Teacher's Monthly experience
The “flipped” classroom is an idea that teachers shoot a video of a lesson, then make the video available online for learners to view at home. Class time is devoted to problem solving and guidance. It’s an approach that flips the delivery of the lesson to homework. Dorian Love posted an excellent piece with various [...]
Moeletsi Mbeki: What I’ve learnt
What you teach your children forms their lives. We were surrounded by books growing up. I remember trying to read my first novel about sailors and boat operators on the Volga River in Russia. It was a complete mystery to me, coming from a village in the Eastern Cape trying to imagine this vast river. My parents owned a store and as my father was the Eastern Cape editor of the New Age, a left-wing newspaper, we not only sold it but read it. We worked in the shop, which I liked, but when my mother would call us to help in the garden I didn’t enjoy that as much.
