Culture and Community Teacher Guide - Elementary Prep Standard Base

This Teacher Guide for Elementary Prep is to be used together in conjunction with the Culture
and Community syllabus for elementary schools. The guide provides guidelines on the basic
planning and implementation of the syllabus document.
It will help Elementary Prep teachers to plan the school years teaching and learning using the
content standards to teach the community based curriculum. The ideas in this teacher guide will
help you think of other relevant ideas which are very appropriate for the setting of your school
and community environment
The Culture and Community syllabus reflects and promotes the cultures of the community and is
the key document that this teacher guide will use to plan the instructional program. The teacher
guide provides Elementary Prep Teachers with:
• Teaching and learning strategies.
• Table of content scope.
• Termly lesson overviews for the year.
• Weekly timetable and teaching program.
• Sample plans of guided lessons in the five strands.
• Sample plans of assessment tasks.
• Elaborations of key knowledge, skills and attitudes and glossary.
Elementary Prep teachers are encouraged to use this guide for all the planning of implementing
the content for the prep classes they will teach in a school year.
Links with other levels of learning
The Culture and Community syllabus sets the foundations for the learning of all