Improving how schools work - through better organisation and planning

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) in its Action Plan to 2014: Towards the Realisation of Schooling 2025, outlines plans to establish an annual school management cycle in all schools to improve and ensure school functionality. School functionality can be defined as the ability of a school to translate its human and material resources into meaningful learning and educational outcomes.

This learning brief describes JET's school improvement approach used in the Centres of Excellence Programme in the Eastern Cape. The approach seeks to re-establish the basic functionality of the core components of schooling: teaching, learning, management, and parental support. Central elements of the approach are: 

  • Improved planning and organisation
  • Implementing School Self-Evaluation (SSE) and 
  • Implementing the SMT Monitoring Dashboard:a data-driven tool enabling school management teams to collect strategically significant data in order to implement remedial measures and report on progress made.

 

Read Improving how schools work - through better organisation and planning at www.dgmt.co.za/files/2011/09/LearningBrief_5_final.pdf