Early Childhood Development

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After studying this course you will have:

This book is a play manual. It brings together play activities and ideas drawn from the exeriences of people working with children in South Africa. Part 1 describes children's right to play and looks at play rights in practice; Part 2 offers many play activities to try out; and Part 3 explores how we can enable ourselves to make play happen for and with children.

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 raise questions that you as a teacher educator might use to clarify your own thinking, in preparation for teaching and engaging with students.

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 with errors in mind.

In this video, Melissa King of BRIDGE, provides an update on the progress of the development of the ECD CoP’s ECD Quality Reflective Toolkit.

A team of key players from BRIDGE’s National ECD Community of Practice (ECD CoP) and the National ECD Alliance (NECDA) met in dialogue to focus on key challenges facing the ECD sector, the specific strengths and challenges of each structure and the potential for collaboration.

This set of excerpts from a research article compares the ways in which two different preschools (or early learning centres) construct order through different arrangements of time and space.

This programme provides professional development for Grade 1, 2 and 3 educators in the area of numeracy.

The course is for primary school teachers (Foundation and Intermediate Phase). This unit looks at the conceptual groundwork needed for the topic of measurement and investigates some of the conservation tests for measurement concepts.

The course is for primary school teachers (Foundation and Intermediate Phase). In this very short introductory course on statistics, we will outline the most important terminology which is often used in statistics, we will look at ways of representing inf