KEY FEATURES OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN
KEY FEATURES OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN 2010-2013
DEVELOPED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF BASIC EDUCATION
Government has made education its apex priority. It has placed education and skills development at the centre of this administration’s priorities. The importance given to education and skills development is born out of the creation of two Ministries – that of Basic Education focusing primarily on schools in order to achieve the goal of a quality basic education system, and the Ministry of Higher Education and Training in order to deliver an improved higher education and training system which will provide a diverse range of learning opportunities for youth and adults.
It is the responsibility of the national de- partment of education to develop and maintain national policies for the sector on the basis of monitoring, evaluation and re- search. It is also the responsibility of the national department to work closely with provincial departments in order to ensure that provincial budgets and strategies sup- port national policies.
The over-arching goal is to improve the quality of learning and learner achieve- ment. The Department of Basic Education has a crucial monitoring, policy-making and leadership responsibility in improving the quality of learning. The FIRST KEY STRA- TEGIC OBJECTIVE is to streamline the curriculum: amending parts of the existing curriculum in order to remove certain ad- ministrative burdens and make it easier for teachers to teach.
The SECOND KEY STRATEGIC OBJEC- TIVE is to develop a detailed and inte-
grated strategy on the assessment of learn- ers demonstrating how the assessment of learners in Grades R to 9 will be taken forward in the coming years. Research has demonstrated that comprehensive and contextually relevant accountability sys- tems are one of the most effective ways to turn around a schooling system.
THE THIRD KEY STRATEGIC OBJEC- TIVE recognises the key role that teachers play in curriculum delivery and the achieve- ment of quality learning and teaching.
We need to ensure that the goals of the strategic plan are achieved through collabo- ration with key education stakeholder organ- isations, including teacher unions, universities and other training providers, as well as the South African Council for Educators.
THE FOURTH STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: In order to achieve quality learning and teaching, workbooks will be distributed
needs of all education officials, principals, teachers and learners.
The over-arching key strategic objective will be the establishment of a long term plan for the basic education sector to be known as Schooling 2025: An Action Plan for the Improvement of Basic Education. It will allow for the monitoring of progress against a set of measurable indicators and will cov- er all aspects of basic education including, amongst others, enrolments and retention of learners, educational quality including teachers and learning and teaching support materials, infrastructure, school funding, learner well-being and school safety, and adult literacy.
Schooling 2025 will co-ordinate and guide all interventions in the Basic Education sys- tem in order to turn the system around. The plan will establish key outcomes and performance deliverables
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to all Grades R to 9 learners in all public schools in order to facilitate the implemen- tation of the curriculum and, in particular, to ensure that learners perform sufficient practical exercises in the year.
THE FIFTH KEY STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE recognises the key role that principals play in the functionality of schools in order to create the conditions through which qual- ity learning and teaching can take place. In order to ensure that the management and governance capacity of school principals are improved and school functionality be enhanced, a strategy on how the Depart- ment can become more directly involved in the development and effective implemen- tation of education management training will be finalised.
THE SIXTH KEY STRATEGIC OBJEC- TIVE is to strengthen the Department’s web presence and to promote the e-Edu- cation strategy, catering for the information
education system, including the national and provincial departments. The plan will commit provinces and provincial education departments to clear agreed-to outcomes and to ensure that all in the system are accountable for attaining these outcomes. The Strategic Plan for 2010 -2013 will form the basis for the Schooling 2025 Action Plan.
In the FINAL KEY STRATEGIC OBJEC- TIVE, the Department commits itself to strengthening reporting on the state of basic education through the publication of more frequent reports flowing from the monitoring and research work of the Department, and in particular, the publica- tion of an annual report on the state of the basic education sector that will track the progress of the sector against the Schooling 2025 Action Plan.
– Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education
14 CHAPTER 1 | INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
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