The Directorate of Education, Arts, and Culture in the Otjozondjupa Region is revamping its strategy aimed at improving the results of the learners in the region.

The directorate's Chief Education Officer, Markus Munenge, says they will be hosting the Capacity Development Programme in response to the teachers' needs.

With poor performance in 2021, the Otjozondjupa Education Directorate hosted a CPD workshop to train only the Grade 11 teachers.

However, there was only a one percent improvement in the Grade 11 results, while the Grade 12 results drastically declined from 73% to 59%.

"We do not know what happened with the grade 12s; we declined so tremendously, but once we get the indication from the teachers to say, 'The teachers are indicating to say this and this is my problem in the subjects that I'm teaching', then we have an idea to say that this is the challenge that our teachers are faced with."

The new training, as part of the capacity development programme, will have a committee at each school in the region taking note of the topics teachers struggle with in their respective subjects.

"They will then decide that there are 5 or 6 teachers, and for some subjects, you have maybe two or three teachers teaching the same subject. So what they are going to do is choose one teacher among themselves who is going to coordinate the activities for the subjects, who then becomes the subject facilitator. "

In cases where no teacher understands the topic that they have indicated to be challenging, an expert will be sourced from outside the region.

This year's CPD programme is inclusive of primary school teachers, as the foundation of a child determines their progress in secondary school.

All teachers are expected to submit their training needs to the CPD committee by June 5 to enable the training to start.