National Primary School Teachers’ Conference
 “Connections with Meaning:
Educational Engagement in Language and Mathematics”

Date: Wednesday 7 March 2012
Time: 07:00 for 08:00 – 16:15
Venue: SAHETI School
Civin Drive
Senderwood, Bedfordview
Cost: R400 per person
Tea and lunch will be served

Keynote Speakers:
Ms Anne Oberholzer:  CEO - IEB
Dr Jane Hofmeyer:  National Director - ISASA

Confirmed speakers:
Ms Anne Oberholzer
“The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundations”

Dr Jane Hofmeyer
‘What does research tell us about the significance of
  Literacy and Numeracy’

Mrs Daniela Pitt  - Director: Academics, SAHETI School and IEB Home Language Examiner Paper 2
“Passionate Words: Construction and Deconstruction as a means to probe Educational Conundrums”

Mr Jaco Kruger  - Director: Student Affairs, SAHETI School and IEB First Additional Language (Afrikaans) Examiner Paper 2
“Looking for First Language Success? Where attitude matters most”

Mr John Luis – Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls
Mathematics Assessment in the 21st Century

Archimandrite Petros Parginos – School Chaplain, SAHETI School
“Moral Intelligence-Education as Character Formation”

Professor Karin  Murris
“The Big question”

Breakaway sessions after lunch:

Mrs Michelle Kaplan (Life Orientation: Grade 4-7)
“Threads of Life Orientation through Language Connections”

Mrs Jeannie Cotton (Art: Grade 4-7)
“Maths in Art and Art in Maths”

Mrs Debbie Kolatsis and Mrs Tammy Nicolaou (Literacy: Grade 1-3)
“Using the Nintendo DS to enhance the Literacy experience”

Professor Hamsa Venkatakrishnan, Miss Natasha Antunes, Mrs Joanne Stead, Miss Tasnim Areff
(Numeracy and Mathematics: Grade 1-7)
“Shifting shapes”

Ms Fiona Kampmann and Mrs Eleni Cavallineas (Art: Grade 1-3)
“Respond, Imagine, Create”

Dr Helen Sidiropoulos and Mrs Chrissie Economou (Science: Grade 4-7)
“Science in Maths”

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