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Placement Form DSAR27: ........................................................................................................ 11
Attendance Register of Student Teacher at School (Observation) ......................................... 12
School Information: ................................................................................................................. 14
Mentor: .................................................................................................................................... 14
3) TEMPLATE FOR THE INTERMEDIATE PHASE TEACHING PRACTICE ACTIVITIES ................... 15
3.2) AN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: ..................................................................... 15
Question 1: Decolonisation (Education) .............................................................................. 15
Question 2: African communalism ....................................................................................... 15
Question 3: Ubuntu (Humanness) ........................................................................................ 15
Question 4: Africanisation .................................................................................................... 15
Question 5: Indigenous Knowledge (IKS) ............................................................................. 16
4) INTERMEDIATE PHASE TEACHING PRACTICE ACTIVITIES: OBSERVATION GUIDE ............... 17
4.1) TEACHING INSIGHTS (PRE-OBSERVATION ACTIVITIES) ..................................................... 17
4.1.2) MY TEACHING PERSPECTIVE: ......................................................................................... 17
Question 1: What does teaching mean to you? ................................................................... 17
Question 2: How would you best describe teaching and what it involves? ........................ 17
Question 3: How do you see your role as a teacher? .......................................................... 17
1. Leader............................................................................................................................ 17
2. Mentor .......................................................................................................................... 17
3. Helping hand ................................................................................................................. 17
Question 4: What is your understanding of learning? ......................................................... 18
Question 5: What do you expect to learn or gain from this process of observation and
teaching practice? ................................................................................................................ 18
4.1.3) MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY (BELIEFS) .......................................................................... 19
4.1.4) TEACHING PHILOSOPHY IN CONTEXT ............................................................................ 20
Introduction: ......................................................................................................................... 20
Situated learning: ................................................................................................................. 20
Constructivism: ..................................................................................................................... 20
4.2) CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS: OBSERVATION ACTIVITIES ........................................................ 21
4.2.1) Contextual analysis ........................................................................................................ 21
, 4.2.2.1) Contextual questionnaire ........................................................................................ 21
4.2.3) Description of Classrooms from Different Grades ........................................................ 23
4.2.4) Context Analysis: How do Teachers adapt Teaching and Learning to Context? ........... 24
4.2.5) Different Grades or Subject Context ............................................................................. 25
4.2.6) Reflection activity .......................................................................................................... 27
What did you learn about becoming more content conscious? .......................................... 27
What did you observe about teachers and learners regarding principles of respect and
caring? .................................................................................................................................. 27
How will you promote these values in your own class when teaching? ............................. 27
4.3) CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT OBSERVATION ACTIVITIES ................................................. 28
4.3.2) A: Perspectives on teaching and learning ..................................................................... 28
Training as mentor ............................................................................................................... 28
What are your expectations of the mentor? ....................................................................... 28
What can the mentor expect from you? .............................................................................. 28
How did the mentor(s) contribute to your practical teaching experience? ........................ 28
4.3.2.1) The Student’s perspective .......................................................................................... 29
Are you currently employed? ............................................................................................... 29
Are you teaching at present? ............................................................................................... 29
If so, for how long and which grade? ................................................................................... 29
Or is this your first teaching experience? ............................................................................. 29
Description of your qualifications (where and when did you acquire them). ..................... 29
How do you manage your studies? ...................................................................................... 29
Description of any other appropriate experience/information, which has had an influence
on your teaching practice experience period (observation). ............................................... 29
Description of your experience with Unisa's teaching practice processes, arrangements,
placements, school visits, support. ...................................................................................... 29
What has been your experience of the teaching practice observations? ........................... 30
How would you apply the positive things you have observed in your teaching practice
observations and what would you change about the negative aspects you have come
across? .................................................................................................................................. 30
Did you conduct yourself in terms of the South African Council of Educators Code of
Conduct? ............................................................................................................................... 30
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