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- University Of South Africa (Unisa)
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PTEAC1X/103/0/2019PLEASE 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:
STUDENT NUMBER:
First day of Teaching Practice: 11 July 2019 Last day: 16 August 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
Life Orientation 10% WILL BE
Mathematical literacy DEDUCTED FROM
YOUR
Mathematics
History
Accounting PORTFOLIO
Business studies MARK.
Economics
Religion studies
Physical Science
Languages (specify) X English
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 9-10
1.1 Mentor report 9-10
2. Whole school evaluation 11-12
2.2 School organogram and management 12-13
2.3 Duty roster and evidence 14
2.4 School committees and evidence 14-15
2.5 School policies and evidence 16-17
2.6 School year plan with activities and evidence 17-20
2.7 Disciplinary code and evidence 25-26
2.8 Subject assessment plan and evidence 22-24
2.9 Subject assessment tasks and evidence 24-25
2.10 Marks record sheets and analysis and evidence 26-29
2.11 Department organogram indicating your position in the department and evidence 30
2.12 Professional behaviour/conduct and evidence 30-33
2.13 Your participation in extra-mural activities/school activities and evidence 34-35
2.14 Attendance of internal/external staff development course and evidence 35(N/A)
2.15 Time tables 35-36
3. Five lesson plans and evidence 37-65
4. Observations 66-92
5. Diary 93-97
6. Good practices in the school 97-98
7. Suggestions for improvement of school practice 99-100
8. Declaration form 101
9. Assessment grid 102-103
,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:
,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
,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- based examinations 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.
,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:
• 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)
,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:
Thank you very much for your help and the sacrifices you make.
,1. Mentor page
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