Die Wes-Kaap se voorste onderwyser, Llewellyn van der Ross, het nooit \u2019n loopbaan in die onderwys beplan nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het nie onderwys gekies nie \u2013 onderwys het my gekies,\u201d s\u00ea hy oor die \u201copenbaring\u201d wat hy in gr. 12 gehad het en wat meegebring het dat hy onderwys gaan studeer het en daarna as \u2019n gr. 7-onderwyser na sy voormalige skool, Tuscany Glen Prim\u00ear in Eersterivier, teruggekeer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van der Ross, wat in Desember met \u2019n meestersgraad in die onderwys aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) gradueer, s\u00ea sy passie vir di\u00e9 beroep spruit uit sy liefde vir lees. \u201cGeletterdheid is die brug tussen ellende en hoop,\u201d s\u00ea hy met verwysing na die woorde van die voormalige sekretaris-generaal van die Verenigde Nasies, Kofi Annan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lees was die vonk wat sy lewensloop verander het, verduidelik hy. \u201cEk is grootgemaak deur my ma, \u2019n enkelouer wat lang skofte in \u2019n fabriek gewerk het om vir ons gesin te voorsien. Haar opofferings het \u2019n diepgaande invloed op my gehad. Sy het my die waardes van harde werk en veerkragtigheid geleer en die oortuiging by my laat posvat dat onderwys deure kan open wat vir ons toe gelyk het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nou kan Van der Ross, wat in Wesbank in Kuilsrivier grootgeword het, deure oopmaak vir die leerders wat sy klaskamer binnestap. Hy s\u00ea hy kan homself nie in enige ander beroep voorstel nie en s\u00ea die feit dat hy uit dieselfde gemeenskap as die leerders in sy klas te kom, gee vir hom \u2019n voorsprong wanneer dit by onderwys kom. \u201cVir my is onderwys nie bloot \u2019n beroep nie; dit is \u2019n roeping om ruimtes te skep waar elke kind gewaardeer, gesien en ge\u00efnspireer voel om groter as hulle omstandighede te droom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het sy navorsing vir sy meestersgraad op die uitwerking van leerverliese gekoppel aan die Covid-19-pandemie gefokus, met \u2019n spesifieke fokus op leesbegrip nadat hy besef het baie van sy leerders kon lees, maar talle het gesukkel om met begrip te lees. \u201cEk streef daarna om binne die klaskamer te innoveer deur programme soos \u2018Lees vir Begrip\u2019-klubs bekend te stel en digitale storievertelling in te sluit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar vir Van der Ross gaan onderrig heelwat verder as boeke en die swartbord. In sy klaskamer streef hy daarna om die emosionele behoeftes van elkeen van sy leerders te verstaan sodat hy met begrip en empatie kan onderrig. \u201cEk moet eers die hart bereik voordat ek die brein kan leer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuscany Glen Prim\u00ear is nie \u2019n hulpbronryke skool nie en die leerders kom klaar sonder baie van die geriewe wat ander skole geniet. T\u00f3g is elke klaskamer gevul met inspirerende boodskappe en kleurvolle plakkate wat aspekte van die kurrikulum uitlig. Dit is duidelik dat onderwysers soos Van der Ross hul bes doen om die skool se meer as 1 000 leerders vir ho\u00ebrskool en daarna voor te berei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soos hy met trots vertel, het baie van sy leerders aan universiteite gaan studeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van der Ross het gekies om sy nagraadse studie aan die US te doen omdat die universiteit \u201cas \u2019n voorloper in navorsing erken word\u201d en \u201ctransformasie omarm het\u201d. Hy het groot lof vir sy studieleiers, prof. Christa van der Walt en dr. Shannon Bishop-Swart, en vir die US wat aan hom die geleentheid gebied het om \u2019n tyd lank meertaligheid aan die Humbolt Universiteit in Berlyn te studeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea hy sal die viering van sy komende gradeplegtigheid met sy ma deel. \u201cDit is moeilik om die trots en dankbaarheid wat ek voel, te verwoord. Hierdie graad verteenwoordig haar opofferings, my harde werk en die droom dat onderwys siklusse kan verbreek en \u2019n toekoms kan bou.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oor die erkenning deur die Wes-Kaapse regering as die provinsiale wenner van die Nasionale Beste Onderwyser-toekenning, s\u00ea Van der Ross: \u201cNooit in \u2019n miljoen jaar het ek gedink ek sou as die beste onderwyser erken word nie. Dit was \u2019n oorweldigende oomblik.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel die toekenning vir hom \u201cdie w\u00eareld beteken\u201d, hou die harde werk nooit op nie. Hy is die gelukkigste in sy heldergeel klaskamer, versier met inspirerende aanhalings en beskrywende woorde, waar hy sy liefde vir lees met kinders kan deel terwyl hy die selfvertroue by hulle kan inboesem wat hulle nodig het om te floreer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cElke kind verdien \u2019n kampvegter,\u201d s\u00ea hy met \u2019n glimlag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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