Last month, the Global Teachers Institute sent South African student teachers to Chicago to participate in our annual global teaching internship. The program places our student teachers in host schools throughout the U.S. where they can observe and practice teaching in American classrooms. The Chicago program took place at Hinsdale Central High School and Hinsdale South High […]
While growing up, I attended primary school in both township and rural settings. In these schools, I was constantly taught using rote learning. As learners, we spent an incredible amount of time memorising and regurgitating information without making sense of it, analysing it or even knowing what to do with it once memorised. It […]
Mlungisi Magugula currently teaches at Kwazamokuhle secondary school. He is studying towards his Bachelors in education (B.ed) at Wits University and is also a part-time student at UNISA. During our Axis Summit this July, he presented a workshop on confronting the hard realities of teaching. In our conversation below, he speaks about his experiences as a […]
