To empower teachers to support student teachers during Teaching Practice
Developed out of the Provincial Teacher Education and Development Committee (PTEDC), the
Mentor Teacher course has been developed to capacitate classroom teachers as expert mentor
teachers during student Teaching Practice in schools. The Mentor Teacher course is a collaborative
project with the Cape Teaching and Learning Institute (CTLI) and the four public universities in the
Western Cape and supports teachers in the mentoring and training of student teachers during the
Teaching Practice component of their Initial Teacher Education.
The Mentor Teacher course is a blended learning programme presented online via Google Classroom
and which runs over ten weeks. It comprises six units that includes information about student practice
teaching, mentoring and coaching and the development and use of evaluative criteria for student
teachers. Included are short activities that assist teachers to work through the course material and
take a reflective stance in relation to themselves as mentor teachers in schools.
The Mentor Teacher Course has been accredited with SACE and teachers will receive CPD points on
successful completion of the course.
The content of the programme will be facilitated through a Hybrid Model Approach, which
will consist of face- to-face sessions at CTLI, self-reflection tasks and online interaction with fellow course participants. You will also be afforded the
opportunity to interact with Facilitators (Mentors) during specified times.
SACE Professional Development Points: 15
Further detail will be provided with confirmation of participation.
- Course creator: TE PETERSEN
The course is aimed at principals and/or newly appointed principals from a full range of public schools.
The purpose of the interaction is to:
(i) inform the Principals as to the WCED's expectations of their professional role-responsibilities;
(ii) introduce possible new perspectives as to their professional functioning;
(iii) create the need to revisit present leadership and management practices;
(iv) provide guidance to re-construct present practices where necessary, especially within the "new normal" irt COVID-19 context, and
(v) generate thought-processes that would result in an improved environment for quality-based teaching and learning and institutional leadership.
The CTLI will endeavor to provide the participants with practical guidance on how a Principal is to realise improved teaching and learning and institutional leadership practices at school level.
Emphasis is on planning and effecting a teaching and learning environment aligned with the current curriculum and appropriate classroom management strategies within a COVID-19 context.
The professional development programme is self-paced and will be delivered through an online platform.
Modules covered:
Module 1: The Principal, Departmental Head (DH) and Deputy Principal (DP), and a values-driven school in a value-driven community.
Module 2: Legal Framework and the principal in a COVID-19 context.
Module 3: Job description of the Principal.
Module 4: Portfolio Management – Managing the Curriculum in COVID -19 context.
Module 5: Managing staff in a COVID-19 context.
Module 6: School-based data Management.
The content of the programme will be facilitated through PowerPoint presentations readings, self-reflection tasks and online interaction with fellow course participants. You will also be afforded the opportunity to interact with Facilitators (Mentors) during specified times.
SACE Professional Development Points: 15
Further detail will be provided with confirmation of participation.
- Course creator: B JANTJIES
The content of the programme will be facilitated through PowerPoint presentations readings,
self-reflection tasks and online interaction with fellow course participants. You will also be afforded the
opportunity to interact with Facilitators (Mentors) during specified times.
The course is aimed at Newly/Appointed Departmental Heads from a full range of public schools.
The purpose of the interaction is to:
(i) inform the Departmental Head as to the WCED's expectations of their professional
role-responsibilities;
(ii) introduce possible new perspectives as to their professional functioning;
(iii) create the need to revisit present leadership and management practices;
(iv) provide guidance to re-construct present practices where necessary, especially within the "new
normal" irt COVID-19 context, and
(v) generate thought-processes that would result in an improved environment for quality-based
teaching and learning and institutional leadership.
The CTLI will endeavor to provide the participants with practical guidance on how a Departmental
Head is to realise improved teaching and learning and institutional leadership practices at school
level.
Emphasis is on planning and effecting a teaching and learning environment aligned with the current
curriculum and appropriate classroom management strategies within a COVID-19 context.
The professional development programme is self-paced and will be delivered through an online
platform.
SACE Professional Development Points: 15
Further detail will be provided with confirmation of participation.
- Course creator: TE PETERSEN
- Course creator: G DE BRUYN