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List major characteristics associated with the Millennials and give an example of each.

Select a poem and copy poem into your assignment. Identify examples of assonance, alliteration, metaphor, simile and personification in the poem. Then describe how would you explain the effect these examples of figurative speech have to a learner. How would you adapt your approach if your learners have different cultural backgrounds?

Identify the main ideas of functionalist theory in relation to schools in society

A serious leadership challenge for educators is to assist learners to cooperate willingly and enthusiastically in their own learning to reach the outcomes of the learning programme. (The millennial generation) In South African school context of our era, the responsibility of the educator is to exert a great influence on the learners in schools to cope with their way of thinking. 

   Using the Long-term effective leadership model: discuss and illustrate the long-term leadership   task of the educator as compared to the short-term leadership role of the educator.   Your own examples will be rewarded

Our conditions today in society has changed the seating arrangement in our classrooms. 2.1 Mention the three seating formations their use.                                                                              (15) 2.2 Choose the best seating formation that you can use for your classroom giving the reasons     for your choice in today’s conditions of classroom settings

11. Parental involvement is a combination of supporting student academic achievement and participating in community initiated functions. 

12. Monitoring of children and taking part in the school trips may be ways in which the school appreciate the involvement of parents.

13. The UBUNTU philosophy can be used where assessment focuses on human qualities and character, than on the stated outcomes.

14. Commitment level, is one of the stages of the framework for engaging parents in the school. 

15. The curriculum enrichment model for parental involvement means to incorporate the family problems of the children.  

 20. Responsibility for a register class is a secondary task of all educators.

Indicate whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE: 1. In the olden days, parents were regarded as educators, and educators as parents. 

2. Communicating effectively with the parents of the children, should never be through technology, since parents are too traditional. 

3. Educators are also administrators of their classrooms, but mostly outside of the classrooms. 

4. Parents should be given fair chances to speak, during interviews by the educators.  

5. Interviews may be used to introduce parents as friends to their children’s educators. 

6. One of the rights and duties of the parents is to be liable for any damage that may be caused by their children on school property. 

7. SA-SAMS was developed to assist with allocating educators subjects and classes, as part of their time-table. 

8. One of the barriers of parental collaboration is when parents know what to do and their importance to the school.

1. Read the sentence below, paying particular attention to the underlined words. Which syllable of the underlined words carry the primary stress? Give a reason for the stress placement you have provided for each word.

i. The faction agreed to (a) second the motion of impeachment at the (b) second parliamentary session. (4 marks)

II. Indicate the syllable division for the word ‘appreciate’. How would you explain the syllable division in this word to someone who wants to understand how to divide syllables in the English language? (3 marks)

III. Stress can also occur on whole words or phrases in order to express different meanings. Read the sentence below aloud two times. In the first reading put the stress on the pronoun ‘I’ and in the second reading, place the stress on the auxiliary verb ‘am’. As you listen to yourself reading the sentence, what meaning is conveyed by the shift in the stress?

‘I am speaking.’

You have been asked to raise money for a charity by organizing either a sports event or a concert.

Write a letter to invite an important guest to take part. You must include the following information in

your letter:

• Exactly what type of event it is

• When and where the event will take place 

• What you would like your special guest to do

• What other arrangements have been made for the day

• Why the money is needed

Moving around in your mathematics class, you notice a learner getting an answer of 20 from the calculator for working the sum: 2 + 3 x 4. What will be the correct reaction?

1. Leave the student to check the answer later with the rest of the class. 2. Indicate to the learner that the answer is correct and encourage the good work. 3. Rebuke the learner for using the calculator to get the answer. 4. None of the above.