Uct Online High School Senior Afrikaans

Valenture Institute has partnered with UCT to accelerate access to world-class high school education, so that we can unleash South Africa's potential. Valenture's proprietary learning technology, analytics and learner support model are at the forefront of online education. By equipping teachers and parents with state-of-the-art technology, Valenture Institute empowers learners with the skills they need to flourish in an increasingly digital world.

The outcome is an online high school that not only expertly prepares learners for tertiary education, but provides every learner with a highly engaging, social, and personalised learning experience at an affordable price.

DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Teaching:

- Significant contact with students to encourage, motivate and empower them to achieve their best.
- Employ a variety of teaching and instructional methodologies to individuals and groups of students.
- Monitor at-risk students and the effectiveness of planned interventions (according to our remediation policy which uses RTI) and employ bespoke remediation strategies to enable student academic progress.
- Work with our Student Mentors and School Counselor to oversee the progress of all students on Individual Support Plans within the allocated student group.
- Review holistic performance of students on a regular basis.
- Facilitate and participate in extracurricular activities such as social activities, clubs and student organisations.

Leadership:

- Mentoring, coaching, developing, and motivating the Tutors in your team to enable them to facilitate transformative learning experiences.
- Moderate all summative submissions graded by the Subject Assessors.
- Update student records with socio-emotional, behavioural and academic insights gained through teacher-student interactions.
- Meet weekly with the Tutors and Subject Assessors in your team to identify student progress, trends and at risk-students.
- Consult on the course evaluations process to ensure that feedback is channeled into the Learning Design team according to the ADDIE model.

Community of practise:

- Engage in lesson observations with fellow teachers, tutors and your Faculty Lead to maintain quality assurance of instruction in line with Valenture’s Teaching and Learning approach and to enable personal and peer improvement through feedback, coaching and mentorship.
- Engage in the systemic integration of scientific educational knowledge, didactics (or pedagogical content knowledge), and practice to enable teachers to enhance their pedagogical thinking, evidence-based decision making, and engagement in the professional community of educators.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of 5 years teaching experience at secondary school level, with either BEd or PGCE qualification.
- Experience teaching the CAPS or IEB curriculum will be an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience in working effectively working with young people to promote their individual academic potential.
- Adept in a technological environment.
- Operationally savvy.
- A good feel for working with assessment data and operational data.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Must be comfortable working remotely and independently.
- Stable internet connection required.
- Police clearance required.

Tech requirements:

- A second screen.
- A stable internet connection (minimum of a 20mbps line).

PERSONAL SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
- Obsessed with making a lasting, positive impact on the students.
- The ability to elicit the best from students through excellent rapport, meaningful engagement and sincere commitment to their success.
- Inclusive and dedicated to developing all students.
- Must be able to take initiative as well as self-audit.
- Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Strong organisational skills and flexibility.

**Benefits**
- Family member discount to Valenture Institute
- Remote working
- Voluntary savings programme