Education Assistant programme coming to an end in March 2022, will the contracts be renewed?
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About Phase 2 Education Assistant Programme
The teacher or education assistant programme will be coming to an end at the end of March 2022. The current teacher assistants hired are part of the phase 2 of the Presidential Unemployment Stimulus initiative. They were contracted for 5 months by the Department of Basic Education under the ministerial leadership of Angie Motshekga.
Will the teacher assistant contracts be extended?
The question that may be on many of these teacher assistants may be, will the teacher assistant contract be extended? Will the education assistant contract be extended? Much as you may be asking yourself these questions, unfortunately at the moment there is no definite answer for that. There is no indication yet whether the education assistant contracts will be extended in 2022 on not.
How has the programme contributed to youth employment?
The president, during his SONA speech indicated that in total the Presidential Employment Stimulus initiative has seen more than 800 000 young people employed.
The president also mentioned that in the coming period, the programme would be reaching over a million people. He announced that Home Affairs Department will be hiring 10 000 IT young people to assist with digitisation of Home Affairs paper records. The minister of Home Affairs Department, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi added that these 10 000 young people to be recruited will be IT graduates from all provinces across the country. He also added that 6000 of these recruits will be females and 4000 will be male.
What are the duties of the education or teacher assistants?
Education Assistants duties
Well teaching assistants have various duties to the teachers and learners in the classroom. The following are some of the responsibilities or duties they have to fulfil:
- Prepare mark sheets, keeping of records and capturing of marks.
- Hand out workbooks/textbooks to learners.
- Hand out question papers, worksheets, classwork books and marked scripts to learners.
- Help the teacher with the photocopying of question papers, worksheets etc.
- Make sure the classroom is safe, secure and clean.
- Make sure that the learners you are working with are able to engage in the learning at hand and stay on task.
- Support the social and emotional development of learners and report any issues when necessary.
- Support the teacher in managing challenging learner behaviour and promoting positive behaviour.
- Guide and monitor pupil progress.
- Carry out administrative duties, such as preparing classroom resources.
- Create displays and prepare classrooms for teaching and learning.
- Ensure that teaching materials are available and ready for use.
- Listen to learners read, reading to them and telling them stories.
- Look after learners who have had accidents, need help, or are upset.
- Provide support outside of the classroom such as helping during exams or on school trips.
- Help with extracurricular activities such as after-school clubs and revision sessions.
- To assist with teaching and learning programs in the school
Teaching assistants have been a great help in doing administrative tasks which ensures that teachers get to finish the necessary
Question time
Do you think the teacher assistant programme must be extended?
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Especially Mpumalanga 0449 we need the responsible assistant & who are willing to do their job.
Yes it must be extended That create jobs for youth it reduce crime and other are depending to this money they don’t have a children to get child support grant they are the bread winners our government must go on creating other opportunities
Yes the extension should be given with h a opportunity for school s to take on new assistant in the place of those that have left and keep on the current assistants as well . We all need jobs and the schools need our help too.
Hi I’m Charlotte Thulo from Marquard I think this program should be extended it’s benefits everyone in the school assistants help teachers to ease their work and they help learners in reading and understanding and it also benefit the assistant teachers it reduces the unemployment rate in the youth of SA
I think it must be extended,because where will youth find work again and with now that all the children are back in schools it’s a handful and caos.There is no Home affairs in every place of each province .The First phase was extended why not again .
I think this contract must come to an end for those who had an opportunity to work for five months, so that others can also obtain that opportunity on the coming new phase.
Yes i think it should be extended bcz it reduces the un employment in SA youth and give Teachers a reduces work
Yee it must be extended because most youth are employed and that alone reduces the high rate of crime in our communities.
Yes I think the contract should be extended learners are you to the assistant teachers now
l think the initiative shuld be extended but first preferance be given to new applicants so that the majority of our youth get the chance.
Qualified teachers and any one who has a course dealing with children, be it in sports or reading should be given the first preferance
The interviews in schools sholud be scrapped off as some people in the schools are obstacles .
This programme is useful in both the learners and assistant teachers, in a sense that more jobs are being created while extracare being given to learners. With these being said, I personally think this programme would be of greater help in the society if extention may be given.
I am Zintle from Johannesburg and i would like to be an assistant educator because i have passion for helping kids and assist them with their school work.it would be a pleasure and honor for me to have this job because i realy need it thank you.
I personally think it must be extended because it reduces youth unemployment and it helps many teachers who have heavy work loads .it gives experience,responsibility,communication and gives courage to those who have never had an opportunity to uplift themselves and stand out..
It created jobs for many
Yes because it helps when it comes to reducing teacher’s work load and it reduces the rate of unemployment in our country.
No because everyone need an opportunity in being assistance educator…
If u say no then it means u say it must end and there won’t be another phase,and some schools might need an extension of assistance since they realise that it reduces their work,so many people might be employed in the extension of this programme..