Western 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.
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
Click here to meet our top teachers and principals
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