Learners and Learning: Section Four: Text as a context for learning
This section will explore the relationship between learners, text, and the world. We will find out how textbooks are written, how learners read, and how teachers can assist learners to read critically. What role do texts and literacy (reading and writing) play in learning, and how can teachers scaffold learning through texts? more
Learners and Learning: Section Three: School learning
In Section Three we will build on these ideas with special reference to schooling. In particular, we want to focus on the following question: "Should the kind of teaching and learning that occurs in schools be more like the learning that occurs in everyday life?" How is school learning different from everyday learning, and how can teachers implement good school learning in their classrooms? more
Learners and Learning: Section Two: Learning to know what we don't know
Section Two begins to focus on how we learn in greater detail. In particular, it explores the following question: "How is it possible for those who do not know something to come to know it?" How do we, as teachers, enable learners to learn by moving them from the known to the unknown. We tackle this question by exploring the ways in which human minds: • construct connections between ideas; •... more
Curriculum: Organizing Knowledge for the Classroom. Section 6
Section 6 is a particularly useful springboard for constructing a module on curriculum because: * Knowledge, when all is said and done, is /the/ central issue in curriculum. Teachers have to be able to organize knowledge. * Section 6 introduces theoretical tools for understanding curriculum concepts. These concepts are invaluable tools for practitioners’ use in understanding the... 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: Section One: About this module
This covers the writers’ understanding of learning and how this informs the learning guide. It also explains how the writers intended the module to be studied. Learners and Learning aims to develop your understanding of learning. It seeks to assist you, as a teacher, to be able to analyse learning, and in so doing, to reflect on what you can do to improve it. We have divided the module into... more
Learners and Learning Module
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 to... 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
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