The Siyavula training team had a follow-up meeting the Wednesday following our first workshop in Cape Town in which we ran through the details of the weekend and tried to determine what worked and what we could do better.
Our second assignment was a workshop in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) at the Protea Hotel Karridene where we would train 60 people, mostly teachers but some headmasters and even some KZN Department of Education circuit managers. A circuit manager can be responsible for hundreds of schools.
The majority of the teachers were from a ward of approximately 20 schools in the Tongaat area. These schools had been recommended to us by the Deputy Director General of General Education for national government, Palesa Tyobeka, as they were already pro-active in trying to collaboratively address the need for better coordination between primary and high schools in the GET phase.
Ultimately we decided to keep our primary community and technical processes the same but include more technical training time on the second day by starting the day an hour earlier. That would allow us to have more time to form workgroups on the site at the end of the workshop.
The community process was to be the same and the slides from the first workshop can be found here:
[...] new communities as we had a collection of teachers that hadn’t worked together before. In our Kwa-Zulu Natal workshop we focused on the managing a community and how to allow participants to get involved [...]