A fantastic team made this course possible, and as you can see, had tons of fun in the process! The team consists of team leaders Director Karen Dudley and her deputy, Ebrahim Peck. I was the project leader. The Senior Curriculum Planners each worked on different areas of the course: Portia Smit, Anina Lundie, Lungi Ngondo, Antoinette Venter, Suanne Rampou, Andre Lamprecht, Noleen Dodgen, Ismail Teladia and Jonathan Freese.
Thank you to each one of the Senior Curriculum Planners from the Western Cape Education Department for making this project a reality. May this course impact and touch lives far and wide.
How to apply n what is needed to apply
Look in the blog post for the big button that says REGISTER for the course. Click on that and it will take you to the Limina platform where you register. Once you have registered on the platform, go to the Overview Page and enrol for the Language Across the Curriculum Course. You’re then all set to go! Enjoy! PS In case you get lost on the way, just get ot the Overview page – everything is on there for you.
What is the time frame? How long will it take to complete this course? I just want to plan ahead.
Each module takes approximately 1 hour to complete. Module 2 – 6 are subject specific so you choose which subject you want to do. If you choose Maths and Science then you can budget to do an extra 2 hours or so. If you choose to do all 6 modules then you choose to do an extra 6 hours. The language learning in each module focuses on different language skills so in Maths the focus is on listening and speaking, in Science it is on reading and in Social Science on writing for example. You learn how to integrate different… Read more »
Do we get CPTD points for this course?
Hi Riette – we have applied to SACE for these but as you probably guessed, they are closed and we can only check where the application is once they are open to hear what the outcome is. Then we’ll be able to say exactly what amount of CPTD points you will get.