The qualifying learner demonstrates the ability to:

1. Understand the central role of teaching in learning and display knowledge of relevant educational theory
2. Examine teacher roles, expectations, identity and professional practices
3. Assess issues that involve questions about the nature and scope of knowledge dealt with in a learning or phase area
4. Contribute to curriculum and materials development and the construction of coherent learning programmes
5. Appraise specific outcomes proposed in relevant learning areas and disciplines
6. Reflect critically and creatively on classroom practices
7. Identify and decode key issues in national and provincial educational directives/texts, contextualising them, reflecting critically upon them and highlighting their implications for teaching and learning
8. Interact with learners in a manner that reflects sensitivity to adolescence
9. Work with the diversity that learners bring into the classroom and develop strategies to deal with these in an empowering manner
10. Select and apply a range of assessment techniques to facilitate learning
11. Critically reflect on the nature of the discipline and related pedagogical practices
12. Organise and manage a classroom to meet pedagogical purposes
13. Use technological tools and other resources responsibly and effectively to access information and communicate.

Integrated Assessment:

Integrated assessment which combines learners’ theoretical insights and practical application in specialist areas of teaching will be demonstrated during school experience in which learners teach in schools under supervision.