\u201cIn my 23 jaar in die onderwys het ek nog nie een dag siekverlof gevat nie,\u201d vertel Vennessa Lewis. As dit nie \u2019n voorbeeld van toewyding is nie, wat is dan? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lewis is \u2019n Graad R-praktisyn by Steenberg\u2019s Cove Prim\u00eare skool in St Helenabaai en bied tans Afrikaans, Wiskunde en Lewensvaardigheid aan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lewis verduidelik dat voordat \u2019n mens verhoudings met enige leerder kan bou is dit belangrik om te verstaan dat elkeen uniek is, met sy eie behoeftes, omstandighede en persoonlikheid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJy moet moeite doen om jou leerders en hul omstandighede te leer ken. Positiewe verhoudings met leerders is belangrik vir sukses. Wanneer leerders veilig voel en ondersteun word, is hulle meer geneig om spontaan deel te neem aan leer, wat natuurlik \u2019n beter uitslag van akademiese vordering tot gevolg het,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lewis het die onderwys betree omdat sy \u2019n groot liefde vir kinders het en \u2019n verskil wou maak in hul lewens, iets wat sy al vir 23 jaar met trots doen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel dat daar niks so bevredigend is as wanneer \u2019n leerder sukses behaal nie. \u201cKinders gee jou \u2019n lus vir die lewe en jy leer om onselfsugtig te wees. Hulle laat jou toe om dinge te doen wat jou weer self soos \u2019n kind laat voel en hulle hou jou jonk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So vervullend soos die beroep mag wees, voeg Lewis by dat dit soms emosioneel uitputtend ook kan wees. \u201cDit is soms stresvol. Dissipline, om kreatief te wees en om op jou voete te dink is baie belangrik. Leerders ondervind gedragsprobleme as gevolg van hiperaktiwiteit, gebrek aan konsentrasie, buierigheid en huislike omstandighede.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierdie uitdagings kry wel nie vir Lewis onder nie en sy pak dit dag vir dag aan. \u201cOnderwys is nie \u2019n werk nie, dis \u2019n roeping. Iets waaroor jy passievol moet wees. Jy het \u2019n direkte invloed op die lewe van ander.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lewis glo dat in di\u00e9 bedryf hou selfs \u2019n onderwyser nooit op om te leer nie. \u201cDaar is altyd geleenthede vir jou om te groei en te ontwikkel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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