I couldn't go to work due to ANC Rally that would be hosted by my ANC Branch. Tommorrow I would be at work but unfortunetely my PC has crushed and I am unable to receive and transmit e-mail so I would fax something to you. Watch the space! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
-----Original Message----- From: mercy matamela <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:29:28 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Professional development is in the hands ofthe teachers - Ministers Thanx commander, my contact 0737290173, my fax 0865734046 email [email protected]. Will highly appreciate that. Sure, We want it for consideration to LLF , there are issues that maybe u can advice accordingly -can I get your e mail also so I can discuss with you tommorrow! Thanx! again. Mena On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Well > > I think I can be of assistance to you. I am the Branch Secretary of SAMWU > in NW, if you can forward me your contacts so that I am able to transmit > such policy to yourself which you shall edit it and submit to LLF for > Resolutions. (0733633155) Vanguard > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > ------------------------------ > *From: *mercy matamela <[email protected]> > *Sender: *[email protected] > *Date: *Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:38:42 +0200 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: *[email protected] > *Subject: *Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Professional development is in the hands > of the teachers - Ministers > > 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. 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