EE presentation for the ORT SA NEC

2. Educator Empowerment Gauteng
EE Gauteng Provincial Manager
Julius O Themba T Ruth M
Emily M Serufe M
FP SETA IP Projects Coordinator Administrator
Math FP Bidvest Math FP Bidvest
ICT Facilitator Bidvest Math Gr1
ACE Math ACE Science IP
Support
Technology facilitator facilitator
Research

3. EE Gauteng history timeline
2004-2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
+ + +
ARP Project SEED KD Peermont (?)
Bidvest Alex Soweto SEED
75 FP teachers +
ABSA IP
R350,000 Toyota IP Yeshiva ICT
120 teachers NS ICT
180 teachers New Settlers
R1,4M SABJE SEED
IP
R700,000 (500 teachers)
R2M
R2.2M-R3.1M
(?)

4. Staff and funds 2004-2009
Staff
Funds 6
R 2,500,000
5
R 2,000,000
4
R 1,500,000
3
Funds Staff
R 1,000,000
2
R 500,000
1
R0
0
2004-5 2006 2007 2008 2009
2004-5 2006 2007 2008 2009
• 2004 = 75 teachers
• 2009 = 500 teachers

5. EE Models of interventions
SEED CBS
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Partnering
ICT Workshops
with HEI

6. Mathematics
Mathematics results
Mathew Effect – Illustration
Average scores of learners in the systemic evaluation
3.5
Grade 3 Grade 6
2007 2005
3
Systemic Evaluation, 2007 Systemic Evaluation, 2005
2.5
Literacy Numeracy Mathematics Science
2 Expected achievement
Actual achievement
1.5
36% 35% 27% 41%
1
0.5
0
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3

7. Bidvest- Numeracy FP
Workshops CBS

8. Set of books
Singapore South Africa

9. Teachers’ profiles
Baseline study
• Most teachers (97%) have passed matric while only 23% have passed matric mathematics
Percentage Grade Mathematics Completed
45.00%
40.00%
35.00%
30.00%
25.00%
20.00%
15.00%
10.00%
5.00%
0.00%
Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Less than
Grade 4

10. Learner test results per school
0
School I
School J
School C
School D
School H
School L
School G
School F
School A
School B
School E
School K
-2
-4 School average at baseline
School average at interim
-6
Project average at baseline
Project average at interim
-8
-10
-12
• All schools showed improvement in learner achievement, but amount of
improvement varied.
• Three of the four best performing schools at the interim (i.e. school B, D, E
and L) are in the Singapore programme
• Three of the four worse performing schools at the interim (i.e. school
G, H, I and A) are in the SA programme
• Four of the six schools who showed the best improvement (i.e. school
A, B, D, E, K and L) are in the Singapore programme
• Four of the six schools who showed the least improvement (i.e. school
C, F, G, H, I and J) are in the SA programme.

11. ACE Mathematics
Soweto Ivory Park

12. ACE Technology Results 2007
26 educators commenced
25 educators finished
13 schools in Ivory park
3 modules in 2006
2 modules in 2007
FDETE1A FDETE2B ACECE2C FDETE 4D FDETE 5E
AVERAGE MARK 87 64.6 61.9 58 77.1
DISTINCTIONS 25 6 3 3 16

13. Science and Technology
effective global collaborators
Knowledge Skills and Attitudes

14. Science and Technology
• SETA Course Foundation Phase
• ACE Science/ Technology Intersen Phase
Everyone reported that they had
• Technology Course
benefited more than they had ever
envisaged and that ORT SA had
helped beyond their expectations.
They appreciated the
professionalism which ORT SA
conducted the contact sessions
and commented on how co-
operative the ORT staff were as
well as noting that ORT staff had a
“working spirit…(and were) always
willing to help.”
Ms. Liz Hoist External evaluator for
the Soweto SEED project 2008

15. increasingly digital
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16. ICT intervention
Computer skills to ACE students Yeshiva College computer skills
• “I am so enjoying these lessons and have gained so
much confidence!” Marion Soffer
• “My facilitator is great and I am now computer
literate” Jancy Fredman
• “I am slowly gaining confidence and becoming more
computer literate” Shoshana Wolfson
•
• “I feel that ORT SA has empowered us with excellent
skills”
•
“Thank you for supporting us, we will be able to
communicate via internet”
• “Very informative and inspiring. I believe that such
workshops are very inspiring to us educators”
•
“I got enlightened on computer logging ad internet
searching”

17. EE Gauteng Ahead
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18. Keep on reflecting
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19. Aim High
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20. lead innovation in education
able to
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21. constantly
connected
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