I recently saw the following question posted on www.edchatsa.co.za, “Is there still place for a teacher-librarian in a modern school?”. What I find more interesting than the question itself is, what is a ‘modern’ school. There are those who believe that the biggest priority of a school, in order to be classified as ‘modern’, is [...]
Practical Spatial Literacy March Theme: Direction
Our Spatial Literacy theme for March is one of the simplest of Spatial Literacy concepts, that of Direction. This falls into the Location category (see my previous article about categories). In South Africa, we start teaching Direction in early grades but formally in Grades 4, 5 and 6 as it is an integral part of [...]

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