Short learning programmes for teachers

STEM teachers can engage in various two- and three-day short learning programmes, or one-day workshops, to assist them in developing new knowledge and skills in various fields, such as:

• promoting inquiry learning in the STEM classroom
• contextualising STEM curriculum themes through the infusion of indigenous knowledge
• coding and robotics
• developing entrepreneurial mind sets in learners.

Development and distribution of learning materials for under-resourced schools

With the assistance of our corporate funders, teaching and learning resources will be distributed in under-resourced schools.

For example, the SLCA has partnered with Prakash Labs at Stanford University, in distributing Foldscope microscopes in schools. These origami-type microscopes (costing 1 US$, or R18), provides a vehicle to enhance project-based learning in the science classroom.

               

Researching the impact of interventions, to ensure that donor funding does result in reformed teaching practices and positive change

Researchers visit schools, to identify factors that inhibit reformed teaching practices in the post-intervention classroom, in an attempt to further assist teachers in their professional development.

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Popularising science and mathematics amongst school learners, through their engagement in science clubs and science expos

The end-users who benefit from the work of the SLCA, are school learners. Through the SLCA’s science clubs and Coding and Robotics Club, we whet the appetite for STEM careers in a new generation of young scientists.