Rifat

Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa. I am Rifat and I hold a Master's degree in Commerce and have 20 years’ experience in business and the energy sector. Additionally, I have a level-5 TEFL certificate from the TEFL Academy in the United Kingdom.

My industry experience over the years includes training workshops for groups, staff, and management focused on improving business management functions. I enjoy creating relevant teaching materials and coursework tailored to students’ needs. As an educator, I bring advanced research skills with proposals and report-writing experience. These provide a rich resource for English language teaching and make the learning experience more relevant. This journey ensures communication skills and language mastery that’s specific to your career and industry.

My pedagogy and teaching strategies strongly favor a student-centered approach focusing on finding a balance between receptive and productive skills to achieve optimal language acquisition. I rely on advanced online resources in the classroom.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE |

Rifat Hendricks has been in the energy sector for the last 20 years with the following career-focused specialties |

• Business management and finance
• Complex and critical business challenges around top line growth
• Solution-focused growth and expansion agendas
• Enhancing customer experience
• Intersectional brand strategies
• New markets
• capturing value through product and service innovation

SPECIAL INTEREST | Advanced research skills & data analysis | business analytics | business case study | proposal-writing | reports


Education

The TEFL Academy, UK - Level 5 TEFL Certificate [168 Hours] July 2024
• Created lessons for a variety of levels from pre-intermediate to advanced
• Teaching speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Material & resource creation, utilizing the internet
• English grammar and how to teach the essential language
• Needs analysis and teaching in different situations
• Classroom management and teaching techniques

Masters in Commerce | M.COM. | JAN 2020 – SEP 2023
School of Business & Finance| EMS | University Western Cape - Cape Town