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LONDON  | The Latest: 'Intense effort' didn't seal UK-EU Brexit deal

LONDON  | The Latest: ‘Intense effort’ didn’t seal UK-EU Brexit deal

LONDON  — The Latest on Britain’s departure from the European Union (all times local): 7:50 p.m.

The European Union’s top Brexit negotiator says urgent talks with Britain’s point person did not result in their reaching agreement on outstanding issues.

EU negotiator Michel Barnier said: “Despite intense efforts, some key issues are still open” in the divorce talks between the European Union and…

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AFTER: How do I review my teaching and reflect on the next steps?

AFTER: How do I review my teaching and reflect on the next steps?

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.

Reflective teaching is simply the process where you think about your teaching practice and…

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AFTER: Why do I have to involve my boss in the evaluation?

AFTER: Why do I have to involve my boss in the evaluation?

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 programme leader.

A colleague that is acting as study support person.

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AFTER: What does it all mean? Analysing your learners' literacy and numeracy progress?

AFTER: What does it all mean? Analysing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress?

Next, you need to analyse your learners’ results in relation to key programme demands by:

Summarising progress results including identifying strengths and needs for each learner.

Describing implications from the results that can inform the design of future literacy and numeracy teaching and learning strategies

We have prompts for all of this to guide you in the template for Assessment 7. But if…

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AFTER: What evidence do I need to start pulling together for Assessment 7?

AFTER: What evidence do I need to start pulling together for Assessment 7?

There’s a short list below. These aren’t the only things, but now is a good time to recap what you should be doing and supplying as evidence so far.

Here is the checklist from the start of Assessment 7. This is the same as in your assessment template. You need to use and then supply the following things as supporting evidence:

Contextualised literacy

Learner A: Completed assessment

Learner B:…

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AFTER: What do I actually do for a collaborative assessment?

AFTER: What do I actually do for a collaborative assessment?

There are instructions below for yourself and your learners. Download and adapt the worksheet to fit your learners and teaching context.

Tutor Instructions

Choose two or three literacy or numeracy activities, goals or learning areas for the group to focus on.

Record these on the group worksheet. You can type over the prompts and make it your own.

Decide whether you need to facilitate the…

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AFTER: What is collaborative assessment and how do I use it?

AFTER: What is collaborative assessment and how do I use it?

What is a collaborative assessment?

Group collaborative assessment is when two or more learners attempt to assess some aspect or aspects of their own learning together. In other words, the focus in a collaborative assessment is on what the group thinks they have learned.

We covered this in the content for Collection 5. In a nutshell, though:

Learner self-assessment asks this question: “How good…

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AFTER: Just do it...! Assessing your learners' literacy and numeracy progress

AFTER: Just do it…! Assessing your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress

Reusing your contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments

Ok…! You should be set up for this already. Now is the time for you to go ahead and assess your learners’ literacy and numeracy progress. For most people, this means simply reusing your contextualised literacy and numeracy assessments from Assessment 5. This means that it’s more of a re-assessment for most people.

As mentioned, you’ll…

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