Learners and Learning. Audio Part 3.1: What is the difference between everyday learning and school learning?
The audiotape includes interviews and discussions that cover three key questions: What is learning?; Is there a difference between everyday learning and school learning? How do we teach to enable learning?. For the most part of the 84 minutes of recording we listen to the views of experts who provide interesting and valuable insights and debates. These require careful listening, though, and... more
Learners and Learning. Audio Part 2: How do we get learners to know?
The audiotape includes interviews and discussions that cover three key questions: What is learning?; Is there a difference between everyday learning and school learning? How do we teach to enable learning?. For the most part of the 84 minutes of recording we listen to the views of experts who provide interesting and valuable insights and debates. These require careful listening, though, and... more
Learners and Learning. Audio Part 1: Introduction; Socrates dialogue; What is learning?
The audiotape includes interviews and discussions that cover three key questions: What is learning?; Is there a difference between everyday learning and school learning? How do we teach to enable learning?. For the most part of the 84 minutes of recording we listen to the views of experts who provide interesting and valuable insights and debates. These require careful listening, though, and... more
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Toolkit: Unit 8 - Developing a school-based care and support plan.
The purpose of this toolkit is to conduct a situational analysis or assessment that will help you to understand the size of the challenge and the current capacity of your school to set up a counselling service. To assist you to decide on the most suitable options for implementing counselling support in your school context. more
Learners and Learning: Cover, title and imprint pages, with contents list and preface
As its title suggests, Learners and Learning is a module that addresses most directly the central, core business of schooling. The aim of the module is to improve the teaching abilities of teachers. It accordingly promotes a theoretically informed understanding of what learning is,how it takes place, and how teachers may go about organising systematic learning. The module enables teachers... more
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 into the role of the teacher and for in-service... more
Being a Teacher Video: Being a Professional Teacher
This video forms part of Saide's Education Series Being a Teacher module. There is reflection on the doubts and concerns that were discussed in Part One of the video; then professionalism in the health sector compared to teaching is discussed. What makes a teacher who makes a difference?Click here to view this video [1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58EFAwnKpw more
Being a Teacher: Teachers as Managers
In this video linked to the Study of Education series module Being a Teacher, the management and planning of teaching and creating a suitable learning and caring environment are discussed. Issues of discipline and freedom are also highlighted. Click here to view this video [1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2jkg6HmGw more
Being a Teacher Video: Teachers as Care-givers
This video which forms part of the Saide Education series "Being a Teacher" module provides a reflection on the ‘alternative’ approaches to teaching, leading to an introduction to the teacher’s social responsibility role. Click here to view this video [1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBAFabTd7xw more
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
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