Focus Area
The Zenex Foundation has three core focus areas which it carries out work, namely:
Early Grade Literacy & Numeracy Programme
Builds reading and numeracy teaching expertise at a critical entry point in the schooling system – the Foundation Phase.
Senior Phase English Mathematics Programme
Remediates mathematics and language backlogs at the point of entry to high school.
Thought
Leadership
Promotes evidence to
influence policy and practice.
Underpinning all our work is Research, Monitoring & Evaluation to ensure that evidence informs our work and also contributes to knowledge development in the education sector
Schools in the time of COVID-19: Impacts of the pandemic on the curriculum by Ursula Hoadley
Schools in the time of COVID-19: Impacts of the pandemic on the curriculum by Ursula Hoadley (School of Education, University of Cape Town) Read more
Developing an Alternate Approach to Group Guided Reading (GGR) Research Study in Early Grade Literacy
Introduction The South African national curriculum promotes Group Guided Reading (GGR) as the core Foundation Phase reading instructional strategy....
Developing a Programme to Address Mathematics Backlogs in Grade 3
Introduction Recent research in Foundation Phase numeracy shows that the current mismatch between learner competence and grade-level demands is...
Zenex’s Strategy for Supporting Initial Teacher Education (ITE) new
Zenex’s Strategy for Supporting Initial Teacher Education (ITE)Introduction South Africa needs 425,000 additional teachers by 2030. To meet the...
Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa (TICZA)
Introduction The student-teacher internship space in South Africa remains largely fragmented with little stakeholder collaboration. Such inclusive...
Student-Teacher Internships: The Khanyisa Inanda Community Project (KICP)
Student-Teacher Internships: The Khanyisa Inanda Community Project (KICP) Introduction The government’s National Development Plan identified...
UJ Online BEd Foundation Phase Internship Programme
Introduction In response to the urgent need for quality initial teacher education (ITE) in South Africa, Zenex has funded a number of strategies for...
The Zenex Foundation COVID-19 Journey
The abrupt closure of schools to contain the spread of COVID-19 affected a record 1,5 billion learners worldwide and approximately 14 million...
Reflections on learner progression and learning backlogs
Some reflections on learner progression and learning backlogs as we end a tumultuous schooling year – a focus on longer-term issues to consider....