CAREER CONVERSATIONS EXCERPT (31) - SIMONE TIETZ, PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR
Channel: M Jhoga Coaching & Consulting
Date: 2024-04-05

WHEN YOU EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY, YOU EMBRACE CHANGE.

Career Conversations is a platform to discuss all things career with people from diverse fields of expertise. It's engaging and relatable. There will always be something to learn. You will be inspired to make positive changes in your career after listening to my guests and sharing space with them here. That's precisely the goal of this dialogue series - positive career transformation.

Our guest this week, Simone has always been passionate about children. She turned this passion into her career and graduated as a Foundation Phase Teacher in 2014  from Rhodes University in Makhanda, (formerly known as Grahamstown), in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

She immediately started teaching in 2015 at a School in her hometown, Swakopmund, in Namibia. For 5 years she taught Grades 3 and 4, from Languages to Natural Science. Although she thoroughly enjoyed it, she wanted a change and resigned at the end of 2019. The plan was to go to Costa Rica and teach English for 6 months. Everything was set in motion - and then the pandemic hit. For the first half of 2020 she was in Germany and could not return home. Only once the lockdown eased a little was she able to return home. Unsure of what to do next, and the future being so uncertain, she started one-on-one tutoring and teaching online. Online teaching was completely out of her comfort zone, as she also taught adults. For a year she also taught a neurodiverse child from home and in the process learned a lot about teaching in a completely different style than the traditional classroom. This year was a year of personal and professional growth - adjusting and tailoring teaching methods as was necessary as well as challenging herself to rise to the occasion.

Now, in 2023, Simone is a successful Online Teacher for adults, teaching English and German. While she misses teaching children and might go back to it one day, she has learned a tremendous amount and gained invaluable experience.

You could reach out to Simone via monatietz@gmail.com


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