TMN3703 Assignment 1

Chaz Ashli Foster
Student Number:
50445642
TMN3703
ASSIGNMENT 1
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Assignment 01
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I Chaz Ashli Foster Student number: 50445642 Module code: TMN3703
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Signature ………………………… Date: 23 April 2024

Question 1
Discuss the importance of a year plan in order to teach the life skills curriculum
successfully.
Life skills is a multi-faceted subject broken down into creative arts, physical education and
personal and social well-being. A year plan is a crucial part of being able to successfully
teach life skills which I will discuss in this essay.
As South African teachers we are already aware of the many challenges we face within
our field. One of the most important benefits of a year plan in life skills is to ensure
resources are allocated accordingly, this speaks to materials, time and excursions.
Ensuring you know what your plan is for the year you can identify what is needed
beforehand and that they are available when they are required. Taking a long-term view of
the year allows the teacher to ease into the teaching year and each subsequent term as
you would be able to make adjustments during teaching time if needed.
As a life skills educator, it is important to ensure that the student's progress is consistent,
when you plan for the year ahead you can integrate the topics and skills that need to be
covered within the year, and the students will be exposed to a variety of subject matter
and planning for it in advance allows you to cover all topics starting with the most basic to
the more complex. At the intermediate phase level, the students should also be practically
applying what they have learned in life skills, across all other subjects as well. Most
importantly there must be alignment educational standards set by the department and
what is being taught to the student so that they receive a well-rounded education.
For the teacher and the student to successfully navigate the subject, there must be
planning so that the objectives of the subject can be achieved. When the expectations of
both parties are clear, targets can be set for the learning that must take place over the
year and will aid in measuring progress and achievement. Regular check-ins should be
scheduled into the year plan to ensure that any gaps in learning and understanding are
addressed before moving on to a new topic. These check-ins should also include
communications with your department heads and other teachers as well as parents, it will
be the framework in which discussions around progress and areas for improvement can
be facilitated as all stakeholders understand what needs to be covered throughout the
year.
In conclusion, a year plan will be essential to ensuring success while teaching life skills. It
will provide a structured approach, and clarity, aid in time management, allow the teacher
and students to cover all bases, create accountability for all stakeholders and save energy
which can be dedicated to successfully teaching the subject.
Question 2
1. Topic: Development of the self
Teaching and Learning Activities: Emotions: Understanding a range of emotions
- Interactive emotions chart: Have students create their own emotions chart to
document their emotions over a period of time. Every week and again once a
month the students should discuss their findings as a class which helps them to
deal with and regulate their emotions on a weekly basis and then doing a review of
their highs and lows once a month.
- Role playing: Role play scenarios where students have had a challenge or a
success. The other students can help with problem solving and to provide
solutions to challenges. Discuss as a class what strategies worked well and what
could be improved.
- Time capsules: Ask students to create time capsules where they write letters
to their future selves. At the end of the year, have the students revisit the time
capsules and discuss their goals for the new year.
- Guest speaker: Invite a counselor, therapist or psychologist to share tips and

strategies of effective emotional regulation and to go into a little more detail about
the emotions we have and why we have them.
2. Topic: Development of the self
Teaching and Learning Activities: Dealing with conflict
- Role playing: Various conflict scenarios can be created where we have

students role-play different ways to resolve them peacefully. Encourage discussion
on the effectiveness of different approaches.
- Problem solving/collaboration: A group project where students must work
together to solve a problem or complete a task. Emphasizing the importance of
communication, compromise, and listening to others' perspectives.
- Literature analysis: Age appropriate stories or excerpts that feature
characters facing conflicts, and discuss how they resolve them. Analyze the
characters' actions and discuss alternative solutions.
- Negotiation techniques: Propose a scenario to the students in which there is a
conflict. Pair up students and let them negotiate ways to solve the conflict. Once
they have done this, the class can then compare and discuss their resolutions.
3. Topic: Health and Environmental Responsibility
Teaching and learning activities: Dietary habits of children
- Food Journal: The students should keep a food journal for one month. They
must record everything they eat and drink. The class must discuss their findings
the importance of a balanced diet and identify areas for improvement.
-Food pyramid: Students should use supermarket catalogue to cut out pictures of
foods representative of each food group and stick them into a food pyramid to
make a collage. Have them identify different food groups, read nutrition labels, and
choose healthy options for a balanced meal.
-Meal preparation: Have the students prepare a simple but nutritious snack -
Perhaps overnight oats or granola bars which all the students of all capability
levels can take part in.
4. Topic: Social responsibility
Teaching and Learning Activities: Children’s rights and responsibilities
- Responsibilities worksheet: Students can do a worksheet that gives the
definition of responsibilities, they should then write down 5 responsibilities they
have in their own home/family They can discuss as a class why they think they get
these responsibilities and what they like or don’t like and why.
-Rights matching activity: Present students with real-life scenarios, where
students are not respecting their rights and have them match it to the right they are
abusing. There can also be a component that matches rights to their
responsibilities.
- Guest Speaker: Approach a lawyer to come and speak to the students about
the rights and responsibilities we have in our constitution now versus how it was
back in Apartheid and how far we have come as a country.

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I Chaz Ashli Foster Student number: 50445642 Module code: TMN3703

Signature ………………………… Date: 23 April 2024

- Guest speaker: Invite a counselor, therapist or psychologist to share tips and

- Role playing: Various conflict scenarios can be created where we have

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