Purpose of the Course
The purpose of the course, is to act as a refresher course for official training that has taken place. Where training is still pending, and especially where new educators has not be train as yet, this course will hopefully give them a better understanding of the QMS and the processes to be followed. Until such time that official training has been conducted.
From the Course Director (Taken from the DBE Website)
A number of initiatives have been put in place to strengthen accountability and management systems as well as improve the quality of education. These include:
- The Quality Management System (QMS), which was signed as Collective Agreement No. 2 of 2020 at the ELRC, provides for the evaluation of school-based educators. Quality Management System is a performance management system for school-based educators, designed to evaluate the performance levels of individuals in order to achieve high levels of school performance. It is critical in assessing the extent to which educators are performing in line with their job descriptions in order to improve levels of accountability in our schools.
- The Education Management Service (EMS): Performance Management and Development System (PMDS) provides for the evaluation of office-based educators as per ELRC Collective Agreement No 3 of 2017. EMS: PMDS as a performance management system is aimed at improving employee performance. This process is further supported by ELRC Collective Agreement No 4 of 2017 which outlines the job descriptions of office-based educators.
- The national policy (Government Gazette Vol. 433, No. 22512, 26 July 2001) on Whole School Evaluation (WSE) aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a school in terms of national goals as well as to increase the level of accountability within the education system. This is intended to enable schools to improve the overall quality of education they provide as well as to increase learner attainment.
- The Skills Development Act No. 97 of 1998 makes provision for a skills development framework to address the needs for scarce and critical skills in the Provincial Education Departments (PEDs).
