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Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Teacher Education and Professionalization for Better Student Outcomes

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This report addresses the disconnect between what schools provide and universities expect from teachers, contributing to high dropout rates. It highlights the inadequate content knowledge of teachers and critiques the role of initial teacher education institutions in ensuring quality. The report also discusses Early Childhood Development (ECD) coordination across multiple departments, emphasizes the need for formal teacher licensing for professionalization, and stresses the importance of strong school leadership and management supported by educational unions.

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Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Teacher Education and Professionalization for Better Student Outcomes

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  1. Report backFoundational Learning

  2. Curriculum: • Disjuncture between what schools do and what universities expect: this is the reason why there is such high university drop out.

  3. Lack of content knowledge of teachers: • Commission put the role of initial teacher education institutions on the spotlight. What are they doing. It is an issue of quality assurance of initial teacher preparation programmes

  4. ECD: • Commission discussed ECD, suggesting that the location of ECD must be clarified and supported – it is not accommodated in DBE, and the larger part of ECD accreditation is in Dept of Social Devt, and includes the Department of Health. The 3 departments needs to communicate and coordinate.

  5. Teacher professionalisation: • The Commission considered the licensing of teachers after they are qualified, as a step in professionalisation, much as it is in the medical and legal professions. • The role of SACE was discussed, and what more it can do.

  6. The issue of school management and leadership was discussed. Commission recognised that a respectable number of graduates in school management qualifications exits the HEIs, however, they need support at district and school levels in order to functional optimally.

  7. Commission considered the role of unions vis-à-vis SGBsand school management, and recommended that the problems being experienced and questions of how teachers are to be developed must take precedence.

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