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Siyavula is Nguni for "we open” or "we are opening” and Siyavula Education is a private company with a mission to make high quality education as accessible as possible to every learner and teacher in our home country of South Africa, and beyond. As passionate scientists, we are focused on enabling and creating innovative, technology-powered learn...
Job description
Siyavula is looking for an expert in maths pedagogy to join its team of Educational Technologists. You would be joining an amazing team of highly skilled people from various backgrounds, including teaching and academia, who are passionate about education and continuing their own learning.
What do Siyavula’s Educational Technologists do?
You will be part of the team of content experts that plan, code, and scaffold the exercises that appear on our online service, Siyavula Practice, which consists of an underlying platform that delivers, marks, and sequences maths and science exercises. Thousands of high school learners (from across South Africa and the rest of the world) access this service daily.The roles and responsibilities as an Educational Technologist at Siyavula can be roughly divided into two specialisation streams, both of which involve the application of your expert subject knowledge. They are pedagogy and technical specialists. All Educational Technologists will be involved in both pedagogical and technical spheres to a certain extent and there is often a fair amount of fluidity between the two specialisations.
Our pedagogy specialists design, write, review, and scaffold exercises in their area of subject expertise. Technical specialists work together with the pedagogy specialists to encode the exercises as computer programs in order to generate randomised versions of questions testing the same core concept.
As part of EdTech Production, you need to work both with the team as well as independently. Self-awareness and the ability to determine opportunities for your own growth are key. You need to be a go-getter who is able to identify problems and step in to solve them.
Roles and responsibilities
As a maths pedagogy specialist, you are expected to know how to explain your subject (teaching knowledge / pedagogical content knowledge). As part of your role, you would be required to:
Minimum requirements
If you’re the candidate we’re looking for: you know and love your subject; have strong problem-solving skills; are passionate regarding your own continued learning; and are enthusiastic about working in a team. Most of all, you should want to make a difference to education in South Africa and around the world!
And finally, you are a good candidate if you smile at the mention of the Euler Identity :-)
ei+1= 0
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Applicants should send an email with a cover letter and your CV to [email protected] with the subject line “Educational Technologist, specialising in mathematics” and we’ll get back to you. We look forward to hearing from you!
We reserve the right to test all short-listed candidates to determine level of expertise in relation to the role if deemed necessary. We reserve the right not to fill the vacancy.
Interested and qualified? Go to Siyavula Education on www.siyavulaeducation.com to applyBuild your CV for free. Download in different templates.
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