BPT1501 Assignment 2 Semester 2 2026 - Due 21 August 2026

BPT1501 Assignment 2 Semester 2 2026 - Due 21 August 2026 Assignment 2: Lesson 2: The Teacher as a Professional INSTRUCTIONS i. Refer to the Given Scenario and answer the questions that follow. ii. Maintain the numbering in the same way it appears on the question paper. iii. Type legibly and make use of correct word case appropriately. iv. Edit your work before submitting. v. Use your own words. Do not cut and paste information from your sources. vi. Acknowledge all sources using an acceptable reference technique You breathe in oxygen through your left lung and breathe out carbon dioxide through your right lung.” That’s what a life-science teacher taught her class at a school where I worked for several weeks last year as part of my teacher training. It would be easy to criticise and demean her. But she was one of the hardest-working teachers at the school. Her dedication, spoiled by her inadequate training, was not matched by many of the other teachers. The school system offers some incentives to teachers to perform but these are so easily manipulated — in a system that otherwise demoralises and underpays you — that they count for nothing. As a result, many of my fellow teachers seem to have decided to do as little work as possible. When a school outing was organised for the matrics to a company that offers a post-matric qualification (itself a problematic idea), five teachers and a trainee-teacher went along. While the trainee-teacher organised the students and ran the day’s affairs, the five experienced teachers sat in the bus eating and chatting the hours away. In this school there are no daily staff meetings to plan for classes with absent teachers, so throughout the day there are always unsupervised classes where the students make a great noise and don’t learn. Class sizes are big, typically over 40. Discipline is poor, and most of the students chat throughout classes. I had to come up with several different techniques to keep the class quiet enough to teach. Teaching in the morning was particularly challenging. The students were listless and tired. The first time I taught in the morning, I asked the students why they were so lacking in energy. The answer was startling: they were hungry; many of them would receive their first meal of the day at about 11am — from the school feeding scheme. https://groundup.org.za/article/daily-failures-typical-south-africanschool_2802/#:~:text=You%20breathe%20in,of%20the%20school. Question 1 Create a mind map exploring the challenges identified by the author in the scenario above and their impact on teachers’ professionalism. Develop solutions to address the identified challenges. Your mind map should visually present the details using branches and colours. (40) Rubric Criterion Description Marks Content Accuracy Identified five challenges from the given scenario, their related impact on teachers’ professionalism and solutions 15 Completeness Includes all major branches + relevant details that are clear and logical 10 Organization and structure Use of colour, symbols, clarity, and neatness 5 Creativity and presentation Insightful solutions 10 Total 40