477 days ago
How you can contribute to educating our nation.

With so much pressure placed solely on teachers to arrive and teach at schools with inadequate facilities, unruly learners and low remuneration, we cannot sit back and place all the responsibility of educating our children on the teachers.

Parents

There are many ways you can assist your child after school. Get involved in your child’s schooling career, read with your child after school and check that homework as been done.  Have many books at home and stress the value of education to your children.

- Bill of Responsibilities for parents.  http://bit.ly/y2DIAZ

- How you can assist your child at school. (WCED)   http://bit.ly/u1auaz
- Why developing life skills is so important for your child.  http://bit.ly/uBqBtM

Learners

Each one of you have the responsibility in ensuring their rights to attend school regularly, to learn and to work hard.  Cooperate respectfully with teachers and fellow learners and adhere to the rules and Code of Conduct of the school.

- Bill of Responsibilities for learners.  http://bit.ly/zeWFRp
- 10 tips to improve your study skills. http://bit.ly/tZwBTo

Teachers and Principals

Here are some helpful tools to use at school and in the classroom.

- Bill of Responsibilities for teachers.  http://bit.ly/zH1O7X

- Teacher’s Manual.  http://bit.ly/wGYssp

- Bill of Responsibilities for schools.  http://bit.ly/z8eEUh

South African citizens

We can all choose to take responsibility in bettering this nation.  Even if you don’t have children of your own, read to kids without parents or those who need extra attention.

Here are some tips from Symphonia’s Louise Van Rhyn on how you can ‘How to make a contribution to the lives of SA’s children’ (http://bit.ly/yPIbQK). Donate unwanted books to organizations such as Equal Education who work towards providing functional libraries in all public schools. (www.equaleducation.org.za)