Is my child ready for school? The answer – Is your child’s body ready for school? The Early Childhood Development (ECD) Phase is the season of the great brain development. …
Flourishing During Difficult Times
Increasingly, teachers are verbalising that they want their students to not only achieve, but to thrive. Living through a pandemic creates a real threat to education accessibility. In our country …
Play vs Competition
Opposites or a Symbiotic Relationship? The link between playful learning and arresting anxiety while developing confident, confident, capable citizens of character, and competition is an interesting one. Competition within the …
Paying Attention is an Achievement
Pay Attention – Be Astonished – Tell About it “Within the human cognitive system, attention is a precious, limited resource. So as designers of learning experiences, we should also think …
Authentic Learning – Save or Delete?
Let’s design a traditional classroom lesson based on achieving the curriculum outcomes for the following topic. Topic: Riding a bicycle Outcomes: Identify and correctly name the different part of a …
Pygmalion in the Classroom
What we expect of a student produces pure magic. George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, that many of us older educators may remember by the sentimentalised musical version My Fair Lady, tells …
Let it Flow
In Csikszentmihalyi book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990), he reports that Flow – the state of consciousness is the primary criteria to ensure a high level of learning. …
Raising the Effortlessly Perfect Child
Let’s agree, the perfect child does not exist! But a number of parents in our organisation believe that their child needs to be effortlessly perfect. Anyone who has parented knows …
5 Top Tips for New Teachers
Teaching Tips which will benefit you whether you’re a first year teacher, or an old hat. 5 Top Tips for New Teachers has been running on our Social Media Platforms …
Grade R Matters more than Matric
Reading, like eating and sleeping, must be a non-negotiable. Discuss the story. Link it to real life situations. If it includes a difficult subject, deal with it. Talk To and Fro. Build language. Make use of full, complex sentences.