Antoinette Beck-Kaltenrieder

Antoinette Beck-Kaltenrieder holds two Honours degrees (in English and in Education), a Masters degree in French and an Advanced certificate in Education Administration, Management and Development.  She also holds a certificate in Human Resources Management. She is a SACE registered teacher, a registered assessor and moderator with the ETDP SETA, and worked for Umalusi in the Schools Evaluation and Accreditation Division as a schools’ evaluator and monitor for 6 years.

She has over 28 years of teaching experience predominantly in independent education, but has also taught in state schools as well as in the UK and has spent the last 22 years in school management in one or other capacity.  She has taught French and English, as well as Life Orientation and Computer Literacy in IEB schools, and has taught both French and English in the Cambridge and Pearson systems from Year 5 all the way to A levels.  She has experience both as an IEB examiner as well as a Cambridge examiner. Her passion is linguistics and the science of language learning and is never happier than when she is developing materials.

Her school leadership philosophy is two-fold – to ensure that staff and parents form a united team for the benefit of the students and to grow other leaders – be they students or staff. The highlight of her day is dropping into the classrooms on a daily basis and interacting with staff and students.  Restorative justice is the key to her disciplinary style, and she always seeks to understand the situation and underlying circumstances before making a decision.