3. CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES
The first approach to look into as a
educator is to be able to improvise
Then you have to contextualise your
content
Know your learners needs
Engage other relevant stakeholders
Always be ready to learn
4. TAKE LEADERSHIP IN TEACHING
You are a classroom manager
You must also be able to brand your
class to be appealing
Keep in mind that learners are not
the same
You must diversify your planning
6. BE THE KIND OF TEACHER WHO:
Voice
Choice
Engagement
Motivation
Ownership
Purpose and
Self driven
7. HOW ITOOK MY ROLE AS ATEACHERTO BE MY
VOICE AND PLIGHT
I became resourceful
in an under-
resourced classroom
.
By contextualizing
my lessons to relate
to my learners
environment
By improvising
Empowering Communities
I initiated programs to
train community
members on ICT and
collaborated with
institutions of higher
learning to certify them
I trained my peers from
school to national level
Professional
Development
I took an initiative to
develop myself guided
by the ISPFTEPD
Through that I took
courses that enabled
me to improve my
skills 7
8. INITIATED PROJECTS AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Marula Project Paper doll Song miming
Singing and
Dancing
Minecraft Offline
version from
Code.org
(DOC) Marula
Project plan |
Mokhudu Machaba
Academia.edu
This is one of the
project that tested
our ICT integration
into curriculum
Lifekills Project
Visual Art
This is the first
project where I
used my single
cell phone for
research
This project was a
Lifeskills Performing
art project
Learners used
SongSmith to
create their own
recording and
beats
I introduced my
learners to the
code.org platform
where they created
their own projects
9. INITIATED PROJECTS AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Seshego Project
(Traditional way of
preserving seeds)
Dance club and
Cybersecurity
program
Content Creation for
Foundation phase
on HL
Coding and robotics
using Code.org and
Scratch
COVID HIT us
Training peers
online.
This was Creative
Arts project which
integrated other
subjects
In this project we
were solving a
problem of seeds
decay prior the
next harvest
Learners were
introduced to
Cybersecurity
course through
Lifejourney website.
I was educating
my learners on
Online safety
I started the content
creation as one of
intellectual property
I am building.
I am now owning
a website where I
hope to
collaborated with
my learners, peers
and parents
In collaboration with
SchoolNetSA and
Bellamatrix ICT
Foundation I
introduced my
learners to scratch
coding
Engaged peers
on to integrate
ICT into
curriculum
Hosted my fellow
Global teacher
Prize top 50
finalist to share
their good
practices and
invited local
teachers to
attend