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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Schools Series - Ethiopia Teacher Manual
This manual equips teachers with practical knowledge and tools to support the mental health and psychosocial well-being of learners, particularly in conflict-affected regions like Afar, Amhara, and Tigray. It includes a case management toolkit and aims to create a safe, healing classroom environment. The manual raises awareness of MHPSS, provides techniques for identifying and managing mental health issues, and promotes emotional safety and resilience. By integrating MHPSS into teaching, it helps teachers foster a supportive and inclusive educational environment, enhancing professional development through trauma-informed pedagogy.
A Teacher's Guide for Arts, Music and Drama in Africa
Art, music and drama have had a pivotal role in the livelihood of human beings. This is clear by the wealth of literature, architecture, fine art, theater and music that define human past, present and future. The inherent creative ability and a yearning to express ourselves is what gives value to art, music and drama as companion components in human evolution.
This teacher's guide covers art, music, dance, drama, experiential learning, community engagement, and how to integrate these aspects into curriculum. Additionally, this document provides lesson plans for primary school students in these subject areas.
Mathematics lesson starters for Grade 3 learners
A set of teacher guides containing each 6 Mental Mathematics Lesson Starter units for Grade 3 learners, in alignment with the South African curriculum. A different calculation strategy is in focus in each unit. These calculation strategies are taken from the curriculum. Each unit covers a particular group of connected skills, and the aim is to move learners on from counting in ones on their fingers or with tally marks on paper.
Each unit is three weeks long; it begins and ends with a short test for the learners. Marking these tests provides information for the teacher and the learners about how much they have improved in using that particular set of skills during the three weeks. Within each unit, the focus is on three types of calculations: fluency, strategic calculating and strategic thinking.
Working through the Lesson Starters in each unit should lead to improvements in learners’ performance from the pre to post-tests. These improvements show progress in mental mathematics skills and number sense.
The guide is available in 11 official languages of South Africa.
