Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Languages
Timeline
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Shiralie Denton

Gaborone

Overview

43
43
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Learning Support Department

Thornhill Primary School
Gaborone
09.2014 - Current
  • Manage 5 Learning Support Staff who work across the school to assist children with Special Educational Needs, as well as Learning Challenges.
  • Identify children with various learning challenges and liaise with parents, as well as specialist support providers such as tutors, facilitators, paediatricians, paediatric neurologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, and a play therapist, in order to best enable positive outcomes. We have 660-680 students from about 30 nationalities.
  • Liaison with teachers to implement recommendations put forward by medical professionals. Individual Education Programs.
  • International Standardized Testing, Grades 1-7.
  • Interview and test new entries to the school.
  • Liaison with Cambridge Examination Centre and arrangement of special access conditions.
  • Senior Management Team member - staff representative and Learning Support Dept representative. Weekly meetings to discuss all aspects of running the school.
  • Implemented a skills development programme for a school less fortunate than ours as part of our outreach/community service philosophy.

Director - Construction Company

Dencon (Pty) Ltd
Gaborone
11.2007 - 09.2014
  • Assisted my husband by managing his construction company while he was recovering from a serious injury and long-term hospitalization.
  • Office administration and debt collection.
  • HR management
  • Purchasing and Salary roll.
  • Site supervision for 62 wage earners and 5 salaried staff.
  • Gratefully returned to Education in 2014.

Teacher

Thornhill Primary School
Gaborone
08.1998 - 02.2007
  • Grade 2 and Grade 1 Class Teacher
  • One of my Grade 2 classes was a class of children with Special Needs and/or Learning Barriers.

Head of Junior Primary Department

Rainbow Primary School
Gaborone
08.1996 - 12.1998

Responsible for 13 Junior Primary full-time staff, 4 teacher aides, and 15 Estate staff.

  • Junior Primary - 330 children
  • Parent/Teacher support liaison.
  • Private Schools and Ministry of Ed liaison.
  • Developed and implemented the new integrated curriculum, as well as a bridging curriculum, as the school upgraded from the PSLE to a combined CAPS/UK curriculum.
  • Set up the library and reading bookstores across the school, up to Form 2. The tuck shop and uniform shop stock and control.
  • Served on the Senior Management Committee, under the Head.
  • Undertook the annual Standardized Testing to analyze children's progress and educational
  • needs. Grades 1-7
  • Senior Management Team
  • Left to build family home.

Teacher

Broadhurst Primary School (Private)
Gaborone
09.1990 - 08.1996
  • Class teacher for Grade 2.
  • Standard co-ordinator - Grade 2

Teacher - Forest View Primary School

Natal Education Department
Hillcrest
01.1986 - 07.1990
  • Class teacher for Grade 2

Teacher - Hillcrest Primary School

Natal Education Department
Hillcrest
01.1982 - 12.1985
  • Grade 2 and Grade 3 Teacher.
  • My Grade 3 class was a small class of children with learning disabilities.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - Higher Diploma in Education (4 Yrs)

Edgewood College of Education
Pinetown - Kwa Zulu Natal
12-1981

High School Diploma -

Howick High School
Howick - Kwa Zulu Natal
12-1977

Skills

  • Strong Organisational Abilities
  • Collaborative Teamwork
  • Data analysis and spreadsheets
  • Google Drive and Google Classroom
  • Effective Leadership
  • Ongoing Professional Growth
  • Attention to Detail
  • Decision-Making
  • SIMS School Management System

Affiliations

  • Art
  • Tapestry
  • Yoga
  • Dog walking
  • Reading

Languages

English
First Language
Afrikaans
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Zulu
Elementary (A2)
A2

Timeline

Head of Learning Support Department

Thornhill Primary School
09.2014 - Current

Director - Construction Company

Dencon (Pty) Ltd
11.2007 - 09.2014

Teacher

Thornhill Primary School
08.1998 - 02.2007

Head of Junior Primary Department

Rainbow Primary School
08.1996 - 12.1998

Teacher

Broadhurst Primary School (Private)
09.1990 - 08.1996

Teacher - Forest View Primary School

Natal Education Department
01.1986 - 07.1990

Teacher - Hillcrest Primary School

Natal Education Department
01.1982 - 12.1985

Some College (No Degree) - Higher Diploma in Education (4 Yrs)

Edgewood College of Education

High School Diploma -

Howick High School
Shiralie Denton