A lot of changes have occurred in the Department of Education (DoE) since 1994.
These changes require teachers to study, implement and assess learner outcomes
while providing meaningful, engaged learning for a diverse learner population. To
enable teachers to cope with changes in the education system, training and retraining of
educators has become a major focus of the Department of Education (DoE). The
Department of Education needs to ensure that training provided equips teachers with
new knowledge and skills and thus enable them to provide education of high quality.
Through the decentralization policy that characterises the new education dispensation
in South Africa, School Management Teams (SMT) are required to see to it that training
of teachers yields the desired results. To this end the School Management Team (SMT)
should facilitate transfer of training among educators by providing ongoing support and
coaching to trained educators. Ongoing coaching represents the concrete involvement
of managers (principals) and supervisors (heads of department) in work–related transfer
efforts.
It appears, however, that SMTs are experiencing problems in facilitating transfer of
training among educators in schools. These problems emanate from three key
members of the training partnership, viz., managers, trainees and trainers. In general,
problems seem to be related to trainee characteristics, work environmental factors, and
training design and delivery. As a result, a research was undertaken to investigate the
perceptions of SMTs about the seriousness of problems that they experience in
facilitating transfer of training with the major aim of coming up with suggestion about
how these problems can be eliminated. A cross–sectional empirical survey design using a questionnaire was used to collect
data from 70 SMT members in 10 schools. The major findings from the research show
that SMTs experience serious to very serious problems in the areas of providing time for
professional development activities within the regular school day, giving incentives to
educators for practicing skills learned in training, and providing resources that educators
need to apply their newly gained skills. The major recommendation from this research
concerns the training of SMTs in facilitating transfer of training prior to training of
teachers. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/4640 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Madimabe, Herman |
| Publisher | North-West University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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