Professional Development for Teachers
Need to upskill or sharpen the sword?
  • @Home Teacher Remote Teaching and Learning Series

    Remote teaching and learning create incredible opportunities for effective learning and collaboration outside of the classroom. Our current situation – national lockdown - has led to a loss of teaching and learning time and has brought on many challenges and uncertainties about the immediate and future status of learning.

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  • Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute

    The Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute (CTLI) is committed to offering continuous education to principals, deputy principals, department heads and teachers in the Western Cape, with courses relevant to each professional category and specific grades.

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  • Creative Commons

    Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States, devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.

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  • Demystify Coding

    Digital skills and effective communication within a global community is essential to help learners thrive in a future driven by technology. The introduction of coding through the Digital Skills Curriculum or Coding clubs will develop skills such as computational thinking, problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, creative design and effective communication.

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  • Foundation Phase Conference

    The GET Directorate cordially invites you to the WCED Foundation Phase Conference.

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  • Educational Resources for learners during School Closure

    Educational resources made available by the Developed by the Department of Basic Education for learners during School Closure.

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  • LAC Course

    Discover courses that will inspire and capacitate educators to change education in their local contexts using educational technologies as a vehicle for change and to in turn inspire one colleague, one child and one parent at a time to do the same.

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  • Language Across the Curriculum

    This is a free course that equips subject teachers to develop learners’ language skills in each subject area.

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  • Reading Across the Curriculum

    This is a free course that builds on the Language Across the Curriculum course. It equips subjects teachers with the skills to develop learners’ reading skills in their subjects.

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  • 'School is Closed, Learning is Open' Emergency Response site

    To shift towards a blended/online teaching and learning approach it is important to strategize for disruption in a) school processes, b) teaching and learning, c) communications, and d) teamwork.

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  • WCED Orientation of Novice Teachers

    Find video presentations by leading figures in the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), introducing new teachers to the various facets of you new profession.

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  • WCED Professional Development: Online Courses

    Find the available professional development for teachers, SMTs, Heads of Departments, Deputy Heads, Principals and Officials.

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