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Making Connections: teaching in the adult literacy and numeracy classroom

Making Connections: teaching in the adult literacy and numeracy classroom. Jacquie Widin University of Technology, Sydney. 1. Introduction. Background to the project: What are the attributes of an effective adult language, literacy and /or numeracy teacher?

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Making Connections: teaching in the adult literacy and numeracy classroom

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  1. Making Connections: teaching in the adult literacy and numeracy classroom Jacquie Widin University of Technology, Sydney

  2. 1. Introduction • Background to the project: • What are the attributes of an effective adult language, literacy and /or numeracy teacher? • How do the teachers manage to integrate the vocational education course with the teaching of English? • How do the teachers develop a strong group/cohort identity among the learners? • What insights can we gain by seeing practices in terms of a post-method pedagogy and the social capital outcomes of teaching?

  3. DVD Excerpt 1 • The Setting • The learners • The teachers

  4. ‘a thoroughly relational practice’ Noddings (2003: 249) • What do we mean by making connections? • - connections amongst the learners • - connections between the learners and teachers • - connections between and within the the classroom and the social world

  5. Post-method pedagogy • Kumaravadivelu (2003) describes teaching as a relationship between three dimensions: • Particularity • Practicality • Possibility

  6. Social Capital Outcomes • Balatti, Black and Falk (2006) • Social Capital derives from: • Networks with students • Networks with staff • Formal class networks

  7. DVD Excerpt 2. • Evidence that teaching is a thoroughly relational activity, • The teachers are working ‘beyond methods’, • Students are accumulating social capital

  8. In conclusion: • What can we say about the attributes of an effective teacher?

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