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The other day I wrote about leverage and the value of networks in the age of the Internet. I had a two other thoughts about leverage and networks that I didn’t add. But I’m going to add them here. Here’s the first: You can keep renting out your time, fixated on your weaknesses grinding your…

What is leverage? And what is the most important thing?

May 27, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Leverage, Network, Remote work, work, workplace

’m in the process of trying to rethink how I work and earn. It’s a process of reinvention. Perhaps it’s a continuous and permanent process from now on.

Buy my latest eBook…! How to think like an entrepreneur when you work in education

Sep 7, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, entrepreneur, Executive Education, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

My latest ebook is live this morning on Amazon…! This one has cartoons. You should probably buy it just for the cartoons. If you don’t like cartoons then you probably shouldn’t buy it. Even if you don’t like cartoons you might want to think more like an entrepreneur if you work in education.

How do you think like an entrepreneur when you work in education?

Sep 1, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Education, educator, Educator’s Journey, entrepreneur, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

Excerpt from new eBook out shortly Education is a tough business to work in. And that holds true if you are a tutor, a trainer, or any kind of specialist educator. Or a business owner…. Or all of the above like me. I’m pretty excited about what I do, but some days I can’t understand…

Work available: ELP Auckland West

Jan 17, 2017

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Graeme Smith

in Employment, I want a new job, Job, Job Board, Job Profiles, Jobs, Positions, Uncategorized, Vacant

From time to time, I post job advertisement for people. I’m happy to do it. Just let me know. Also, don’t forget that you can do the NCALNE (Voc) and new NZCALNE (Voc) with us – email assess@alec.ac.nz for details. English Language Partners Auckland West, based in New Lynn, have part time work available from…

Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) Job Board: Anyone interested…?

Jul 20, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Contract, Education, educator, Embed, embedded, Employment, Job Board, Literacy, National register, NCALNE, Numeracy, Trainer, Tutor, work

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 improve your elevator pitch if you work in an obscure education niche…?

Mar 31, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Help, Literacy, niche, Numeracy

In my field, one of the things that we’re crap at is explaining to people in plain English what it is that we actually do. Not only is that ironic, but we tend to undermine our actual work with longwinded explanations that turn us into hypocrites. Here’s my solution. If you work in foundation education, or…

In-depth Literacy and Numeracy Demands of Jobs: Workbase Resources

Mar 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in embedded, Job, Job Profiles, Knowing the demands, Learning Progressions, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, Trades

This work was done before the Learning Progressions became the underpinning framework for assessing and teaching literacy and numeracy in New Zealand, but there are pages and pages of analysis on literacy and numeracy skills and tasks relating to different jobs. I’ve pasted in screenshots from the resource that looks at the job of a truck driver.…

How can we open source our training and still make money working in education?

Jul 22, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 2015, 21204, ako, ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Business model generation, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Creativity, Design, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Facilitator, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Flipped, Hacking, Improve teaching practice, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Metaphors, MOOC, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal approach, Personal development, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Software, TEC, Technology

It’s a good question… and one that is constantly in my mind as the owner of a small niche education business in a very small country. I’m not sure I’ve got the answer, but this is how I see the way forward at the moment. What I’m describing below is a process that for us…

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