IPS1501
Assignment number: 04
Year: 2022
, QUESTION 1
List SIX (6) useful tips for teachers to apply when teaching Life Skills. Remember to write
in your own words (paraphrase) and to reference your source correctly. Nel and Payne-van
Staden (in Nel 2018) provide the following useful tips for teachers when teaching Life
Skills:
Direct teaching is useful but interaction among learners and teacher and among learners
are also important.
Learners should express how they feel, what they hear and what they know.
Creative and critical thinking should be stimulated during interaction.
Learners should get the opportunity to ask questions.
Teachers should use constructive language when they address learners.
Use a variety of learning material, not only textbooks, when teaching Life Skills.
Employ a variety of teaching strategies in the Life Skills classroom.
Be aware of the outside world and how it affects learners’ life experiences.
Be well prepared for each lesson.
Get to know the learners you teach.
Discuss assessment in the Life Skills class by answering the following questions. Describe
the four steps involved in assessment. It involves four steps:
I. generating and collecting evidence of achievement;
II. evaluating this evidence;
III. recording the findings and
IV. using this information to understand and thereby assist the learner’s development
to improve the process of learning and teaching.
Assignment number: 04
Year: 2022
, QUESTION 1
List SIX (6) useful tips for teachers to apply when teaching Life Skills. Remember to write
in your own words (paraphrase) and to reference your source correctly. Nel and Payne-van
Staden (in Nel 2018) provide the following useful tips for teachers when teaching Life
Skills:
Direct teaching is useful but interaction among learners and teacher and among learners
are also important.
Learners should express how they feel, what they hear and what they know.
Creative and critical thinking should be stimulated during interaction.
Learners should get the opportunity to ask questions.
Teachers should use constructive language when they address learners.
Use a variety of learning material, not only textbooks, when teaching Life Skills.
Employ a variety of teaching strategies in the Life Skills classroom.
Be aware of the outside world and how it affects learners’ life experiences.
Be well prepared for each lesson.
Get to know the learners you teach.
Discuss assessment in the Life Skills class by answering the following questions. Describe
the four steps involved in assessment. It involves four steps:
I. generating and collecting evidence of achievement;
II. evaluating this evidence;
III. recording the findings and
IV. using this information to understand and thereby assist the learner’s development
to improve the process of learning and teaching.
