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One of the educators nominated for the 2015 ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year Awards is a former winner of YOU’s Teachers for Change competition.
Sebenzile Mathe-Mohlala has been described as more than just a teacher to the 700 children at her school, Ekwaluseni Catholic Intermediate School in Vrede, Free State.
As principal at the school she is in the unique position of being able to set a positive example to the whole school when it comes to the use of ICT in education. It is no surprise then that her ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year competition project was about introducing iPads to children across the whole school. The tablets were specifically used for teaching reading, maths, educational games and typing.
Ekwaluseni Catholic Intermediate School declares in its vision that learners should be taught in totality and equipped with life skills that aid their future development. In South Africa, a single cellular network operator alone introduced its own tablet and shipped over 170 000 of these to customers in the last quarter of 2014 alone. With statistics like these, there’s no doubt that any initiative aimed at familiarizing learners with these key personal and business devices is going to be a good move.
The premise of Sebenzile’s project was that if she helped introduce tablets to learners from a very young age, they will be completely au fait with the devices by the time they reach secondary school. They will then be able to conduct their own independent research with much greater ease.
Finally, does she have any advice for fellow teachers? “Always remember that teaching is an act of love,” she sagely says.
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