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From classroom struggles to thesis: How a teacher learnt to teach inclusively
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…
Preschoolers falling through the cracks
SA spends just 1.8% of its education budget on ECD: the damage shows
What one mother learned when a teacher ripped out her son’s hearing aid
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…
Inquiry-based science education training for natural sciences teachers in Oudtshoorn
An interesting, exciting, engaging and rewarding experience to attend
Teachers, pull yourselves together and prepare your lessons
Educators need to stop playing victim and plan to teach in less favourable conditions
Teacher development lost in the focus on matric results
The development and investment in teachers shouldn’t be an option but completely necessaty
Good teacher graduates emerge when their studies combine theory and reality
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
Inducting novice educators helps keep them in the profession and boosts learner outcomes.
Good teachers are in short supply
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
New proposals to train better maths teachers ignore many schools’ resource constraints.
South Africa, learn to love your teachers
They are the lifeblood of the education system, and supporting them will make all the difference.
Social tech keeps teachers classy
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
The state’s teaching development grants to universities are being wholly rethought.
Wanted: Help for new teachers
Despite policy, too few schools have formal mentoring programmes for staff.
Teacher education: grounds for cautious optimism
Teacher education is getting better, but it will be a while before this becomes evident.