Service learning in foundation phase teacher education
Service learning in foundation phase teacher education
Balancing academic and practical responsibilities-Blog
Author: Mr. Dean van der Merwe Department of Childhood Education Faculty of Education University of Johannesburg ______________________________________________________________________________ When student teachers first enter university, they have to learn how to juggle their academic and practical responsibilities. Being careful not to drop the ball on either. Having been a student teacher myself, and now working at …
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Foundation phase teachers’ (limited) knowledge of geometry
Author: Luneta Kakoma Foundation phase teachers do not need to teach much mathematics, but what they teach is critical because children absorb their basic concepts of geometry at a very early age. Consequently, it is disturbing to find that many student teachers have not progressed beyond level 1 in Van Hiele’s ‘levels of geometric thought’ …
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Investigating Optimal Learning Moments in U.S. and Finnish Science Classes
Authors: Barbara Schneider, Joseph Krajcik, Jari Lavonen, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Michael Broda, Justina Spicer, Justin Bruner, Julia Moeller, Janna Linnansaari, Kalle Juuti, and Jaana Viljaranta Students who feel confident of meeting challenges are happy students – and when this situation is experienced in science classes, they are more likely to feel that science is important to …
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