Being a Teacher Video: Teachers as Knowledge-workers
This video is part of the Saide Education Series "Being a Teacher" module. The video shows the teacher as knowledge-worker, with a biology lesson as a basis for exploring ‘lecture’ type approaches to teaching factual content in relation to the learner-centred facilitation of learning. Click here to view this video. [1] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96IfdWfBSlE more
Being a Teacher Video : Part One
This video forms part of the "Being a Teacher" study pack of Saide's education series. It reflects on student teachers’ and other teachers’ doubts and concerns about the status of teaching; and secondly gets the viewpoint of two celebrities on what good teachers meant for them.Click here to view this video [1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJUAjVOFtQ more
Being a Teacher: Section Six - Teachers, values and society
Nothing in teaching is free of social dimensions and value questions. Teaching can therefore not be ‘neutral’, and teachers cannot sidestep the issue of their role in relation to sets of values. This section explores the role of the teacher in exercising and encouraging particular values. Compulsory schooling means placing vast numbers of learners behind desks approximately 170 mornings a... more
Being a Teacher: Section Five - The teacher as knowledge-worker
Being a Teacher: Professional Challenges and Choices. Section Five, The teacher as knowledge–worker. Should teachers be imparting content knowledge or playing the role of a facilitator in a more learner-centred approach? This fundamental question – which may not have an either / or answer – links well the module ‘Learners and Learning’. We have just explored the ‘in authority’ role of... more
Being a Teacher: Section Four - The teacher's authority: sustaining an effective learning environment
Being a Teacher: Professional Challenges and Choices, Section Four, The teacher’s authority: sustaining an effective learning environment. The issue of an orderly learning environment (involving rules, discipline and punishment) is explored in relation to broader issues of individual rights and freedom in a democracy. There are three main questions that propel this section: How are teachers... more
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
Supporting Collaboration and Harnessing of OER Within the Policy Framework of KNUST
Supporting Collaboration and Harnessing of OER Within the Policy Framework of KNUST: Report Prepared by OER Africa on Behalf of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). As part of a broader process of stimulating collaboration amongst distance education providers taking place under the auspices of the African Council on Distance Education’s Technical Committee on... more
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