1. The Cape Teaching & Leadership Institute (CTLI) will be offering the courses listed in Annexures A, B, C and D to school principals and teachers during school terms and school holidays in 2010.
2. Persons interested in attending these courses are advised to register, via their education district offices. (See Annexure E for registration procedure.)
3. Substitute teachers will be employed by the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) in place of teachers attending these courses provided that

  • there is no teacher in excess at the school;
  • the substitute teacher is not a governing body paid teacher; and
  • the substitute teacher is not already substituting for another teacher.
4. The finding and nomination of a suitable substitute is the responsibility of the school sending a teacher on a course.
5. Courses are repeated a number of times during the year to enable more teachers to attend.
6. Only 56 teachers can be registered for each separate course. These teachers will be drawn from all 8 education districts. This means that only a limited number of teachers can attend a course provided at a given time.
7. Courses of four weeks' duration have been split into two blocks to allow teachers to return to school and put their training into practice.
7.1 A teacher must attend both Block 1 and Block 2 of a particular course in order to complete the course. For example: If a teacher chooses to attend Course 2 on Foundation Phase Numeracy, that teacher must attend Block 1 of the course, from 15 February to 26 February 2010, and then return to complete the course by attending Block 2, from 26 July to 6 August 2010.
7.2 Swapping between blocks of different courses will not be allowed.
7.3 Teachers must therefore select courses that will take place during times when they will be available to attend a full course.
8. Nominations from district officials for courses to be presented in the first term of 2010 are to reach the CTLI before 20 November 2009.
9. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact any one of the following officials:

Nobantu Pasiya tel. 021 900 5022 OR npasiya@pgwc.gov.za
André Lamprecht tel. 021 900 5020 OR alamprec@pgwc.gov.za
Magdalena Benn tel. 021 900 5016 OR mabenn@pgwc.gov.za
Keith Scheepers tel. 021 900 5001 OR kscheepe@pgwc.gov.za
Suzette Manuel tel. 021 900 5018 OR smanuel@pgwc.gov.za
10. Kindly bring the content of this minute to the attention of all teachers.


SIGNED: ED KIRSTEN
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2009:09:30

Annexure A: Foundation Phase Programme Courses  (size: 10 KB)
Annexure B: Intermediate Phase Programme Courses  (size: 10 KB)
Annexure C: Senior Phase Programme Courses  (size: 8 KB)
Annexure D: School Management Programme Courses  (size: 8 KB)
Annexure E: CTLI Co-ordinators in the Districts  (size: 14 KB)