Tag: vocab
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BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my farming programme?
Scenario 3: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my introduction to farming programme? Here’s the next scenario: You’re an agricultural tutor. Your learners are new to farming. They’re adults, but you have a wide range of ages and abilities. You suspect that you’ve got some learners who are used to hiding their…
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BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my painting course?
Scenario 2: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for my painting and decorating programme? Here’s the next scenario: You’re a trades tutor teaching painting and plastering. Your learners are a group of adults with mixed backgrounds and abilities. You suspect that they don’t understand how to work with area calculations. 1. Consider what…
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BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic for a financial literacy class?
Scenario 1: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic assessment for my financial literacy class? Let’s start with the same scenario as we did earlier when we were talking about a financial literacy class. Your approach doesn’t have to be the same, but how would you think about something like this for your own…
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BEFORE: How do I create a contextualised numeracy diagnostic I can use?
How do I create my own contextualised numeracy diagnostic assessment? Once you’ve used the Assessment Tool to get some “broad brush” diagnostic information about the numeracy strengths and needs of your learners, you’ll need to drill down into some more specific areas where you want to focus your embedded numeracy teaching. You don’t have to…
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BEFORE: More examples – Diagnostics for writing
Teaching Adults to Write to communicate We also mentioned this resource in Collection 3. If you need it, you can download it here. There are three ideas for diagnostic writing assessments that you can use or adapt to your trade or another training context. If you already know what you’re doing for your contextualised literacy…
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BEFORE: More examples – Reading diagnostics
We also mentioned this resource in Collection 3. You can download it here if you need it. There are three ideas for diagnostic reading assessments you may wish to use, adapt or modify. If you already know what you’re doing for your contextualised literacy assessment you can skip this. Using reading focus groups This is…
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50 Things You Can Do To Embed Vocabulary Into Training
There are lots of ways to teach and learn new and unfamiliar words. Here’s a list of 50. None of these are new or any kind of rocket science. All 50 are ways of explicitly teaching vocabulary. It’s also possible to learn vocabulary through exposure to new vocabulary incidentally. But that’s another thing altogether. For…
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It’s Not Rocket Science: Embed Specialised Vocabulary With These Simple Matching Activities
Working with specialised language and technical vocabulary represents some of the biggest bang for buck if you’re in education and need to make sure your learners understand what you’re saying to them. Pro-tip Most trainers, trades people, academic staff, and other subject area experts are so close to their own content that they constantly assume…
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How to get started embedding vocabulary into your training by creating a word bank
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Using the online vocab profiler – Part 5 (Sample you can download)
Here’s the last part… You can review how I put together my new vocabulary diagnostic via these links or just read through below and download the sample if you want to modify it. My outline is here. The initial results from the vocabulary profiling software are here. The way that I generated some useable word lists is…