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Public Speaking & Training

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Conference Speaker and Presenter/ Seminar Panelist member

2012 - Current

When invited to speak at events or staff development sessions I prepare and speak from a place of confidence, sound knowledge and experience.

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Different events and organisations

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Topic examples:

  • Learning is an Experience not an instruction

  • Disrupt or be disrupted: An ecological perspective to education

  • Disrupt or be disrupted: Who are you in the face of change

  • Fourth Industrial Revolution

  • Coding

  • Robotics

  • VR Technology

  • Enrichment activities in the classroom

  • Innovative teaching practice

  • TjokIDEAS: Personlised learning

  • Technology for the classroom

  • Planning and structuring transformation (ICT)

  • Use of technology and teaching support material

  • The possibilities of technology for your classroom

  • How to fix SA schools (Based on a book by Prof. J. Jansen)

  • Characteristics of change agents

 

Events I participated in as speaker/presenter or seminar panelist:

  • Breakfast with Sponsors invited by MEC - Free state (2013)

  • SAOU quarterly meeting: TjokIDEAS and the road to success (2013)

  • UFS WOW day: The road to success (2013 and 2014)

  • Launch of the NTA 2014 invited by MEC (2014)

  • District NTA Gala event invited by District Director (2014)

  • FEDSAS digital citizenship one day congress (2014)

  • ICT demonstration event at Universitas Primary School (2016)

  • ICT in Education with a focus on Special Needs - FSDOE (2018)

  • SchoolNet conference (2017, 2019)

  • EDUNOVA Annual Board Meeting(2019)

  • WCED Future Focus conference (2019)

  • WCED eLearning Conferences (2018, 2019)

  • CTLI Leadership seminar (2019)

  • Global Online Learning Alliance (GOLA) (2021 - bi-monthly international discussions)

  • Federated Management Institute: eLearning Africa conference (2020, 2021, 2022*)

  • Radio interview RSG Kompas (2021)

  • IBForum (India) - African Digital Learning Summit (2022)

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Trainer, Lecturer and Course facilitator

2009 - Current

I am a training facilitator in education within both employment and freelance capacity. I specialise in practical teaching (foundation phase), soft skills development and ICT training.

Detail

Different events and organisations

Foundation/ Intermediate Phase Lecturer/Facilitator

  • EPD 112: Dance Education ( 2014 – 2015)

  • UPI 312: Foundation Phase Mathematics (2015)

  • NPDE: Foundation Phase Teaching Strategies and Planning(2008 – 2011)

ICT Trainer/Facilitator

  • 5 Day ICT skills training for teachers (ACE certificate) @ University of the Free State  from 2012 - 2014 focusing on Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Computer Essentials and Keyboard skills and ICT integration for classroom and administration

  • ICDL training lab manager and trainer focusing on Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Computer Essentials and Keyboard skills and Online Essentials.

  • 21st century learning dimensions SchoolNet Course

  • Workshop: Online Essential training for office based educators

  • Workshop: Time Management for office based educators

  • Workshop: Flipped Classroom 

  • Workshop: Informal Assessment

  • Partners in Learning teacher development programme

  • Demystification of coding and robotics

  • Train the trainer sessions

  • Enrichment activities in the classroom

  • Innovative teaching practice

  • Use of Gardner’s theory for teaching and learning

  • Mouse Mischief

Presentation Sample and Radio Interview

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