SAE3701 PORTFOLIO 2024 VERIFIED

Question 2 : 1. What is meant by ‘accountability’ in the teaching profession? (5) Teachers has the accountability towards their learners, that’s when being answerable to somebody, like in this case to the learners. Accountability is defined as “responsibility to someone or for some activity” (). When considering a teacher's accountability, we relate it to the teacher’s responsibility for their learners and his/her learning progress. Accountability eliminates the time and effort you spend on distracting activities and other unproductive behavior. When you make people accountable for their actions, you're effectively teaching them to value their work. When done right, accountability can increase your learners skills and confidence. 2. Balfour (1996) suggests that the development of teacher professionality has been a persistent cause problem in South African schools. Discuss is meant by a teacher ‘culture of professionality’. (5) The professional culture of teachers refers to the way they develop their activities in the school environment. The activities accomplish acquires significance and this helps the new teachers to learn to solve their problems, because this is integrated into the professional community. The teachers professional culture comprises the values, beliefs, habits and certain ways of doing that are shared in a certain community of teachers and which can be observed in the relationships between teachers. In time, the professionalism of teachers is understood as specific in the actions of teachers. This is the set of behaviors, skills, attitudes, knowledge and the values that contribute to the specificity of being a teacher. The interaction between teachers contributes to the educational success of learners and is often related to the quality of the professionalism of a teacher. In recent research, it has shown that the professional culture and teacher professionalism have been gaining visibility, especially in the higher education, due to the growth and complexity of this subsystem to education in today’s society. 3. Discuss the major features of the former Outcomes Based Education (OBE) curriculum. (5) The OBE focuses on skills like Life Skills, Professional and vocational skills, Basic skills, Intellectual skills and Interpersonal and personal skills when developing curricula and outcomes. It can be distinguished from traditional education method by the way it incorporates theory of education, a systematic structure for education and a specific approach to instructional practice. The entire educational system is organized to what is essential for the learners to be successful at the end of their learning experiences. This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :27:55 GMT -06:00 The term “outcomes” is the core concept of the curriculum and it is use in a interchangeable way with the terms “competency”, “standards”, “benchmarks” and “attainment targets”. 4. Draw out the major differences between outcomes Based Education (OBE) and the current Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPs). (5) The CAPS is structured on a more material system, where learners directly access resources to reason and extract information at their own pace. The Outcome Based Education (OBE) is more systematic where learners are taught with expectations of achieving a more specific outcome in their lessons. CAPS are very different to OBE, which had a particular view of knowledge and the fact that everyone creates knowledge and sort of had a sustain full view of textbooks. Where CAPS on the other hand is a more traditional type of curriculum, it is very tightly specified, it tells us exactly what learners needs to know and do in every subject in each grade. The CAPS document is a very elaborate document. It is also a board agreement that the CAPS curriculum are