6 Sen Coordinator jobs in South Africa
pretoria campus learning support and english acquisition teacher
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Pretoria Campus Learning Support and English Acquisition Teacher
CAMPUS: Pretoria Campus | SUPERVISOR: Pretoria Campus Principal | START DATE: 01 August 2026 |
POSTING DATE: 07 October 2025 | CLOSING DATE: 24 October 2025
Inspire Learning to Build Our Better World. At the American International School of Johannesburg (AISJ), we are committed to providing an exceptional education that empowers global citizens to fulfill their future purpose. Our vision is to inspire learning to build a better world. We seek a dedicated and passionate professional who aligns with our commitment to excellence and believes in the transformative power of education. Every team member is crucial in creating a supportive and nurturing learning environment. At AISJ, we value every employee as a learner and expect them to embody and support the AISJ Portrait of Learner (Resilience , Mindful , Thinker , Globally Connected , Curious , Contributor ) through their work. We are dedicated to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within our school community.
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Position overview
The Learning Support and English Acquisition Teacher will be responsible for supporting the academic and social and emotional needs of students in the Pretoria Campus. They will work directly with students who have mild to moderate learning needs or who are acquiring English within a mainstream setting. They have a caseload of students across the division. Their schedule will include pull out support and in class co-teaching in the Elementary School and/or Middle School.
They play a pivotal role in developing collaborative relationships with administrators, teachers and parents to support a diverse range of learners. The Learning Support Teacher is a key member of the Student Success Team and works with the school counselors, general education teachers and principal to identify and plan for the needs of individual students. They will work with the Pretoria and K12 Student Support Services Team to develop inclusive practices in our community and expand opportunities for our students.
Preferred Qualifications:
The Learning Support Teacher should have:
- Bachelor's degree in Special Education/Learning Support, Masters preferred
- License or certification in Special Education/Learning Support
- License or certification in English Language Acquisition
Preferred skills and experience
- Successful experience teaching Learning Support in the Elementary and Middle School Level
- Successful Experience teaching English Language Acquisition
- Experience working with students with with a wide range of needs
- Ability to plan for Tier 3 intervention
- Experience with implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Support
- Ability to use student evaluation data to develop Individual Learning Plans
- Ability to use data on the student's English Level from the WIDA to inform instruction
- Ability to provide scaffolds and strategies to General education teachers for students with learning differences or who are acquiring English
- Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, teachers and others
- Positive attitude and proven belief that all students can learn
- Ability to establish and participate in collaborative structures
- Proven ability to use learning data to explore and improve teaching and learning practices
- Successful experiences with inspiring or leading innovative practices
- Recent and relevant professional development in the field of Learning Support
- Proven ability to work in a multicultural environment
- Ability to lead professional learning with colleagues
Performance Responsibilities:
Teachers at AISJ are expected to:
- Communicate and liaise on a regular basis with fellow team department/grade members with regards to planning, assessment, parent and community contact, subject organization and classroom issues including discipline, expectations and routines
- Communicate and liaise with other school colleagues to promote social and emotional awareness
- Constructively contribute to staff meetings
- Maintain up-to-date records of assessment, attendance, planning, reports, conferences, and communication with parents
- Engage in ongoing professional development opportunities
- Establish links with the parent community to ensure that parents are kept well informed about student progress
- Act as a resource/contact/support for new staff members (i.e. curriculum, schedules, procedures)
- Participate in and, assist with, school events as required
Teacher Competencies
Planning for Learning
- Curriculum Design: Creates personalized, challenging learning sequences that build on prior knowledge while ensuring knowledge transfer and regular reflection opportunities.
- Collaborative Planning: Partners across disciplines and specialties to create cohesive learning experiences
- that connect global contexts while anticipating student needs.
- Inquiry-Based Learning: Designs flexible conceptual units that honor student choice, pace, and multiple pathways to demonstrate understanding.
Maximizing Teacher Efficacy
- Student Agency & Critical Thinking Creates self-directed learners who think critically, set goals, and drive their own learning journey.
- Research-Based Instructional Excellence Implements proven teaching strategies that adapt to individual student needs through continuous assessment and adjustment.
- Connected Learning Design Weaves together global perspectives, real-world applications, and cross-disciplinary connections to create meaningful learning experiences.
- Collaborative Leadership Builds a learning community where students develop leadership skills through structured collaboration and personalized engagement.
Reflecting as Practitioners
- Student Agency: Builds student capacity for self-assessment through modeling, tools, and targeted feedback that drives individual growth.
- Data-Informed Practice: Analyzes student achievement data to align curriculum, refine teaching strategies, and measure instructional effectiveness.
- Professional Growth: Engages in collaborative reflection and data analysis with colleagues to continuously improve teaching practices and student outcomes.
Promoting Relationships, Community, & Culture
- Builds strong community-school partnerships and actively participates in community initiatives to enrich the learning environment.
- Adapts teaching practices by staying informed of educational and societal changes while understanding each learner's unique cultural background, learning style, and needs.
- Creates an inclusive learning environment that embraces diversity, challenges stereotypes, and connects
- learning to students' real-world experiences and cultural contexts.
- Fosters a growth mindset by encouraging calculated risk-taking and developing students' autonomy, personal responsibility, and ownership of learning.
All community members are expected to be committed to the AISJ Community Principles.
- We are better when we act together.
- Our differences make us stronger.
- Every voice counts.
- Every voice matters.
- Every team needs individuals.
- Every individual needs a team.
Work Hours: Monday through Friday one hundred and eighty-eight) days per school year
APPLICATION PROCESS
To apply, please complete the electronic formplease click here. Information captured will be securely stored and used for a reference check on the candidate's compatibility. AISJ reserves the right to appoint the strongest candidate before the closing date if required.
SAFEGUARDING & CHILD PROTECTION
AISJ maintains robust child protection policies to ensure a safe, secure, and caring environment for our students. All employees must undergo criminal background checks, attend annual training, and sign a safeguarding agreement.
PRIVACY
By submitting your CV, you consent to AISJ processing your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, accessible atAISJ Privacy Policy, and under the Protection of Personal Information Act of 2013.
High School Learning Support Assistant - Temp - SPARK Riversands High - 2025
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About SPARK Schools:
Watch our Vision Video:
Take a tour of our Website:
SPARK Schools is a social impact disruptor and is leading change in the education space through its network of affordable private schools. The SPARK Schools network provides transformational education innovation through Africa's first blended learning model, which elevates student achievement and provides the tools teachers need to serve their students effectively.
The blended learning model, which combines classroom teaching and online instruction, allows teachers to anticipate student needs and equips schools to provide personalized education at an affordable cost. SPARK Schools is pioneering this transformative education model to ensure the accessibility of university and careers for all.
SPARK Schools has a culture of collaboration, because getting South Africa to lead global education takes a team effort. We are innovators who strive for excellence through persistence and a sense of urgency to achieve SPARK Schools' vision, mission and social transformational objectives. Our work environment is vibrant/cheerful, fast-paced/dynamic, engaging/stimulating, tech-enabled and data driven.
SPARK Schools is a high growth, mission and values-driven, entrepreneurial organisation, operating 21 primary schools and 5 high schools and serving over 18,000 families in 2025. We are looking for dynamic people to join our team.
Reports To: School Operations and Blended Learning Manager
Purpose of Role:
SPARK Schools FET Learning Support Assistants drive student achievement by overseeing the culture and effectiveness of lunch, break, and the aftercare programme. High School FET Learning Support Assistants care for classes of students during lunch, break, and aftercare programmes to ensure student academic achievement, health, and safety.
Responsibilities:
Classroom and HUB support
- Provide extra support in classrooms and innovations during the learning day
Scholar support
- Emotional Learning curriculum with scholars
- Behavior management of scholars
- Communicate professionally with parents and line managers about incidents, conflicts, or concerns that occur in the after school programs
Scholar Supervision and Monitoring
- Supervise lunch and break during the instructional day
- School patrols
- Bathroom supervision
- Ensure SPARK's healthy food scheme is enforced with students by checking lunches
Achievement enrichment school program
- Supervise scholars during the after school program, ensuring play, and structured activities.
- Plan engaging enrichment experiences and resources for scholars including but not limited to structured activities and team based sports activities such as netball.
- Ensure all after school program resources are used responsibly and effectively.
- Assist scholars with clarifying and reviewing concepts taught in class, explaining processes and assist students to solve academic problems with a specific focus on mathematics
- Schedule and plan individual sessions for your scholars in collaboration with subject matter educators.
Clubs
- Use SPARK culture and behaviour management strategies to manage clubs '
- Facilitate weekly club lessons
Competencies:
- Customer orientation
- Analysis/problem solving
- Quick thinking/learning
- Team work
- Communication
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and criteria:
- Grade 12 Certificate
- 1-2 years study towards an education degree, specialising in mathematics is advantageous
- Prior working experience with High School age scholars preferred
- Clear/clean criminal record
- Provisional SACE is advantageous but not required
SPARK Values: Service, Persistence, Achievement, Responsibility and Kindness
BenefitsSPARK offers:
fair market linked remuneration
performance-based annual bonuses and increases
above average/good annual leave
life, disability and funeral cover
employee wellness support
educational support & study leave
individualised professional development, support and mentorship
employee discount on school fees
opportunities for career growth
Compensation: R7,242.00 CTC p/m
Position Type: Full Time
Location: Rivonia, Gauteng
- SPARK Riversands High School
SPARK schools is an equal opportunities employer and preference will be given to candidates from designated groups with due consideration of the company's Employment Equity goals and targets.
SPARK schools encourages persons with disabilities to apply.
SPARK Schools may expire the posting of this advertisement at their own discretion.
Kindly note that should you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
High School Learning Support Assistant (FET) - Temp - SPARK Rivonia High - 2025
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About SPARK Schools:
Watch our Vision Video:
Take a tour of our Website:
SPARK Schools is a social impact disruptor and is leading change in the education space through its network of affordable private schools. The SPARK Schools network provides transformational education innovation through Africa's first blended learning model, which elevates student achievement and provides the tools teachers need to serve their students effectively.
The blended learning model, which combines classroom teaching and online instruction, allows teachers to anticipate student needs and equips schools to provide personalized education at an affordable cost. SPARK Schools is pioneering this transformative education model to ensure the accessibility of university and careers for all.
SPARK Schools has a culture of collaboration, because getting South Africa to lead global education takes a team effort. We are innovators who strive for excellence through persistence and a sense of urgency to achieve SPARK Schools' vision, mission and social transformational objectives. Our work environment is vibrant/cheerful, fast-paced/dynamic, engaging/stimulating, tech-enabled and data driven.
SPARK Schools is a high growth, mission and values-driven, entrepreneurial organisation, operating 21 primary schools and 5 high schools and serving over 18,000 families in 2025. We are looking for dynamic people to join our team.
Reports To:
School Operations and Blended Learning Manager
Purpose of Role:
SPARK Schools FET Learning Support Assistants drive student achievement by overseeing the culture and effectiveness of lunch, break, and the aftercare programme. High School FET Learning Support Assistants care for classes of students during lunch, break, and aftercare programmes to ensure student academic achievement, health, and safety.
Responsibilities:
Classroom and HUB support
- Provide extra support in classrooms and innovations during the learning day
Scholar support
- Emotional Learning curriculum with scholars
- Behavior management of scholars
- Communicate professionally with parents and line managers about incidents, conflicts, or concerns that occur in the after school programs
Scholar Supervision and Monitoring
- Supervise lunch and break during the instructional day
- School patrols
- Bathroom supervision
- Ensure SPARK's healthy food scheme is enforced with students by checking lunches
Achievement enrichment school program
- Supervise scholars during the after school program, ensuring play, and structured activities.
- Plan engaging enrichment experiences and resources for scholars including but not limited to structured activities and team based sports activities such as netball.
- Ensure all after school program resources are used responsibly and effectively
- Assist scholars with clarifying and reviewing concepts taught in class, explaining processes and assist students to solve academic problems with a specific focus on mathematics
- Schedule and plan individual sessions for your scholars in collaboration with subject matter educators.
Clubs
- Use SPARK culture and behaviour management strategies to manage clubs '
- Facilitate weekly club lessons
Competencies:
- Customer orientation
- Analysis/problem solving
- Quick thinking/learning
- Team work
- Communication
Requirements
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and criteria:
- Grade 12 Certificate
- 1-2 years study towards an education degree, specialising in mathematics is advantageous
- Prior working experience with High School age scholars preferred
- Clear/clean criminal record
- Provisional SACE is advantageous but not required
SPARK Values:
Service, Persistence, Achievement, Responsibility and Kindness
Benefits
SPARK offers:
- fair market linked remuneration
- performance-based annual bonuses and increases
- above average/good annual leave
- life, disability and funeral cover
- employee wellness support
- educational support & study leave
- individualised professional development, support and mentorship
- employee discount on school fees
- opportunities for career growth
Compensation:
R7,242.00 CTC p/m
Position Type:
Full Time
Location:
Rivonia, Gauteng
- SPARK Rivonia High School
SPARK schools is an equal opportunities employer and preference will be given to candidates from designated groups with due consideration of the company's Employment Equity goals and targets.
SPARK Schools Encourages Persons With Disabilities To Apply.
SPARK Schools may expire the posting of this advertisement at their own discretion.
Kindly note that should you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
Special Education Teacher
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At Guiding Growth, we believe every child on the spectrum has a world of potential waiting to be unleashed. Our leading 1:1 Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) therapy centre is devoted to helping children navigate their unique journey. ABA therapy is a proven, evidence-based treatment for learning and growth. Through our approach, we enhance children's skills across a wide range of areas while gently guiding them away from behaviors that may limit their potential.
Role Description
This is a full-time on-site role for a Special Education Teacher located in Nelspruit. The Special Education Teacher will be responsible for teaching and supporting children with special needs, creating individualized education plans (IEPs), and working closely with Grade 1 and 2s. The role involves collaborating with parents, caregivers, and other professionals to ensure an inclusive and supportive learning environment, while enhancing communication and social skills among the students.
Qualifications
- Experience in Teaching and foundation phase education
- Skills in Special Education and working with autism
- Strong Communication skills
- Ability to develop and implement individualized education plans (IEPs)
- Patience, empathy, and commitment to supporting children with special needs
- Bachelor's degree in Special Education, Education, or related field
- Relevant certifications and credentials in Special Education are a plus
Special Education Adapted PE Teacher
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Summary
Under the direction of the Related Services Director, the Adapted PE teacher is responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring a specially designed physical education (PE) instructional program for students with disabilities based on a comprehensive assessment, to give students the skills necessary to progress in the General Physical Education curriculum.
Description
The following position is avaliable for the school year. Special Education APE Teacher // Related Services 8 hours per day Teacher Table 1 Essential Job Functions: 1. Understands and helps others understand the Intervention and Referral Process. 2. Administers, scores, and interprets standardized norm-referenced and/or curriculum-based assessments. 3. Consults, collaborates and coordinates with team members and others working with the student, including parents, when gathering information pertinent to the student's educational program. 4. Develops and writes individual objective goals for APE students, based on current information. 5. Provides direct services to students with APE goals through implementation of appropriate lesson plans consistent with IEP goals, objectives and other deficit skills. 6. Attends and participates in team meetings including IEP, Data Review, 3yr. Eligibility and transition meetings for students. 7. Has technical skills to learn computer programs necessary to manage and complete all the required paperwork. 8. Establishes, maintains and follows a schedule at assigned schools, ensuring IEP required service to APE students. 9. Maintains and manages special education paperwork such as weekly attendance and direct service logs, and quarterly progress reports. 10. Adheres to school district's policies and procedures. Minimum requirements: Current teaching license in Utah Physical Education endorsement and/or Adapted Special Education Physical endorsement Knowledge, Background, and/or Experience in Special Education Preferred requirements: Special Education license Master Degree Interested individuals need to submit an electronic application, cover letter, resume (including 3 references with email and phone contacts), a copy of transcripts, 3 letters of recommendation - if letters of recommendation are not available at time of application these will be requested by the interview committee, and Utah licensure at
License Required
Special Education (K-12+)
Endorsement Required
Adaptive (Spl Ed) Physical Education
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Special Education Adapted PE Teacher
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09/10/2025
Location
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Close Date
09/10/2025
Summary
Under the direction of the Related Services Director, the Adapted PE teacher is responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring a specially designed physical education (PE) instructional program for students with disabilities based on a comprehensive assessment, to give students the skills necessary to progress in the General Physical Education curriculum.
Description
The following position is avaliable for the school year. Special Education APE Teacher // Related Services 8 hours per day Teacher Table 1 Essential Job Functions: 1. Understands and helps others understand the Intervention and Referral Process. 2. Administers, scores, and interprets standardized norm-referenced and/or curriculum-based assessments. 3. Consults, collaborates and coordinates with team members and others working with the student, including parents, when gathering information pertinent to the student's educational program. 4. Develops and writes individual objective goals for APE students, based on current information. 5. Provides direct services to students with APE goals through implementation of appropriate lesson plans consistent with IEP goals, objectives and other deficit skills. 6. Attends and participates in team meetings including IEP, Data Review, 3yr. Eligibility and transition meetings for students. 7. Has technical skills to learn computer programs necessary to manage and complete all the required paperwork. 8. Establishes, maintains and follows a schedule at assigned schools, ensuring IEP required service to APE students. 9. Maintains and manages special education paperwork such as weekly attendance and direct service logs, and quarterly progress reports. 10. Adheres to school district's policies and procedures. Minimum requirements: Current teaching license in Utah Physical Education endorsement and/or Adapted Special Education Physical endorsement Knowledge, Background, and/or Experience in Special Education Preferred requirements: Special Education license Master Degree Interested individuals need to submit an electronic application, cover letter, resume (including 3 references with email and phone contacts), a copy of transcripts, 3 letters of recommendation - if letters of recommendation are not available at time of application these will be requested by the interview committee, and Utah licensure at
License Required
Special Education (K-12+)
Endorsement Required
Adaptive (Spl Ed) Physical Education
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