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ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) EDUCATIONAL AID MANUFACTURERS & SUPPLIERS

educational aid education grade 1 font literacy numeracy life skills typeface education aid parent south Africa edu esl afrikaans opvoed opvoedkundige hulpmiddels graad 1 loreto queenswood primary school hod skool  kleuter opvoeding onderwys onderwyser  foundation phase karen engelbrecht

Edu-Aid Objective Edu-Aid is a Non-profit organization. The objective of Edu-Aid is to improve the quality of life of each individual in Southern Africa by offering affordable functional educational aids to every learner, educator and parent anywhere in Southern Africa.   To guarantee accessibility to: foundation phase learners learners in need of support adults wanting to improve their functional literacy by means of an approved, functional & tested educational aid covering life skills, numeracy, literacy & HIV AIDS awareness in Southern Africa. We need your sponsorship ! Market Analysis ESL ( English Second Language ) As Asia, Britain & the East, recruit hundreds of South African qualified educators per year to teach their ESL learners, South Africa developed a shortage of ESL educators & an ever increasing number of ESL learners. South Africa has +12 million learners, of which the vast majority don't have English as their mother tongue. more... Edu-Aid developed the South African aid - the TraceMat – suited for not only the South African foundation phase ESL learner, but also learners in need of support, and adults wanting to improve their functional literacy.    The Need To offer all foundation phase learners, irrespective of ethnic origin or language, much needed exposure to an approved and effective educational aid which provides a standard grounding to all users. Educators and administrators have unanimously identified the need for South African, customized, and affordable educational aids. Parents, schools, businesses and corporations alike should actively participate, support and fund basic education as they will benefit directly from their involvement. The Product  -  TraceMat Learner Aid           Click on image to enlarge Tracemat - Printed size A3 (297mm x 420mm). A “dry wipe” pen  Parent / Learner Aid CD of phonetic sounds to the alphabet.     Educator Aid     Click on image to enlarge Duplicate (850mm x 1700mm) and laminated learner aid for display in front of class.   Full range of TraceMats Available (Grades R-3) Life Orientation        Grade R Literacy and Numeracy combined         Grade 1 Literacy and Numeracy combined       Grade 2 Literacy and Numeracy combined       Grade 3 Literacy and Numeracy combined Click on images to enlarge Origin of the Product The need for ESL classroom aids have been identified in interviews with experienced educators, who were redeployed to teach ESL learners. None of the learners listed English as their mother tongue and 25 % of the learners had never before heard or spoken English. "We have to educate learners in English that have never heard or spoken the language before"... Karen Engelbrecht - Grade 1 Teacher.   The Pilot Project Over the past 4 years, Edu-Aid researched, developed, tested and finalized its . . .  more... Features Edu-Aid Tracemats were developed for South African ESL foundation phase learners by South African educators and features:         sound education base covering both literacy and numeracy    Curriculum 2005 typeface and compatibility,    colour visual and phonetic enforcement,    low cost and durability,    simple and effective application,    relatively little additional training requirements,    marketing and sponsor usefulness,    language versatility and personalization capabilities,    creation of a sense of belonging and high morale amongst pupils,    establishment of a climate conducive to and desire for learning,    left and right spatial orientation,    forming of letters and numbers by tracing them on the TraceMat,    expanding vocabulary,    exposure of pupils to lower and upper case letters,    basic shapes or concepts,    capacity to incorporate basic principles, including etiquette,    health and religion,    exposure of pupils to primary and secondary colours,    counting and fractions, and    incorporation of national, school or sponsored value themes.    HIV AIDS awareness    Add-on Training Aids to Complete the Project       Critical outcomes    Number line    Pattern sentences    Seasons    My country    Duties    Life skills    Birthday chart    Class rules    School songs    School or national anthems and songs   Other Edu-Aid Products available: Windows True Type fonts for South African Grade 0 / R,  1 &  2 normal, dots, dots & arrows grade R font, grade 0 font, grade0 font, gradeR font, grade 1 font, grade 2 font, grade1 font, grade2 font, first grade, first grader, Click to see sample of fonts Click to see sample of classroom aids grade one font, gr one font, grade two font, gr two font, grade one typeface, grade 1 typeface, gr 1 typeface, Classroom aids & posters : President portrait National symbols, flag & Anthem  The world Africa Picture Alphabet ( a - z; 0 - 9 ) Arrows Religion aids Critical outcomes Birthday chart To Do List Seasons Shapes Sequence Clock / Watch etc - we design and print anything you need  -  just ask !             Click to see sample of classroom aids     Community Development by Business Enterprises Business Enterprises become directly involved in social and community development and commit to : Uplifting the most needy sectors of South Africa’s diverse society. Helping, Empowering, Advocating (defending), Rewarding and Teaching (HEART) local communities by simply eliminating illiteracy and providing the population with the tools to become self-sufficient and self-sustained. Creating the capacity for further training, education and employment of a literate and numerate population.  “... No adult South African citizen should be illiterate in the 21stcentury, but millions will be unless we mobilize a social movement to bring reading, writing and numeracy to those  who do not have it.  At present millions of South African adults and young people cannot read or write in any language, and millions more are functionally illiterate and innumerate, that is they cannot put their reading and writing skills to any useful purpose and cannot manipulate numerical concepts...” Professor Kadar Asmal, Minister of Education, 27 July 1999.   Edu-Aid educational aids offer great benefit to adult literacy and numeracy training programmes in the workplace & institutions like mines and correctional services. Business Involvement (Sponsorship)   Edu-Aid TraceMats are funded through donations & sponsorships. * The cost of one TraceMat & one Dry wipe pen is a mere US $ 8.00 Sponsorship can be restricted or expanded to incorporate: A single class of approximately 45 learners; or A school with 4  to 7 classes, excluding or including the parents; or Any number of schools in a region; All the grade one learners in South Africa; All the grade R, 1, 2, & 3 learners in South Africa; or Adult learner groups; or Correctional Service or other institutions or a sector of an institution; or Schools in a region in a joint venture with other sponsors; or A specific project in a sponsor’s work environment.   Benefit to Sponsors     Create / promote brand / product awareness amongst pupils / parents / educators  / population with TraceMats and educators’ aids; Participate in selected schools / areas / regions only; Effectively address social and community responsibilities and building goodwill.     Contact us Contact Person:             André Trollip Cell:                           +27 (0) 82 464 1620 Fax:                           + 27 (0) 12 99 35 190 E-Mail:                       edu-aid@lantic.net 19 Toscantia, 230 Issie Smuts street, Constantia park, RSA. P.O. Box 25948, Monumentpark, 0105, SOUTH AFRICA © 2002-2008 edu-aid all rights reserved