Job Purpose: 

• The Teaching Experience Supervisor provides guidance, support, and assessment to student teachers during their teaching practice placements in Gauteng schools. The role ensures that pre-service teachers effectively integrate theory with practice and develop the professional skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for successful teaching in South African schools.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Observing and evaluating the student teachers’ performance during student teaching experiences in appropriate classroom settings.
• Providing feedback essential to the student teachers regarding the content of observation and evaluation.
• Ensuring and assisting the student teachers to reflect on their performance, identifying both strengths and areas of needed improvement regarding teaching /learning objectives, goals, strategies/approaches.
• Recommending and/or teaching methods or alternatives for improving deficient areas in relation to the student teachers’ performance.
• Providing oral and written feedback to student teachers after each formal observation
• Helping student teachers deal with problems they may be experiencing.
• Providing honest and candid evaluations of student teachers’ progress.

Minimum Requirements:

• B.Ed. Honour’s degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Education (at NQF level 8)
• The undergraduate qualification or postgraduate qualification must include a focus on Intermediate Phase.
• Registration with SACE
•  A minimum of 3-5 years of teaching experience in the Foundation Phase is required.

Other requirements:

• Have a valid driver’s license and have your own car.
• Must have no criminal record.
• Retired teachers are encouraged to apply.
• Candidates with teaching qualifications currently involved in other sectors are encouraged to apply.
• Able to possibly work remotely.

Key Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding of the South African higher education systems and regulatory framework.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Teaching and Learning theory and
• The ability to provide student support.
• The ability to work with and learn more about digitalized academic.
• The ability to cope with a frequently changing environment and to adapt to evolving.
• Ability to adhere to rules and strictly follow work.
• Deadline-orientated and can work well under
• Ability to manage time.