{"id":20,"date":"2015-09-07T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T20:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za.www22.cpt1.host-h.net\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2021-01-12T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:13:18","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 6%; padding-right: 6%;\">I specialised in <strong>Remedial Education<\/strong> and have been a part of the <strong>Thinking School team at Forres for the past 7 years<\/strong>, where the emphasis is on teaching <strong>brain-based methodologies<\/strong> and <strong>study skills<\/strong>, enabling children\u00a0to think creatively and constructively and so prepare them for the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%; padding-right: 6%;\">I have taught all subjects, including art, from pre-school to Grade 6 and my particular focus is on teaching <strong>study skills<\/strong> and <strong>helping children\u00a0who are struggling<\/strong> with certain aspects of the curriculum, in order for them\u00a0to <strong>re-gain confidence<\/strong> and succeed in the classroom situation.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-right: 6%; padding-left: 6%;\">My experience<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 6%; padding-left: 6%;\"><em>I have taught for <strong>several years<\/strong> at each of the following schools:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>Bryneven Primary School<\/strong> \u2013 Johannesburg (Grade 2)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>Thornhill Primary school<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Gaborone Botswana (Grade 5)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>St. Katherine\u2019s School<\/strong> \u2013 Johannesburg (Grade 5)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>Cecelia Creche<\/strong> &#8211; Child Welfare Nursery School \u2013 Johannesburg (4-5 year old group)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>Parkhurst Baptist Nursery School<\/strong> &#8211; Johannesburg (4-5 year olds)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>St. Joseph\u2019s College<\/strong> \u2013 Cape Town (Grade 1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>Forres Preparatory School<\/strong> \u2013 Cape Town (Grade 6)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 6%;\"><strong>Jowell Jewish Day School School<\/strong> \u2013 Cape Town (Grade 5 and HOD of I Phase)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 6%; padding-left: 6%;\">In addition to classroom teaching, I was the director of Careways Children\u2019s Centre in Johannesburg, an outreach after-care programme for inner-city children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I specialised in Remedial Education and have been a part of the Thinking School team at Forres for the past 7 years, where the emphasis is on teaching brain-based methodologies and study skills, enabling children\u00a0to think creatively and constructively and so prepare them for the 21st century. I have taught all subjects, including art, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.mrsm.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}