IT Numeracy programme - best practice workshops

The ZSP Team held three workshops for  educators who are delivering the ZSP IT Numeracy programme at their schools. There were separate workshops for grade 4, 5 and 6 educators. The aim of the workshops was to allow educators to ask questions, share their experiences and strategies for teaching and for the ZSP Team to provide detailed curriculum and pedagogical advice.

74 educators from 16 ZSP schools attended over the three days. Educators really appreciated discussing different aspects of the IT Numeracy programme;  planning, delivery, assessments and intervention strategies; with colleagues from different schools.

Curriculum innovation: sharing the success.

Recently Sonwabo Primary hosted a visit by a delegation of Eastern Cape Education Department officials and principals. The Western Cape Education Department had invited the delegation to Sonwabo Primary  to showcase how the school was successfully using technology to assist with their numeracy programme.

After a short explanation about ZSP from one of the ZSP Team, the delegation moved into the computer centre.

Mthuthuzeki, Sonwabo Primary's ICT Champion, explained how the ZSP IT Numeracy programme ran at Sonwabo and what impact it had made on both the staff and learners.There were many questions as the visitors were clearly interested to see how well the technology had been integrated into the curriculum. The delegation were also impressed that despite all the distractions the learners in the computer centre kept working on their numeracy exercises!

What they saw in action really made an impact on all of the Eastern Cape visitors, "I was blown away" was one of the comments.