Tomorrow, Minister Grant will be attending a reading and writing conference at the Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute.
The conference theme is “Teach, Apply and Live Reading and Writing.”
The aim of the conference is to share ideas, best practice and experience concerning reading and writing, different approaches to the teaching of reading and writing, intervention strategies for poor readers and writers, and the management of reading in schools.There will be several practical workshop sessions for educators presented by teachers who are lead educators in their fields.
Some workshop topic titles include: Teaching thinking skills for better comprehension, how to get learners interested in reading, differentiation and the teaching of writing in the English First Additional Language classroom, scaffolding writing and presenting for senior phase, stories on cell phones to get teens reading, differentiation and the teaching of writing in the English First Additional Language classroom, and teaching writing in a bilingual classroom.
Minister Grant will sit in on a few classes and thereafter there will be an opportunity for media to interview educators during the lunch break.
Time: 12h45
Date: 26 September 2013
Venue: Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute, in Nooiensfontein Road, Kuils Rivier.
Enquiries:
Bronagh Casey, Spokesperson for Minister Donald Grant
Tel: 021 467 2377
Cell: 072 724 1422
Fax: 021 425 3616
E-mail: Bronagh.casey@pgwc.gov.za
