This letter must be posted in all social media and website to show how the DA is running the department of education with the private providers. - Mugwena Maluleke, GS of SADTU _____
ANNETTE LOVEMORE MP Tel: 021 403-3933 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 086 556 7412 Cell: 083 463 5334 10 September 2015 The President of Sadtu Matthew Goniwe House 49 Goud Street Johannesburg 2000 Attention Mr Magope Maphila Electronic message to: [email protected] Dear Mr Maphila Request to retract call to boycott the Annual National Assessments I write to you today to request that you retract the call to boycott the Annual National Assessments (ANAs) in the interests of learners, teachers and ultimately the education that all our children deserve. It is my view that this decision will compromise the ability of the Department of Basic Education to assess the levels of literacy and numeracy of our learners and will undermine their education. It is an unfortunate decision which I request you reconsider urgently. While the ANAs are not perfect, they are one of the only tools we have to assess the status of learner literacy and numeracy and then implement targeted interventions aimed at improving the quality of education of our children. The importance of these assessments thus lies in the interventions they inform. The proposed boycott will mean that the problems that learners experience will simply move with them to their next Grades without any appropriate evidence-based intervention being implemented to address the shortcomings. It is important that teachers are supported and helped to improve the results of their learners. The DA has requested, and the Minister has agreed, that teachers will in fact, be required to write the ANAs themselves in future. This will allow focused identification of teacher shortcomings and will inform interventions to address them and ultimately improve the quality of education that teachers provide and learners receive. The ANAs provide just this opportunity to identify where these interventions, for both the learners and teachers, are required. I trust that my request will received due consideration. Kind regards Annette Lovemore DA Shadow Minister of Basic Education -- -- 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
