Jessica Pearson

 Jessica Pearson _______________ Curriculum Vitae ____________________________________________________________________________________ Biographical Details SURNAME : Pearson NAME : Jessica Jade NATIONALITY : South African DATE OF BIRTH : 19 December 1993 LANGUAGE : English GENDER : Female RESIDENCE : Alberton South Africa DRIVERS LICENCE South African : Yes OWN TRANSPORT South Africa : Yes SACE REGISTRATION NUMBER : South African Council of Educators - CONTACT DETAILS E-mail at any time Cell phone only during after hours 5pm onwards South African Time : Cell Phone :- E-mail :- Education TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTION University of the Witswatersrand QUALIFICATIONB Ed Degree Humanities (educator) Senior Primary Phase YEAR 2012 - 2016 SUBJECTSMajor : English Language Sub-major : History SACE REGISTRATION NUMBER : South African Council of Educators - SECONDARY EDUCATION SCHOOLBracken High School QUALIFICATIONMatric YEAR2011 SUBJECTSEnglish Afrikaans Maths Literacy Life Science Consumer Studies Computer Applications Technology Distinction - Life Orientation * About Myself I am a keen and willing learner, I enjoy being a constant learner as I feel that I have so much to learn and it helps me with my skills at being an educator. Teaching is a passion I have had for many years and worked hard at pursuing. In my first year of teaching experience, I have realised that it comes easy and naturally and that I have a good bond with my learners. I have grown and adapted in so many ways and know that with more experience I will only become better at what I love to do. I enjoy making learning fun as well as relatable, I went through school not really understanding why we were learning concepts but knowing I had to just do them, it has been my goal to allow learners to be individuals in their own knowledge creation and allow them to understand how the knowledge they are learning is going to better them in their futures. Work Experiences ACHIEVEMENTS Full-time Employment Alberton Primary School 9th January 2017 – 6th December 2017 Grade 6 English teacher Remedial English Educator for Gr 6 - Gr 7 Athletics Coach Term 1 Eisteddfod Gr 6 Key Responsibilities Ensuring all learners in my classes were well taught according to the CAPS curriculum in order to be tested and achieve the minimum requirements in order for them to progress to the next grade/level. Those who were not able to achieve, I needed to step in as the Remedial English educator and conducted with extra classes and work to assist the learners who are struggling. Ensuring that the athletes I was coaching had sufficient practice time and correcting the techniques used. I assisted in co-ordinating an English spelling bee competition where we competed with other schools from the area. I assisted in training learners for the English Eisteddfod Grade 6 set poem where all my learners received gold certificates for their performances. I assisted in normal duties expected of a teacher which is playground duty, scholar patrol as well as assisting in the planning the year end staff function. Ensuring all the duties expected are done to a standard set by the school. The duties expected are; all 156 learners taught everyday are accounted for during the day, their work books are marked at least once a week and all formal assessments are marked and marks are recorded within 3 days or writing. Part-time Employment ESL Teacher – American Baby International English(ABIE) May-June 2018 Key Responsibilities: Encourage young learners to enthusiastically lean English Language orally as well as writing and reading skills. This is done through interactive learning as well as fun teaching tools used. Ensuring learners are excited and willing to learn, however keeping in mind the vast range of learning levels of second language learners, and adapting for each child individualistic learning needs. Reference: Brianna (ABIE HR) - (Wuxi – China) ________________________________________________________________________ ESL Teacher – Seven English School April-May 2018 Key Responsibilities: Engaging with learners in order to teach communicative English Skills as well as incorporate reading and writing in a fun and safe learning environment. Reference: Tina - (Langfang – China) ________________________________________________________________________ Fast Fest – Cashier/Waitress7th August 2013 8th August 2014 Key Responsibilities: Ensuring customers are served efficiently and that correct money is received and distributed and customers leave happy. Reference: Sheri Meyer082 - Festa – Cashier/Waitress6th – 20th September 2014 Responsibilities: Ensuring customers receive the product as well as quality of service they expect as well as money is correctly issued and received. Reference: Sheri Meyer082 - Fly Boys – Hostess11th & 18th July 2015 Responsibilities: Ensuring that the product gets sold as well as any information on the product is given. Reference: Chane Cronje Tutoring of a 12 year oldAugust – October 2015 Responsibilities: Ensuring that attention is made to learning areas where the learner was struggling as well as giving the learner extra methodologies to help with more complex concepts. Conceptual understanding is very important for learners as well as acknowledging the learners language barriers. Reference: Margaret079 - Tutoring of a 10 year oldMarch & April 2016 Responsibilities: Helping with learning areas that the learner struggles with and showing the learner there are different methods in which to understand the content. As well as an improvement and development of new/existing study methods. Reference: Cherise Heytmeyer072 - OTHER ACTIVITIES Soccer Coach Feb 2013 – September 2013 U6 Rovers Football Club Responsibilities: Coaching of the U6 soccer boys which entailed helping with warming up techniques as well as preparation for soccer matches generally on weekends. Helping the soccer players understand the basics of the sport. Reference: Kim Le Roux083 - Hobbies Personal growth and development is a topic I ensure to constantly achieve as one needs to grow and develop with new techniques, new technology as well as thee new generation Learning new techniques in which to teach topics to learners who come from different ergonomic and economic backgrounds, and may not all have the same facilities Reading is a great hobby as it allows myself to maintain the student role and understand how one may interpret information, as well as allows me to constantly broaden my English language skills and give me the ability to be able to be more imaginative and understand different genres and topics that I can implement in the classroom environment on a daily basis Most outdoor activities are particularly of interest to me as it allows me to stay active and understand the surrounding my learners are coming from, this allows me to use the outdoors as a way of explanation and as a teaching tool when and if necessary I enjoy watching TV and staying up-to-date socially as this allows me to interact and understand my audience, which is dependent on the age group of the learners that I am teaching. It is much easier for them to learn new knowledge and make this knowledge concrete if I am able to identify with aspects that they are interested in. Reading information leaflets on new ways in which to teach, this helps me with acquiring new information as well as constantly remaining a student myself, this helps me in the classroom environment as I am able to identify with the learners and how they learn new knowledge.