Requirements
- Have appropriate professional qualifications and experience in remedial teaching / special needs (‘Sonderschullehrer’), masters or equivalent in education necessary
- Focus areas are ‘language’, preferable mathematics and ‘learning’
- Excellent skills in communicating with children between the ages of 6 – 10 and the ability to utilise different methods of skills training
- Have an in-depth knowledge of individual education programmes
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and participate in multi-disciplinary team is essential
- Applicant must be fluent in both English AND German
Responsibilities
- Remedial classes and support for Grades 1 – 4 as focus area
- Support for students with diagnosed special needs
- Write the “Nachteilsausgleich” for Grade 1 – 12 German streams in collaboration with a psychologist and inform the relevant parties
- Liaison with other professionals, such as teachers, language therapists, physiotherapists and educational psychologists
- Work closely with parents and guardians
- Development of individual education programmes / remedial plans with / for learner, teacher and other parties
- Assessment of children who have long- or short-term learning difficulties and working with colleagues to identify individual learners’ special needs
Should you be interested in this opportunity, please forward your updated CV, motivational letter and qualification certificates (including transcripts) to diane@abcworldwide.com
Our client is a bilingual German school based in the heart of Cape Town with approximately 930 learners from Grade 1 – 12, offering South African and European University Entrance Qualifications and is one of 140 official German schools abroad, subsidized by the German Government.
The school’s remedial centre its team provide emotional, social and academic support to children of the school during their school career. The appointments made with learners take place mainly during lesson time in designated rooms. When a teacher or parent identifies a possible need for support (reading / spelling / language problems, learning, low muscle tone, behaviour, etc.), the classroom teacher is contacted, who in turn liaises with the Centre. The Centre team will work with the child and/or make a recommendation for an assessment.
We are looking for a teacher of special education preferably with one of the two specializations: pedagogy of learning support or pedagogy of educational support combined with teaching experience in special needs education. The teacher will work closely with therapists and specialists and should also be able to make assessments him / herself. In the context of the topic "inclusion" the team focuses on "individual support systems".