TICZA

The University of the Witwatersrand recently hosted the inaugural lecture of Professor Lee Rusznyak, a renowned academic and researcher at the Wits School of Education - and also a member of the TICZA collective impact project. In her address, Professor Rusznyak reflected on her extensive work in initial teacher education, a journey that began during her doctoral studies. She highlighted her work on the student-teacher competencies rubric, a tool that TICZA also employs to guide the development of its Common Competencies Framework (CCF) for the extended student-teacher internship model. Watch the full lecture here: https://lnkd.in/disbwjaj Rene Levinge-Lang, St Peter's Prep Schools, Lerato Okeyo, Thuto Trust, Nadine Petersen, University of Johannesburg, Tshegofatso Moabelo, JET Education Services, Wits School of Education

We're shining the spotlight on Global Teachers Institute (GTI). GTI is a teacher development network of educators, schools and organisations committed to developing high-quality teachers. They do this through school-based initial teacher education programmes, international exchanges and collaborative platforms. GTI is one of the Implementing Partners for the TICZA project. GTI ensures that its teacher interns live up to its four values: ✅Reflection ✅Empathy ✅Mastery ✅Responsibility Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dzxbYhvi #TeacherInternships

This week we spotlight the Zenex Foundation. For over a decade, Zenex has worked on improving teaching practice for distance education, with the Foundation Phase as a strategic focal point. Aligned with the ZENEX Initial Teacher Education strategy, TICZA is an example of an initiative centred on the robust collection and use of evidence, and collaboration across organisations working on teacher internships in the sector. Zenex is one of the funders for the TICZA project. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dRUKc_E2 https://lnkd.in/diXz8YVW

Happy World Teachers’ Day! We’re still on the aim of “Training Better Teachers” TICZA shares an implementation brief for improving practice-based initial teacher education, read it here: https://lnkd.in/eRAVqsZr The TICZA (Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa) is a collective impact project designed to support mutually-reinforcing activities across discrete actors in the education sector with varying interests (in extended student-teacher internships).

Tshegofatso Moabelo, TICZA Project Coordinator attended the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika College of Education (CEDU) Teaching Practice Lekgotla, which took place under the theme Stakeholder Collaboration: Sharing Insights, and Strategies for Enhancing the Quality and Effectiveness of Teaching Practice Initiatives in the Digital Era. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e7gvjVCF

“This is a good method. Student teachers who are trained while attending school are more knowledgeable because they go to work knowing how to teach. They already know what is really happening at schools,” - DBTRS Mentor Teacher. The second issue of the TICZA Implementation Compendium is an overview of the District-Based Teacher Recruitment Strategy, authored by Freda Walters. Read Issue #2 here: https://lnkd.in/dttxDRBK Zenex Foundation Save the Children South Africa Acorn Education Global Teachers Institute Instill Education Khanyisa Inanda Seminary Community Projects More Than A Teacher SA Teachers Plus Thuto Trust JET Education Services Department of Basic Education Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) South African Council For Educators

Teach The Nation, a TICZA Implementing Partner has been doing some great work around Teacher Wellbeing with their extended student teachers interns. Together with the Greenlight Office, they have developed a Teacher Wellbeing Survey Tool and conducted a baseline survey with 127 teachers in the Western Cape, Gauteng, KZN and Limpopo. The Teacher Wellbeing Metric is aimed at supporting student and in-service teachers to achieve their SACE teacher professional goals. To learn more about the work that Teach the Nation does, follow their work by visiting their website: https://lnkd.in/dPFtMfjK

TICZA hosted a Theory of Change (ToC) Workshop at The Education Hub in Parktown Johannesburg, facilitated by Southern Hemisphere. The workshop focused on reviewing and updating the TICZA ToC in line with the focus on institutionalisation of Extended Student Teacher Internships (ESTI). Robust discussions on elements of the ToC - activities, outputs, outcomes, and key assumptions - that lead up to the impact statement of TICZA resulted in rich insights. Importantly, the group also had the opportunity to reflect on achievements of particular outcomes to date, appreciating the complexity of implementing a collective impact initiative in Initial Teacher Education in South Africa. #TICZACollaboration #TheoryofChangeWorkshop Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) Department of Basic Education Zenex Foundation Global Teachers Institute Southern Hemisphere Teach The Nation More Than A Teacher SA St Peter's Prep Schools University of Pretoria Maitri Trust University of Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand University of KwaZulu-Natal Trialogue Thuto Trust Khanyisa Inanda Seminary Community Projects LEAP School NASCEE South African Council For Educators

The second issue of the TICZA Implementation Compendium titled “Overview of the district-based teacher recruitment strategy project” has recently been published. It outlines a pilot project that supported student teachers from a rural district to study towards a B.Ed. specialising in Foundation Phase or Intermediate Phase through distance learning. In 2015, Save the Children South Africa (SCSA), in partnership with key stakeholders, designed and implemented the District Based Teacher Recruitment Strategy (DBTRS) project in the Thabo Mofutsanyana Education District (TMED) of the Free State. The project's aim was to develop a new Extended Student Teacher Internship (ESTI) programme that would produce teachers who have mastered both subject content and the ability to teach that content in the classroom. To read more, find this latest issue here: https://lnkd.in/dz5m7qt9

DBE meets with the Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa steering committee: The TICZA programme aims to enhance student-teacher training through a shared vision, measurable goals, and a standardised competency framework for mentors. Read the article on the JET website: https://lnkd.in/dT_b6XUN