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Our Job Search Specialist Mark Beltran will facilitate the next steps:
Mark will let our client know that you have shown an interest in their professional skills.
You will receive a full job application from our client and might want to offer them a formal job interview if you see the right potential in this candidate.
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Learning Support Educator and experienced primary/intermediate teacher with ability to formulate individualized learning programmes, support learners with diverse educational needs, and deliver workshops for teachers and parents. Highly competent at facilitating effective cross-cultural practices and communication, using face-to-face, online and hybrid teaching techniques. Empathetic and caring with a good sense of humour and the ability to motivate children, build relationships and work as a supportive team member. Specialised in English and qualified remedial teacher. Extracurricular experience in swimming, tennis, netball, chess, art club, and choir.
Key Competencies
• Work within a sound theory and practice of teaching and learning knowledge
• Planning units and lessons, and evaluating students' progress
• Accommodating learners with special educational needs (LSEN)
• Applying behaviour management techniques such as establishing boundaries and rewarding positive behaviour
• Integrating school rules, policies and procedures, including safety and emergency procedures
• Assessing learners to identify educational needs and implement Individual Support Plans for each student
• Experience as a mentor teacher for student teachers doing their teaching practical
Aug 2022-present
Primary School with around 700 students
• Member of School Based Support Team (SBST) and Counsellor, Reader and Scribe
Oct 2021-July 2022
Primary School
• Taught Year 1, 2 3 learners Support learners with barriers to learning via individual/small group teaching
• Trained educators and parents to assist them in supporting their learners/children academically and emotionally
• Drew up and implemented Individual SupportPlans for learners, assessed learners and wrote reports
• Co-ordinated the school-based support team.
2004-Sept 2021
Private School (primary school)
• Taught Year 2 and 3 (all subjects), Year 6 and 7 English Home Language, and Year 7 English as an Additional Language
• During Covid I taught learners online. When in-classroom was resumed, certain families chose to keep their children at home for another year, during which time I taught class face to face and also had a camera on to teach online at the same time.
• Teacher in charge of learning support team and conducted assessment feedbacks on a weekly basis
• I was the Afrikaans First Additional Language and Robotics subject head for Year 1
• Co-ordinated the processes of student teacher applications and mentored student teachers.
• Counselled learners with emotional and/or learning challenges
• Reader and/or scribe for learners with accommodations during assessment time
• Researched new pedagogic methods and deployed them
1998-2003
• My colleague and I started the school and jointly ran all aspects of the school
•Taught mixed age class using Montessori principles while following mainstream syllabus.
Prior to 1998 I was a Year 2 teacher and a Year 4, 5, 6 and 7
• Honours degree in Psychology and Educational Support (Cum Laude)
• Junior Primary Teaching Science Single Subjects Conversion Course
• FDE Remedial Education
• HigherDiploma in Education (HDE)
• Diploma in English (DE) (Senior Primary)
Community Involvement
• Part of Community Out-Reach Programs such as visiting orphanages and involvement with youth
• Assisted with fundraising and delivery of donations for HIV/AIDS orphans at Nazareth House and food for underprivileged schools
• Active participant in local Pad Drives
