Agriculture Today Teacher's Guide 8, Grade 8

Agriculture Today’ is a series specially written to provide practical experiences that support the acquisition of agriculture skills for the competency-based curriculum. Books in this series provide a range of activities that learners will find exciting and motivating. The activities are aimed at enabling the learner to acquire the core competencies and values as well as embrace the Pertinent and Contemporary Issues (PCIs).

This Teacher’s Guide supports the teacher by offering the following:

A detailed introduction to the competency-based curriculum.
Comprehensive teaching guidelines for all activities in the Learner’s Book.
A sample lesson plan for reference by the teacher.
Helpful hints on class management, group work and differentiated learning.
Helpful hints on how to handle learners with special needs during the lessons.
Detailed guidance on both formative and summative assessment.
Sample assessment tools for evaluating and recording the learners’ progress.
Together, the Learner’s Book and the Teacher’s Guide provide learners and teachers with all they need to succeed in the competency-based curriculum.