The Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa (TICZA) is an innovative vehicle that brings together government, academia, the private sector & implementers in order to drive innovation & continuous improvement in the teacher internship programmes. Overview of TICZA
The TICZA (Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa) is a collective impact project designed to support mutually-reinforcing activities across discrete actors in the education sector with varying interests (in extended student-teacher internships). In a collective impact process, emphasis is placed on alignment and partnership between government, private and third-sector organisations that work towards shared goals and measure the same things. TICZA’s aim is to understand, inform and support systemic change in initial teacher education (ITE) by demonstrating the extent to, and conditions under which extended student-teacher internships (ESTIs) can be an effective, efficient and widely used model that can contribute to teacher education pathways that produce high-quality teachers for public schools in South Africa. In order to achieve this TICZA is made up of a Convening Group that includes JET Education Services, the Bertha Centre at the University of Cape Town, Bridge Innovation and Trialogue. In addition, the Global Teachers Institute (GTI) played a key role in the conceptualisation of the initiative. Strategic Partners such as teacher unions, NGO Networks, research institutes, Implementing Partners and Beneficiaries complete this partnership.
‘WHY’ TICZA? Put succinctly, extended student-teacher internships are a school-based component to an Initial Teacher Education qualification for student teachers, that is established with the aim of developing well-prepared teachers capable of effective teaching. It is important to note that TICZA is NOT a particular model of extended student-teacher internships (school-based initiates) and NOT proposing that extended student-teacher internships / school-based teacher education is / should be the ONLY expression of ITE. Rather, TICZA seeks to determine when and how extended student-teacher internships can enhance the professional pathway to teaching.
