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Learn the basics of using the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy to map the literacy and numeracy demands of your programme and teaching resources.

Course outline

This is a four-week course with online content on Pathways Awarua. It includes three online workshops and a follow-up assessment task.

This course is part of a package of three courses for educators and practitioners who are new to embedding literacy and numeracy. The other two courses are: Getting started | Adult literacy and numeracy and Getting started | Learner-centred teaching and cultural capability.

Topics covered

The course covers an introduction to mapping:

• your programme-level literacy and numeracy demands against strands and progressions
• samples of your teaching materials to progressions and steps/koru.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• describe the process of mapping literacy and numeracy demands
• map the literacy and numeracy demands of your teaching materials to applicable strands, progressions and steps.

Who is this course for?

This course is recommended for new vocational education teaching or learning support staff and others seeking to expand their understanding of the basics of adult literacy and numeracy. It’s designed for new and existing practitioners who are not literacy and numeracy specialists and who have no, or limited knowledge of, adult literacy and numeracy.

Course content aligns with the NZCALNE (Voc) qualification at level 5.

About the facilitator

Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith's education work encompasses professional development with vocational foundation learning educators as well as consulting with government, tertiary organisations and others. His expertise includes literacy, numeracy and cultural capability and the Tapatoru Award framework.

Ako Aotearoa Badges

Participants can earn Ako Aotearoa digital badges as evidence of participation and completion of course requirements.

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