Task 1:
Select Curriculum Guide
Working in tutorial groups (2 members per group), select a Curriculum Guide that is relevant to your groups’ particular teaching level and area of focus or subject. If for some reason you cannot access your own subject's curriculum statements use these example files: Samoa’s English or South Africa’s Mathematics Curriculum Statements for this exercise.
Task 2:
Key Competencies and Functional Skills
- In tutorial groups, analyse the key competencies and functional skills that should be considered important when teaching your particular teaching level and area of focus or subject. In other words, those concepts and processes that enable learners to ‘live and learn today and in the future’ and to ‘operate confidently, effectively and independently in life, their communities and work’.
- Draft a list of key competencies and functional skills that should be considered when teaching your particular teaching level and area of focus or subject.
- Consider technology tools that could potentially support the teaching of the key competencies and functional skills listed.
Teachers identify key concepts and processes in the subject area, describe the function and purpose of subject-specific tools, understanding of these key concepts and processes (KD.2.a).
