The Summit Stakeholders

A Poem

Perfecting the art of teaching

By Bernice Davids

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The Summit Stakeholders

The Teacher Development Summit must add value to the current contributions of many stakeholders and roleplayers. The key groupings of actors in teacher development are educators, employers, educators’ unions and providers of teacher development. Each grouping is currently making invaluable contributions to improving the quality of education. A key purpose of the Summit is to ensure that their initiatives are undertaken within a coherent framework, following a consensus-based approach to enhancing efficiency in the design and delivery of teacher development. Here you will find links to the key stakeholder organisations responsible for the Summit.

STAKEHOLDERS


	The Education Labour Relations Council
	Education, Training and Development Practices Sector Education and Training Authority
	The South African Council for Educators

CTU-SADTU

	South African Democratic Teachers' Union
	Cape Teachers' Professional Association

CTU-SAOU

	National Professional Teacher's Organisation of South Africa
	National Teachers' Union
	Professional Educators' Union
	Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie

Perfecting the art of teaching

" ... a seed planted in soil untainted,
can flourish beyond the contours of anticipated greatness.
Wisdom is not the mocking remnants of old age,
projected on the growing strands of youthful naivety.
Wisdom shines through voices of teachers,
echoes that fill the days of knowledge captured as it is lived.
From the seed of knowledge planted by a voice so akin to this of a parent,
the teacher's voice is the guiding light that opens the way to knowledge,
to experience, to wisdom, to richness.
The teacher's voice, the all-encompassing strand of wisdom,
watered by life experience.
And nourishing the very soil that gives life to the seed of knowledge and wisdom,
... is perfecting the art of teaching."

Bernice Davids (2009)