Are you living in a box?
Sometimes, when you sit in a box in your house you start believing that the box is your whole house. You start buying smaller furniture, eating less, shrinking to fit into your box.
Sometimes, when you sit in a box in your house you start believing that the box is your whole house. You start buying smaller furniture, eating less, shrinking to fit into your box.
Two years into my university studies I was pregnant, age 20. At 25 I was the commercial director at a JSE listed company and a mother to 2 little boys. By 28 I had my first MBA.
Dissecting the low literacy results in the current education system is exhausting and can be debilitating. Diagnosing the onset of literacy gaps is the ‘gold dust’ of teaching.
The most important thing you can teach your child is how to read, if knowledge is the door to empowerment, then reading is the key. If you can read, you can take on the world and claim a space fit to your purpose in life.
As a community of educators, it is easy for us to say that we taught the lesson and we expect the desired outcomes because we have delivered the lesson but… have we checked that baseline? Children that do not reach the desired literacy levels by the age of 12, are at risk of being left behind by the system.
If you don’t believe children are resilient and able take a closer look at the video. These grade 3 learners get less than 1 hour of screen time per day, they have already applied the new skill sets of mobile tech to multiple environments.