Introduction Quality pre-school education and stimulation are significant predictors of later school progress. Despite near-universal Grade R access in South Africa, 65% of children have not mastered the literacy and numeracy skills required for Grade 1. Inequality...

Grade R Early Mathematics Project (Western Cape) This project involves the training of district officials to support Grade R teachers to teach early numeracy through a well-researched conceptual and coherent approach to Mathematics. This project is implemented in...

Evaluation of the Grade R Early Mathematics Project (Western Cape) The Grade R Early Mathematics Project (R-Maths Project) intends to develop, test and evaluate a province-wide teacher training project to improve teaching and learning of Grade R Mathematics. This...

Introduction The student-teacher internship space in South Africa remains largely fragmented with little stakeholder collaboration. Such inclusive collaboration is critical if we are to build a common and effective framework for student-teacher internships. Zenex and...

Student-Teacher Internships: The Khanyisa Inanda Community Project (KICP) Introduction The government’s National Development Plan identified improving the quality of teacher training as critical. One of the Zenex Foundation’s responses to these needs is our...

Introduction In response to the urgent need for quality initial teacher education (ITE) in South Africa, Zenex has funded a number of strategies for developing quality teaching practice programmes. The University of Johannesburg (UJ) BEd Foundation Phase Internship...

The Inanda Seminary teacher-intern development programme is a two-year programme where interns are supported academically, financially and through mentoring to progressively achieve a set of holistic teacher competencies. Link to article: Name of Organisation/service...

Implemented in 21 schools across three provinces, this project is focused on developing and testing an innovative model of in-service training for Foundation Phase literacy teachers. Name of organisation/service provider: MOLTENO, READ and ELET with literary...

The Zenex Literacy Project (ZenLit) that commenced in 2014 reached its final year of implementation in 2017. Between 2014 and 2017, the Zenex Foundation designed and tested a model for improving the way literacy at Foundation Phase in both Home Language (HL) and...

This project involves the training of district officials to support Grade R teachers to teach early numeracy through a well-researched conceptual and coherent approach to Mathematics. This project is implemented in partnership with the Western Cape Department of...