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Posted by Blog Lines South Africa on June 3rd, 2009

Teachers unions on welcomed President Jacob Zuma’s comments on education in his state of the nation address to Parliament.

“(The speech) speaks to the challenges we face as a nation in the midst of an international economic downturn and recession,” SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) president Thobile Ntola said in a statement today.

It was, however, disappointed that Zuma avoided talking about problems in the public service and the occupation specific dispensation (OSD).

Ntola said the protecting and creation of jobs were crucial, and the union was concerned about whether the current budget allowed the government to meet the targets that had been set.

“We need to look at the detailed programmes and plans that the President said would be made available in the coming days,” Ntola said.

“Our other concern, in relation to the education commitments is in regard to provincial budgets. Often funds are budgeted - for example for Early Childhood Development (ECD) - and not all provinces spend the money on the intended purpose. This needs to be monitored.”

Sadtu said the roll out of ECD was crucial.

“International research shows that good ECD is crucial to later success in school. So the universal roll out of Grade R by 2014 is good news (although the original target was for 2010).”

Ntola also said the union fully supported the president’s stand on sexual abuse of pupils by teachers.

“(Sadtu) have called on our members to blow the whistle on abuse wherever it occurs, we have called on the Department of Education (DoE) to use its powers under labour legislation to discipline and dismiss … police must enforce the law with regard to statutory rape and we have fully support the actions of SACE (South African Council for Educators) in removing abusers from the teachers’ roll and banning them from teaching in South Africa,” she said.

Ntola said it was necessary to encourage pupils to complete their secondary education as around 40 percent do not reach matric.

She also placed an emphasis on Further Education and Training (FET), saying that skills training was vital.

“A recent survey shows that there are some three million youngsters between the ages of 18 and 24 who are not employed and not involved in any form of training - we have to reach out to them,” she said.

“School sports should be boosted and be part of the mainstream curriculum, not just an extra-mural activity. It is ironic that as we move towards 2010 the majority of our schools have no sports facilities or physical education programmes.”

Ntola said the union was looking forward to see the details on how access to higher education would be extended to children from poor families.

The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysers Unie (SAOU) said it was evident from Zuma’s speech that stronger emphasis would be given to quality service delivery in the public service.

“It is heartening to note that the present global economic crisis will be afforded priority attention,” said spokesman Chris Klopper.

“Likewise, the remarks regarding a stronger focus on the maintenance of law and order, as well as a primary health care, are welcomed and long overdue.”

Klopper said they fully supported the principle of establishing schools as centres of excellence.

“We can no longer afford to be surpassed by countries [such] as Mauritius, Mozambique, Uganda and Botswana in standardised tests.”

Like Sadtu, the SAOU supported the objectives for ECD, creating better discipline and a proper culture for learning and teaching in schools and the intention of the education department to establish an OSD.

It condemned sexual harassment of pupils by teachers.

Klopper said stronger emphasis should be placed on the role of technical schools in more effective training and skills development.

“South Africa presently experiences a dire shortage of well trained artisans. In this regard note must be taken that the FET college sector, currently a sector in crisis, and does not produce the products required by the economy.”

Sapa

http://www.superfresh.co.za/2009/06/03/teachers-welcome-zuma%E2%80%99s-plan/

Ek het met groot skok die volgende artikel in die Sunday Times gelees:

By 2015, 18000 will die, 42000 will retire, while 2000 emigrate annually

South Africa faces a shortage of up to 94000 teachers by 2015, thanks to poor government planning and the effects of Aids-related illnesses.

Analysts have warned of an education crisis, while unions have demanded that teacher training colleges be reopened to deal with the issue.

Up to 42000 teachers are expected to retire over the next seven years, according to a report by the Education, Training and Development Practices Seta.

The report, which deals with the skills shortage in the education sector, was handed to the Department of Labour in August but has not yet been released.

In addition, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released a report, commissioned by the Department of Education, which points out that while 20000 new teachers have been needed every year for the past few years to replace those who have left, only 6000 have qualified.

And of these, only 4000 enter the system while the rest leave to teach in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Dubai.

On Tuesday, education experts will meet in Johannesburg to discuss the crisis at a South African Council for Educators seminar.

Unions and analysts this week again blamed poor salaries for the lack of interest in teaching as a career. Teachers with a four-year degree earn just under R130000 in their first year in the job.

Of the 433280 teaching posts in South African schools, 62616 were vacant at the end of May, and 31949 posts were staffed by under-qualified, temporary teachers.

The Department of Education is now so desperate to plug the gaps that it has hired a recruitment agency to lure foreign teachers.

But Limpopo province, which desperately needs 1600 maths and science teachers, has only managed to attract 300 Zimbabwean teachers so far. The province has also only managed to entice 97 pupils to train as maths and science teachers since last year — despite making available 500 bursaries, each worth R50000 per student per year.

The National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) said the Education Department needed 10000 more teachers a year for grade 1 alone if it wanted to reduce class sizes from 40 to 30 pupils in that grade.

The Seta report says the shortage of teachers is “nothing less than a crisis for the formal education sector”.

It also warns that the HIV/Aids pandemic could prove to be one of the biggest contributors to the mass shortage of teachers.

HIV/Aids is already taking its toll on teacher numbers as:

Two hundred out of 500 National Teachers’ Union (Natu) members who volunteered for Aids tests between last October and this September tested HIV-positive; and

Naptosa suspects that most of its 250 members who died in Gauteng this year died of Aids-related illnesses.

South African Democratic Teachers’ Union general secretary Thulas Nxesi slammed the Education Department for not “factoring in” HIV/Aids in its calculations on teacher supply.

“We are starting to enter a critical period where those who were infected are now dying,” he said.

Sadtu and Naptosa have demanded the reopening of teacher training colleges shut down in the ’90s by the ANC government in a move to rationalise higher education institutions.

Nxesi said Sadtu had recently decided to “vigorously campaign” for their reopening because “no proper teacher training was taking place at universities”.

He said the Education Department did not know how bad the teacher shortage was and this was “an embarrassment”.

Wits School of Education head Professor Mary Metcalfe suggested that the government provide more bursaries, which students could repay by teaching for a minimum period.

“We are not producing enough teachers although there’s capacity in the system to do so. There are several universities which, if given additional staff, could probably double the number of graduates,” she said.

The OECD report said teachers cited too much paperwork and a host of unnecessary rules as reasons for leaving the profession.

Education director-general Duncan Hindle admitted there were shortages of teachers in certain subjects, but he rejected suggestions that pupils found teaching unattractive as a career, saying there was “enormous” demand for the government’s teacher bursary scheme.

Lees meer:
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/News/Article.aspx?id=890425

Uit Rapport, 11/10/2008
Deur Carien Kruger (Pretoria)

’n Oorkoepelende aksieplan is nodig om die onderwysberoep te red.

Só sê die Organisasie vir Ekonomiese Samewerking en Ontwikkeling (OESO) in sy oorsig oor Suid-Afrika se onderwysbeleid.

Die organisasie het die oorsig op versoek van me. Naledi Pandor, minister van onderwys, gedoen en het benewens onderhoude ook bestaande dokumente en navorsingsverslae ge- bruik.

Hiervolgens is twee derdes van onderwysers tussen 35 en 50 jaar oud en die meeste van hulle is dus in die apartheidsjare opgelei.

Onderwys as ’n beroep het ’n lae status; onderwysers se indiensopleiding berei hulle nie altyd goed genoeg voor nie; en onderwysers voel so oorlaai deur papierwerk en regulasies dat hulle “aan die einde van hul kragte” is.

Sommige onderwysers wat hulself beskou het as stryders teen die apartheidstelsel voel nou ontnugter en vervreemd.

Die OESO verwys na die RGN se 2005-verslag waarluidens 55% van onderwysers die beroep sou verlaat het as hulle kon.

Hul redes is stres weens die werklading, klein salarisse, gebrek aan leerling-dissipline in skole en gebrek aan beroepsvordering.

Die nasionale gemiddelde verhouding van leerlinge tot onderwyser is 33:1, wat darem al beter is as die 35:1 van 2004.

Sowat 5% tot 6% van onderwysers verlaat jaarliks die beroep en die nasionale departement verwag om teen einde vanjaar ’n tekort van 15 000 onderwysers te hê.

’n Studie in 2005 het getoon minder as twee derdes van pas gekwalifiseerde onderwysers in KwaZulu-Natal het beplan om in Suid-Afrika skool te hou indien hulle wel enigsins beplan het om skool te hou.

In die tien jaar ná 1996 was onderwysers se reële, inflasie-aangepaste salarisverhogings gemiddeld 0,5%. Onderwysers se betaling het dus net effens meer as hul lewenskoste gestyg.

Die OESO verwys na toenemende kommer oor die afbrekende subkultuur wat inbreuk maak op die skoollewe, soos vandalisme, geweld deur leerlinge, intimidasie en verkragting, wat soms aangevuur word deur dwelmgebruik.

Dis blykbaar veral jong onderwysers wat die beroep verlaat omdat die oueres aan hul pensioen moet dink.

’n Jong Afrikaans-onderwyseres met ’n honneursgraad het aan Rapport gesê sy het vier jaar lank aan ’n parallelme?diumskool klasgegee, maar die kinders se swak gedrag en gebrek aan respek het haar ondergekry.

“Ek het myself begin verloor. Jy moet óf toelaat dat die kinders oor jou loop óf jy moet ’n monster word.”

Sy werk nou as vertaler vir effens meer geld, maar met baie minder stres.

“ ’n Onderwyser se werk is mos nooit klaar nie,” sê sy oor die lang ure wat sy voorheen moes werk.

Die Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie (SAOU) het die afgelope week gesê hy ontvang steeds klagtes oor die werklading van veral gr. 10- tot 12-taalonderwysers.

Maar ’n 41-jarige Engels-onderwyseres aan ’n vooraanstaande Afrikaanse skool sê sy blý in die beroep danksy haar dinamiese skool, haar hoof met sterk leierseienskappe en die veilige skoolomgewing.

“Die gevare by skole waarvan ek in die koerante lees, ervaar ek glad nie in my skool nie.”

Ja, die werklading is kwaai, erken sy, maar met twee kinders van haar eie wat smiddae rondgery moet word, pas buigsame ure haar. Dit help ook baie dat sy in ’n beheerliggaampos is en dus minder administratiewe werk het.

’n Ander onderwyser vertel sy het ’n vooraanstaande Afrikaanse openbare skool vir ’n onafhanklike skool verruil – nie vir meer geld nie, maar vir kleiner klasse en minder merkwerk.

Die OESO-span sê hy het tydens besoeke skole gesien wat met die bestes in ander lande vergelyk, maar hulle was ook by ’n modderhut met geen water, sanitasie of elektrisiteit nie.

“Vir die stil, terughoudende onderwysers wat hul bes doen in so ’n situasie, sal die diskoers oor die norme en standaarde vir opvoeders geen of min betekenis hê nie,” lui die verslag.

http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2408280,00.html

Ek’t nou-net nog ‘n baie oulike webtuiste vir onderwysers gevind: Onderwysers.co.za:

http://www.onderwys.co.za

Ek hou veral van die artikels, video’s en ander interessanthede, soos hierdie uitstekende skryfsel deur John Wayne Schlatter:

 I AM A TEACHER

I am a teacher.
I was born the first moment that a question leaped from the mouth of a child.
I have been many people in many places.
I am Socrates exiting the youth of Athens to discover new ideas through the use of questions.
I am Anne Sullivan tapping out the secrets of the universe into the outstretched hand of Helen Keller.
I am Aesop and Hans Christian Andersen revealing truth through countless stories.
I am Marva Collins fighting for every child’s right to an education.
I am Mary McCloud Bethune building a great college for my people like a hall of fame for humanity…Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.
I am also those whose lessons and character will always be remembered in the accomplishments of their students.
I have wept for joy at the weddings of former students, laughed with glee at the birth of their children, and stood with head bowed in grief and confusion by graves dug too soon for bodies too young.
Throughout the course of a day, I have been called upon to be an actor, friend, nurse and doctor, coach, finder of lost articles, money-lender, taxi driver, psychologist, substitute parent, salesman, politician, and a keeper of the faith.
Despite the maps, charts, formulas, verbs, stories and books, I have really had nothing to teach, for my students really have only themselves to learn, and I know it takes the whole world to tell you who you are.
I am a paradox. I speak the loudest when I listen the most.
My greatest gifts are in what I am willing to appreciatively receive from my students.
Material wealth is not one of my goals, but I am a fulltime treasure seeker in my quest for new opportunities for my students to use their talents and in my constant search for those talents that sometimes lie buried in self-defeat.
I am the most fortunate of all who labour.
A doctor is allowed to usher life into the world in one magic moment. I am allowed to see that life is reborn each day with new questions, ideas and friendships.
An architect knows that if he builds with care, his structure may stand for centuries. A teacher knows that if he builds with love and truth, what he builds will last forever.
I am a warrior, daily doing battle against peer pressure, negativity, fear, conformity, prejudice, ignorance and apathy. But I have great allies: intelligence, curiosity, parental support, individuals, creativity, faith, love and laughter all rush to my banner with indomitable support.
And who do I have to thank for this wonderful life I am so fortunate to experience, but you the public, the parents.
For you have done me the great honour to entrust me with your greatest contribution to eternity, your CHILDREN.
And so I have a past that is rich in memories. I have a present that is challenging, adventurous and fun because I am allowed to spend my days with the future.
I am a teacher…and I thank God for it every day.

Besoek gerus die Onderwys.co.za vir meer bruikbare en insiggewende inligting!

http://www.onderwys.co.za/

Ek kom nou-net terug vanaf (’n baie warm!) Europese toer en het myself gate uit geniet. Groot is my verbasing toe ons skielik tientalle nuwe lede op een slag bykry!

Hoekom? Wel, ons het ‘n vermelding op RSG gekry! Luister hier.

Adie van Rensburg was gaaf genoeg om ons webwerf, www.onderwysers.com as webwerf van die week te kies! Dankie Adie!

London Times Obituary of the late Mr. Common Sense

‘Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
why the early bird gets the worm;
Life isn’t always fair; and
maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I’m A Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

Doen nou iets hieraan!
Sluit aan by Onderwysers.com …

Hierdie artikel is oorspronklik deur Anne Whitfield geskryf. Lees meer …

Die debat oor of lyfstraf reg of verkeerd is is nog lank nie verby nie.  Wat dink jy? Meer hieroor later. Eers die nuus:

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Anita Van Niekerk skryf vir my (dankie hoor!) en vra of daar nie ‘n plek op ons webblad is waar sy kan kla nie. My antwoord is Ja Anita, jy kan gerus op ons FORUM registreer en jou hart uitstort. Ek is seker jy is nie die enigste onderwyser wat nie 100% gelukkig is nie! Kliek hier om ons forum te besoek.
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Terug na vandag se gesprek: LYFSTRAF - is dit reg of verkeerd?

Die Internet gons behoorlik oor hierdie kontroversiele besprekingspunt. Kyk byvoorbeeld wat sê mense alles op Die Burger Blog. Hier is ‘n uitstekende spotprent ….

Ek voel baie sterk oor hierdie punt, en wil dit duidelik stel - lyfstraf werk! Jy kan gerus met my verskil, en ek is oopkop - as jy my andersins kan oortuig sal ek nie omgee nie. Hierdie blogpos is dus meer MY opinie, en ook die van mense wat met my saamstem.

Onderwysers (en selfs ouers) word deesdae deur kinders beledig, uitgelag en selfs aangerand. Maar die ergste is as ‘n mens as volwassene deur ‘n jong kind geignoreer word!

Hoeveel keer moet ‘n grootmens praat voordat ‘n kind luister? Vandag se kinders het nie ore nie, en as ‘n kind nie wil hoor nie, moet hy voel.

Doen gerus ‘n Google soektog oor die term “lyfstraf” en lees bietjie wat mense wêreldwyd daaroor sê - die oorweldigende meerderheid van ouers en opvoeders stem saam - BRING LYFSTRAF terug!

Daar is chaos in baie skole dwarsoor die wêreld. Kyk na die chaos in die Britse skole (ek was nou vir 2 jaar in Engeland). Is dit waarheen ons oppad is? Ek wonder hoeveel kinders sit en wag in die klas elke dag omdat Meneer/Juffrou die hele tyd besig is om mooi te praat met stoute Jannie?

Meeste van die diefstalle in SA word gepleeg deur seuns tussen 13 en 18. Dwelms speel ‘n baie groot rol. Pakslae is nie die enigste ding wat gaan help nie, maar as mens moet kyk hoe misdaad geklim het vandat lyfstraf afgeskaf is, moet mens begin wonder.

Daar is geen dissipline meer in hierdie wêreld van ons nie. Hoekom nie? Dissipline is vanselfsprekend nodig om sake in ‘n skool glad te laat verloop. ‘n Gebrek aan dissipline ontwrig nie net onderrig en die leerproses nie, maar kan ook die leerders en onderwysers in gevaar stel.

Lyfstraf, binne perke, het nog nooit enige kind kwaad gedoen nie. In alle vorme van lewe op aarde is en was pyn nog altyd die beste leermeester. ‘n Pak slae op sy tyd is soos brood en konfyt.

Die Bybel sê jy moet jou kind tug as jy hom liefhet, maar waarsku ook ouers om nie die kinders “kwaad” te maak nie. So bly binne perke, partykeer kry jy as ouer seerder om ‘n pakslae uit te deel as die kind.

Lyfstraf is nie gelyk aan aanranding nie. Die Bybel bedoel nie ons moet kinders mishandel nie, (ons weet mos wat die woord tug beteken). Ouers en onderwysers wat hulle kinders pakgee as dit nodig is mishandel nie die kinders nie, hulle leer hulle net reg.

Bring lystraf binne perke (veral vir seuns) terug en meeste probleme in skole sal gou-gou verdwyn! Alternatiewe strafmetodes is verskriklik tydrowend, en soms oneffektief maar lyfstraf moet verkieslik as ‘n laaste uitweg gebruik word.

Jy kan ‘n “comment” laat, en ek nooi jou ook uit om ons forum te besoek om die gesprek verder te voer. Besoek www.onderwysers.com vir die nuutste artikels, videos en ander hulpmiddels vir onderwysers en ouers.

Groete! 

Ek het ‘n nuwe “HUMOR” afdeling by Onderwysers.com gevoeg! Daar is so baie skoolgrappies daarbuite ….

http://www.onderwysers.com/snaaks/cms/humor.html (Jy moet ‘n lid wees en ingeteken wees)

Hier’s ‘n paar voorbeelde van wat jy op die humorblad sal sien:

Stuur vir ons jou snaakse skoolstories, videos, klankgrepe, foto’s en spotprente. Kontak Lourens by admin@onderwysers.com

www.onderwysers.com

Na 12 jaar as onderwyser in allerhande soorte skole is dit wat my aanbetref ‘n voldonge feit - die regerings- en opvoedingsinstansies van die wêreld wil hê ons kinders moet “stupid” bly!

As dit by wiskunde-onderrig kom is ons besig om te verdrink in ‘n dam vol onderwysbesluitnemers (en hul idiotiese metodiek) wat niks van skoolhou en wiskundige opleiding weet nie. Soos Oom Dana Niehaus sou gesê het, “Die sieke dra die gesonde” (Jakkals en Wolf stories).

Wiskunde is moeilik genoeg soos dit is, maar die ongelooflike gekompliseerdheid van die nuwe metodes wat deesdae aan ons leerders gewys word gaan alle verstand te bowe … letterlik, want die kinders kan dit nie doen nie!

Die groot (wit) olifant wat in die middel van die onderrig-sitkamer staan (niemand sien dit nie, of doen iets daaraan nie)  is die weglating van doodgewone hoofrekene wat vir eeue die bakermat van wiskundige geletterdheid was.

Maar nou moet ons mos alles verander omdat “vernuwing” van alle onderwyssisteme so “broodnodig” is! Niks wat was mag bly nie - “change at all cost, for the sake of change” …. Ag nee-wat!

Hier’s ‘n vraag vir jou - as jou kind nie kan maal en deel nie, hoe gaan sy/hy hierdie tegnologies-gevorderde era kan binnetree?

M.J. McDermott is ‘n Amerikaanse Wiskundekenner en sy is die eerste persoon wat ek aanlyn sien wat heeltemal eerlik is oor die absolute gemors wat tans deur sillabusontwikkelaars aan ons onnies gegee word as die beste manier om vermenigvuldiging en deling aan leerders te verduidelik.  

Kyk gerus hierna en wees asseblief bewus dat HIERDIE VIDEO nie net die situasie in die VSA verteenwoordig nie, maar ook in die VK en SA. 

Wat is 8 X 7? …

As die nommer 56 nie onmiddelik in jou kop ”verskyn” het nie, is jy dalk maar net nog een van die duisende (miljoene?) mense op hierdie aarde wat nie hulle tafels ken nie, en sal jy en jou kinders en hulle kinders bes moontlik nie uitstekende kwalifikasies in wiskunde kan behaal nie. Ek glo mense wat nie kan maal en deel nie sal nooit kan voorkom in die tegnologiese era nie. Dis mos belaglik as ‘n kind wat in graad 5 is ‘n sakrekenaar moet gebruik om uit te werk wat 8 x 7 is, of hoe?

Hier’s nog een: wat’s 9 X 8? ….

As jy nie weet nie, kliek START, gaan na accessories toe, maak die Calculator oop en dan tik jy die nommers in. Jammer om sarkasties te raak, maar ek voel verskriklik sterk hieroor. Nou goed - genoeg van my op my seepboks! Hier is die video …

(Let op hoe ongelooflik gekompliseerd dit raak, en hoe die mooi handboeke al hoe meer onbruikbaar word.)

Nou vra ek jou … waar en wanneer gaan hierdie nonsens eindig? En wie maak al die geld wat betaal word vir daai praagtige handboeke. Laridon et al (die skrywers van handboeke toe ek standerd 10 was) kry seker ‘n hartaanval!

Hopelik sal jy jou eie kinders wys hoe om met doodgewone langmaalsomme die lewe in te gaan, en hulle help om ongelooflike tydmors, probleme, frustrasie en onkunde gespaar te bly.

Vertel asb vir een en almal!

Mooibly en groete,

Lourens Breytenbach
www.onderwysers.com

NS: Ek sou graag wou sien dat elke ouer in die wêreld hierdie video sien. Stuur hierdie skakel na almal op jou e-pos lys:

http://www.onderwysers.com/blog

NNS: 9 X 8 = 72

Hoe klink 15 nuwe lede per dag vir jou? Bietjie min?

Wel … Onderwysers.com is maar net ‘n paar dae oud en dit GONS reeds op ons webwerf! Nuwe lede soos Yolandie, Mauritz, Madaleen en Jako is klaar besig om te help om ons webwerf rigting te gee!
(Hoop nie julle gee om as ek name noem nie!)

As dit so aanhou gaan ons een van die dae moet begin “opdres” vir onderhoude op die nuus!

Maar ernstig nou, dis fantasties dat ‘n nuwe Afrikaanse webwerf soos www.ONDERWYSERS.com so vinnig nuwe lede kry. Die geheim is die feit dat ons ‘n gratis lidmaatskap aanbied, en die hele webwerf oopgemaak het vir almal - onnies, kinders, ouers en selfs veterane soos Mnr Pieter Grobler (43 jaar in die onderwys!)

Dit help natuurlik as mens jou webtuiste op www.dieknoop.co.za adverteer, maar Google het ons alreeds heel bo-aan die lys geplaas vir sekere soek-woorde (dis ‘n geheim!)

Ek is egter baie meer opgewonde oor die wenke, raad en advies vanaf ons nuutste lede. Jako Olivier skryf (en ek stem saam), “Dit lyk na ‘n uitstekende idee - hier kort net nog so bietjie inhoud.” Die “inhoud” is natuurlik die bruikbare inligting wat nodig is om besoekers te lok.

Dis waar JY nou kan help. As jy ons gratis diens wil help bevorder, moet jy asseblief die volgende stappe neem:

1. Sluit aan as ‘n gratis lid en kry volledige toegang tot al ons hulpbronne.
2. Stuur ‘n e-pos aan almal op jou e-pos lys wat geaffekteer word deur onderwys (dus ALMAL!) en gee vir hulle hierdie boodskap:
   Hallo, ek dink jy beter nou dadelik by Onderwysers.com aansluit - voor jy pak kry! (grappie)
   http://www.onderwysers.com
3. Gaan soek deur jou YouTube en FaceBook (ens.) video- en klankversameling en stuur vir ons die snaakste, oulikste en interessantste van die lot (mits dit skoon, onderwys-verwant en wettig beskikbaar is). Gaan dan na ons hoofblad, teken in (as/nadat jy aangesluit het) en gebruik die VIDEO of KLANK skakels om jou media op te laai. Asseblief.
4. Help ons soek vir enige en alle artikels, briewe, nuusberigte, skinderstories, dokumente … (verstaan?) … wat met skole en onderwys te make het. As jy iets vind wat interessant lyk, laat ons asseblief weet deur die KONTAKBLAD, of stuur dit direk na ons e-pos adres, admin@onderwysers.com.
5. Praat oor ons by die werk en wanneer jy by vriende kuier.

Ek hoop jy sal die ontvouing van hierdie  nuwe medium vir onderwysers, kinders, ouers en almal wat by skoolsake betrokke is saam met ons geniet!

Groete tot weersiens,

Lourens