Cdes! Can somebody assist us with Placement and Promotion policy of Municipality, I am a shopsteward of SAMWU we are working without this policies. We need to compare and formulate one for our municipality.
Aluta! Mena On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote: > > [image: Business Day] > > > *Plan puts improvement ball in court of teachers themselves * > > > *Karl Gernetzky, Business Day, Johannesburg, 6 April 2011* > > A NEW 15-year plan for education places the responsibility for professional > development firmly in the hands of the teachers themselves. > > Launched yesterday by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and Higher > Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande, the Integrated Strategic > Planning Framework for Teacher Education and Development aims to increase > teachers’ level of education by providing them with access to opportunities > for self- development. > > Recent reports have questioned teachers’ analytical abilities and levels of > knowledge of their subjects. > > The new framework includes building new institutions, including a National > Institute for Curriculum and Professional Development, that would provide > diagnostic tests for teachers to assess their own subject knowledge. > > The Department of Higher Education said its role was to steer the national > higher education system towards producing a sufficient number of > high-quality teachers. The department has set a target of 12000 teachers > graduating annually by 2014. > > The plan comes after a study using the data set for SA from the Southern > and East African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality had called > into question mathematics teachers’ grasp of simple calculations. > > However, according to the study the effect of improved teacher knowledge on > pupils’ performance was "strikingly small", with a rise in 100 points in > math teachers’ scores leading only to an average 4,7 points increase in > students’ scores. > > A second study published in the South African Journal of Science tested the > intellectual competence of 73 matric physical science teachers, from 50 > Dinaledi schools — where there is a special emphasis on mathematics and > physical science — in North West and KwaZulu-Natal. > > The teachers were tested in five intellectual strategies. These included > identifying the goal and focusing on it, identification and use of the > relevant principles, use of equations for deductions and proceeding step by > step with the solution. > > According to the study, the teachers’ competence was poor in all the > intellectual strategies tested. About 60% of the teachers tested were unable > to solve the questions correctly. > > Graeme Bloch, visiting adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public > and Development Management at Wits University, said merely improving teacher > education was insufficient to increase the quality of education. > > "What we need is much better administration from the department (of basic > education) as well as focus on the unions and training colleges." > > Prof Bloch had more faith in the latest plan by the two education > departments compared to previous attempts. > > "This one really involves the teachers’ unions and the public is much more > involved," he said. > > *[email protected]* > > *From: http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=139316* > * * > * * > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected]. > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
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