Supervision of Curriculum Activities
Supervision of Curriculum Activities
Educator Assistants should:
- keep a file to record all the curriculum activities assigned to him/her by the school
- help with the development of teaching plans and resources such as teaching aids, preparing worksheets as guided by the educator focusing on different topics for specific grades
- be involved in the development and implementation of the Subject Improvement Plan, target setting for 2022 (or 2023)
- help prepare the relevant material and resources for teaching and learning, e.g.
- Interesting video clips or texts from social media, adverts , cartoons that can be used in any language aspect taught. For example, a video clip on parliamentary debate as a pre-activity for argumentative writing, and to highlight persuasive techniques
- contemporary language use like ‘a family meeting’ whenever the President is addressing the nation can be used as pre-activities for teaching figurative and literal references, as well as the issue of context.
Other materials that EA can assist with:
- collecting cartoons and advertisements from newspapers and magazines
- a variety of texts for comprehension especially in schools where electricity and network are a challenge.
An EA can also enhance EAC by:
- using texts from content subjects to enhance understanding of the content taught during the day.
- For example, the lesson on how to write instructions, which use imperatives, could be enhanced through citing experiments in Physical Sciences, or sharing a recipe in Consumer Studies. Learners can be taught Word attack skills which could enhance concept formation as advocated in the EAC.
- Learners could be urged to bring own examples from newspapers, practical experiences or stories they heard shared.
- A lesson on homonyms can be followed by examples like ‘displacement’ which mean different things in ordinary language use and the science subjects.