Your SACE CPTD Questions answered
What does SACE CPTD points mean and how do you earn it? What happens when you don’t earn all of your CPTD points in a…
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How Learning Online Can be a Great Alternative to Having to Attend PD Meetings
Some of your required professional development hours must be spent outside PD meetings. The latter are often not that much fun, depending who you talk…
Creative Ways to Get Professional Development Going in Your School (or with a Group of Keen Teachers)
Every teacher has to get professional development hours, but reading another book about education or completing an online class alone may make some teachers feel…
I Teach, so Why Do I Need Professional Development?
The very nature of being a teacher is learning. Every day, you learn something new when your learners look at something in a way you…
Digital Citizenship in South Africa – What is it and why must we be aware of it?
Parents, teachers fail to fully understand life online: Digital Citizenship in South Africa As media stories appear on a daily basis of cyberbullying, sexting, privacy…
All About Outdoor Classroom Day!
Children need to experience the great outdoors in order to love and protect it Research shows that playing and learning outdoors as part of the…
An End of Year Survival Guide for Teachers
Term 4 is about to begin, and as we approach the last stretch of the school year, teachers all over South Africa can feel the…
Does Social Media Support Education?
Whenever a new technology is developed, we wonder how it will change education. In 1922 Thomas Edison said, “I believe that the motion picture is…
The One Thing All Great Teachers Do
What makes a great teacher? While reading this, we’re sure that there’s at least one great teacher from your own school days who popped into…
Thinking About Your Thinking
Metacognition for the classroom – by Dr Nicolas Matthee Introduction Metacognition is a scientific term that simply means “thinking about your thinking”, and refers to…