Teachers in South Africa

Teachers spend slightly less time on their activities overall, but much less time on teaching than policy requires. There is a serious erosion of instructional time in the majority of schools, but it is worst in rural and semi-rural African schools.

Education plays a key role in the development of any society. Responding to the need for empirical evidence on the demand for and supply of public educators in South Africa, the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council-led consortium to conduct nation-wide research on the factors determining educator supply and demand in South African public education system. Growth demand for educators depends on learner enrolments and the learner-educator ratio, while replacement demand for educators depends on employment trends, demographics and attrition (including morbidity and morality). Educator supply depends on a number of factors, such as education graduates, morbidity and morality, and educators returning after a break from the profession

Here is a quick list of last years Gr 11 exam papers so that we do not have to go and search for it...

Thank you to Wogan for creating this micoblogging service. We are trying it with a view to get teachers on board

Slideshare pointing out that we need to rethink cellphones in the classroom

skoool.co.za is a vast educational resource for learners and teachers to use inventively and creatively in the classroom or in the comfort of their own homes to add extra value to their learning and teaching of Maths, Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences.

The Africa STIC facilitates R&D, best practice sharing and innovation in education, supported by innovative technologies, processes and pedagogies for teaching and learning in schools across sub-Saharan Africa, towards skills development and employability.

This supplement comprises 2,144 slides and 1.94 GB of material.

I dont agree with the simplistic way in which this topic is dealt with. Most of the reasons for taking maths, I would have put under maths lit.....??????? Can we discuss this please?

Rekenaarterme in Afrikaans

Thinking of creating a website? Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages

Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.

The practice of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in the education of adults seeks to affirm and accredit the knowledge and skills which they have already attained in the course of their working lives. This monograph explores the implementation of RPL in a programme designed to upgrade tens of thousands of under-qualified teachers and finds a baffling dilemma: how does one value prior learning which one believes to be misguided, outdated, or inappropriate?

Some interesting ideas of using laptops in class.