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Competency
The knowledge, cognitive and practical skills, and the attitudes (including motivation) needed to meet demands or carry out tasks successfully.
Context, contextualise
Contextualising literacy and numeracy learning means using topics, tasks or situations from the contexts learners are in (for example, a vocational course, a workplace) as the basis for literacy or numeracy instruction.
Course
A specific and prescribed series of instructional or study tasks or sessions. Several courses may together form a programme of study.
Curriculum
The content of a course or programme; the topics, tasks and activities that, together, form the teaching and learning within a course.
Demands
Requirements or needs for a task, for example, the reading skill required to read and interpret a document.
Diagnostic
Used to identify, indicate or characterise something. For example, a diagnostic assessment is used to identify specific skills.
Embedded teaching and learning
Teaching and learning of one subject or skill (for example, literacy) within the context and tasks of another subject or skill (for example, panel beating).
Integrated instruction
This term is used to describe the weaving together of vocational instruction with literacy and numeracy instruction. In New Zealand this is now referred to as “embedded instruction”.
Key performance indicators
The most relevant indicators or achievements used to evaluate the work performance of an organisation, a team or person.
Learning support tutor
A tutor who provides support to learners (and/or their tutors) who have learning difficulties. These difficulties typically include literacy or numeracy. Support may be provided in a variety of ways.
Literacy
Literacy is the written and oral language people use in everyday life and work. A person’s literacy refers to the extent of their oral and written language skills and knowledge and their ability to apply these to meet the varied demands of their personal, study and work lives.
Needs
The knowledge, skills and abilities that are necessary in order to perform particular tasks or to carry out particular activities.
Numeracy
Numeracy is the bridge between mathematics and real life. A person’s numeracy refers to their knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and their to ability to use their mathematical knowledge to meet the varied demands of their personal, study and work lives.
Outcomes
Results. The achievement of the goals set for a particular programme, course or learners.
Programme
A planned and coordinated sequence of study to achieve a specified aim. A programme is often made up of separate or linked courses.
Qualification
A recognised acknowledgement that a person has satisfactorily completed a prescribed programme or course of study.
Specialist literacy and/or numeracy tutor
A tutor who has expertise in literacy and/or numeracy instruction. Specialist literacy and/or numeracy tutors provide support to learners and other tutors in a variety of ways, most often through supporting embedded literacy and numeracy in vocational or other programmes.
Strengths
Abilities, skills or knowledge.
Teaching team
The group of people who, together, are responsible for instruction within a programme. In a tertiary organisation, teaching teams may comprise a mix of tutors who are specialists in subject, discipline, vocational or work areas as well as tutors who are specialists in teaching literacy and/or numeracy.
Tertiary education organisation
Institutes of technology and polytechnics, universities, wānanga, private training establishments, industry training organisations, other tertiary education providers, rural education activities programmes.