The Programme

AI-Assisted Assessment & Memorandum Design

Five sessions, ten contact hours, delivered entirely online, that take a teacher from a blank page to a moderation-ready assessment package.

Why This Way

Generic AI tools make the problem worse, not better

Two things stand between South African teachers and the AI tools already on the market, and both shape how this programme is built.

Generic AI chatbots

  • Fluent, but not curriculum-aware, with no way to verify the output is even correct.
  • Up to 90% of generated content has to be substantially rewritten by hand before it's fit for moderation.
  • In Mathematics, the risk is sharper: a plausible-looking but arithmetically wrong memorandum can reach a classroom before anyone notices.

The payer-user disconnect

  • The teacher feels the pain, but has no personal budget to fund a solution.
  • Budget was cited as the reason for not signing up in every survey response and direct reply Grow Smart SA received, even where the need was rated urgent.
  • The real buyer is school management, a governing body, or a funded cohort sponsored by a union or district.
This is exactly why Grow Smart SA is built around two things at once: a solution educators trust because its Mathematics is verified, and a sales motion aimed at the people who actually hold the budget.
An educator reviewing curriculum-aligned lesson and assessment material on a tablet.
The Curriculum

Five sessions, one usable outcome

Each session builds on the last, ending with a complete, moderation-ready assessment package.

01
CAPS Deconstruction

Cognitive grid alignment

Break a topic down against CAPS coverage and cognitive-level weighting before a single question is drafted, so the paper is defensible from the start.

02
Structure Reuse

Fast, repeatable drafting methods

Build a personal library of question structures and prompts you can reuse term after term, instead of starting from a blank page every time.

03
Marking Guidelines

Error-Carried-Forward rules

Construct marking guidelines and mark-splitting that hold up under moderation, including correct Error-Carried-Forward treatment.

04
Language Calibration

Multilingual classrooms

Calibrate wording and phrasing for learners writing in a second or third language, without diluting what's actually being assessed.

05
Pre-Moderation

Capstone assessment package

Leave with a complete, editable, pre-moderation-ready package: question paper, marking guideline, and cognitive-level grid.

10 contact hours across five two-hour sessions per cohort
Delivered entirely online via Google Meet and Google Classroom, so any school in the country can join at no travel cost
A real, usable output: an editable, pre-moderation-ready assessment package
Certificate of completion for your CPD portfolio and PoE evidence
Differentiation

Built for CAPS classrooms, not adapted to them

Generic AI chatbotGrow Smart SA
Curriculum alignmentNone. No CAPS awareness.Built around CAPS deconstruction and cognitive grids
Mathematical correctnessPredicted text, unverifiableComputed and checked by code, not predicted
Marking guideline constructionNot handledMark splitting and Error-Carried-Forward rules built in
Multilingual classroomsNot calibratedLanguage calibration for second- or third-language learners
Built with whomGeneric, global training dataBuilt and validated with real Western Cape teachers

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