Unisa online - CEDU trains teachers in Mpumalanga

A new initiative was recently launched by the Centre for Continuous Professional Teacher and Community Education and Training (CTCET) in the College of Education, together with the National Institute for Higher Education and the Mpumalanga Department of Education. The project kicked off on 5 May 2012 at Ligbron Academy in Ermelo.

During the next year, in-service training will be given to the teachers of the Dinaledi schools in Mpumalanga and it will focus on strengthening the teaching of Mathematics, Science and English (First Additional Language). The project will also support the principals of these schools with good school management and leadership training.

This initiative will provide special assistance to underperforming schools which have been identified by the former Minister of Education, Naledi Pandor.

The project will consist of workshops offered during the school holidays to empower and build the capacity of 120 teachers and a number of principals in the Mpumalanga province.

Prof MP van Rooy, Prof MM Nieman, Dr V Pitsoe, Prof E van Niekerk, Ms E Nkonyana, Ms Ronel Paulsen and Mr M Poshoko from the Unisa College of Education will be presenting the classes to the Dinaledi teachers.

Dinaledi school teachers writing an initial assessment to ascertain their current skills

Prof van Rooy from Unisa, CTCET, explains the new project in the Dinaledi schools to the teachers. Seated next to him is Dr Henk Jooste, Academic Coordinator of the National Institute for Higher Education, Mpumalanga

Mrs Mkhwanazi from the Mpumalanga Department of Education, and Dr Henk Jooste, Academic Coordinator of the National Institute for Higher Education, Mpumalanga, listening to Mr Jan Mkhwanazi, who on behalf of the MEC for Education in Mpumalanga, introduced the Dinaledi schools project to teachers.