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The BEST Teacher Ever!

The BEST Teacher Ever!

There’s a story from many years ago of a primary school teacher. Her name was Mrs. Thompson and as she stood in front of her fifth grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said she loved them all the same. But that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard.

Using technology to educate school kids

Using technology to educate school kids

As younger generations become increasingly comfortable with technology, teachers are challenged to integrate these familiar mediums into their lesson plans to engage school learners and keep their attention and interest. Here are some creative approaches to using technology in the classroom and bridging this gap. Xbox Kinect helps teach English In an experimental program, a [...]

Elearning: A solution to matric maths problem?

Elearning: A solution to matric maths problem?

Passionate Cape Town maths and science teacher, Paul Carter, has teamed up with Cambridge University Press and South Africa’s leading online training company to create an eLearning project that he hopes will help improve the struggling matric maths pass rate. Carter feels this is the next step in his quest to make maths more accessible [...]

Teachers, let’s call it a wrap

Teachers, let’s call it a wrap

The other day, I was having a casual conversation with a friend, talking about, what you would call in Afrikaans, “Land and Sand”. Out of that unspecific conversation, it turned out that he was about to go on leave and because of time constraints and still having a lot of work to finish, he couldn’t mail-chat with me like we normally did. I particularly took interest in his motivation to pressure himself with work like that.

When spirit of failure comes in like a flood, a special kind of teacher will raise the standard against it

My mother is a former teacher in the olden days of Bantu Education. Actually I mean she was an educator; I am aware that there are those who draw a line between a teacher and an educator. But a rose by any other name still looks like a rose and smells just as sweet anyway, so the person who teaches is a teacher, finish and klaar!

Angie Motshekga on the national teachers’ strike

The national teachers’ strike has been a major blow to public education, and has had a particularly devastating effect on the education of poor, rural and black children. I am pleased that the industrial action is now probably behind us and that we can begin the process of stabilizing our schools. The Council of Education Ministers and I have considered a range of options, including the extension of the school day, classes on weekends and how best to use the September school holidays, to make up for the lost schooling time.

Helen Zille addresses principals at SAOU

Helen Zille addresses principals at SAOU

Yesterday, Democratic Alliance Leader Helen Zille, delivered the following speech at the Suid Afrikaanse Onderwyser Unie “Principals Symposium” in Port Elizabeth. What most determines a child’s success in the classroom is not their background, their financial circumstances, the curriculum or the resources of the school (although these things all play a role). The crucial variable is the quality of the teaching.

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