Being a Vocational Educator: A Guide for Lecturers in FET Colleges
This guide is about enabling craftspeople (those qualified in particular vocations as say plumbers, electricians, etc.) to develop the skills and knowledge required to successfully fill the roles that are necessary for a vocational educator and to thus shift the emphasis from vocational identification to identification as a vocational educator. Key to this process is the examination of... more
Cape Foundation Phase Research Programme: Quality Teaching and Teacher Education Practice
If you are a lecturer responsible for supporting teacher development at the Foundation Phase (FP) level, this guide is for you. It explores fundamental principles of Early Childhood Education (ECE) practice, offering what we hope is a clear but critical explanation of what is called ‘Developmentally Appropriate Practice’ (DAP). This explanation is accompanied by a series of reflections which... more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams with Accompanying Toolkit
One of the important lessons learnt in our research has been that a new paradigm for schools needs to become entrenched – one in which schools are conceptualised as centres of care and support. This notion is not a new one; rather, it is well rooted in existing policy. The need to make the shift from a narrow focus on what schools do and how they are led, to the notion of schools as centres... more
Assessment for Learning: Using Learners' Test Data for Professional Development in the Foundation Phase
The purpose of this course is to help you as a mathematics teacher to use information (data) from the assessment of learners’ work to improve teaching and learning in your classroom. The five units show you how to become more aware of the errors your learners make, how to understand these errors and the misconceptions that may have caused them, as well as how to plan lessons and assessment... more
Assessment for Learning: Using Learners' Test Data for Professional Development.
This five unit course is intended for mathematics teachers who work / teach in primary schools. The approach taken in the course can also be used in secondary school mathematics teaching but the mathematics content in the course activities is for grades 3 to 7. The purpose of this course is to help you as a mathematics teacher to use information (data) from the assessment of learners... more
Standards for Teacher Performance
Read this tool on standards for teaching performance. This ‘quick resource’ will help you find sources around quality and standards in initial teacher education. more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Five - Making learning time and space for large classes
Section Five builds on concepts developed throughout the module and on the idea that how teachers solve problems relating to space and time depends on what their teaching purpose is and on who the learners are. By the end of this section, you should be able to: * see how crowded space hinders teaching and learning; * use your judgement in developing an appropriate approach to arranging... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Four - Classroom time and space
Section Four focuses on internal arrangements of time and space and how these affect teaching and learning. By the end of the section you should be able to use the following concepts to help you think about how to arrange classroom space and time for purposeful learning: • physical space and clock time; • external and internal time and space; • practical and symbolic reasons; • allocated and... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Three - School time and space: How school teaching is shaped by arrangements of external time and space
Section Three focuses on external arrangements of time and space and how these affect teaching and learning. By the end of the section you should be able to use the following concepts to help you think about different ways of arranging time and space at schools and to understand how these arrangements both help and hinder teaching: • external time and space; • structuration; • order and chaos... more
Working in Classrooms: Teaching, Time and Space. Learning Guide - Section Two
Time and space in teaching: Teaching as a practice that shapes, and is shaped by, time and space. By the end of the section you should be able to use concepts to help you think about school teaching and how it is related to arrangements of time and space. Section Two builds a conceptual foundation for the module as a whole. By the end of the section you should be able to use the... more
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