Aim: This task explores how teachers can track learner progress in a blended learning environment.

Time: 20 – 30 minutes, approximately

Instructions

Josephine is an EFAL teacher in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) who started teaching Grade 10 learners in 2016. Since 2018, she has been teaching them face-to-face, and also online. When Josephine started teaching in a blended environment, she used to grade everything. Because of the time restraints built into the CAPS curriculum she found it was difficult to integrate blended learning alongside the national curriculum and remain on track. But now that she’s been using a blended model for a while, she tracks progress and gives final grades in a different way.

Below, Josephine explains how she tracks learner progress while working with her learners in a blended mode. She describes how she has made changes to the way she tracks her leaners’ progress so that she can help her learners perform better in exams and in their life-long learning.

Click on the audio icon on each slide to listen, and then answer the questions that follow. The audio transcript for this task is in the downloadable PDF at the bottom of this webpage.