Limpopo Department of Education hosted a two-day Education Performance Improvement and Sustainability workshop in Polokwane to strategies new ways on how to improve learner performance in the province.
Experts from different institutions in the country joined MEC Mavhungu Lerule-Ramakhanya, districts directors and senior department officials plotting ways to enhance collaboration and collective learning and reflecting on the challenges and success. In 2023, matric result improved from 72,1 in 2022 to 79,54% pass rate an impressive 7.4 per cent improvement the province has ever achieved.
In 2023, the department practiced the following strategies to better matric results: Enrichment Classes- Autom, winter, and spring classes. Rapid Response Intervention-focused on learners at risk, performing at level 1 and 2 from their Mid-Year Examinations.
HOD’s curriculum reflection sessions with District Directors, Circuit Managers and Principals of Secondary schools throughout the province. Accountability Sessions with underperforming Districts,
Circuits, and schools and Interventions by the schools and Circuits. Limpopo Office of the Premier emphasised that this capacity needs to be built from ECD level to Matric and by 2030, Limpopo must have education system with better high literacy and numeracy.
Improvement of access to school infrastructure, computers, libraries, and provision of sanitary towels to girls especially in the rural schools must be implemented from now onwards.
“I want to plead with you that this workshop is about us on how to improve our results, it is not up
to how many years of experience you have in the Department. Give us what is best in you because I
believe in each one of you that we can make it better,” said MEC Mavhungu Lerule-Ramakhanya.
“Teaching is the painful profession because if we don’t transform generation through education, our
areas will be breeding ground for criminals, which becomes an expensive exercise to repair the
damage,” she adds.
If we don’t deliver the best education Team Education was grateful to have learned few strategies
and the importance of how to improve Performance improvement sustainability from various
University professors during the workshop. The department seek to carry the vision forward in all
ways of working rooted in the communities and partnership with diverse education stakeholders.
