Teachers in South Africa

The Department of Basic Education briefed Members on its Second Quarterly Performance Report from 1 July 2011 to 30 September 2011; on the progress on delivery of infrastructure development for technical schools; and on the Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign.

Maths, Physical Science and Life Sciences revision quizzes directly on your cell phone or PC. Preparation tool for all your tests and exams. Immediate feedback: answers plus reasons for the correct answers. Wide range of exam-level questions. Developed by experienced Maths, Physical Science and Life Sciences educators Complies with National Curriculum Statement. Compliant with current Examination Guidelines

"This past Friday and Saturday I had the great priviledge of attending one of the most inspiring, outrageously entertaining, and compelling education conferences ever. This, of course, was the EdTech Conference 2011 hosted at the International School of Cape Town in Wynberg."

Lots of great resources here that are free to use.

Several problems - including teachers with bad credit records - have left government plans to equip all 400000 teachers with a laptop computer and software hanging in the air.

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In February, I announced the Western Cape Education Department's Infrastructure plan which aims to address the backlogs in school infrastructure in the Province. The R1.9 billion infrastructure plan, amongst other things, includes the building of 25 new schools over the current MTEF, the replacement of 20 schools that were built with inappropriate materials, the building of additional relief classrooms and the installation of mobile classrooms at schools where there is severe overcrowding.

A professional development course from the Schoolnet Ace

(I am getting ready for 2010 in SA)

This is a mailing list/community for librarians/media specialists in SOuth Africa. It is a closed group, contact the list administrator Joy Rosario for membership.

Community for Biology teachers

This is a google group e-mail network for Southern African teachers

Bird sounds and photos Lovely!!!

This is an absolutely amazing interactive magazine- I REALLY wouldn't mind having all my magazines in this format. Interactive beautifully illustrated with photos, video snippets and scrolling info bars. Lovely. Could be great in the Geography class/library.

COme on let's put all our schools on the map seeing that we now have a fully functional google maps in South Africa

Maybe we could use this as a base AUP and build /change form it...???

Resources and Conferences for Teaching Evolutionary Biology for teachers in the Western Cape

Resources and Conferences for Teaching Evolutionary Biology for teachers in the Western Cape

"A Danish - South African initiative offering Mobile solutions for Literacy Training and Skills Development."

This visual tutorial is really inspiring. Well done!