01 March 2010
In the upcoming months you'll find out what a young gent who works as a Marketing Manager/Graphic Designer has to say about schools, education, art and design in schools as well as his recent nostalgic memories of the institution he called home for 12 years.
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28 February 2010
Malcolm Venter The 2009 Matric results have, once again, revealed the sad state of our education system, with two out of every five who wrote failing, and with a pass rate 2% lower than in 2008. The pass rates for gateway subjects such as Maths, Science and Accounting, and the failure rate for Home Language were [...]
28 February 2010
Teaching English Today Dear education colleagues Teaching English Today (TET), a venture of the English Academy of Southern Africa, is due to be launched in May 2010. TET will be a web–based, interactive journal for teachers of English in the FET phase. It will be a vehicle for teachers and teacher educators to debate critical issues, to share [...]
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28 February 2010
Englishnet is a new website created by English teachers, for English teachers. It was created specifically to host resources for the teaching of the South African English Language curriculum. This website offers a range of resources from lesson plans, to programmes of assessment, electronic marksheets, specific lessons on the prescribed literature, etc. It also has [...]
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28 February 2010
Malcolm Venter Years ago, I came home with a delightful little book entitled Bureaucrats: How to Annoy Them. The author, who loathes bureaucrats with a deep, deep loathing , relates some hilarious tales about how he set out to annoy British bureaucrats – a sort of revenge saga. Knowing that I have similar sentiments about these [...]
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27 February 2010
The National Curriculum Statement indicates clearly that learners must be encouraged to think critically and to engage in problem-solving: v The Critical Outcomes require learners to ‘identify and solve problems and make decisions using critical and creative thinking’ (p2). v The ‘kind of learner envisaged’ must ‘demonstrate an ability to think logically and analytically, as well has [...]
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