What are the different roles of a Life Orientation teacher? How can new techniques and mindsets help you to fulfil these roles in an effective and balanced way? What is metacognition? How can you teach learners to benefit from metacognition in their lives, learning and work? Teaching Life Orientation aims to assist student teachers to develop and build skills which will enable them to provide confident classroom instruction across the broad scope of the Life Orientation curriculum. A self-aware approach to teaching and learning is modelled through the three characters of the Brain Buddy: Mentor, Companion and Coach. Teaching Life Orientation is interactive and focusses on the practical application of the CAPS curriculum for the Senior and FET Phases. This book is suitable for in-service teachers studying for an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) or an Advanced Diploma in Education (ADE) as well as a B.Ed qualification.

In this book the authors contend that inclusive education should be a system where every child finds a place and the support needed to learn effectively, regardless of complicating factors. For these authors, barriers to learning are quite simply environmental barriers that teachers, parents, and community members can remove to provide ways for all learners to learn. In order to achieve a schooling system where each child finds a place, parents, teachers and student teachers in training need to be equipped with the skills to implement inclusive education. This book will show how practising teachers and teachers in training can use supportive and collaborative practices to make classrooms accessible to all learners.