ENCA2.png ANAs terrorise and demoralise teachers: SADTU ENCA, Johannesburg, 21 September 2015 Teachers' union, SADTU, says the Annual National Assessments (ANAS) are being used to demoralise and demotivate teachers. This follows the decision on Friday by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to have public school pupils from grades one to nine write write the basic numeracy and literacy exams this year. Speaking to eNCA on Monday morning, SADTU's Mugwena Maluleke said the union was concerned that the tests were being employed as a tool "to terrorise, demoralise and demotivate teachers, instead of a proper intensive teacher training programme." The union believes the ANAs are merely a drill exercise for teachers and cannot be used to address numeracy and literacy gaps. "We are saying that as a system, it's not going to assist the quality of education in our country. We need at least two years to be able to put into place intervention programmes to address the gaps in mathematics, numeracy and literacy in our country," said Maluleke. About four other teacher unions say they stand in solidarity with SADTU and insist that they will not be invigilating the assessments. From: <https://www.enca.com/south-africa/anas-terrorise-and-demoralise-teachers-sa dtu> https://www.enca.com/south-africa/anas-terrorise-and-demoralise-teachers-sad tu -- -- 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.
