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  • Posted: Jun 12, 2017
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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...
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    Educational Technologist (Maths pedagogy)

    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:

    • design sets of interactive, adaptive, dynamic, fun, contextual, and engaging exercises that cover high school content
    • write clear, accurate, and grammatically correct explanations of content, based on concepts and targeting misconceptions when appropriate
    • structure exercises in a way that helps learners master the content by knowing how learning works
    • plan and sequence exercises within content sections in an effective way so that learners encounter exercises in an order that will help them to learn
    • work in the context of the local curriculum (CAPS), with the possibility of expanding content to cater for different curricula from around the world
    • plan pedagogically insightful software libraries together with a technical specialist

    Minimum requirements

    • Below are the minimum requirements to fill the role of a maths pedagogy specialist:
    • expert maths content knowledge (beyond school level)
    • excellent command of written English
    • the ability to explain concepts clearly and appropriately
    • teaching experience including:
      • pedagogical content knowledge, including an awareness of both common misconceptions as well as ways of explaining that best aid learning
    • advantage: creating your own content for lessons and assessments
    • advantage: familiarity with the South African grade 8 to 12 curriculum (CAPS)
    • a willingness to learn computer programming skills
    • advantage: programming experience
    • high computer proficiency
    • be comfortable using Google products including collaborative Google docs
    • a willingness to learn how to use a Linux operating system, Github and the command line
    • be comfortable searching for solutions to computer problems/coding issues using resources such as Stack Overflow
    • advantage: already comfortable with a Linux operating system
    • advantage: already comfortable using the command line / terminal

    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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    Method of Application

    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 apply

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