Online Teaching Assistant

 

About the job

Are you an aspiring maths teacher looking for:

- A chance to launch your teaching career within a fast-paced online learning company?

- A working culture that embraces innovative pedagogy and trying new things?

- Training from colleagues with decades of experience from the best schools in South Africa?

- A playful, curious, friendly, and helpful teaching environment?

- The freedom to work from home?

If so, this Online Teaching Assistant position is for you!

About Watobe

We're an education company based South Africa and the UK, and we’re on a mission to radically transform learning for millions of children across Africa. We have big growth plans over the next few years, and we’re looking for superstars to get on this rocket as it lifts off. Kinda wondering if that could be you?

Our brilliant team of experienced maths teachers lead our live classes for grades 7 to 12 every evening, but they're in need of trusty companions to ensure classes run smoothly and engagement levels remain high. Take a look at Watobe's YouTube channel if you want to get a taste of what our classes feel like.

Responsibilities

- Maintaining a fun, upbeat dialogue with teacher and learners during the live class (kids are taking time out of their day to do this, and we need to make it worth their while).

- Monitor the online chat during live lessons, fire off quick responses, respond to learners' questions and troubleshoot tech issues if needed.

- Facilitating breakout groups where learners solve problems together.

- Answering questions and guiding learners to conceptual understanding.

- Participating in meetings and workshops to develop Watobe's pedagogical model and modalities for interaction.

- Growing with the company as we scale up to serve ever-greater number of users while maintaining a high quality of teaching.

Important stuff

- We teach in two blocks 16:45-19:00 Monday to Thursday. You'll need to be available either Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday (more if you have capacity).

- The total time commitment is 6 to 10 hours a week, depending on your availability.

- Opportunities for more hours are available should you want them.

- This is an entirely remote role. We try to get the team together when possible

- We'll buy you a UPS inverter so we can keep the show on the road in spite of loadshedding

- You need your own laptop and a WiFi connection with at least 20Mbps download speed (test it at www.fast.com)

- You'll need a silent area where you're guaranteed to be undisturbed during live classes

- Compensation is R150 per hour

Requirements

Teaching experience

- Final year or newly qualified mathematics teacher (BEd or PGCE) (desired).

- A minimum of 1 year working experience teaching or tutoring mathematics in a school or online learning environment.

- Comfortable teaching either Grades 7-9 or Grades 10-12 CAPS-aligned Pure Maths

- Have a knack for facilitating interaction, discussion and problem solving within groups of 30+ learners

- Excellent spoken and written English.

Organisation and reliability

- High attention to detail - not just when it comes to maths problems but in lesson prep, communication, scheduling, and just being an all-round reliable team member

Presence

- You will have the chance to shine, crack some jokes and with your bright, dynamic personality bring energy to the lesson, encourage participation and drive engagement

- You must be good at reading the virtual classroom, have a magical way with teenagers

Tech stuff

- Undaunted by technical interfaces like video conferencing, screen sharing, multiple screens and tabs

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