A Wits-trained teacher recounts her initial struggles in a full-service school in Gauteng, where mainstream teaching methods failed to connect with Grade 4 learners. Her journey…
SA spends just 1.8% of its education budget on ECD: the damage shows
The national education policy stresses the need to ensure educators have the training and skills to support kids with disabilities, such as hearing loss. But a 2024 study found…
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Educators need to stop playing victim and plan to teach in less favourable conditions
The development and investment in teachers shouldn’t be an option but completely necessaty
The University of Johannesburg has set up a school in Soweto to teach children and student teachers.
Inducting novice educators helps keep them in the profession and boosts learner outcomes.
More people are training to be teachers but getting them into classrooms is fraught with problems.
New proposals to train better maths teachers ignore many schools’ resource constraints.
They are the lifeblood of the education system, and supporting them will make all the difference.
Good mentoring and networking forums can be used to help newly qualified teachers to adjust, writes Barbara Dale-Jones.
The state’s teaching development grants to universities are being wholly rethought.
Despite policy, too few schools have formal mentoring programmes for staff.
Teacher education is getting better, but it will be a while before this becomes evident.
