"Meaningful and Effective Mathematics Teaching and Learning: In Search of the ‘South African Pedagogical Identity". Led by the Ministry of Basic Education, nearly 100 maths educators from the Department of Basic Education, Provincial Education Departments, universities, NGOs and publishers gathered at Sol Plaatjie House for three days to discuss solutions to the problem of poor performance in mathematics in the school system. The Minister and Deputy Minister both attended throughout.
The UNEVOC Bulletin is the newsletter of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre.
JET Education Services is an independent, non-profit organisation that works with government and the public sector, civil society organisations, local and international development agencies and educational institutions to improve the quality of education and the relationship between education, skills development, and the world of work.
This Post-Doctoral Fellowship is funded by the Zenex Foundation, with contributions from JET, SACE and the University of the Witwatersrand
The JET clearinghouse is a portal that organises, collates and presents JET Education Services flagship multi stakeholder projects. These projects are intended to provide various audiences involved in the education sector with evidence based research which can be used to increase the impact of educational interventions.
JET's report on the Implementation Evaluation of the Funza Lushaka Bursary Programme has been accepted by Cabinet.
Creating and index to assess implementation of a school nutrition programme.pdf
The Initial Teacher Education Research Project Final Report
An important initiative aimed at addressing and understanding the state of youth unemployment in South Africa was recently launched at Don Bosco Educational Centre in Ennerdale, Johannesburg.
JET is using the Global Giving platform to raise funds for building an ICT Centre in a farmhouse for people in the isolated rural community of Geluksburg in KwaZulu-Natal in support of the Dare to Dream (D2D) Programme, an integrated childhood to young adulthood educational programme.
Understanding indigenous knowledge
JET strives to employ highly motivated individuals that embrace the growth mindset. If you have research or education development or monitoring and evaluation skills and are interested in contributing to improving education in South Africa, JET is the place for you.
JET recently underwent an IiP assessment and is now an accredited IiP organisation. This means that JET has joined the ranks of “organisations that meet the world-recognised Investors in People Standard, reflecting the very best in people management excellence” Investors In People, Assessment report, JET Education Services.
JET attended and participated in the Centre for Development and Enterprise's event at which a new series of reports on South Africa's crisis of youth unemployment was launched.
Creating Effectives Schools summary.pdf
Teaching standards for inclusive teaching for beginner teachers
These draft standards were prepared by a group of 14 people
Wits Maths Circles: Teaching ideas and problem-solving tasks for primary mathematics
Commemorating the signing of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers.
Professional Teaching Standards - South African Council for Educators Version 10
This is a draft version of SACE's standards for teachers presented at a meeting of the Joint Standards Working Group on 30 August 2017
Wits School of Education Mathematics videos
A series of video programmes for use in initial teacher education produced by the Wits School of Education as part of a European Union funded project managed by the Department of Higher Education and Training
Professional Teaching Standards Draft for consultation with teachers and subject and phase specialists
South African Council for Educators draft standards for professional teachers issued in October 2017
Professional Teaching Standards Draft for consultation
South African Council for Educators questionnaire type draft for consultation on its Professional teaching standards
Professional Teaching Standards - Draft for consultation with teachers and subject and phase specialists
Keevy QQI 2017.pdf
Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault, says UNESCO
The Presidency has issued an update on the release of the Heher Commission
Finding the plot in South African reading education
This article argues that we have lost the plot in South African reading education. To find it, we need to move beyond the predominant mode of reading as oral performance, where the emphasis is on accuracy and pronunciation, to reading as comprehension of meaning in text. While reading research in South Africa has been conducted mainly in school contexts, this case study is of a school and Adult Basic Education and Training Centre in a rural KwaZulu-Natal community near Pietermaritzburg. It found that an oratorical approach to reading dominated in both settings. It suggests that developing the way in which teachers understand the teaching of reading and transforming the teaching practices of those who teach as they were taught in the education system of the apartheid era are key to improving the teaching of reading.
Proxies and perplexities: What is the current state of adult (il)literacy in South Africa?
This article provides a detailed analysis of the data from a range of official sources that have been used to enumerate the number of people who can be described as totally or functionally illiterate and estimates whether illiteracy in South Africa can be reduced in the foreseeable future
Error analysis is a tool that can help us to understand learners' thinking when they answer questions and identify teaching strategies which can be used to improve their performance.
President Jacob Zuma on Monday released the report, which recommends that the existing National Students' Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) model be replaced by a new Income Contingency Loan System.
Report on the use of technology in schools in Brazil, Malaysia and South Africa. Technology has the potential to dramatically improve or positively disrupt the way students learn.
Resources for teachers and parents
Now available in the DPME's Evaluation Repository
Creating and index to assess implementation of a school nutrition programme
The PIRLS 2016 scores released on 5 December 2017 are striking deep chords of disappointment in everyone involved in schooling in South Africa.
Exploring a Work-Based Values Approach in South African TVET Colleges to Improve Employability of Youth: Literature review
A literature review in which we consider an opportunity for systemic change from a perspective that, in our view, is largely under researched in South Africa as well as internationally: that of student, lecturer and employer values, specifically values related to working and workplaces.
These are various educational resources – journal articles, conference papers, research documents and presentations relating to teacher education. Most of these materials may be freely downloaded, used and copied (but not changed in any way) in terms of the Creative Commons licence reproduced below. Generally you can assume that the copyright remains with the original author(s) or publisher.
These are various educational materials for use in teacher education or teaching. The materials may be freely downloaded, used, copied, and adapted in terms of the Creative Commons licence reproduced below. Many of the materials come from projects of the Department of Higher Education and Training, the Department of Basic Education, or participating universities.
International literature review on alternative initial teacher education pathways
A literature review funded by the Zenex Foundation and published by JET
What works best? An international literature review of alternative pathways for initial teacher education
Fact sheet of findings and recommendations
Congratulations to the matriculants of 2017.
