Browsing by Subject "teacher education"

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    Digital Literacies for Pre-Service High School English Teachers
    (2015-06-01) Campbell, Eduard
    This series of lectures serves as a course component for the Senior Phase and FET English Method course at the University of Cape Town, which forms part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) professional teacher education qualification. It consists of 5 lectures presented at strategic times throughout the year. The purpose of the course is to provide pre-service English teachers with an opportunity to critically discuss the integration of Digital Literacies into the high school English curriculum. The course component has a dual teaching outcome: 1. Addressing the digital divide within the English Method classroom and providing an opportunity for the pre-service teachers to engage in Digital Literacies practices themselves; 2. Creating awareness of the digital divide within the high school classroom and discussing various methods that enable learners to engage in effective Digital Literacy practices. The course is built on discussions where the class could voice their varying perspectives, anxieties and experiences, especially after their teaching practicals. In this way, knowledge is built collaboratively. Although rudimentary theory is incorporated in the curriculum, the class focuses mostly on the practical aspects of Digital Literacies within the specific context of the high school English Classroom. Numerous methods for Digital Literacies integration, whether for the students’ own use or for their learners’, are scrutinized and critically evaluated.
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    A foundation for foundation phase teacher education: making wise educational judgements
    (OASIS Publishing, 2014) Murris, Karin; Verbeek, Clare
    We start our paper with a critical exploration of the current 'back to basics' approach in South African foundation phase teacher education with its emphasis on strengthening the teaching of subject knowledge. We claim that such a proposal first demands an answer to the question 'what is foundational in foundation phase teaching?' We propose an answer in three stages. First we argue that teacher education should be concerned not only with schooling or qualification (knowledge, skills and dispositions) and socialisation, but, drawing on Gert Biesta's work, also with subjectification (educating the person towards the ability to make wise educational judgements). Secondly, these three aims of education lead to five core principles, and we finish by showing how these principles inform our storied, thinking and multimodal/semiotic curriculum. Our answer to our leading question is that pedagogical 'know-how' and views of 'child' and 'childhood' constitute the subject knowledge that is foundational in the foundation phase curriculum.
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    TEDI 2 Week 1 - Promoting Resilience in Deaf Children
    (2019-06-01) Kelly, Jane
    In this video, Jane Kelly defines resilience and focuses how to use resilience as a framework within the landscape of deaf education. She unpacks the concept of resilience, linking it to the social model of disability, and looks at how it can it can be applied in the context of teaching deaf children holistically. She underscores the relationship between teachers’ and learners’ resilience, drawing attention to the environmental/contextual factors that can promote well-being. This is video lecture 5/7 of week 1 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.
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    TEDI 2 Week 1 - TEDI Project: Challenges of Teachers in Deaf Education
    (2019-06-01) Kelly, Jane
    In this video, Jane Kelly, provides an overview of the Teacher Empowerment for Disability Inclusion (TEDI) Project. She focuses on the research methods used and the situation analysis of the educational needs of learners with disabilities in South Africa. Drawing on the themes discussed during interviews with the teachers in the project, Jane highlights the challenges these teachers, from both schools for the deaf and full service schools, face in teaching children with severe to profound hearing impairments. This is video lecture 4/7 in week 1 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.
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    TEDI 2 Week 2 - Interview: Facilitating Development in the Deaf Pre-schooler
    (2019-06-01) Hille, Jeanette; Swift, Odette
    In this very educative and interesting video, Odette Swift interviews Jeannette Hile, on the development of the deaf pre-schooler. Jeannette describes how children generally develop and stresses the importance of communication for children who are deaf and the consequences of not acquiring language and communication skills early. She lists some tips for teachers of pre-schoolers. Sharing her experiences of working with families of deaf children, she calls on parents to exercise a lot of patience with their deaf children. This video lecture 5/11 of week 2 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.