2014 ISPA SuperTeachers named
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has named Simon Mosiwa Matlebjane as its ISPA SuperTeacher of the Year for 2014. Matlebjane is a teacher at the Mountainview Secondary School in Limpopo.
This year’s instalment of the annual ISPA SuperTeacher Awards introduced two additional categories – Sadike Kekana (Toronto Primary School) was recognised as ISPA ChampTeacher 2014 while Warren Sparrow (Rondebosch Boys Prep) was recognised as ISPA TechTeacher 2014.
The three winners were selected from 10 shortlisted finalists who all submitted projects centred on ICT in education.
The awards were presented last night at a banquet held during iWeek, the annual Internet industry conference hosted by the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) and ISPA.
ISPA’s SuperTeacher of the Year competition is managed by CoZa Cares Foundation, a leading advocate of the use of ICT in education.
Kekana, a Grade 6 and 7 maths teacher, won the SuperTeacher of the Year Award in 2012. This year’s award was made on the basis of a project she initiated to help teachers at other schools to integrate ICT into their teaching. In the course of this project, she worked with staff at nine schools, one in Gauteng and the rest in Limpopo.
Matlebjane is the head of the Maths and Technology Departments at Mountainview, and was nominated for a project that seeks to eliminate the technophobia that holds so many teachers back.
Matlebjane provided his colleagues at the school with training on software packages to enable them to use these productivity tools to produce mark sheets and schedules more quickly.
The third winner, Warren Sparrow, was honoured for HIV Busters, a project that taught Grade 7 pupils to use their cell phones to create videos on the topic of HIV.
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