New Age2.png Providing quality training for teachers Education MEC commits to creating mentorship opportunities Nomusa Mvubu, The New Age, Johannesburg, 16 June 2016 Education MEC Martha Bartlett said yesterday the department would create mentorship training programmes for teachers and conduct regular workshops with them. Bartlett was delivering her closing remarks at the education summit in Kimberley yesterday. She said her mission was to increase the quality of education in the province and also ensure that the standard of teaching is improved. "We will provide in-service theory and practice training coupled with mentorship for all our teachers. "We will ensure that schools streamline subject offerings to optimally utilise all teachers and ensure regular up-skilling on utilisation of resources. "We will provide opportunities for pupils, especially in rural areas, with access to higher education through the availability of bursaries," Bartlett said. Bartlett said the department would monitor the resources of schools and ensure effective retrieval systems and provide on-going training, monitoring and support in terms of the Annual National Assessments. She said assessments should be done every three years which would provide ample time for intervention. "We will look into the condition of services for Grade R practitioners; develop strategic partnerships with the industries to source adequate funding and to continue improving the quality of our teachers. "We will review SGB powers and provide continuous training on policy matters and strengthen community involvement in the quality learning and teaching campaign," Bartlett said. She said the quality learning and teaching campaign will be based in the office of the MEC and they would appoint a dedicated official per district who will be responsible for overseeing the campaign. Bartlett said they would develop school-specific training and capacitate SGB's to draft business plans. The department will also encourage the business sector to invest in schools and contribute towards the quality of education. "High ranking politicians and government officials will be visiting all underperforming schools in the province. "We will support sporting activities at school level, builds good morals and values in a child and contributes positively to the development of all our pupils. "Officials will also conduct site inspections at all school hostels to assess the safety and conduciveness for accommodating pupils and teachers," she said. [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/16062016/epaperpdf/9.pdf -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001701d1c793%2487245440%24956cfcc0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
