Question No. 2164
Ms D Carter (Congress of the People) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
Whether a detailed programme and material has been (a) designed and (b) prepared to equip teachers for Schooling 2025; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
Schooling 2025 is not a new curriculum but an action plan to help the system set clear targets to be achieved in all aspects of the schooling system by 2025 in order for the schooling system to address the needs of the majority of South Africans.
The Department of Basic Education has therefore strengthened its teacher development and support programmes specifically to support teachers improve their teaching skills, subject knowledge and computer literacy.
In response to the curriculum implementation review of 2009, curriculum and assessment policy (CAPs) documents have been developed for all subjects in grades R to 12 to package in a coherent manner all relevant curriculum and assessment policy requirement (expectations) per subject, per phase.
These will be in the schools by January 2011 in the foundation phase, and in schools by January 2012 for the rest of the grades.
These also provide more specified content to be covered in all the subjects, in all grades. In addition workbooks to address specific challenges in numeracy, literacy, language and mathematics have also been developed for teachers in grades one to six.
Training for teachers and subject advisors will begin soon, starting with the foundation phase in 2010 and for the rest of the grades in 2011.
Source: Department of Education
Reply Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, on questions posed in the National Assembly for written reply
