Westen Cape Education Department
YouTube Channel

The Western Cape Education Department has created a WCEDnews channel on YouTube to highlight new developments, reflect best practice and to provide tips on what you can do at home and in the classroom to develop literacy and numeracy skills.

You can access the videos by clicking on the following links:

WCED on the move

New School: Westlake Primary, Ficus Street, Westlake http://youtu.be/VEkqxdagSUs

Western Cape Primary School Awards for Numeracy & Literacy

2011 Western Cape Primary School Awards for Literacy and Numeracy http://youtu.be/JXLLavIGDTI

Western Cape Teaching Awards

Conferences, celebrations and performances

African Indigenous Folklore: Primary School Eisteddfod http://youtu.be/5_6faTEqkck

Happy Birthday Madiba from St Mary's Primary http://youtu.be/5NA-bMzAelE

June 16: Take the Lead http://youtu.be/wi9NFD-VQOI

Teaching Tips

TeacherTips: Maths 01: Recognising shapes and relationships Ideas teachers and parents can use to help children recognise Mathematical and geometric shapes (e.g. triangles), their attributes (e.g. small, yellow) and their relationships to one another. Source: MST (Maths, Science & Technology). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbX-3OcGqsI

TeacherTips: Maths 02: Reinforcing an understanding of shapes and their relationships Ideas teachers and parents can use to help children consolidate their understanding of shape (e.g. triangle, circle), size, colour, sequence and relationship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzKgX3W_88

TeacherTips: Maths 03: Numbers Ideas teachers and parents can use to introduce an understanding of number. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBd10aVBo0k

TeacherTips: Maths 04: Volume and Size This clip introduces volume and size, and how to estimate each. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHSOtj27Pv4

TeacherTips: Maths 05: Shape and Perspective An activity that teachers and parents can use to introduce shape and perspective. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU9lU209kZM

TeacherTips: Maths 06: Giving and Following Instructions Ideas teachers and parents can use to strengthen children's ability to give and follow instructions by demonstrating the importance of having a working vocabulary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmIdofDxmY

TeacherTips: Maths 07: Fractions How teachers and parents can use a real-life problem involving money to promote an understanding of fractions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_2of3QY2jI

TeacherTips: Maths 08: Area How teachers and parents can use a real-life problem involving money to promote an understanding of area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZrN918suZM

TeacherTips: Maths/Science 09: Solids Ideas teachers and parents can use to encourage children to develop strategies to solve problems relating to a solid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ry4psscZ2Q

TeacherTips: Maths/Science 10: Temperature How teachers and parents can set up experiments to solve problems relating to temperature. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgh4Uack9sU

TeacherTips: Maths 11: Sharing and Reflection How teachers and parents can demonstrate to children that sharing and reflection can assist understanding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2oJZJ0J2ug

TeacherTips: Maths 12: Data Collection and Graphs Ideas teachers and parents can use to collect data that can be represented in graph form. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgaNw2l30To

TeacherTips: Maths 13: Ways to Assess Understanding Approaches that teachers and parents can take to establish whether learning has taken place; they include observation, questions, demonstrations, interviews and the use of real-life situations to collect data that can be represented in graph form. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khcnRDbhgNs

TeacherTips: Maths 14: Maths Consolidation, using a Journal How teachers and parents can use journals to encourage children to think about fractions and to apply understanding in new ways. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnSKojgigM