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Disrupting Unemployment

  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • A-B
      • Activate
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
      • Born to Be
      • Bridge Academy London
      • Buen Trabajo (“Good Job”)
    • C-E
      • Centum Learning
      • Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
      • Coletivo
      • Dangote Academy of Learning and Development
      • Digital Jobs Africa
      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
      • Entrepreneurship Mindset Index
      • Escola Escritório Programme
      • [email protected]
    • F-I
      • facealemploi.tv
      • Fast Start
      • Foundation Programme
      • Future Leaders Programme
      • Generation (Social Initiative)
      • Global Education Initiative – STEM Brazil Learning Programme
      • Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
      • Global Internship Programme for Unemployed Youth
      • Google for Entrepreneurs
      • Helping Women Get Online
      • Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Skills Development Corporation
      • Internship Programme
      • It’s TYME and Unlocking Youth Potential (UYP)
    • J-L
      • JOBLINGE
      • Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies
      • Junior Power
      • Juntos por el Empleo de los Mas Vulnerable (“Together for Employment for the Most Vulnerable”)
      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
      • Vocational Training Cooperation
      • Women Development Programme
      • Women Employment Organization
      • Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Programme and Business Skills Development Programme
      • Youth Business International
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      • YouthActionNet
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  • Preface
  • Case Studies
    • 2020 Legacy of Good Plan
    • 5by20
    • A-B
      • Activate
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Apprenticeship Programme
      • Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC)
      • Born to Be
      • Bridge Academy London
      • Buen Trabajo (“Good Job”)
    • C-E
      • Centum Learning
      • Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
      • Coletivo
      • Dangote Academy of Learning and Development
      • Digital Jobs Africa
      • Dual Vocational Education and Training Programme
      • Enterprise Gardens
      • Entrepreneurship Mindset Index
      • Escola Escritório Programme
      • [email protected]
    • F-I
      • facealemploi.tv
      • Fast Start
      • Foundation Programme
      • Future Leaders Programme
      • Generation (Social Initiative)
      • Global Education Initiative – STEM Brazil Learning Programme
      • Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project
      • Global Internship Programme for Unemployed Youth
      • Google for Entrepreneurs
      • Helping Women Get Online
      • Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Skills Development Corporation
      • Internship Programme
      • It’s TYME and Unlocking Youth Potential (UYP)
    • J-L
      • JOBLINGE
      • Junior Achievement and Marsh & McLennan Companies
      • Junior Power
      • Juntos por el Empleo de los Mas Vulnerable (“Together for Employment for the Most Vulnerable”)
      • LEAP Mentorship and Coaching Development Programme
      • Leveraging Unique Talents of People with Autism
      • Lifelong Learning Apprenticeship
      • Linking Postgraduate Students with Job Opportunities
      • Localizing a Business Process Outsourcing Industry
    • M-P
      • Made in Italy
      • Management Trainee Programme
      • Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness (MAYA)
      • National Industrial Training Institute
      • National Youth Policy 2014
      • Nayee Disha (“New Direction”)
      • Nestlé needs YOUth
      • Networking Academy
      • Pan African Graduate Development Programme
      • Partnership for Economic Opportunities through Technology in the Americas (POETA)
      • PepsiCo México Foundation
      • Project Business
      • Prominp
    • R-T
      • REACH Project
      • Satya Bharti School Programme
      • Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Center
      • Save the Children and Accenture
      • Sino-German Automotive Vocational Education Project
      • Skills to Succeed Academy
      • Solutions for Youth Employment Coalition (S4YE)
      • StartUp Europe
      • StreetWise Partners Career Ventures Programme
      • Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise Programme (STRYDE)
      • Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards
      • TEACH Ambassadors
      • Teacher Support Programme
      • Think Forward
      • Tshepo 10 000 (“Hope”)
    • U-Z
      • Udaan Programme
      • Upstream Professional Development Center
      • Vocational Training Cooperation
      • Women Development Programme
      • Women Employment Organization
      • Young Entrepreneurs Incubation Programme and Business Skills Development Programme
      • Youth Business International
      • Youth Employment Accelerator
      • Youth Unemployment Initiative
      • YouthActionNet

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Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2010 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Modification of scope: Involving more schools, working with more teachers, including more subjects, offering more-in depth teacher-need analysis and deeper support to teachers.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
South Africa

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
100 teachers (45 schools and approximately 16,000 students)

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Better school results

Benefit to organization: 

  • Indirect benefit to organization

Key Partners

 

Status

Start year of the initiative:
2010 – still ongoing.

Next steps of initiative:
Modification of scope: Involving more schools, working with more teachers, including more subjects, offering more-in depth teacher-need analysis and deeper support to teachers.

Impact

Country(ies) of impact: 
South Africa

   

 

Number of people impacted annually: 
100 teachers (45 schools and approximately 16,000 students)

  

 

Time to intended impact:

Less than 2 years

 

Metrics:

  • Better school results

Benefit to organization: 

  • Indirect benefit to organization

Teacher Support Programme

Submitted by Royal Bafokeng Administration

Objective

To enable teachers to deepen subject knowledge, enhance professional and teaching skills and improve learning methods.

Overview and Main Activities

This teacher skills-empowerment programme is guided by the goal of demonstrating evidence-based improvements in learning outcomes. It is based on a seven-step professional development philosophy — which was implemented as a pilot study, selecting various grade-level cohorts and subject areas — that exposes teachers to the concept of:

  1. Professional development as a long-term process: Teachers learn to be insightful in terms of themselves as educators.
  2. Communities of practice: Teachers learn to see themselves as part of a body of subject experts and connect to other teachers based on their fields of expertise. This is characterized by a sense of professional belonging, trust and critical discussion.
  3. Teaching good practice through structured and formal observation.
  4. Support learning via in-person and web-based methods of teaching facilitation.
  5. Collaborative lesson planning, measurement of lesson performance, and a collaborative guided reflection, based on the principle of a “reflection cycle”: The reflection cycle: (a) allows teachers to think about the learning process of their students and where in this process they are for a particular concept, and (b) gives teachers the space to reflect on how they are perceived, how their teaching is interpreted, how they teach and how they can improve as teachers, not only by new subject-specific skills, but by being more self-aware and student aware during preparation, classes and assessments.
  6. Subject-specific workshops focusing on personal learning experiences.
  7. Personal well-being: Teachers learn how to make the work environment as conducive to learning and well-being as possible.

Each programme component consists of three dimensions:

  1. Core learning: Enables teachers to better master the content of their subject and to improve teaching techniques for specialised focus areas.
  2. Curriculum planning and learner assessment: Enables teachers to plan classroom activities and experiences and learn how to assess child development through formative and summative assessment practices.
  3. Classroom management and child development: Enhances teachers’ skills at managing learning in dynamic classrooms to identify teachers who need additional support to teach the required curriculum.

Success Factors and Challenges

Most critical success factors:

  • Funding and budget support
  • Support from top managers and team leaders
  • Sufficient number of participants with requisite skills

Main challenges:

  • Funding and budget support
  • Addressing labour union concerns, such as the appearance of “interference”
  • Lack of skilled facilitators

Recommendations for Others

Workshop-based sessions showed little impact on classroom practice. Allowing a single facilitator access to a group of teachers has limited success when teachers’ needs are diverse.

Thus, interventions need to be both politically neutral and demonstrably functional, with clear and very positive outcomes. In addition to concern with success of participating learners, there are other forces that must be legitimised if one wants to be able to operate such a programme as a non-government and non-private sector actor.

In addition, money, management and skills are key for such interventions to take place.

Replicability and Scalability

How easily could other organizations implement this initiative?
Difficult: Local governments may have skill and resource allocation problems. Independent education support services can emulate this initiative, but might face similar challenges.

How easily can this initiative be expanded to include a larger number of participants?
Easy

About the Organization

Website: www.bafokeng.com
Sector: Public Sector
Size (number of employees): Up to 1,000
Headquarters: Phokeng, Royal Bafokeng, South Africa

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