Place yourself in your students’ shoes! What can we learn as professionals from our personal learning journey? As educators and learning professionals, this question left me pondering about our own growth – what can we do to improve workplace learning in our own schools? First and foremost we need to find time to place ourselves […]
Professional development programs for educators are not unique to South Africa. In certain states in America, for example, educators require a licence to teach. This licence needs to be renewed periodically, and renewal depends on a teacher’s professional development credits. In South Africa, the professional development system for teachers is facilitated by the South African […]
Character Education – a trending topic which is now being whispered down the halls and passages on the way to the classroom. Is this a new trend or is there a lack of character education because it falls on the teachers to teach it? To understand the meaning of character education, we need to unpack […]
By: Inge Elliott As a fellow teacher, I know that many of us harbour negative perceptions regarding the concept of professional development. There is already a myriad of pressing administrative duties demanding our attention without the additional strain of developmental requirements, which are often too far removed from the realities of day-to-day teaching to elicit […]
By: Inge Elliott Fast Food Model Ken Robinson, the ‘Ted Talk’ guru on all things education, once equated the modern-day schooling system to that of the fast food industry. The production process is a highly regulated series of procedures that ensures the uniformity and linearity of the final product. Schools are a ‘singular conception of […]
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The South African Council for Educators (SACE) recently announced that the deadline for principals and deputy principals to earn Professional Development points has been extended by six months, from December 2016 to the end of June 2017. This gives all principals who have not managed to earn 150 Professional Development points in time, the opportunity […]
The idea of individualised learning styles became popular in the 1970s and has greatly influenced the education industry. Today, there are a number of theories on the subject – each proposing the existence of a different number of learning styles and the necessity to cater for them in the classroom. Despite the fact that research […]
