In Defence of Examinations WITH THE latest half-year exams either in progress or a recent memory, the start of the third term seems like a good time to consider what value exams add to the education process. Many self-proclaimed progressives would like to see exams consigned to that over-full “dustbin of history”, along with rote […]
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10 Common Mistakes Parents Make in Their Child’s Education Journey (And How to Fix Them) Every parent wants their child to succeed at school, but good intentions sometimes lead to poor outcomes. Many common parenting practices can unintentionally derail a child’s educational progress, especially in the critical grade school years (Grade R to Grade 7).
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Why is it harder for adults to learn a language than for babies and toddlers? Learning a new language as an adult or teenager can feel like an uphill battle – memorizing vocabulary, grappling with grammar rules, and struggling with pronunciation. Meanwhile, babies and toddlers seem to acquire their first language effortlessly, absorbing speech patterns
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What the Proteas’ surprising world championship victory should teach us TEST cricket is, we are constantly told by those who know more than we do, is the purest form of the game. This implies that TV-friendly cash machines like the Indian Premier League and its T20 imitators are mere hit-and-giggle pastimes with an obscene price
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We really to need have an in-depth conversation about reading aloud to young children at home AN ARTICLE on the correlation between children being read to at home and their subsequent development in a host of spheres got me thinking about where we are going wrong in South Africa (and please don’t tell me we
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If your kids are at school, set aside four hours and binge-watch “Adolescence” IF YOU HAVE children in school, do yourself a favour and watch the latest “blockbuster offering” on Netflix, a four-part drama entitled “Adolescence”. It has everything one could want from a television drama. The plot is a taut story-line about teenage angst,
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Is this the reason our learners do so badly in International tests? In his book “Outliers” Jamaican-Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell investigates a wide variety of areas of human endeavour, including education. He records how the national airline of South Korea went from having the worst safety record of all national airlines to the best –
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XMWZ has mastered English and Afrikaans – now for isiZulu. . . AS WE MOVE into the second half of the second month of the year, the wheels at MyExamSlayer are beginning to gain traction. Our newest employee XMWZ (say Exam Whizz) has completed his English and Afrikaans lessons – his Afrikaans pronunciation is not
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Some shafts of light amongst the gloom ONE OF THE more interesting parts of my volunteer work for the Eshowe Community Action Group is going on site visits to some of the rural schools where ECAG has provided expensive infrastructure like classrooms, toilet blocks and science laboratories. Last week was particularly good for that because
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The Swiss professor and the missing ingredient in the school room ANYONE who has ever had to deal single-handedly with a normal two-year-old of either gender for even a few hours knows one thing. Two-year-olds are sponges: they suck in knowledge at such a rate it is exhausting for an adult to watch. And they
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