Training Grade R teachers to impart visual perceptual skills for early reading
Reading & Writing
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Training Grade R teachers to impart visual perceptual skills for early reading | |
| Creator | Andrich, Christelle Hill, Anne Steenkamp, Andre | |
| Description | Visual Perception is the mind’s ability to interpret or give meaning to what is seen with the eyes (WCED 2006). Grade Reception Phase (R) teachers, of five and six year-old learners, need to impart Visual Perceptual Skills (VPS) during visual training for pre-reading. These prereading activities in Grade R support early reading progress in Grade 1, which is critical for improving basic literacy and numeracy education in South Africa. A quality Grade R programme which can deliver these visual training outcomes depends on a progressive model for effective pre- and in-service professional development of teachers. A model implemented via academic-governmental collaboration. This article seeks to describe and recommend best practices of such professional development. The recommendations are based on an overview of the current Grade R professional development landscape, a brief exposition of the Subject Content Knowledge (SCK) of VPS, a document analysis of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) curriculum and, finally, a case study with a discourse analysis involving four Grade R teachers. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
| Date | 2015-08-07 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/rw.v6i1.73 | |
| Source | Reading & Writing; Vol 6, No 1 (2015); 9 pages 2308-1422 2079-8245 | |
| Language | eng | |
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