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SAIDE Getting Practical: A guide to teaching and learning equips South African teachers with strategies to cope with the demands of the classroom. The book focuses on how teachers can optimise learning through learner-centred teaching and provides practical tips on how to use resources to enrich teaching and to establish a school extracurricular programme. It deals with teaching strategies, including lesson planning, assessment, and management of learning.

SAIDE Getting Practical: A guide to teaching and learning equips South African teachers with strategies to cope with the demands of the classroom. The book focuses on how teachers can optimise learning through learner-centred teaching and provides practical tips on how to use resources to enrich teaching and to establish a school extracurricular programme. It deals with teaching strategies, including lesson planning, assessment, and management of learning.

Features

  • Content that is practical and relevant in its approach.
  • Specific South African context and specific South African problems that educators have to deal with.
  • Intensive teaching practice to enable teachers to acquire the skills to teach in a learning-centred manner.

Section One: How to use this module
1.1What will we do in this module?
1.2How is the module structured?
1.3The changing contexts of teaching
Section Two: Planning to teach
2.1Education as an intentional activity
2.2Purpose-driven planning: how do we decide what and how to teach?
2.3Planning with national aims in mind
2.4Developing teaching plans
Section Three: Assessing learning and teaching
3.1Assessment: Introducing the terms
3.2Choosing appropriate assessment instruments
3.3Recording assessment
Section Four: Teaching with learning in mind
4.1How do young people learn?
4.2The importance of talk in learning
4.3What does this mean for teaching?
Section Five: Whole-class teaching
5.1Using explaining as a teaching tool
5.2Using questions in teaching
5.3Using demonstrations in teaching
5.4Using whole-class discussion in teaching
Section Six: Small-group, problem-based teaching
6.1Small-group teaching and learning
6.2Problem-based learning
6.3Resourcing learning and teaching
Section Seven: Using information and communication technology in education
7.1Exploring the potential of integrating ICT in the classroom
7.2From potential to practice: integrating ICT into the classroom
7.3Using ICT to enhance teaching and learning
Section Eight: Managing learning and teaching
8.1Creating and managing disciplined classrooms
8.2Teaching as a management tool
8.3Enriching the environments in which we teach
Section Nine: Ongoing professional development
9.1What is a professional leader?
9.2How do we improve our professional practice?
9.3Assessing your practice
9.4A concluding comment
Selected reading
SAIDE Getting Practical is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in Professional Studies or doing Teaching Practice modules. It is also suitable for teachers' continuing professional development.
  • Getting Practical: A Guide to Teaching and Learning 3e



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