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Navigating a Pathway for Educational Development: Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga

Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga In the realm of education, the journey of learning and development is as significant as the destination itself. “Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga,” or “A Pathway for Educational Development,” developed by Conny Huaki and me offers a profound model for conceptualising and driving forward educational innovation. Rooted in Mātauranga Māori and integrated with…

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Teach better now - Where's the new content for Assessment 6 of the NZCALNE on planning and facilitating embedded literacy and numeracy?

Teach better now – Where’s the new content for Assessment 6 of the NZCALNE on planning and facilitating embedded literacy and numeracy?

Kia ora and welcome to Collection 6

If you’re reading this then you are up to Assessment 6 in the new and improved NZCALNE (Voc).

Good work…! This next part is heart of the programme. The focus is on planning and teaching embedded literacy and numeracy as part of what you do.

Like the other content, it will be live on Pathways Awarua as soon as possible. And as always, you can find on Graeme’s…

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TEACH: What's your supporting evidence?

TEACH: What’s your supporting evidence?

Right-O…! To finish this off, you need to provide evidence that supports the teaching that you’ve done.

We’d prefer it if you provided scans or digital images of your learners’ work. And where possible, we’d like it if you included pictures of your learners doing the work (as well as the actual work that they did).

You’ll need to upload this electronic evidence to Pathways Awarua when you submit…

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TEACH: Session 3 in review

TEACH: Session 3 in review

As well as details of where and when your third session took place, here are the questions you should respond to again. Use the sentence starters if you like. Otherwise, ignore.

There’s 6.2 DOWNLOAD Session 3 in Review and write on. Also, as before, remember that these same questions are in your assessment template.

What went well today?

Overall, here’s what I think went well …

How has your…

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TEACH: Session 1 in review As well as details of where and when this session took place, here are the questions you should respond to.

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TEACH: Joining the dots - approaches, assessments, evaluation

TEACH: Joining the dots – approaches, assessments, evaluation

Joining the dots

In real life, a lot of your planning happens in your head. Sometimes this is explicit. In other words, you’re aware of what you’re doing as you go about planning how you will teach something.

At other times, your planning process might be much less explicit. Planning is a bit like literacy and numeracy. It’s there, but sometimes it’s just not visible.

Because this is a…

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TEACH: Cheat sheet for Writing activities from the Learning Progressions

TEACH: Cheat sheet for Writing activities from the Learning Progressions

You may already have downloaded this resource. If you haven’t and you want to click the link below:

Teaching adults to write to communicate

These resources are filled with activities and ideas that you can use or adapt. But navigating them can be tricky. So we designed a cheat sheet.

Cheat Sheet for Write to Communicate Activities

Here’s how to use it. Just look down the list at the second…

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TEACH: Starting Points & ESOL activities from the Learning Progressions

TEACH: Starting Points & ESOL activities from the Learning Progressions

This resource if for teachers working with very low-level literacy learners. These are often ESOL students.

If you want to have a look, you can download it from the link below:

Learning Progressions – Starting Points

Cheat Sheet for Starting Points Activities

Here’s how to use it. Just look down the list at the second column. This tells you in one sentence what learners actually have to do in…

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