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Why compulsory mathematics? What difference do teachers make? How to choose educational software
 
Why compulsory mathematics?

Why compulsory mathematics?

With the average age of Civil Engineers in SA at approximately 57 years of age, we are going to experience major problems in SA over the next 10 – 30 years with our roads, dams, electricity, water reticulation, building and construction industries, unless we can somehow change the critical Maths and Science situation in SA.

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What difference do teachers make?

What difference do teachers make?

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?".

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How to choose educational software

How to choose educational software

Teachers go crazy for educational software. I’ve witnessed this first hand. As I sell educational software for EvaluNet, this obviously encourages me. The crux of the matter however, is that there are too many schools out there who have too many educational software products that they just don’t use – either because they don’t have time, [...]

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‘Stupid-as-Zuma’ teacher gets warning

23 February 2010

A Durban high school teacher has landed in hot water over remarks she made in her classroom, comparing her pupils' behaviour to that of President Jacob Zuma. The incident, for which the Reservoir Hills Secondary School teacher has been given a written warning, happened on Tuesday last week.

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Die Begin

Die Begin

19 February 2010

Ek wil nie voorgee dat ek ooit myself gesien het as onderwyser nie, en daarom was dit nogal ‘n aanpassing om weer gewoond te raak aan die roetine van skoolgaan. Soos enige jong onderwyser, was ek aanvanklik skepties en selfs ‘n bietjie skrikkerig.

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Posted in Hoërskool Oorlewing 20 Comments

Viva language teachers viva!

18 February 2010

I don’t believe that it is just bias on my part which makes me believe that the most hard-driven teachers in our schools are our language teachers. From one point of view, they are better off because they have always had a huge marking load and were therefore not fazed, as other teachers were, by having to do Continuous Assessment (CASS).

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Posted in Curriculum, Venter Ventilates3 Comments

Let’s MIXit!

16 February 2010

One of the demands of OBE is that teaching should be ‘learner-centred’ rather than ‘teacher-/educator-centred’. This is probably one of the main reasons for the failure of OBE. Let's not reduce teachers to being a mere 'facilitator'.

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Posted in Changes & Updates, Venter Ventilates8 Comments

Yo, Pravin! Tax the fatcats so every kid can have a computer

10 February 2010

Ok, Jake and you okes. Cool it. Lissin up. Stilte. Thula. Shuddap, bliksems! Can the suits from Vodacom and MTN at the back put away their free mobiles? I want to talk about kids and computers and how every kid should have one. Unless they do, they'll remain peasants in some 19th century backwater.

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Threat to religious freedom in schools

05 February 2010

Late last year Prof. George Claassen, the Chairman of Sceptics South Africa, issued ‘an ultimatum’ for schools in South Africa to stop teaching religion in the classroom. Claassen warned that Sceptics South Africa is ‘monitoring’ schools to ensure that there is no Bible reading or prayer. Claassen maintains that it is ‘unacceptable’ that some schools [...]

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Posted in Changes & Updates, News3 Comments

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