Latest articles on Teacher Training

.lazy-loader-background-element-1.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/03/03d54632-00-teachers-pull-yourselves-together-and-prepare-your-lessons-696x445.jpeg) }

Teachers, pull yourselves together and prepare your lessons

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Feb 2018

Educators need to stop playing victim and plan to teach in less favourable conditions

.lazy-loader-background-element-2.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/02/37ef6217-hariri-says-resignation-on-hold-pledges-to-stay-in-lebanon-696x445.jpeg) }

Teacher development lost in the focus on matric results

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Jan 2017

The development and investment in teachers shouldn't be an option but completely necessaty

.lazy-loader-background-element-3.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2016/06/d2f0c203-good-teacher-graduates-emerge-when-their-studies-combine-theory-and-reality-image-696x392.jpg) }

Good teacher graduates emerge when their studies combine theory and reality

Article Sarah Gravett & Nadine Petersen - 15 Jun 2016

The University of Johannesburg has set up a school in Soweto to teach children and student teachers.

Let’s support, not scare off, new teachers

Article Melissa King - 29 Apr 2016

Inducting novice educators helps keep them in the profession and boosts learner outcomes.

Good teachers are in short supply

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Jul 2015

More people are training to be teachers but getting them into classrooms is fraught with problems.

Policy isn’t a great part of our sums

Article Sen Muller & Sara Muller - 13 Feb 2015

New proposals to train better maths teachers ignore many schools’ resource constraints.

South Africa, learn to love your teachers

Article Staff Reporter - 23 Jan 2015

They are the lifeblood of the education system, and supporting them will make all the difference.

Social tech keeps teachers classy

Article Barbara Dale Jones - 18 Aug 2014

Good mentoring and networking forums can be used to help newly qualified teachers to adjust, writes Barbara Dale-Jones.

Government’s new plan for student success

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Jul 2014

The state’s teaching development grants to universities are being wholly rethought.

Wanted: Help for new teachers

Article Barbara Dale Jones - 30 May 2014

Despite policy, too few schools have formal mentoring programmes for staff.

Teacher education: grounds for cautious optimism

Article Comment Author & Robert Balfour - 16 May 2014

Teacher education is getting better, but it will be a while before this becomes evident.

.lazy-loader-background-element-12.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/02/0229303f-response-six-things-that-white-people-have-that-black-people-dont-696x445.jpeg) }

Let us learn from maths mistakes

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Apr 2014

Don’t dismiss criticism of ‘maths myths’ – the ability to learn trumps good exam results.

How should teachers be taught?

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Mar 2014

South Africa must radically rethink how to upgrade and motivate in-service educators.

.lazy-loader-background-element-14.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2014/01/5fb9e8c0-2014-01-24-when-less-intervention-in-education-practices-produces-much-more-image-696x392.jpg) }

When less intervention in education practices produces much more

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Jan 2014

But only with far  better models of  school management and teacher support.

.lazy-loader-background-element-15.lazyload{ background-image: url(https://bucket.mg.co.za/wp-media/2019/02/053d0eed-afghan-media-defiant-after-deadly-day-for-journalists-696x445.jpeg) }

Puzzling over the teaching of teachers

Article Barbara Dale Jones - 2 Aug 2013

Varsities are rethinking how to produce clued-up professionals ready for the classroom.

vital information

The Mail & Guardian’s essential coverage of the ongoing coronavirus crisis is free to read for everyone.

If you would like to support us, please consider taking out a subscription.

Latest

National

Sticks and stones: Qwelane and the violence of words

Sarah Smit - 22 Sep 2020

Constitutional Court justice says homophobic article did not ignite fire of hate against the LGBTI community but added fuel to it

Coronavirus

Long Read | SA must fix its ‘dop system’

carlos - 22 Sep 2020

The Covid-19 lockdown has exposed the effects of South Africa’s weak alcohol regulations. Government and health campaigners want tougher policies, but the liquor giants are pushing back

National

Corruption allegations resurface at state biology lab

Sabelo Skiti - 20 Sep 2020

The entire finance department senior management at Onderstepoort Biological Products, including an alleged whistleblower, have been suspended amid corruption probes

Press Releases

Special Reports

Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria to reopen on Heritage Day

special reports - 22 Sep 2020

The new, drive-through sculpture exhibition brings to four the number of exhibitions of iconic African and South African art

Special Reports

Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

Special Reports

Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

Special Reports

Recycling water and waste management

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

Special Reports

Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working

Special Reports

POPIA: it’s not as scary as you think

special reports - 16 Sep 2020

Companies that get proactive about compliance are creating huge strategic advantages for themselves — they are able to reduce operational costs

Special Reports

CUT declared as medium risk

special reports - 15 Sep 2020

‘Our major challenge at the university is the access to appropriate technology and internet connectivity for our students’

Special Reports

Headline Speakers announced for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 12 Sep 2020

SingularityU announces multi-national line up with world-renowned speakers addressing ground-breaking topics to solve the global grand challenges