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work on a Friday to             their utmost best to           make their classroom

               support themselves.             ensure that teaching and       learning more authentic,
               Parental involvement is                                        for example, history

               still a challenge in the                                       learners were taken on a
               school. Although the                                           trip to the apartheid

               school management                                              museum in SOWETO,

               make efforts to involve                                        sciences learners were
               the parents in school                                          taken on an educational

               related issues, parents                                        excursion in the aviation
               are still very reluctant to                                    school in Pretoria while

               avail themselves to work                                       English learners were
                                               learning takes place. The
               with the school to bring                                       taken to an arts theatre
                                               school has a team of
               progress.                                                      in Pretoria as well. These
                                               dedicated educators who        proves that teachers in
               Classroom
                                               perform well despite the       the school make efforts
               environment
                                               challenges. FET classes
                                                                              to enhance teaching and
                                                       st
               The lower grades still          have 21  century               learning and understand
               struggle with insufficient      facilities where each          that learning is not

               furniture which results in      class has a smart board        confined to a classroom

               difficulties as learners        which enhances teaching        alone.
               have to share tables and        and learning. Teachers

               chairs, therefore issues        and learners are able to       The “ideal” teacher
               of discipline arise in the      use these devices to           needed in the

                                               deliver authentic,             school context
                                               exciting, and inclusive

                                               lessons and at the same

                                               time equip learners with
                                               skills required in the 4
                                                                      th
                                               industrial revolution.
                                               Teaching and learning
               classroom. Besides              does not only end in the

               challenges with furniture       classroom in this school,          1.  A Positive role
               and overcrowding in the         learners are taken out on              model

               classrooms, teachers try        educational excursions to
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