Covid-19 Presentations for the Revised Annual Teaching Plans for Grade 12

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Presentations that accompany the revised annual teaching plans are available. Click here to go to the page called "Covid-19 Revised ATPs" to download them. These presentations have a few explanatory notes for the purpose of mediation of Free State teachers.

The originals are available from the DBE website. Look under links for schools.

This previous post deals with the release of the revised annual teaching plans.

Covid-19 Revised Annual Teaching Plans for Grade 12

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Click here to go the page where you can download the revised annual teaching plans (ATPs) and other documents in view of the national lockdown due to Covid-19.

Read the information on that page with attention.

DBE circular S2 that accompanies these documents can be downloaded here.

If you want to return to the documents in future, remember to look under "Pages".

The documents are also available on the website of DBE. Look under links for schools.

Lockdown in South Africa: On the way to level 3

Click here to read President Cyril Ramaphosa's Covid-19 message of tonight as the country is moving towards level three.

More information is available here:

• Website of The Presidency
• Twitterfeed of The Presidency

HeyMath and HeyScience Support for Learners

HeyMath offer their learner support material free of charge until 30 Sep 2020. It is available for natural and physical sciences (8-12) and mathematics (R-12).

Click here to read the Director-General's letter with complete details.

Click here for their website.

Re-opening of schools during Covid-19 period: Useful documents

Aiming at the re-opening of schools, the following documents provide valuable information:

Free State Circular MG7 of 2020 Amended

Free State Circular MG7 of 2020 Update and school readiness

DBE Document: Standard operating procedure for

Covid-19

Sad News: Prof. Anton Stoltz has died this week

Two months and one day ago I posted expert advice (click here to read it) by Prof. Anton Stoltz about Covid-19.

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Today, Eyewitness News carried the sad news that Prof. Stoltz passed away on Thursday, 21 May 2020. Here is the article of Eyewitness News:

LATE PROF. ANTON STOLTZ HAILED FOR HIS WORK TOWARDS FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

Stoltz, who was the head of infectious diseases at the University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Hospital, died from complications during surgery on Thursday.

 Tributes continue to pour in for one of South Africa’s leading infectious diseases specialist Professor Anton Stoltz.

 Stoltz died this week from complications during surgery.

 He was the head of infectious diseases at the University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Hospital.

The health fraternity, including the Gauteng health department, the South African Medical Association and the Medical Research Council have hailed the virologist for his contribution and response to the fight against COVID-19.

The readers of this website wish to convey their condolences to the Stoltz family.

IBP Live Chat on Facebook

Our second round of live chats on Facebook will DV be done by Mrs Busi Manchu and Mr Motsie Lethena today. 

Mrs Manchu will talk about organic reactions at 12:00 and physical properties at 15:00, while Mr Lethena will discuss the Doppler effect at 18:00.

Join the Facebook group called IBP - Internet Broadcast Project to see the videos (shown before the live chats) and the live chats themselves.

Useful documents for the Covid-19 period

The following documents give useful information to deal with the Covid-19 situation.

Advice to Parents
Educational Resources (TV & radio schedules, zero-rated websites, etc.) 
Orientation Manual

Flashback Friday: Science Convention 2015

Back to School: Grade 12

Yesterday it was announced that grade 12 learners will be back in school on 1 June. SABSNews published nice infographics in connection with this.

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Interesting articles: Online teaching, learning and assessment

Online teaching and learning get a lot of attention lately, and academic articles have appeared about the influence of Covid-19 on this.

Use the links below to take you to three interesting articles I have seen recently. Thanks to Sarietjie Musgrave who made me aware of them. 

The links take you to the original articles, and a pdf file of each article is also available.

COVID-19: The steep learning curve for online education by Dragan Gasevic: Director of the Centre for Learning Analytics, Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. (PDF printout)

Online learning: Rethinking teachers’ ‘digital competence’ in light of COVID-19 by Neil Selwyn: Professor, Faculty of Education at Monash University. (PDF printout)

Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations by Stephanie Smith Budhai: Associate Professor of Education at Neumann University. (PDF printout)

IBP Live Chat on Facebook

Our first Physical Sciences Facebook Live Chat will DV take place on Saturday, 16 May 2020. Collision theory, chemical equilibrium and acids and bases are in store for you and will be done by Mrs Busi Manchu from 12:00.

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Join the Facebook group called IBP - Internet Broadcast Project to see videos (shown before the live chats) and the live chats themselves.

Today, Mrs Manchu will discuss sections of the following papers, which you can download by clicking the links on each one below. They will take you directly to the papers instead of going to the normal repository of papers.

PhySci Nov 2014 P2 Eng

PhySci Nov 2014 P2 Memo

PhySci Feb-Mar 2015 P2 Eng

PhySci Feb-Mar 2015 P2 Memo

However, remember that question papers from more or less 2015 are available by going to "Pages" (on the left), then to the link "Question papers". Then you follow links from there to find what you need.

Flashback Friday: Technical Sciences 2016 Teacher Training

Re-opening of schools

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Things are slowly returning to normal. The following documents contain important information about this.

2020-05-14 Media statement: Minister Motshekga to convene a special CEM meeting to consider state of readiness of schools.

2020-05-12 LTA 1 of 2020 on curriculum management in view of Covid-19

2020-05-12 Joint statement by education unions

New website of FSDoE with digital learning for teachers and office-based educators

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Remote teaching and learning create incredible opportunities for effective learning and collaboration outside of the classroom. Our current situation, the national lockdown, has led to a loss of teaching and learning time and has brought on many challenges and uncertainties about the immediate and future status of learning. 

The ELearning section of the Free State Department of Education has developed a beautiful website with a digital learning content pack for teachers and office-based educators to help strengthen remote teaching and learning practices. 

It is aimed at developing your skills, learning and exploring new tools as you facilitate remote teaching and learning. This self-paced learning journey is divided into five modules as shown below.

The website address is https://fsdoeelearning.wixsite.com/e-teacher.

Make this link a favourite on your computer/device and explore the information provided there.
It was specially made for you!

Teaching opportunity in Beijing, China

Flashback Friday: Technical Science CAPS Training for Subject Advisers 2015

Radio broadcast: Lesedi FM

The grade 12 learner support programmes of Lesedi FM will continue during May. 

There will be three slots for technical sciences (starting today) and one slot for physical sciences from 16:15 to 16:45. Click here for the schedule.

Flashback Friday: 2018 Grade 10 Science Quiz