Patience Nyakata English teacher, motivational speaker
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I am a mature; self-motivated, well organized, detail oriented, well experienced teacher/ agriculturist.
I have strong interpersonal and communication skills in both written and spoken English.
I give notes by dictating and explain with examples.
I test the student as we go along the lesson, ask questions and post lesson testing is done at the end of each lesson.
Gives homework to the student and asks for feedback which helps us to recap and proceed.
Recap with student on previous lesson before proceeding with topic or before starting on a new topic.

Subjects

  • English Pre-KG, Nursery-Grade 12

  • Agriculture Grade 3-Masters/Postgraduate

  • Shona Pre-KG, Nursery-O level

Experience

  • English/ IsiZulu teacher (Feb, 2017–Present) at Willows School Johannesburg
    Teaching English and (IsiZulu as a third language) from 4 years to Grade 7 (13 years)
  • Administrator (Mar, 2016–Feb, 2018) at Rowlands Pearce Management Services
    • Managing the administration of a reverse logistics system/franchisees in four provinces- KwaZulu Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng from head office in Johannesburg,
    • Planning, directing/coordinating warehousing, transport to landfills, forecasting, customer service,
    • Administration of reverse logistics personnel, reverse logistics systems and direct daily operations,
    • Monitoring and maintaining metrics, reports, administration process, process documentation, customer service logs and managing service level agreements (SLAs) and
    • Directing or coordinating comprehensive reverse logistical functions for product life cycles, including acquisition, destruction of not fit for human consumption stock, returns to supplier, donations and secondary sales.
  • Market Researcher (Feb, 2012–Feb, 2013) at Millward Brown
    Market research of all brands of products
    Face to face interviewing of consumers
    Economic class assessments
  • Agricultural Extension Officer (Nov, 1999–Oct, 2009) at Ministry of Agriculture, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
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    • Food security programme assessment and mapping, rural development through sustainable agriculture, land use planning and national land reform auditing, agro- socio- economic/ need assessment surveying and agricultural project monitoring and evaluation,
    • Planning and setting of key result areas and annual work plans, weekly itineraries, monthly reporting,
    • Organisation of master farmer training programmes and resources, agricultural shows and field days i.e. participants, venues and other logistical issues,
    • Organisation of meetings and workshops with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and all stakeholders in agriculture at ward level,
    • Monitoring and Evaluation of agricultural projects at ward, district and provincial level,
    • Giving guidance to contact farmers, farmer groups and apprenticeship students at ward and district levels through participatory approach,
    • Providing training and conducting performance evaluation of general farmers, master farmer trainees and agricultural college apprenticeship students in completing their college assessment forms,
    • Providing training to farmers in dry land crop production and irrigated crop production i.e. agronomy (grains and oilseeds), horticulture (pomology, olericulture, floriculture, landscaping and nursery management), livestock production and general farm management practices and
    • Emergency civil service duty calls.

Education

  • Master of Science (MSc) Agricultural Extension (Apr, 2019–Dec, 2023) from University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Honours Agriculture Extension (Feb, 2018–Nov, 2018) from University of Pretoria, South Africa–scored Passed
  • Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Management (Sep, 2004–Sep, 2008) from Zimbabwe Open University, Bulawayo–scored Upper 2nd
  • National Diploma in Agriculture (Sep, 1996–Jul, 1998) from Gwebi College of Agriculture Harare–scored Passed
  • Higher Secondary (Mar, 1994–Nov, 1995) from Mufakose 1 High School–scored 5 Points
  • Secondary (Jan, 1990–Nov, 1993) from St David's Bonda Girls High School, Nyanga Zimbabwe–scored Passed

Fee details

    R150–200/hour (US$7.94–10.58/hour)

    Based on time and content

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