N\u00e1 10 jaar se pligsgetroue diens groet die Ho\u00ebrskool Gimnasium Paarl einde vandeesmaand sy skoolhoof, Eddie Bateman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bateman meen dit is \u2019n voorreg om sy jare lange onderwysloopbaan as deel van die Gim-familie af te sluit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy bedank eers God vir die geleentheid as skoolhoof by die skool en voel ge\u00eberd dat Hy hom na Gim gestuur het om \u2019n verskil te help maak. \u201cEk hoop Hy is tevrede.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bateman het in die suide van Johannesburg grootgeword, waar hy sy skoolloopbaan aan die Ho\u00ebrskool JG Strydom voltooi het. Daarna het hy \u2019n BSc-graad in wiskunde, chemie en fisika aan die Universiteit van Pretoria verwerf. Later het hy \u2019n nagraadse diploma by die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika asook sy honneursgraad in onderwys by die Noordwes Universiteit gedoen. Bateman spog ook met \u2019n MBA-graad wat hy by die Potchefstroom Universiteit se sakeskool gedoen het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy tesis \u2018Selection of a government secondary school: Perceptions of learners, parents, and teachers\u2019 is in 2011 as die beste in die sakeskool aangewys, en dit het gelei tot die wonderlike ervaring om \u2019n referaat in 2012 by \u2019n internasionale konferensie in Kenia te lewer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Ho\u00ebrskool President in Johannesburg, die Ho\u00ebr Tegniese Skool Middelburg en die Ho\u00ebrskool Bastion in Krugersdorp is van die skole waar Bateman voorheen gewerk het. Hy het ook die voorreg gehad om as hoof van die Ho\u00ebr Tegniese Skool Elspark in Germiston asook die Ho\u00ebrskool Klerksdorp te dien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir Bateman was dit maklik om by Gimnasium se tradisionele waardes in te skakel. \u201cGim se waardes was en is in Christelike waardes gesetel. Waardes moet gelewe word, nie gepreek word nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Bateman het hy nooit boekgehou van die veranderinge wat by die skool in die tydperk wat hy as skoolhoof gedien het, ingestel is nie, veral omdat hy en die personeel mekaar goed in hul daaglikse take ondersteun en as \u2019n span saamgewerk het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDikwels het belangrike besluite van \u2018binne\u2019 iewers gekom \u2013 wat jy self nie weet hoe jy daarby uitgekom het nie. Dan vloei daar baiekeer nog positiewe resultate uit die besluit, waaraan jy nie eens gedink het nie. Jy het net geweet die aanvanklike besluit is die regte een. Dit kon net wysheid van Bo wees. Ons grootste voorkeur was om die kinders in ons skool se harte aan te raak, maar ek glo dit is nog altyd so by Gim. Dan ook dat ons personeel geborgenheid moet ervaar. \u2019n Mens moet altyd \u2019n plek in \u2019n beter toestand agterlaat as wat dit was toe jy daar aangekom het. Het ons daarin geslaag? Dis nie vir my om dit te oordeel nie \u2013 ek moet net weet dat ek my beste gegee het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die soort kind wat by Gimnasium opgelewer word, is volgens Bateman iemand wat nie bang is om die lewe n\u00e1 skool aan te pak nie. Hy s\u00ea die skool se personeel bestaan uit besonderse manne en vroue wat rolmodelle is na wie die kinders opkyk en wat hulle goed vir die grootmensw\u00eareld voorberei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWanneer oudleerders terugkom, vertel hulle die feit dat hulle hier reeds \u2019n kosmos in die kleine van die w\u00eareld daar buite beleef het, hulle heel tuis in die lewe n\u00e1 skool voel. Ek weet ons stuur kinders die w\u00eareld in wat hul skoene nie net in Suid-Afrika nie, maar ook internasionaal vol staan en hul voete gou vind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy tydperk as skoolhoof was nie sonder uitdagings nie, en die koronavirus-pandemie was \u2019n geweldige uitdaging vir onderwysers en leerders ook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTydens die covid-pandemie was die bestuur van mense se vrese, ontkenning van die realiteit en verwagtinge erg. Onderwysers moes vinnig aanpas en hul kreatiwiteit het \u2019n hupstoot gekry. Die nagevolge was dat wiskundige en leesvaardighede \u2019n groot knou gekry het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Hoogtepunt in sy tyd by Gimnasium is toe die gr. 12-leerder Madelein Dippenaar as Suid-Afrika se topmatrikulant vir 2019 gekroon is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn onderwys is dit moeilik om \u2019n nalatenskap te definieer omdat ons met mense werk,\u201d s\u00ea Bateman. Hy glo die enigste werklike nalatenskap is om die mense wat jou omring se harte aan te raak en hulle deel te maak van iets groter as hulself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[Om die mense met wie jy werk] geborgenheid en ruimte te gee waarin hulle kan waag, ontdek, groei en meer word as wat hulle self kon dink moontlik is; dan sal hulle eendag terugkom en op die een of ander wyse bel\u00ea in die plek waar alles begin het. Dis ware nalatenskap. Daar is hoofde wat daarna streef om monumente te bou; ek verkies monumente in mense se harte.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bateman meen egter dat hoewel hy nou aftree, sal Gimnasium altyd deel van hom wees. \u201cEk het oor die jare een geword met die skool en as my program dit toelaat, sal ek graag behulpsaam wil wees by die ontwikkeling van onderwysers en skoolhoofde.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar vir eers gaan hy meer tyd saam met sy kinders deurbring en hulle meer aandag gee, sowel as sy kleinkinders en sy geliefde vrou, wat baie vir sy loopbaan opgeoffer het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk gaan ook die see se geselskap geniet \u2013 meestal met \u2019n visstok in die hand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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