DISTRICT BASED TEACHER RECRUITMENT STRATEGY (DBTRS) MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME 04 OCTOBER 2017

1. DISTRICT BASED TEACHER RECRUITMENT STRATEGY (DBTRS)MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME04 OCTOBER 2017 Presented by: Nqabakazi Mathe Education Project Manager Save the Children (Free State)

2. BUILDING THE BUS WHILE DRIVING IT

3. MEASURES OF SUCCESS • ALL STUDENTS SEEN AND SUPPORTED EVERY MONTH • CLASSROOM MENTORSHIP • Students observe • Teacher continues with daily teaching routine, model teaching • Involve students in activities in the classroom • Some points give students chance to teach • EXTERNAL MENTORSHIP • All registered, placed in schools • Monitor school attendance • Assignments submitted • Students pass each academic year • Students met once-twice a month • Cluster meetings held monthly • Trainings held on teaching competencies held • Administrative issues addressed • Given an opportunity to teach • Tools to monitor

4. REVIEWINGMENTORSHIP • SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE (BASED ON EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS) How? • CREATES ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN, ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE AND BUILD NECESSARY SKILLS • EXTERNAL MENTORSHIP • Provide academic support for better grasp of theoretical concepts, improve academic writing skills and employ better studying methods • Facilitate smooth teaching practice relationship to ensure learning occurs, even beyond the classroom • Help build life skills required by student to cope and handle current and future psycho-social issues associated with the teaching profession • CLASSROOM MENTORSHIP • Model appropriate approaches used in teaching • Coach and provide step-by step guidance on all activities of each grade • Observe and assess student’s teaching competencies • Reflect and guide (continuous improvement), “chunking” teaching in small steps while checking understanding along the way

5. DISTRICT STRUCTURE MEETING • KEY TEACHING PRACTICE STAKEHOLDERS • MENTOR TEACHERS • SUBJECT ADVISORS • DISTRICT MANAGEMENT • EXTERNAL MENTORS • EVALUATE THE IMPACT (SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED) OF CLASSROOM MENTORSHIP, • USEFULNESS OF TOOLS TO EVALUATE IMPACT OF MENTORSHIP • EXPLORE WAYS TO IMPROVE THE LEARNINGS IN THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

6. Lessons learnt on Lesson Assessment • Lessons Learnt • Teaching styles of mentor teachers are vastly different………….(OUR GOAL) ALL student teachers are learning at least the basic teaching skills and knowledge without directly assessing the incompetence in teachers. • INDEPENDENT LESSON ASSESSMENTS • CLASSROOM ROTATION IN SAME GRADE • TEACHER CURRICULUM WORKSHOPS PROVIDED BY DEPT (FRAMEWORK ON LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE PHASE) • STUDENT’S APPLIED KNOWLEDGE (THEORY IN PRACTICE)

7. Well with all these things we are still trying to figure out, meanwhile the bus is taking shape!