I was reading through a topic on marketing personas, fictional characters used to represent your customer or target audience. You will give your persona a name, age, interests and any other characteristic you deem necessary to be able to visualise them. Then it hit me that I should be using the same concept when designing lesson plans. In fact, this should be relatively easy as I often know who I will be teaching or training. I will write an update at a later stage to tell you how well it is going.
To be able to upskill Africans, policy makers and educators will need to establish their literacy and numeracy levels. This is common practice all over the world and is used to determine a person’s suitability for a course or skills training. One body that has worked on establishing levels is the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), which designed a framework to classify educational activities. Borrowing from their classification, I recommend that Africa focuses in the first instance on the ISCED attainment levels: 0 — Pre-primary education 1 — Primary Education 2 — Lower Secondary Education At Level 1, a learner will be expected to: write a message for someone read and follow simple instructions read and write whole numbers use a calculator to add, subtract, multiply and divide perform a basic internet search with a phone, tablet or computer At Level 2, a learner will be expected to: write straightforward emails and letters complet...
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