{"id":873,"date":"2011-11-21T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/?p=873"},"modified":"2011-11-21T09:17:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:17:20","slug":"newsflash-putting-a-cap-on-the-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/newsflash-putting-a-cap-on-the-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWSFLASH: PUTTING A CAP ON THE CAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/newsflash-putting-a-cap-on-the-caps\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/newsflash-putting-a-cap-on-the-caps\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><h1><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NEWSFLASH: PUTTING A CAPS ON THE CAPS<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/danger1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-875\" title=\"danger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishtoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/danger1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Malcolm Venter<\/h2>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Editor: <em>Teaching English Today<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>It has been noted that there are some provincial departments of education which are going beyond their brief and authority in adding to the CAPS and in making things mandatory which are not.\u00a0 This is contrary to the spirit of the CAPS and the instruction of the Minister of Basic Education to allow for flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for drafting a new curriculum was that provinces had added \u2018layers\u2019 over the years, making additional demands, and insisting on certain procedures and practices which were optional.\u00a0 Two examples in particular have come to light:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insisting that schools follow the <strong>sequencing<\/strong> set out in the weekly planners.\u00a0 The CAPS clearly states that this is only a suggestion.\u00a0 Where schools are floundering, it may be advisable for them to use this as their teaching programme; but to demand that all schools do so is to insult the professional integrity of the teacher.<\/li>\n<li>Insisting that schools use <strong>standardised tests<\/strong> rather than their own.\u00a0 These are designed to help struggling schools and teachers, not those who can cope on their own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So teachers in those provinces must not allow the officials to put a cap on the CAPS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been noted that there are some provincial departments of education which are going beyond their brief and authority in adding to the CAPS and in making things mandatory which are not.  This is contrary to the spirit of the CAPS and the instruction of the Minister of Basic Education to allow for flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachenglishtoday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}