It’s always good when you learn something new from your learners. A task from one of the courses we are running was for learners to create a screencast teaching other people how to do something on a computer. The literacy focus was on speaking skills – consideration of the needs / level of understanding of
Jill Woodward at Elizabeth Knox Home & Hospital mentioned in her testimonial that they held IELTS training for overseas nurses in order for them to gain registration to work as RNs in New Zealand. For this, they need to have their clinical qualifications assessed by NZQA, achieve IELTS 7.0 across all bands and then participate
A testimonial from Dhivinya Naicker at Royal District Nursing Society – New Zealand mentions the impact of the course we’ve delivered for them on community carers’ lives outside the workplace. It’s fantastically rewarding when you hear snippets of how the course has contributed to changes in learners’ lives outside work. For example, they have started
We’d like to congratulate Jill Woodward, CEO, and the team at Elizabeth Knox Home and Hospital on the Health Ed Trust Training and Staff Development Award they won at the NZACA/INsite Excellence in Care Awards conference in Rotorua. The award recognises Knox’s training and staff development innovations to improve education, wellbeing, safety, and staff satisfaction.
At the end of every input session we teach, we include a 5 minute reflection session in which we encourage learners think about what they have been doing in the session, say what they’ve learnt and think about how they are going to apply that learning at work. Learners get to share their reflections with
Garold Murray, Associate Professor in the Foreign Language Education Center at Okayama University and some of his colleagues came to visit us at our base in Princes Street the other day. As a researcher, he has published a number of extensive longitudinal studies of learners recording their stories of strategy use, motivation and progress over
This is an interesting article from the United States about a case where employees feel excluded because they overhear people speaking a different language. Particularly interesting because the employees are English speakers from the historically dominant linguistic culture and it’s their managers who are speaking Spanish! We haven’t heard of too many New Zealand equivalents