Presenter:

Dr Muavia Gallie (PhD)

Education Moving Up Cc.

muavia@mweb.co.za

Turn-Around Consortium (TAC)

WCED West Coast Education DistrictPrincipal Symposium – 10 September 2011

-Quality Education and Quality Jobs/Salaries -Is education all about the Children, or about the

Adults?

Content1. Awareness: We don’t know what we don’t know –

State of Education in SA (4-21);2. Who is benefit from the Education budget?(22-

30);3. Should Quality Education be our focus? (31-32);4. What have I Done? (33)5. Conclusion (34-36).

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Introduction• This presentation is not personal, but it is about

PEOPLE;• Since what is going wrong in the education system,

has nothing to do with money, but it is about the PEOPLE;

• What I present is not based on opinion, but rather data (information);

• This conversation is certainly not about ‘being politically correct, but rather the ‘uncomfortable conversations’ we tend to avoid!;

• Finally, I don’t defend constituencies (learners, teachers, department, etc.), but rather Education!

Awareness Test

TIMSS Participation Countries 2007

TIMSS Participation 1995 - 2007

TIMSS 2003 - Applying Maths

SACMEQ Countries

SACMEQ Results62

121547

131953

1014118

65

13153

1292

1041

111478

72

111314

1439658

121015

62

12141

111348539

15107

MLA (Unesco/Unicef Education for All Campaign

Grade 4123456789

101112

1329456

127

11108

26584371

11129

10

1999-2010 + Ave

Musical Chairs Game

Musical Chairs Game24 1

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Gr1 Gr2 Gr3 Gr4 Gr5 Gr6 Gr7 Gr8 Gr9 Gr10 Gr11 Gr12

Matrics 2010 started Gr1 in 1999

Only 44% retained!

Success rate = 8,1%

•Success-rate of the system = 8,1%•Of every 12 learners starting Grade One, only 1 learner attains what the system is promising them - data 2005!

Access vs Success

Whether you Pass! How you Pass!

Short-Listing

Employment

Quantity

Quality

% Different Types of schools in SA

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%

-10%

-20%

Anti-Functional

Dysfunctional Under-Performing

High-Performing

Qua

ntity

of

Pas

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Quality of Pass (Grades)

20%

50%

20%10%

Japp

So, if we spend all this money (2011/12 = R178b; 2012/13 = R190b; 2013/14

= R218b) on education, why are the children not

benefiting?Who is actually benefiting?

LES: 2001 - 2005

LES: 2006 - 2009

At Circuit, Districts, Provincial and National

• Added Circuits and Districts;

• More Centres, Units, Committees, Task Teams, etc.;

• More consultants actually doing the work that was initially defined as part of people’s job descriptions;

• More Directors, Chief Directors, DDGs, and DGs, with plenty of PAs.

Four Layers of Expertise

CDE – 7 September 2011

31

Quality Education Conference - 2002

Three Steps to Quality Education

Dys-functional Schools

Step 1

Under-performing

Schools

Step 2

High Functioning

Schools

Step 3

Excellent Schools

Basic Right To Education

Basic Education Quality Education

Legal and Human Rights Obligations

Professional, Social, and Ethical Obligations

1.6.2 GDE PPS Matric Results 2008 - 2010 (2010 ascending)

Some Untruths in Education1. Democratic decision making in the education system creates a

conducive tone and culture;

2. Parent involvement is crucial;

3. Resources (computers and libraries) will make all the difference;

4. The department is not supporting teachers and therefore they are demotivated;

5. Lack of learning is caused by the ill-discipline of learners;

6. Our classrooms are overcrowded – small classes will make the difference;

7. It is difficult to achieve learner success in poverty stricken communities;

8. Learners are not at the level they should be when they get to our school/class;

9. Teacher development will solve most of our performance problems;

10. It is the unions!

Current Conversations …

• We are making progress …; We are getting better …; We are getting things under control …; It is the union! (Education Officials);

• My principal is on his way from a meeting … (always between district and school) (Principals of Schools);

• Always blaming the department, the principal, parents, children, resources, etc. (Teachers);

Final Points:• Appoint people who can do the job, not people who

belong to a group; because they are connected; etc.;

• As a principal – if you don’t care about every learner in your school as much as you care about your own child, then you are in the wrong job …;

• As an official, if you don’t know, can’t do (display), or is not better than those whom you need to manage, guide, etc., they will never TRUST what you say;

• In a functional system, you can get away with people managing “generally”, but in a dysfunctional system, you have to have the specific (technical) capacity and skills!

Thank You!!