PTEAC1X/103/0/2019
PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
PORTFOLIO:
Teaching Practice (TP) for FET (grades 10 - 12)
Unique number: 754812
Final submission date: 27 September 2019
STUDENT NAME AND SURNAME: NONJABULO DLAMINI
STUDENT NUMBER: 62191837
First day of Teaching Practice: 02 APRIL 2019 Last day: 10 MAY 2019
Tick the subject you have chosen as your didactic.
Subject didactics FET Tick box with
an X
PLEASE NOTE:
(grades 10 - 12)
Consumer studies IF YOU DO NOT
Hospitality studies
COMPLETE THIS
Computer Applications Technology
Information Technology PAGE
Life Sciences
CORRECTLY
Geography X
Life Orientation 10% WILL BE
Mathematical literacy DEDUCTED FROM
YOUR
Mathematics
History
Accounting PORTFOLIO
Business studies MARK.
Economics
Religion studies
Physical Science
Languages ( specify)
Technical subjects( specify)
MARKER SHOULD INDICATE HERE HOW MUCH MUST BE SUBTRACTED BECAUSE OF
LATE SUBMISSION Minus ................%
,INDEX PAGE ( fill in the pages as per your completed portfolio)
Contents Pages
1.Mentor page 9
1.1 Mentor report 10
2. Whole school evaluation 11
2.2 School organogram and management 13
2.3 Duty roster and evidence 14
2.4 School committees and evidence 6
2.5 School policies and evidence 19
2.6 School year plan with activities and evidence 21
2.7 Disciplinary code and evidence 24
2.8 Subject assessment plan and evidence 26
2.9 Subject assessment tasks and evidence 31
2.10 Marks record sheets and analysis and evidence 32
2.11 Department organogram indicating your position in the department and evidence 34
2.12 Professional behaviour/conduct and evidence 36
2.13 Your participation in extra-mural activities/school activities and evidence 40
2.14 Attendance of internal/external staff development course and evidence 44
2.15 Time tables 50
3. Five lesson plans and evidence 56
4. Observations 92
5. Diary 116
6. Good practices in the school 122
7. Suggestions for improvement of school practice 122
8. Declaration form 123
9. Assessment grid 124
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PTEAC1X: Assignment 50
Unique number: 754812
INTRODUCTION
Dear Student
This tutorial letter contains the portfolio template to be used to complete assignment 50 for
PTEAC1X (Teaching practice for FET (grades 10 - 12).
Please read the instructions and guidelines carefully and thoroughly before attempting to
complete the portfolio. This portfolio counts 80% of your final mark for PTEAC1X. Also, read the
attachment for information regarding lesson plans.
Your future and your career depend on quality teaching practice and timely submission of
the portfolio. You must submit the portfolio as soon as you finished your practical teaching
period of 25 school days. Since this is a non-venue based examination you are expected to
complete it every day. In the interest of quality assessment we have to stagger the submissions
so that they do not all come to us for marking at the end of the year. If you do not complete the
portfolio during the Teaching Practice period and do not submit it on the last day of your teaching
practice you will be penalized in the following way: If it reaches us two weeks late – minus 10%,
three weeks late – minus 20%, four weeks late 30% and so on.. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
TO MAKE SURE YOUR PORTFOLIO IS RECEIVED IN GOOD ORDER AND ON TIME. You
might think that these measures are harsh but we work with huge numbers of portfolios and
expect you to take responsibility for your work and to make sure you follow the guidelines as you
are also expected to instill the same skills to learners.
PLEASE NOTE: The school visit is a very important part of your training as you get advice and
support that is valuable for your preparation as a teacher. The mark you receive for the school
visit does however not count towards your marks for this module, as at this stage we
cannot yet guarantee that every student can be visited. If it happens that you are not
visited your marks will not be affected in any way.
Read all instructions from this booklet and Tut 101 before you start teaching practice.
If you have any queries regarding the portfolio ( read your tutorial letters before you ask
questions), you can contact me at:
Ms Ningi Pat Sibisi
012 4294897 (Work)
Esibisp1@unisa.ac.za
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,INSTRUCTIONS
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE STARTING YOUR TEACHING PRACTICE
This is a non-venue based exam called portfolio. It has to be completed on each day you are
at school (every day). You should learn as much as possible from your mentor and other
teachers as well as from the learners. During Teaching Practice (TP), you are expected to
comply with all the school rules and policies e.g. leave policy, code of conduct etc. Read this
document thoroughly before you start your TP. For this module, you can do TP at high school
in grade 10-12 or TVET College in NCV L2-4. When planning your TP consider the school
plans like examination periods.
This document is the teaching portfolio template and must please be completed fully and
submitted as one document with comprehensive evidence of each aspect inserted at the
appropriate sections. PLEASE DO NOT ATTACH ALL EVIDENCE AT THE END OR AS A
SEPARATE SECTION.
This is a structured portfolio and you must use the portfolio template we provided. All aspects
of the portfolio are compulsory except where it is indicated that something can be included for
additional marks. You are expected to complete all activities for each aspect of the portfolio
that is compulsory.
Where applicable you have to include documentary evidence. Attach the evidence at the
appropriate section in the portfolio. For instance if you requested to include a copy of the
school’s disciplinary code you attach it where the disciplinary code is discussed.
The portfolio also includes lesson plans that you have to complete and present. You can
present as many lessons as you are allowed to by the school but at least five of these lessons
need to be assessed by your mentor. Mentors will give you a mark and feedback and will sign
the assessments. You also need to get the assessed lesson plans stamped with the official
school stamp.
After completing the portfolio you need to sign the declaration form at the end and you must
also get it signed by the mentor and the school principal. This also needs to be stamped with
the official school stamp. If the declaration is not signed and stamped, the
portfolio will be null and void.
It is best to complete your portfolio electronically and submit it online. The electronic template
is available online. All online assignments and online portfolios must be submitted as pdf
documents. NO WORD DOCUMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.After submitting it please check
that everything was downloaded and that it appears correctly on the system. PLEASE DO
NOT SUBMIT ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS IN THE PORTAL FOR THE PORTFOLIO
SUBMISSION. MAKE SURE ALL YOUR INFORMATION IS IN THE PORTFOLIO BEFORE
SUBMITTING IT. No additional information can be added later. DO NOT SUBMIT THE
WRONG PORTFOLIO IN THE PORTAL MEANT FOR ANOTHER PORTFOLIO.
Always keep a backup of your portfolio. I have heard all the hard luck stories (some true and
some very innovative inventions) about laptops being stolen from cars, from homes, from
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schools and everywhere else you can think of and from crashed computers, viruses, etc.
These things happen and you should KEEP BACKUPS ALL THE TIME. If you send a hard
copy you must submit this whole document and evidence must be attached to the pages
where it is relevant. Send the portfolio by courier or registered mail. Shops and the postal
service are not reliable. PORTFOLIOS CANNOT BE REMARKED OR PURCHASED.
If you add substantial amounts of colourful, interesting and credible evidence you must please
reduce the size of your artifacts to keep within the maximum size of documents that can be
submitted online or rather make use of the e-portfolio option.
The following could be reasons why students fail their practical teaching: Non-
submission, late submission or failed assignment 1 and 2,lack of credible evidence,
poor quality of lesson plans, poor quality of answers, failure to complete all sections of
the portfolio comprehensively (including meaningful reflections), cheating (with school
stamps, signatures, copying of the work of other students, submitting the work of
teachers instead of your own, not attending all practical teaching days).
Portfolios are non-venue basedexaminations and are not sent back to the students. The
portfolio results are released in December. Please do not include anything valuable or
anything that you will need again.
Make sure you get a sms confirming that the portfolio has been received by Unisa and
is registered on the assessment system. You can also check this on myUnisa on your
student record. If there are challenges contact assignment section. Do not wait until the
results come out before you check this.
You cannot claim later that you did submit it if you did not receive this confirmation. If
no confirmation is received it means that your submission was not received by Unisa.
You will then have to resend a copy (if the time still allows submission). It is highly
recommended to submit your portfolio online to avoid problems.
Portfolios are submitted immediately after completion. This means your due date is based on
the day you finish your teaching practice. The 27th of September is for students who will
complete their teaching practice at the end of the third term. No portfolios received after 27
September 2019 will be marked! All portfolios received after the due date will be
returned to you and you will have to reregister and repeat your teaching practice
module the following year. Make sure that you send the portfolio on time and that it has
been received by Unisa.
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,ORIENTATION REGARDING YOUR TEACHING PRACTICE
Except for all the other modules you have already completed as preparation for teaching
practice and information already contained in the tutorial letters and the portfolio, it is
recommended that you consult chapter one in the recommended book Teaching practice
perspectives and frameworks which you can request from the library (see tutorial letter
101).
Chapter one is titled “A positive and enriching teaching practice experience” and its purpose is
to make available additional information to orientate you regarding teaching practice. It covers
topics like: why teaching practice is done, how to prepare for it, how to do your observations,
what to expect and what will be expected from you, such as student classroom behaviour and
student school behaviour.
It is not essential to your teaching practice but might help to allay some doubts you have and
to answer some questions on things you are not sure of.
One of the biggest challenges students seem to encounter when preparing and presenting
their lessons is planning and implementation of assessments. Most students lose a lot of
marks because of the poor assessments they include in their lesson plans and some just do
not complete the assessment sections. This is despite the fact that they completed the
“Teacher as assessor” module successfully.
To refresh your memory on what is required when planning assessments you could read
chapter 10: Assessment in practical teaching. Practical advice is given regarding all the types
of assessments you will encounter at school and you will also find a section on the
assessments that you will undergo during teaching practice.
Quite a lot of reflection is built into your portfolio. To learn more about reflection you could
consult chapters 11 and 12 while in chapter 7 there are useful sections on lesson presentation
that you might benefit from.
You are also encouraged to read other books and articles on teaching practice to equip you
better on teaching and learning environment.
The success of your teaching practice is mostly in your hands and if you approach it with an
energetic and positive attitude it can be a very satisfying and enriching experience. Go and
show them out there that you are going to be a professional teacher when you start teaching!
PORTFOLIO FOCUS
The purpose of this portfolio is to demonstrate and give evidence that you completed a
successful teaching practice period of 25 full school days in Further Education and Training
(grades 10-12).
Teacher education consists of different types of knowledge that must be integrated:
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Conceptual knowledge (foundations of education/ theories/disciplinary knowledge/
content) with the aim of acquiring knowledge specialised proficiency.
Contextual knowledge (all aspects that endeavours to contextualise knowledge for
occupational purposes, such as subject didactics and practical teaching) with the aim of
acquiring task-specific proficiency.
It is therefore important that you find links between school practices (including their
associated activities) and your studies (including disciplinary knowledge and skills).
You must do this in every section of the portfolio.
This portfolio will have a whole-school perspective (understanding your role as teacher in
the school). As student you are expected to familiarise yourself with the full range of activities
that are associated with a functional school. You not only have to observe these activities but
are expected to take part in as many of them as is possible. You are also expected to look at
these activities critically and to comment on their purpose, functionality, outstanding features
and possible shortcomings where applicable.
PLEASE NOTE:
THIS PORTFOLIO CAN BE COMPLETED AND HANDED IN THE FF WAYS:
As a written/typed hard copy that is posted;
As an electronic online submission;
As an e-portfolio.
For guidelines regarding preparation and submission of an e-portfolio please go
to myUnisa and look under additional sources where the procedure is explained
in full.
Portfolios can be sent to Unisa via:
courier to Assignments
Second floor, OR Tambo building
Unisa, Leyds Street Muckleneuk, 0003
Assignments may be couriered free of charge by handing them in at any branch
of Skynet
or
hand it in personally at Assignments, Second floor, OR Tambo building Unisa,
Leyds Street Muckleneuk, 0003
or
hand it in at a regional office and ask them to acknowledge receipt
or
post it at a Unisa post-box
or
Submit it online or as an e-portfolio.( highly recommended)
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, 1. MENTOR LETTER
Please hand this letter to your mentor to read on your first day at the school:
Dear mentor
Thank you very much for agreeing to support and guide this student from Unisa. It is only
possible for our students to get acquainted with the realities of teaching under the supervision
of experienced top teachers. What you do for our students is irreplaceable en inestimable in
their preparation to become teachers. Could we please request you to assist us with the
following?:
Please dedicate some time each week to formally meet with the student to discuss her/his
progress during the past week and schedule for the following week.
Please allow the student to observe all the lessons you present and write a short report on 25
of them (as in the report form included in this portfolio under section 4). Please control that this
is done regularly.
Please assist the student in working through the portfolio systematically to enable her/him to
comprehensively complete it in the 25 days at the school.
Please control that the portfolio is comprehensively completed (including all attachments) at
the end of the 25 days.
Please assist the student with lesson preparation for lessons she/he has to present.
Please assist the student to present as many lessons as possible under your supervision.
Please provide feedback to the student after every lesson.
Please assess five of the lessons that must be presented and included in this portfolio.
Please provide feedback and make suggestions for improvement of these five lessons.
Please write a short report on the behaviour and activities of the student during the Practical
Teaching period on the following page.
Please include contact details with your report if we need to make contact with you regarding
any aspect of the Practical Teaching (it may also be the school contact details).
Please contact me if there is any indistinctness regarding what is expected of you or regarding
what the student must do.
Please contact me regarding any misbehaviour or unethical actions by the student (eg. if the
student comes late or is absent without a good reason or if the student does not cooperate or
if the student does not prepare properly for the lessons she/he must present).
My contact details are:
Ms PN Sibisi
012 429 4897 (Work)
Esibisp1@unisa.ac.za
Thank you very much for your help and the sacrifices you make.
Ningi Sibisi
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