University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 5: Fair Tests
The outcome of this umthamo relate to integrating the way children think and work scientifically in the classroom. There will be a focus on experimenting, as well as the related process skills of using time relationships and controlling and manipulating variables. Teachers will also be asked to reflect on their role as they help learners develop these science skills. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 4: Finding Out More About Science
This umthato focuses on the living world and emphasizes the value of integrating different learning areas. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 3: Investigation and Inquiry-based Science
In this umthato teachers and learners will build on the development of science process skills by trying activities that promote an inquiry-based approach to science learning. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 2: What's Happening Here?
In this umthamo we continue to think about some of the science process skills. We will continue to base the work on the natural science strand, /Matter and Materials/, but this time it will also be linked to the strand /Energy and change. /In the previous umthamo the focus was on the science skills of observation and predication. This time the skills of inference and developing theories is... more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 6: From Punishment to Discipline
Lo mthamo explores alternatives to corporal punishment and looks for strategies that suit teachers, their learners as well as their parents. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 5: Re-creating School Policy
In this umthamo, we will try to understand policy, and the role of policy in the process of developing 'quality schools'. The umthamo will guide you in evaluating and re-creating policy in your own school. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 4: Healing the System: Improving Our Schools (2)
Lo mthamo continues the series that aims to support personal and organizational development of teachers and schools. In the previous umthamo teachers were asked to to implement as many steps of their school development plan as possible In lo mthamo teachers are asked to reflect on the process of implementation and adjust their plans. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 3: Healing the System: Improving Our Schools
In lo mthamo teachers are encouraged to work with their school management and other school stakeholders to develop their school. They will first look at their own personal development, then at organisational development in order to develop an improvement strategy. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 2: What is a 'Quality School'?
This umthamo will help teachers develop their own pictures of a quality school in the Eastern Cape. This will be done through surveying the school stakeholders and examining an effectiveness, relevance and efficiency approach in studying quality. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 1: Schools: Organizations or "Disorganizations"?
The way schools are organized and managed affects the quality of learning which takes place in them. Ideally schools should be communities. They should be places where different people all have a part to play, and work together in a supportive way, like the members of a family. The first umthamo looks at the way schools are organized. more
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