Training & Projects

Teacher Training

Background

In view of the fact that many teachers do not have the skills, experience, knowledge or confidence to embark upon using new materials, methods, methodologies and technology, Maths & Science Marketing is able and happy to provide teacher training for those schools that require it.

Naturally the costs will need to be carried by the school(s) and depending upon the school’s requirements, the number of schools attending at the training venue, together with travel and accommodation costs for Cape Town presenters, the costs per school will vary between R 15 000 each (for one school per venue) and R7000 each (for 5 schools attending the same venue). There will be fees between these values for different numbers of schools per venue.

These costs include: the costs of the 9 CD Rom discs required per school, running the training workshop, travel and accommodation for presenters.

Teacher training workshops

The workshops will consist of the following components:

Duration: 3 hours – usually Saturday mornings.
Introduction & motivation
Presentation of all the different types of materials for teachers of Maths, Maths Literacy & Science
How best to use all the products at school/in the classroom
Using our products by learners for homework
How best to use the materials in a school computer centre
Using our materials for Saturday, Spring, Autumn and Winter school programmes.
Using our materials for tutorials
How to fund the necessary hardware that is required in all the classrooms for the maximum benefit of all teachers and learners.

We know that schools, teachers and learners will all benefit greatly from our worthwhile training workshops.

If your school is interested in such a training workshop for your teachers, please contact us for more information and specific requirements, costs, quotes and possible dates.

Projects

The management at Maths & Science Marketing have been involved in running projects in Township schools since the early 1980s and have been involved with projects sponsored by:

Volkswagen SA
General Motors SA
The Shuttleworth Foundation
The Sainsbury Trust ( UK)
USAID (National SA Dinaledi schools)
Investec Bank
Standard Bank
Coca Cola etc

We are thus very experienced at running projects at local, Provincial and National levels and the numbers of schools have varied between 10 and 200 schools for each of the different projects.

Costs for the project will depend upon:

Requirements of the sponsor
Depth of the project
Initial Teacher training
Follow-up training
Subject advisor training
Monitoring & measuring instruments required
Duration of the project
Number of schools involved
Submission of reports
Travelling and accommodation for presenters.

If you are interested in having us run a project for your organisation – please contact us for further information and quotes.

Siyafunda Maths & Science Project 2008

For Western Cape Education Department (WCED)

This project is scheduled to take place from Feb./March 2008 and involves the following:

10 Schools in each of the 7 EMDCs – total of 70 schools across W. Cape.
Training of the 21 Subject Advisors from these 7 W. Cape districts.
Training of 350 Maths, Maths Literacy and Science teachers on Saturday mornings.
Involvement of ± 25 000 learners in these subjects in these 70 schools.
Monitoring and analysing progress and success of project using specific measuring instruments.
Writing reports for the WCED
Providing contact, guidance, motivation and support for teachers involved in the project.
The cost of the project is R4 285 per school (Total cost – only R 300 000 for the 70 schools) for the year.

Each project can and will be tailored to suit the specific requirements of the Sponsor and the needs of the project schools.

You are encouraged to contact us for further information about a project you/your organisation may well be considering.

At Maths & Science Marketing, we believe that it is absolutely vital that Corporate SA gets involved with the sponsorship of teacher training and provision of teaching and learning materials in these crucial subjects if we are to provide for the industrial and commercial requirements of our country for the next 20 years!