Do you know of an excellent secondary school teacher?

If so read further …

UCT students are invited to nominate a teacher who is currently teaching in a secondary school and who, in your opinion, deserves recognition for years of dedicated teaching to students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds

• The successful teacher will receive a monetary award of R5000, and will be expected to give a talk at an award ceremony
• The school will receive R2500 towards educational resources
• The UCT student who nominates the successful teacher will receive R2000

Each nomination should include

(should you require it, a nomination template is available from Nicole.Lesch@uct.ac.za

• Your name and contact details
• Teacher’s name and contact details
• Name and address of school
• The name and contact details of at least one UCT student who has been taught (whilst at school) by the teacher being nominated
• a detailed motivation providing reasons why in your opinion you believe that the teacher you are nominating has acted as a role model in encouraging students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds to register at UCT.

The motivation should also answer (as far as possible) the following questions:

• Can you provide any information on your teacher's results, especially at grade 12 level? eg. pass rates or distinctions achieved by students
• Can you think of any specific classroom teaching method/ form of testing that really helped you and others to understand and/or enjoy the subject
• Can you think of any specific efforts that your teacher made outside of school hours that helped you and your fellow students?
• Can you provide any information about how long your teacher has been teaching his/her subject and at what levels?
• Can you recall anything that your teacher said or did that motivated you to further your studies?

CLOSING DATE: 19 March 2018

Submit nominations to: Kathy Erasmus, CHED, Hoerikwaggo Building, kathy.erasmus@.uct.ac.za

Below is the nomination template.