It is a job of being a school - based educator (a teacher) for physical sciences and mathematics at further education and training phase (grade 10 to 12). As a retired teacher at KZN Department of education, a former demonstrator and tutor for physics at the Centre for Science Access (CSA) now Centre for Academic Success in Science and Engineering (CASSE) at UKZN, I am extremely familiar and experienced with this job. I had an opportunity to practice my profession for 11 years at school level under the KZN department of education and 2 years at university through CSA/CASSE. I shall help my learners to access, engage and understand, hence develop science content knowledge. This will be done through preparing high quality lessons that will motivate learners to achieve at their maximum potential. I shall use an annual teaching plan (ATP) that may be provided by the department of education or a private school for pace setting so as to uncover all of the required work per school calendar term. I shall supplement our coursework from the classroom by organizing content videos and organizing field trips. In each school calendar term, I shall assess my science learners both formally and informally in order to determine their progress in learning. I shall keep a performance list by the learners so as to monitor their continuous development in academic learning and then change my teaching methods if needs be. I will attend content and pedagogy workshops organized by the department or the school to develop my pedagogy - content knowledge (pck)
