Summary
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Work History
Education
Skills
References
Affiliations
Languages
Accomplishments
Certification
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Thursbe Janda

Harare

Summary

  • Seeking an innovative teaching opportunity with modern technological skills and transformative teaching methods.
  • Share a dynamic, collaborative, and engaging practice that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable.
  • Providing a flexible, compassionate, and safe working environment, which safeguards the learners.

Professional Summary

Thursbe Janda is a dynamic Art Teacher with a proven track record at St. George's College, thriving on enhancing student’s interest through differentiated teaching and creative lesson planning. Brilliant in teaching drawing, painting, and textile arts, combined with excellent class management and communication skills. Organized international art tours, meaningfully enriching the curriculum and student experience.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Art Teacher

ST GEORGE'S COLLEGE
Harare
01.2020 - Current
  • Creating an inclusive classroom environment.
  • Preparing differentiated lesson activities, and executing them.
  • Structuring collaborative activities and assisting the learners in the classroom as they learn at their own pace.
  • Grading students' class exercises, examinations, and homework.
  • Creating a diverse, equitable space in the classroom.
  • Encouraging integrity and ethical conduct through independent work and invigilating.
  • Monitoring learners' progress and putting appropriate interventions in place, such as remediation and differentiated learning.
  • Facilitating periodic parent conferences and contact.
  • Identifying and engaging in professional development courses to improve my subject knowledge, and adapting to change, internally and externally.
  • Using Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for virtual lessons.
  • writing subject and class teachers' report cards to communicate on strengths, weaknesses and areas of improvement, together with strategies for the future.

Class teacher responsibilities.

  • Record keeping.
  • Keeping the attendance register, mentoring and guiding the registration class, allowing learners the autonomy to set ground rules, helping learners share successes and challenges, adapting to the iSAMS administrative system, and encouraging charity work.

Art Club Responsibilities.

  • Organizing and attending club meetings, organizing excursions and competitions, and planning art tours of Italy.

Assistant House Master responsibilities.

  • keeping attendance registers, monitoring age group for athletics, drama, choir, debate, and Public Speaking.

Head of Sport Responsibilities.

  • Attendance monitoring.
  • Ensuring training plans are properly done by coaches.
  • Scheduling transport and meals for matches, designing kit, processing payment requisitions, planning and organizing international tours, and running the school's invitational tournament.

Art Teacher

EAGLESVALE SENIOR SCHOOL
Harare
01.2007 - 12.2019
  • Creating a differentiated learning environment through planning class and individual appropriate activities.
  • Assisting learners with classroom activities and lessons.
  • Grading student class exercises, examinations and homework.
  • Invigilating.
  • Monitoring students' progress.
  • Parent conferences and contact.
  • Conducting remedial intervention.
  • Identifying and engaging in professional development courses.

Class Teacher responsibilities

  • Tracking and monitoring attendance register.
  • Mentoring and guiding students in the registration class.

Art Club responsibilities

  • Organizing excursions and administering the club and competitions.

Volleyball responsibilities

  • Training, matches, kit designing, planning and organizing international tours, and selection of 1st and 2nd teams.

School Magazine Art Director responsibilities

  • Editing and selection of artworks.
  • Coordinating school class and group photoshoots.

Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC)

  • Marking Team Leader.
  • Data Capturer.
  • Examiner.
  • Grading

College Press responsibilities

  • Editing for Senior Primary School Visual Arts, Physical Education, and Music Text books.

Art Teacher

ELLIS ROBINS BOYS HIGH SCHOOL
Harare
01.1997 - 12.2006
  • Teaching art and design.
  • Planning lessons and delivering them.
  • Teaching pottery, batik and tie and dye, batik and lino printing at National Certificate level to learners.

Badminton

  • Teacher in Charge responsible for train, team register, and chaperoning the boys to matches.

Education

Teacher Education

University of Zimbabwe
Harare
06-2019

Bachelor of Education Degree - Teacher Education

University of Zimbabwe
01.2016

Diploma in Education -

Chinhoyi Technical Teacher's College
01.1996

Skills

  • Adaptable, class management, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Strong artistic and creative abilities
  • Lesson planning: differentiated teaching and learning for group and individual instruction
  • Parent contact and progress reporting
  • Collaborative learning, projects, and feedback delivery
  • Student monitoring and affirmation
  • Curriculum implementation
  • Drawing, painting, creative crafts, printmaking, textile printing, and dyeing
  • Knowledge of art history and cultural influences
  • Strong ethic and dedication to teaching

References

  • Mr Masautso Phiri, Deputy Headmaster, St Georges College, +263772814163, phirim@sgc.ac.zw
  • Jestina Msabaeka, Head of Culture, Eaglesvale Senior School, +263719202464, msabaekaj@eaglesvale.ac.zw, jessie.pemberem@gmail.com

Affiliations

  • Won gold at several Volleyball Tournaments
  • Bonus for IGCSE Examinations in 2013

Languages

Ndebele (Zimbabwean)
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Shona
Advanced (C1)
C1
ZULU
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Xhosa
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Accomplishments

  • Senior Youth Leader for Region 1 - East Zimbabwe Conference
  • Risk Management, safeguarding, Insurance and safety, and child protection advocacy
  • Volunteer as an adoption advocate in my community and 3 families have integrated children into their families
  • Adoption of my youngest child.

Certification

  • Mentorship Principles Certificate- 2024 (General Conference Seventh Day Adventist Church)
  • Introduction to IGCSE Art and Design (0400) 2025 Syllabus Certificate - 2024 (CAIE)
  • Cambridge IGCSE (0400) Professional Development- Focus on Assessment Certificate- 2024 (CAIE)
  • Certificate in Teaching with Digital Technologies – October 2022 (CAIE)
  • Trauma Informed Series Module 1- October 2022 (WORLD WITHOUT Orphans-Zimbabwe)
  • First Aid Level 2 Certificate April 2022 (EMRAS ZIMBABWE)
  • Nurse Aide Certificate- St Johns Ambulance Association May 2022
  • Certificate in Creative Art and Design -1995 (HEXICO – Zimbabwe)
  • HIV/AIDS Counselling Certificate - 2007 (UNISA)

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Art Teacher

ST GEORGE'S COLLEGE
01.2020 - Current

Art Teacher

EAGLESVALE SENIOR SCHOOL
01.2007 - 12.2019

Art Teacher

ELLIS ROBINS BOYS HIGH SCHOOL
01.1997 - 12.2006

Teacher Education

University of Zimbabwe

Bachelor of Education Degree - Teacher Education

University of Zimbabwe

Diploma in Education -

Chinhoyi Technical Teacher's College
Thursbe Janda