Innovation Project

PSP’s Innovation Project develops primary teachers’ content knowledge and teaching skills and provides materials to support learning.

An “Annual Mass Planning Forum” is held with teachers in the fourth term of each year, where large numbers of teachers decide on their priority topics for Innovation courses for the following year. The programme of courses for the year is drawn up according to these requests. This ensures teacher participation and buy-in to the Innovation Project.

Each term, we offer a rich programme of courses for teacher development and classroom innovation in the areas of Natural Sciences, Mathematics & Numeracy, Language & Literacy, Social Sciences and the Environment, addressing Grade R to Grade 7 teachers from disadvantaged schools all over the Western Cape. At each course, teachers learn about a specific aspect of the curriculum, ensuring innovative approaches and methods for teaching, and engage with each other about practical teaching strategies and learner experiences.

The PSP draws on this engagement with teachers to develop new resources to encourage classroom innovation in line with National Curriculum requirements. All participating teachers and schools are provided with these PSP materials. Other schools and teachers purchase the materials at cost price.

Currently, the PSP works with an average of 550 teachers from 80 primary schools in the Innovation Project.