Outcome Based education is dead

Nov 16 2009

Outcome Based education is dead

Published by maggiev at 12:27 pm under General, Local is lekker! and tagged: DoE, obe, policies

The official word: (Just click on fullscreen and then zoom -+ bottom left)

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# Tweets that mention Outcome Based education is dead | School 2.0 in SA -- Topsy.comon 16 Nov 2009 at 4:27 pm

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# Joy Rosarioon 17 Nov 2009 at 1:26 pm

Personal opinion only … Lets just hope that this won’t be an excuse to revert to chalk and talk/teach and test, “you don’t need to know that, its not in the exam” coaching academy approach to teaching. Please let there be some balance in all of this.

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maggiev Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Some feedback from my twitter friends:

@lannerhead: Teaching 4 skills & understanding is a necessity – i’m not sure OBE was the correct methodology 4 SA at the time of implementation

@Riette_roos Mixed feelings . .but to be quite honest, it did not work and we sit with the result. what they want to bring in now .

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# Dorian Soudienon 19 Nov 2009 at 1:24 pm

I hope that we could get learners who could think critically and reason things out creatively…

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# Wilmaon 19 Nov 2009 at 1:45 pm

I am so glad OBE has been shown the door. Now we can get back to real teaching and forget the window dressing. GREAT!!!!!

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# Nettieon 19 Nov 2009 at 1:50 pm

I hope the future will be better for our pupils!!!

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# OBE in SA – too much of a good thing? « Cloud Wisdomon 30 Nov 2009 at 1:33 am

[...] be what happened to outcomes-based education (OBE) in South Africa earlier this month: OBE is now officially dead. (Thanks Maggie for the link ) The statement by Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga is [...]
# Gabi Witthauson 30 Nov 2009 at 1:35 am

Hi Maggie

I’ve posted some thoughts on my blog at http://cloudwisdom.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/obe-in-sa-too-much-of-a-good-thing/ – thinking back to the origins of OBE and the high hopes we had. I think OBE’s intentions were good – it’s the execution that was flawed!

Thanks as always for keeping us informed

Gabi

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