BRIEFING TO EDUCATION PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

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BRIEFING TO EDUCATION PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

• NATIONAL PARLIAMENT
• 3 SEPTEMBER 2003

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CONTEXT SYSTEM LOAD

• Curricula that will be running in the system
  from 2002 to 2008.
• 2002 550 C2005
• 2003 550 C2005
• 2004 550 C2005 RNCS FET
• 2005 550 C2005 RNCS FET
• 2006 C2005 RNCS FET
• 2007 C2005 RNCS FET
• 2008 RNCS FET

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PREPARATION / LEAD TIME

• REVISED NATIONAL CURRICULUM STATEMENT (C2005-R)
• 4mths 1yr 2yrs 3yrs 4yrs
  5yrs
• FP 2002 2003
• IP 2002 2003 2004
• G7 2002 2003 2004 2005
• G8 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
• G9 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

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PREPARATION / LEAD TIME

• CURRICULUM 2005 (VERSION 1)
• 4mths 1yr 2yrs
• 2002 2003 2004
• Grade 6 - Imp.
• GETC Sys.trial Sys.trial Awarding of
  full GETC

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CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION

• STRATEGY
• Phase out C2005 version 1
• Phase in the Revised National Curriculum
  Statement

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PROGRESS REPORT REVISED NATIONAL CURRICULUM
STATEMENT
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ACTIVITIES RNCS

• Development of Statement
• Production, and Distribution
• Development of Learning Programmes Policy
  Guidelines
• Legislation of RNCS as Policy

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PROGRESS RNCS

• Statement has been completed and has been
  approved by CEM and Cabinet
• Production is complete, (promotional copies are
  available) distribution is underway to be
  completed by end of November 2002.
• Posting on website has been attended to

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PROGRESS RNCS

• Translation of the Learning Area Statements is
  in final stages of editing and approval.
• DoE is responsible for first distribution of
  working copies by 30 November 2002
• Each province will be supplied with the relevant
  master CDs for the printing of subsequent /
  additional copies.

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DISTRIBUTION TABLE

• SCH IE TC ECD HI AE
  TOT
• EC 6217 43 26 461 7 271
  7025
• FS 2599 20 11 129 2 200
  2961
• GT 2270 100 33 768 11 225
  3407
• KZ 5891 62 24 471 6 175
  6629
• MP 2115 19 10 120 0 212
  2476
• NC 510 7 6 123 0
  97 743
• NP 4198 18 14 523 2
  520 5275
• NW 2330 42 11 482 3 440
  3308
• WC 1630 79 18 409 5
  178 2319
• SA 27760 390 153 3486 36 2318
  34143

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PROGRESS LPPG

• Learning Programme Policy Guidelines are in the
  final stages of development.
• Final drafts are currently being scrutinised.
• Translation and versioning will be activated as
  soon as the drafts have been finalised.

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PROGRESS REPORT DEVELOPMENT OF THE GETC
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CONTEXT / BACKGROUND

• The entire organisation of the roll out to the
  awarding of the GETC was guided by the following
• The expectations of teachers and schools should
  be in accordance with policy positions in terms
  of Curriculum 2005.
• The gazetted assessment policy would form the
  framework.

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CONTEXT / BACKGROUND

• Learners should not be surprised by
  encountering types of tasks that teachers should
  have been conducting in their classrooms in
  compliance with policy.
• That the CTA administration should not be seen as
  additional or parallel tasks but form part of the
  classroom routine in the main.

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REPEATER RATES

• YR EC FS GT KZ MP
  NC WC
• 97 12.4 10.2 13.9 - 17.7 15.8
  10.9
• 98 13.5 22.3 15.9 -
• 99 - - 14.6 13.1
  19.2 - 10.6
• SA 1997 13.4
• 1998 14.8
• The average repeater rate has been calculated
  between 13 and 15. Provincial heads of
  Curriculum have indicated that according to their
  reckoning the repeater rates range from 15 to
  30 for Grade 9.

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PROGRESS GETC

• Assessment guidelines have been completed and
  distribution is underway
• It was agreed that discretion in the number of
  assessment forms is necessary.
• Schools are obliged to complete at least 3 forms
  of assessment per learning area

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PROGRESS GETC

• Consensus that Common Task for Assessment (CTA)
  will be used was reaffirmed.
• It was acknowledged that CTA have been designed
  to mirror forms of assessment that should be part
  of the routine continuous assessment at schools

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PROGRESS GETC

• Common Tasks for Assessment have been finalised
  and provinces have been supplied with the Master
  CDs for production and printing.
• Provinces will decide on the logistics of
  administering the CTA.

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PROGRESS GETC

• It was agreed that the CTA would not be revealed
  to learners prior to the actual administration
  the training CTAs could be used for this purpose.
• Training CTAs, together with teacher manuals
  have been completed and master CDs have been
  supplied to provinces.

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PROGRESS GETC

• As per agreement each province will organise the
  preparation of teachers, as it deems necessary.
• Condonation proposals submitted to HEDCOM
  (9/10 September 2002)

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ADRESSING WORKLOAD

• It was agreed that the number of types of
  assessment be reduced from 5 to at least 3.
• This accepts that the traditional pen and paper
  tests / exams could constitute one of the types
  of tasks and that teachers therefore would easily
  meet the requirement through the types of tasks
  they would have included in their continuous
  assessment programme.

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ADRESSING WORKLOAD

• It was also agreed that section A of the Common
  Tasks for Assessment (CTA) could commence in the
  3rd term.
• This would allow the 10 notional hours to be
  accommodated. It was also pointed out that
  notional hours should not be equated with 10
  actual contact / classroom hours as many of the
  tasks would involve learners working at home,
  after school, in groups etc. not under the direct
  supervision of the teacher.

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ADRESSING WORKLOAD

• It was agreed that Section B of the CTA would
  only be administered in the week beginning 11
  November 2002.
• This would ensure that learners do not assume
  that they have finished school for the year too
  early and thus do not attend school or create
  difficulties with managing their presence in
  schools when they feel they have nothing to do