TLT Program https://tltprogram.co.za Inspire • Enquire • Equip Thu, 04 Jan 2024 06:49:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://tltprogram.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-1-3-32x32.png TLT Program https://tltprogram.co.za 32 32 My LO Workbooks Grade 10 https://tltprogram.co.za/my-lo-workbooks-grade-10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-lo-workbooks-grade-10 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:18:49 +0000 https://tltprogram.co.za/?p=2076 Grade Ten Overview Everything you need for your Grade 10 year is listed below. Select the items you need within each Term and the resources available!  Start with the Life Orientation overview for Grade 10 below: LO Overview – Grade 10 Term 1 – G10 – Learner Workbook Term 2 – G10 – Learner Workbook […]

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Grade Ten

Overview

Everything you need for your Grade 10 year is listed below. Select the items you need within each Term and the resources available! 

Start with the Life Orientation overview for Grade 10 below:

LO Overview - Grade 10
Term 1 - G10 - Learner Workbook
Term 2 - G10 - Learner Workbook
Term 3 - G10 - Learner Workbook
Term 4 - G10 - Learner Workbook

Or go back to the Life Orientation books home page

All Grades

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]]> 21st-century leaders will be birthed from blended learning https://tltprogram.co.za/21st-century-leaders-will-be-birthed-from-blended-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=21st-century-leaders-will-be-birthed-from-blended-learning https://tltprogram.co.za/21st-century-leaders-will-be-birthed-from-blended-learning/#respond Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:34:40 +0000 https://tltprogram.co.za/?p=217 21st-century leaders will be birthed from blended learning Words: Megan Rich As principals, educators, parents, and guardians, we’re all asking ourselves, ‘How do we best prepare learners to succeed in this complex and fast-changing world?’ Although our present global challenges have forced our hands, limiting traditional classroom time through country-wide school closures, it is pushing […]

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21st-century leaders will be
birthed from blended learning

Words: Megan Rich

As principals, educators, parents, and guardians, we’re all asking ourselves, ‘How do we best prepare learners to succeed in this complex and fast-changing world?’

Although our present global challenges have forced our hands, limiting traditional classroom time through country-wide school closures, it is pushing us into a new and exciting era of blended learning. With schools under considerable pressure to achieve curriculum objectives in shrinking classroom time, this model’s strength lies in its inherent ability to deliver content in a flexible way. Through a combination of online and in-class learning, blended learning can assist schools with content delivery and give learners the opportunity to develop a range of 21st-century skills, and to become holistic individuals.

Life Skills, such as critical thinking, empathy, communication, collaboration and creativity, form part of a range of 21st-century skills that help build the foundations of understanding personal identity and potential as well as develop social skills. Through TLT’s Life Orientation lessons, workshops and mentorship programmes, we have helped schools deliver engaging leadership content. Now, we’re excited to delve into the world of e-learning and offer Life Orientation sessions to schools and individual learners. We want to help inspire and equip learners with the 21st-century skills vital to navigating a rapidly-changing world.

Our online Life Orientation sessions, led by a team of specialists, are engaging, thought-provoking and encourage participation. Here’s why our TLT sessions prove effective amongst young learners: 

  • Young people are visually stimulated. Our content is delivered digitally, through video, animations and ‘facetime’, to help learners grasp the content in exciting ways.
  • These sessions aren’t simply about teaching or lecturing but encourage conversation and questions to develop critical life skills, such as leadership abilities.
  • The current challenges have forced our children into isolation; learners miss their friends. Online classes that encourage two-way participation help to carve out an online community of young people of the same age.
  • As learners from different schools and communities learn digitally together, there is a potential to repair societal bridges and build lifelong friendships.
  • These sessions don’t replace the school setting but instead offer students the opportunity to educate themselves in a different way, which also encourages time management.

Interested in signing up your learners/ child for online learning sessions to
best prepare them to become a 21st-century leader? 

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Life skills driving change in young people

Words: Slindile Xhakaza

Education should be made relevant to the lives and aspirations of the children it aims to teach. This is especially true for the South African youth. The reality for many young people in South Africa is that they may come from extremely different backgrounds and lifestyles but challenges are not exclusive to one group. Young people at some point in their lives experience a shift and change in behaviour as they familiarise themselves with the changes that are happening in their physical being as well as mental being. They are often at impressionable phases in their lives and this is when they experience a lot of change as well as become easily influenced, positively and negatively. They are also dealing with different stresses from the pulls of family, friends and school, each holding its own expectation for them to meet. It can be very challenging and can be overwhelming.

Given an opportunity to go back to high school, I would apply a lot of my teachings to young people to my younger self, namely – Not having to try so hard to be liked, I don’t think I struggled as much as other young people do, but I put so much pressure on myself to be likeable and given an opportunity I would relieve myself from that pressure. Fast forward to 2020 as an experienced Facilitator and Youth Mentor with over 8 years of experience of mentorship, I have been marveled at the high intensity of life for young people and what they are exposed to now compared to my days in High School. This has led to me an absolute conviction for the need for Leadership development and LO as practical subjects at school. I recognise how important LO is and a great opportunity it provides youth workers to equip young people to manage and handle the pressures they feel, the LO subject is highly beneficial, not as an assessment based subject but a life training subject that provides tools to manage life pressures now but also empowering with skills for their future and it being relevant to each grade. I do believe it is currently highly underused. There are so many opportunities to shape and change the mindsets of young people, to discover themselves and their unique potential.

We often think we often tell young people that they are great and that is good enough but I have found that young people crave mentorship, someone to just tell them about life, to genuinely care for their well-being and to also give them practical tools to handle pressure. If we can remove the assessment pressure to the subject we can create an opportunity for authentic connections between teachers and students but also an opportunity for young people to be taught about life and be ready to take on life in high school and beyond in the practical sense.

Today, education is touted as the single most important tool to transform the poorest countries in the developing world into prosperous economies — but the need is not just for schooling but for education that is appropriate to the challenges young people face in the 21st century. Again, our socioeconomic backgrounds in the country are so different but no one person is exempted from life challenges and that is why LO is relevant at all students and not for some, developing the leader in every young person and using the lessons to assist learners discover themselves and their potential.

Life Skills and development is important because it engages young people at their level and it provides them with unique opportunities to speak freely without being judged and we, as facilitators, teachers take the responsibility of being mentors, an aid and guide to help them navigate those challenges and even help them discover what they can be in the future based on their personal interest.

Life Skills for the South African youth is a necessity. Young people crave safe spaces to speak about their challenges, an opportunity to come up with solutions and someone who can offer insight into life. I hope in the future people begin to take the role of leadership development and life skill as an essential subject in schools, for its ability to facilitate the transformation of minds and the inspiring of young minds to dream beyond their environments and see beyond their challenges.

At TLT, we find this both an honour and a privilege to be able to be part of facilitating change in the many South African Schools and impacting so many lives. We find those spaces are not just beneficial for our students but for us as well. It gives us access to their brilliance and we get to encourage them to dream big and to pursue their goals. We get to be in a room with our future and it is an exciting experience for, one we will never take for granted.

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]]> https://tltprogram.co.za/life-skills-driving-change-in-young-people/feed/ 0 Help young people manage stress and pressure https://tltprogram.co.za/help-young-people-manage-stress-and-pressure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=help-young-people-manage-stress-and-pressure https://tltprogram.co.za/help-young-people-manage-stress-and-pressure/#respond Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:38:16 +0000 https://tltprogram.co.za/?p=197 Help young people manage stress and pressure Words: Megan Rich The simple truth is, no one knows what the future holds. What we can plan for is building personal resilience to manage stress, a trait that goes hand-in-hand with a constantly-changing world. Simply put, resilience is grit; it’s our ability to cope with adversity. Some […]

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Help young people manage stress and pressure

Words: Megan Rich

The simple truth is, no one knows what the future holds. What we can plan for is building personal resilience to manage stress, a trait that goes hand-in-hand with a constantly-changing world.

Simply put, resilience is grit; it’s our ability to cope with adversity. Some attributes that contribute to a person’s resilience are being flexible and able to adapt and make new plans, being able to communicate and connect with others, being able to take care of yourself and others, both emotionally and physically, and being able to find purpose. A good dose of humour helps too.

For our young people, a logical place to start reducing stress is to reduce additional pressure. They’re already feeling out-of-sorts. Their classroom has changed from a clearly-defined schoolroom to the grey spaces of our homes, where rest and work overlap; they miss their friends, sport and after-school activities and they see and feel the pressure their families are under. 

The Department of Education, along with schools, is working behind the scenes to come up with a contingency plan that will assist our young people to both complete and understand their schoolwork. Yes, you can help them by suggesting extra online learning activities but it doesn’t all fall on you — you don’t need to press them to work through their schoolwork as fast as possible.

We are at the beginning stages of a new era of learning and as time goes by, we will all master, together, how best to support our teenage children. Lean into support groups and between the uncertainty, try to enjoy family time. As an organisation who is active in the education space, we will also communicate any messages from Government and incorporate them into our programmes to support blended learning.

To understand how to best support parents during this challenging time, we have put together an online survey. Through your answers, we are hoping to better understand your struggles and concerns and then offer help and solutions.

To further support young people navigate through this changing world, our online Life Orientation sessions, led by a team of specialists, are engaging, thought-provoking and help build resilience. They also encourage participation and are a social space for young people to connect.

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Benefits of doing a Gap year

Are there any alternative to diving straight into university after school? What are my options? Is there any benefit gained in taking a gap year? These are just a few of the questions many young people face when finishing high school or university.

But as bright as their futures all are, the reality is that many young people feel like they just aren’t prepared enough for the big world out there once they leave school. In fact, more and more students between the ages of 17-24 are realising that they’ve got gaps in their game and they’re looking to GAP YEAR programs as a solution.

A simple Google search of the benefits of doing a gap year would produce results that anyone serious about their future should pay attention to. These benefits can be both statistically and experientially proven.

But the question remains, why should any young person take a gap year?

Research tells us that there are 2 major reasons why people take a gap year when they leave school:

1) Students feel burned out from 12 years of formal education.

2) They want to learn about themselves.

The truth is that students often finish school realising that their schooling years didn’t adequately equip them with the life skills and soft skills necessary to deal with the rigours of life. It is for this precise reason that some of the worlds leading universities and colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and Yale actually encourage potential students to first take a gap year before going to their universities.

Why? Because their research indicates that students who first took a gap year were even more prepared to tackle the academic challenges at college and were more impassioned to study their chosen course. In fact, according to a major survey taken by Karl Haigler and Rae Nelson – gap year researchers and authors – most students surveyed said they felt more focussed, enthusiastic and prepared for college after taking a gap year.

This suggests that a structured gap year program like Victory Gap Year can play a major role in shaping them as an individual.

Let’s look at 6 of the major advantages of taking a Gap Year:

1) Develop new life skills

Taking a structured gap year will help young people develop new life skills. These skills will give them something that they can draw from in their professional life as well as personal life. A skill such as learning how to read the room or being able to speak in public can greatly benefit most professionals and give them an edge in their careers.

2) Become independent

A gap year will help young people to learn independence. For the most part, they’ve spent pretty much their whole life living with their parents and/or authority figures. The independence they learn from taking a gap year is something a lot of students don’t learn until later in life, often to their detriment. Learning independence and being responsible will serve them well throughout their entire life.

3) Meet new people

Taking a gap year will help them make new friends. Gap years often give young people a chance to make long-lasting friendships based on a variety of different reasons – whether that be interests, passions, shared experiences. These friendships are not only great due to their social aspect, but they can also become powerful business contacts in the future, therefore, the power of friendships should never be underestimated.

4) Discover their purpose

Taking a gap year can help young people develop a greater sense of purpose. Not only are they exposed to various activities and tasks, but taking a gap year can help them find what they’re passionate about, which could lead them to discover and step into a life of purpose and destiny.

5) Experience personal growth

Taking a gap year will lead students to being more mature when they begin university. Gap years provide students with opportunities to interact with others, take on more responsibilities and become more independent. After gap year students begin their tertiary education, they will be better prepared to deal with the challenges of life.

6) Gain a new perspective

Taking a structured gap year programme will challenge students to leave their comfort zones. Students will be engaged in something entirely new in a totally different environment. Living in an unfamiliar town and doing new activities and tasks will broaden the student’s horizons. Spending a whole year doing something special will help the student gain new perspective on life, academics and relationships.

All gap year programs offer ‘adventure’ and ‘volunteerism’. As do we. But where VICTORY GAP YEAR is different – we also have a strong track record of success at setting people up for a life of purpose and significance. There are gaps in young people’s lives that we will help fill in order for them to realise their full potential and purpose.

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