Systemic Evaluation Report 2011-12 - Ecexams.co.za

RECOMMENDATIONS
The recommendations for districts is that:
while there is great unevenness across districts, with some providing teachers
with excellent levels of support that they need to be ‘empowered’, both by gaining
greater clarity around what their precise role is, but also by being given the skills
to undertake that role and its associated responsibilities.
The district should assume the role of assessing teacher portfolios and
documentation, as opposed to other teachers assessing each other, as currently
occurs through cluster meeting and moderation processes. ‘In short, initiatives
need to focus on supplying sufficient subject advisors who can fulfill the functions
of:
- Moderating teachers’ plans, assessments and learners’ work;
- Mediating the curriculum standards for particular learning areas / subjects;
- Clarifying the assessment and content/discipline requirements for particular
learning areas / subjects; and
- Providing support for appropriate teaching methodologies in line with particular
learning areas / subjects.
Subject advisors’ roles as school-based subject experts must be affirmed.
A job description and performance plan for subject advisors that focus their work
on the delivery, implementation and moderation of the curriculum, and offering
subject specific support to teachers must be tabled.
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