Being a Teacher: Section Three - Teaching as a profession
Being a Teacher: Professional Challenges and Choices. Being a Teacher: Section Three, Teaching as a profession. The meaning and implications of teachers’ professional responsibilities are developed and extended through comparison with other professions. At the end of Section Two, we posed a challenge, asking you how you could become ‘part of the solution’ in our current teaching context, and... more
Being a Teacher: Section Two - Being a teacher in South Africa
Being a Teacher: Section Two - Being a teacher in South Africa. This section is not as strongly rooted in South Africa as its title suggests. It addresses the basic question of what it means to be a teacher in a broader social setting. This module is an attempt to dispel much of this uncertainty, to help you understand and cope with a degree of uncertainty, and to help you to develop some... more
Being a Teacher: Section One - Introducing the module
Being a Teacher: Professional Challenges and Choices. This section argues the case for studying what ‘being a teacher’ means in relation to national needs and those of individual learners, and explains how the writers intended the module to be tackled. This module sets out to address each of these issues in ways that will enable you to teach with greater confidence based on deeper... more
Being a Teacher: Cover, title and imprint pages, with contents list and preface
Being a Teacher, Professional Challenges and Choices. Teachers are not just teachers. They are also people. In straddling issues of both professional and personal identity, this module comes to grips with the professional choices teachers are required to make, and do make, in developing the knowledge, skills and values of learners. This module is suitable for both inducting novice teachers... more
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