Name: Koketso
Surname: Mashangwane
Student number:68894139
Module:TPN2601
Assignment 1 .
Question 1
1. Explain what the main information in this guide is about?
- This curriculum promotes knowledge in local context while being sensitive to global
imperatives.
- The curriculum gives the teachers detailed guidelines of what to teach and assessed on a
grade by grade and subject by subject basis.
- The curriculum mainly gives teachers a guide to be the content that should be taught
through the year and has a specific content for each term.
- The content in the document is set out for the entire country to follow.
- Setting the same standards and requirements in every Grade (R-12) has the same standard
assessments, requirements and skills that should be acquired and values learners would be
able to achieve in the grade and at that age .
- The curriculum has a certain time frame that gives teachers to achieve a certain goal.
2. Summarise the aspects listed under this heading.
- The curriculum aims at giving learners fair and equal education despite of their abilities.
- The curriculum aims to help every child to develop knowledge, skills , attitudes and
behaviours for life, learning, schooling and work.
- The NCF is one of a number of curriculum initiatives.
- All curriculum curriculum frameworks in all sectors of education are based on the South
African constitution.
- The National curriculum statement of Grade R-12 serves the purpose of : Equipping learners
irrespective of their socio – economic background, race , gender, physical ability or
intellectual ability with the knowledge.
: Providing access to higher education
: Facilitating the transition of learners from educational institutions to the workplace
:It aims to equip learners with disabilities with skills they can use in their lives.
3. Draw a grid to plan the allocated time for your subject
ENGLISH FAL TIMETABLE 1-2 HOURS PER DAY BASED ON 1 WEEK FOR GRADE 6 LEARNERS
4. Monday Tuesday 5. Wednesday 6. Thursday Friday
1 hour: listening -1 hour: reading - 1 hour : Creative -1 hour: 30 : minutes
and speaking and reviewing. writing language spelling test
-30 minutes: structures and 30 : minutes
group guided conversations reading and
reading poetry
4. List the knowledge, skills and values learners should have after completing this topic.
Knowledge
-Learners will know more about understanding poems, they’ll know about different types of English
grammars and many more.
- Learners communication skills will improve.
-They know reading strategies
Skills
-Listening skills
- Speaking skills
-Reading skills
-Writing skills
Values
-They will know how to communicate with people from different countries and places as English is a
global language.
-A student who knows English brims with confidence .
-English helps in enhancing the educational skills.
-English helps in grabbing lifetime opportunities.
5, Assessments requirements for English
Formal assessment
-Generating and collecting evidence of achievements
:this information is particularly used to understand and thereby assist the learners development in
order to improve the process of learning and teaching.
-Recording and Reporting
:It is done after the formal assessments , learners need to get feedback regarding the task that had
been administered. Giving each a certain level of achievement or understanding.
-Moderation
:This is done by the head department, they need to go through the test that had been administered
and basically per mark the educator as there are many ways to answer a question.
Reflection
6.1 Do you think the CAPS document can be used to guide teaching?
-Yes , because it guides teachers the content or curriculum that learners should cover by the
end of each term and requirements a learner needs to achieve a goal.
6.2. How will it help you?
- I believe that the document will help me as I will know what topics to teach and according to which
term and what to assess and what to leave out/ I can say that it gives me guidelines of what to teach
and assess on a grade by grade and subject by subject bases.
6.3what do you think is not so good about it?
-The fact that it is so scheduled and has a daily plan that needs to be followed. What happens when
the letters don’t understand a topic , one would be required to continue with teaching learners as
they would wouldn’t want to fall behind but learners won’t understand anything making the main
goal with regards to curriculum.
6.4
6.4.1 will these guidelines or this information be applicable to all contexts and learners?
- Yes, it will be as the CAPS document covers for learners with teaching problems . Teachers are
required to add different activities and have different methods when addressing learners in order to
ensure that the curriculum reaches all.
6.4.2 Motivate your answer and give example
-The CAPS documents gives teachers detailed guidelines of what to teach and assessed on a grade by
grade and subject by subject basis.The main aim of CAPS is to loosen the administrative burden on
teachers and ensure consistency and guidance for teachers when teaching . The teaching and
learning of the subjects have specific aims, skills , focus and content areas and weighting of content
areas. What we’ve always called Learning Outcomes and Assessment standards in the NCS are now
called Content and Skills in CAPS. Teaching using CAPS covers a range of informal tests that a
teacher can use to assess the process of learning by their students. These may include weekly
quizzes, assignments and experiments . These usually has a major focus on subject matter rather
than personalising learning to fit each student. This fallacy is generalised to fit the general idea that
if something is good for someone then it means that it is good for everybody.
6.4.3 Attach the first page of the document you used for this exercise
REFERENCE
. www.education .gov.za
.CAPS document ENGLISH FAL intermediate phase (Grade 4-6)
