ICE Task 3

QUESTION 1

1. Who said “Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t have to.”?

A. Sir Richard Branson

B. Sir Elton John

C. Joubert, R., Mosoge, M., Naidu, A.

D. All of the above

10 points

QUESTION 2

1. “Finding a balance between maintaining and driving up standards while supporting teachers is in the best
interest of children, parents, governors and school leaders. Health and wellbeing matters are not soft options
but have a direct impact on the culture of a school, recruitment and retention of staff and student
outcomes.”

Whose idea was the above extract. See chapter 7 of your textbook.

A. Hodge, 2015

B. Naidu, 2015

C. Coghlan & Pearce, 2009

D. Griffin, 2010

10 points

QUESTION 3

1. HRM is focused on several major areas, including:

 recruiting and staffing

 work allocation

 training and learning

 labour and employee relations

 organisation development.

True

False

10 points

QUESTION 4

1. Professional development can be defined as a process in which educators continuously renew, re-invent, and
enhance themselves to provide relevant teaching in their situational contexts so that effective learning can
take place.

True
False

10 points

QUESTION 5

1. •Core duties of a teacher include:

teaching

Extra / co curricular

administrative

Interaction with stake holders

communication

True

False

10 points

QUESTION 6

1.

The expectation is that every educator must be able to account for how many actual working hours per annum?

You will need to look in the PAM document for the correct number of hours.

A. 1800
hours

B. 1500 hours

C. 1200 hours

D 800 hours
.

10 points

QUESTION 7

1. What does IQMS stand for

A. Intergrated Quality Management System

B. Intelligent Quotient Management System

C. Interpersonal Quantity Management System

D. All of the above

10 points

QUESTION 8

1. The main objective of IQMS is to ensure quality public education for all and to constantly improve the quality
of teaching and learning. It remains the responsibility of the DBE to make facilities and resources available to
 support learning and teaching, and empowering, motivating and training educators. The IQMS tool makes
provision for performance standards as means for measuring the performance of an educator (Resolution 8
of 2003).

How many performance standards do post level one educators have to satisfy?

A. 8


B. 6

C. 11

D. 9

10 points

QUESTION 9

1. Why should teacher involve themselves in these 3 types of activities?

1. teacher-initiated activities (personal)

2. school-initiated activities (school)

3. externally initiated activities (offered largely by the SACE approved providers).

4.
A. For their Continuious Professional Development

B. To improve themselves as teachers

C. To be a life long learner

D. All of the above

10 points

QUESTION 10

1. Commitment of educators

Bell and Bolam (2010:102) mention six key steps that will enable school leaders to successfully motivate and enable
educators in their schools to improve the quality of their teaching and learning.

Select the one that will not enable school leaders to successfully improve their teaching and learning.

A.  educators are not able to assimilate or implement any new learning, due to time
 constraints.

 there is lots of admin for teachers, and there is little time to share what they have learnt
with colleagues.

B.  be a role-model learner personally committed to their own learning

 support all employees as learners and recognise that staff have different personal and
professional aspirations

C.

 encourage the sharing of learning

 build an emphasis on learning into all management processes

D.
 develop a culture of enquiry and reflection

 assess the effectiveness of staff learning