Tag: teaching
How parents and teachers can support one another
In this challenging time of the Covid-19 pandemic it’s important for parents and teachers to explore how they can work together to maintain an...
BACK TO SCHOOL 2020
January (Januworry) is not an easy time of year. Christmas is a distant memory, the largest credit card bill you will get all year...
YOUR TEENAGE MISSION SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT
I was once a teenager. Which was ‘cool’ or at least that’s the word we used back then to describe things that were…well, cool.
Then...
5 STEPS TO EXCELLENT TEACHING
“South Africa has one of the world’s worst education systems,” according to London-based publication The Economist. It reported that South Africa placed 75th out...
Teaching and Parenting Generation Z: Relationships Matter
Generation Z are digital natives, and it’s easy as a parent or teacher (who remembers life before the internet!) to feel out of touch...
HOW CAN WE REMAIN INSPIRED AS TEACHERS?
You have probably heard, more than once, that teaching is one of the most important but underrated jobs. As South African teachers we have...
THE ART OF PREACHING (TO YOUTH) – PART ONE
In an age of information overload, it is essential that those given the privilege of communicating to young people spend time developing the art...
DEFINE YOUR TEACHING BY SOWING SEEDS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Amidst my first year teaching-administration-storm, there have been a few things threatening to shake me. One of these things has been a question that...
Don’t Throw In The Towel Teachers
I watched as two students of different gender and race, ran across the quad to greet each other after a school holiday. What did...