract Tutors required: Napier-Hastings

Mar 1, 2017

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Graeme Smith

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From time to time, people ask me to post job ads. I’m always happy to do so. Here’s the latest one as of Feb 2017. All contact to the organisation please. Cheers, Graeme. Training For You Ltd is an award-winning tertiary education provider that believes that education is the key to making a difference in the…
Literacy & Numeracy Job Vacancies: Kaiako / Tutor Positions With Te Wananga o Aotearoa and Corrections

Sep 9, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Here’s the first job vacancy announcement for the Job Board from my friends at Te Wananga O Aotearoa. Seems fitting that it’s International Literacy Day. Perhaps you should celebrate by getting a new job. Did I say that there are 14 positions available? This is exciting work moving forward in the most challenging teaching environment you…
Literacy & Numeracy Jobs Wanted: Setting Up LN Job Board

Jul 22, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Are you looking for staff with literacy and numeracy expertise and credentials? If you have a literacy and numeracy related job to advertise, I will post it here for free. The same thing applies if you are looking for a contractor or consulting expertise relating to adult literacy and numeracy. At the moment, I am only…
Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) Job Board: Anyone interested…?

Jul 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I’m thinking of adding a Job Board to my blog. Or alternatively, I might set up another site just to deal with this if it got a lot of traffic. There aren’t that many jobs relating to literacy and numeracy and foundation learning, but then again the pool of talent is quite small as well. Job…
How do you survive as a teacher or tutor in a rapidly changing education landscape?

Apr 1, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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So… what to do about it? If you’re like me you probably think a lot about what you need to do to survive and hopefully thrive in a rapidly changing educational landscape. Or if you don’t think about it you should… You can hide for a while from the massive changes ahead for work, education, and…
How to get started on Assessment 2 of the NCALNE (Voc) on Maori Literacy and Numeracy

Nov 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re feeling like you’re having a tough time getting started on Assessment 2 of your NCALNE (Voc) on Maori Literacy and Numeracy there are quite a few resources here on my blog. Some are feeling a little dated now and are likely to get a refresh over 2015 and moving forward, but for now…
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…