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 Foundation Phase and/or Early Childhood Teaching.
•  A minimum of 3 years of teaching experience in the Foundation Phase is required.