Community Support for Amathole Teacher Futures School
Elukhanyisweni Secondary School, situated in the Amathole District of the Eastern Cape, is one of the schools participating in the Commonwealth of Learning Teacher Futures programme. The programme aims to support teachers in developing digital skills and creating communities of practice so that they can provide better teaching and learning opportunities for rural learners.
Whilst Elukhanyisweni had computers and received a donation of tablets from MTN, the school has been burgled a number of times and a ...Read more
SchoolNet SA has been working with teachers and school leaders from ten schools in the Amathole District in the Eastern Cape as part of the Commonwealth of Learning Teacher Futures programme. Teacher Futures strives to develop teaching and learning communities of practice (COP) for the purpose of scaling up in-service teachers’ digital knowledge and skills and to assist them in providing quality and sustainable education in the Eastern Cape schools.
With these goal in mind, teachers from the part...
SchoolNet SA is currently running a Commonwealth of Learning Teachers Future project in conjunction with the University of Fort Hare. The programme is aimed at
developing digital learning among 10 schools in the Amatole District of the
Eastern Cape. The schools are in the
same district as the University of Fort Hare where lecturers in the Faculty of
Education are also participating in the Teacher Futures Programme with the
intention of improving their digital learning expertise.
T...
SchoolNet SA is working with the Commonwealth of Learning to offer the C-DELTA (Digital Education Leadership Training in Action) programme to selected secondary school teachers and tertiary institution lecturers. The programme aims at fostering leaders in educational institutions who can influence their colleagues to use digital learning appropriately and effectively for learning and for supporting sustainable development.
Lead teachers will be selected to attend an initial face-to-face workshop in Janua...
The Commonwealth of Learning in partnership with the Department of Basic Education is supporting a teacher development programme in South Africa being implemented at the University of Fort Hare. Ten high schools in the Amathole District have been selected to participate in this three year Teacher Futures programme, which will be facilitated by SchoolNet South Africa and supported by the Eastern Cape Department of Education, another partner in this project.
This Planning Forum for the Teacher Futures in...
