Brainwave Careers

Brainwave Careers

Brainwave Careers is dedicated to being one of the leading educational companies in RSA. It is our belief that every individual has unique potential, value and purpose on earth. We, therefore advise, educate and motivate through remedial programmes; training; workshops; courses and psychometric evaluations.

Through the provision of quality lifelong educational services’, we advise, educate and motivate teachers and learners to reach their full potential and find their rightful place in the world of work. We aim to build educational bridges across all South African cultures and leave a legacy behind that will make a positive difference in the educational sector of South Africa.

Our Values:

• Productivity
• Adaptability
• Sincerity
• Supportiveness
• Innovation
• Open mindedness
• Nobleness

Our Unique Areas of Focus:

1. EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

• Ready, Steady, Learn – training caregivers/ECD teachers on how to assist with the development of young children in regards to key learning and developmental outcomes (including how to make classroom resources from recycled material).
• NQF 4 ECD accreditation.
• School Readiness evaluations.
• Grade R CAPS based material development.

• Tailored teacher and learner based English and Mathematics capacitation programme – designed to engage teachers and learners toward improvements in English and Mathematics as core learning areas at primary school level (Grade R-7) through motivational sessions, cluster training workshops and classroom based support.

3. HIGH SCHOOL

• Free mobile career guidance service – CareerXplora (Android and Mxit).
• Psychometric career guidance evaluations.
• Career development based products and workshops.

4. MOTIVATIONAL

• Motivational based product and workshop – African Wisdom – inspirational life lessons for excellent living.

Through the provision of quality lifelong educational services’, we advise, educate and motivate teachers and learners to reach their full potential and find their rightful place in the world of work. We aim to build educational bridges across all South African cultures and leave a legacy behind that will make a positive difference in the educational sector of South Africa.

Brainwave Careers  Services

Career Guidance Program

• No more expensive, long, boring Psychometric Evaluations!
• We offer a fun, interactive and cost effective tool to Discover Your Career!
• Brainwave’s skilled trainers facilitate learners through the Discover Your Career programme. Through this programme  the learner will discover the world of work, their interests, thinking styles and personality. They will be guided to the most suitable Career Area for their personal profile.

The importance of Career Guidance

Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions a person will ever make and yet within the education system there is about no vocational support for learners choosing their final subjects and or careers. This weakness in the educational system results in high unnecessary costs for countries and businesses, as well as social discontent and hardship. The drop-out rate for the first year tertiary students stands on 35% of which the lack of self- and career knowledge seems to be the underlining reason. This leads to low morale, disinterest and de-motivation, translating into poor performances and bad service levels.

With this in mind the Discover Your Career(DYC) workbook was designed to respond directly to these concerns. The workbook is a rich source of knowledge and decision making skills. In terms of knowledge, learners engage in a series of activities through which they discover their interests, their thinking style and their personality type. They then align this self knowledge to careers that are suitable for their unique self. In this way, learners are guided towards choosing subjects that support their future career choices. This sense of future tends to increase learners’ sense of motivation and purpose and encourages them to engage with their schooling on a more serious level.

Benefits of the Programme

• It is cost effective. The career programme cost much less than conventional standardised testing.
• It does not have to be administered and evaluated by a psychologist or Psychomotrist. It can be administered and evaluated by an educator/facilitator.
• On completion of the programme, each learner keeps the programme material and receives a report summarising his/her unique personal profile and recommended subjects and career fields.
• The programme compliments the Life Orientation syllabus and can be used as an additional resource in the classroom.
• The activities form part of the learner’s assessment portfolio.
• The programme empower learners and help them to set realistic and appropriate goals in terms of career and subject choices.
• The material is user-friendly, colourful and interactive.

Value of data

This programme generates a lot of useful data that is available. Analysis of this data has important contributiosn to:

a) Individual learners

• Identify possible bursary candidates
• Identifying learners with learning difficulties
• Identifying specific career candidates such as engineers, artisans or accountants

b) Schools

• Identifying specific literacy and or numeracy problems in schools
• Identifying how many learners choose a certain subjects such as Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences
• Identifying preferences/thinking styles of learners that has an impact on teaching methods

c) Companies

• Identifying possible bursary candidates
• Additional programmes to develop beneficiaries of bursaries
• Marketing
• Efficient use of social responsibility budget
• Access to data for future use

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOOL READINESS PROGRAMMES

The value of Early Childhood Development and getting learner’s school ready cannot be underestimated and the more input at this level the better the future performance of each learner. At present companies are funding secondary and tertiary projects as a way to improving education. We, however, believe that you cannot heal a wound by covering it with plasters. We have to clean the “wound” which means you have to start from the bottom upwards.

Brainwave Careers is passionate about delivering exceptional teacher and parent training. We also invest time in performing school readiness testing as we believe the earlier we detect barriers to learning the better.

Between all our members and partners we have performed upwards of 3000 plus school readiness assessments including parent feedbacks. As part of our school readiness programme we also offer parental and teacher support.

This programme involves training teachers or unemployed youth to assist with the development of young children in the following developmental areas:

• Gross and fine motor
• Language
• Auditory Perception
• Visual Perception
• Problem Solving

Included is the identification of learning difficulties and School Readiness screening.

 

MOTIVATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL WORKSHOPS

Dr. Lanette is a motivational speaker and can talk about various educational topics for instance:

• Career Guidance and Your Career Path
• How to get my child school ready
• Stress Management
• Time Management
• The empowerment of Women
• Financial Freedom for Women
• Women and child abuse