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Select Committee on Education and Recreation. Prince Masilo DDG: Curriculum Management and Delivery. 27 June 2018. Presentation Outline. Provincial Performance Trends Current Performance Challenges Intervention Strategies for Improvement. Provincial Performance Trends.
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Select Committee on Education and Recreation Prince Masilo DDG: Curriculum Management and Delivery 27 June 2018
Presentation Outline • Provincial Performance Trends • Current Performance • Challenges • Intervention Strategies for Improvement
Comparing provincial performance with and without progressed learners
Comparing progressed learner performance for 2018 Term 1 with past 3 years
Provincial picture in terms of 2018 term 1 Grade 12 v/s 2017 Grade 11 Term 4 performance (previous grade)
Provincial picture in terms of 2018 term 1 Grade 12 v/s 2017 Grade 11 Term 4 performance (previous grade)…
Challenges Systemic • Number of learners progressing each year • Declining performance in Grades and Subjects • Variance of exam and School based assessment • Quality of passes • Learners poor exam techniques School Based challenges • Underperformance of schools with high enrolment • Poor performance of learners in the early grades resulting is progression • Superficial Syllabus coverage • Minimum use of available interventions (diagnostic reports) Social challenges • Loss of teaching time: Communities disrupting schools and therefore minimising teaching time
Progress with Curriculum delivery • All subjects were provided with the Annual Teaching Plans(ATP) for 2018 • The plans are paced to cover the curriculum scope for grade 12 as follows: • 50% in term 1 • 30% in term 2 • 20% in term 3 (to allow for revision in the fourth term) • All grades received common Program of Assessment to ensure coverage • Common Mid-year exams to ensure standardized assessment • Schools affected by protests developed plans to recover lost time to prepare learners for exams
Enrichment Camps • Winter camps in 84 centres across the province • In areas where schools were disrupted for over a long period or burned the Grade 12 learners were taken to special camps from the 1st June to 22 June and will resume again on the 16 July 2018 • 4 Secondary schools in the Manthe cluster in Greater Taung attended 3 weeks of vacation camp to catch up the lost time • Some camps are used to further recover lost contact time, while others are for intensive revision • All learners sit for pre- and post-tests for all subjects to measure the extent of content gap and the impact of teaching • The camps are catering for: • 28751 learners from Underperforming schools, progressed learners and Technical schools • 480 learners for Talent development, GLIP and Thuthuka • This translates into 83.7% of the total Grade 12 enrolment • All centres monitored by the Province and National
Enrichment Camps • The following categories catered for: • Under performing schools ( for all underperforming subjects and those that did not have teachers for some time) • UNW camp (for 1052 learners offering Commerce, Science and Mathematics) • Talent Development Camp (collaboration with Stellenbosch University for Grade 11 and 12 learners with potential in Mathematics and Physical Science) • Progressed learners (to drill them on content links and easy to score marks per subject) • Girl learner camps ( Gifted Girl learners in Grade 12) • Thuthuka camps (Girls and boys with potential in Accounting and Mathematics) • Technical schools camps (to work on the poor performance of Technical Science and Technical Mathematics)
Accountability Sessions • The province conducts accountability sessions per district • In each of the sessions the following strategies are shared: • Ensuring realistic targets per subject per Grade • Managing both high enrolled schools and subjects • Tracking Syllabus coverage • Implementation of English Across the Curriculum • Formal and Informal Assessment • Subject specific improvement plans • Progressed learner interventions
Interventions • Mathematical Literacy, Economics, Accounting, Business Studies, Geography and English with revision booklets provided for teachers to incorporate all content constituting the final examination • Subject specific materials developed to assist learners with strategies to perform well in easy to score marks per paper • Each district assigned a quota for the inclusive basket of criteria • Parents engaged to: • Encourage our learners to ensure a full pass in the lower grades, to ensure better grades • Track learner performance • Ensure structured study programmes • Follow up submission of all projects, assignments and practical work
Interventions cont… Schools • Track each subject targets for accountability • Ensure that targets set on average to enable learners a good chance of meeting the pass requirements • Ensure good informal assessments • Assist learners to obtain the minimum pass requirements • Utilise the mind the gap guides and revision booklets as supplementary materials to drill learners for examinations • Adherence to the diagnostic reports on topics that challenge most learners and assist them in that regard • Ensure that formal tasks are properly controlled to avoid SBA rejections
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