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 Seven. Making a difference
Being a Teacher: Professional Challenges and Choices. Section Seven | Making a difference. What essential qualities do teachers (and schools) need in order to make a difference. This section provides a platform for teacher agency and reflective practice. When you have completed this section, you should be able to: * demonstrate a significantly richer understanding of the term... 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 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
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Toolkit: Unit 7 - Counselling support for vulnerable learners.
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
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams. Toolkit: Unit 6 - School-based aftercare.
The purpose of this toolkit is to use a brainstorming technique to come up with creative ideas respond to the challenge of providing aftercare support for vulnerable learners. To use the ideas from the brainstorming session to inform the development of a draft set of ideas for an aftercare strategy. more
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