Arvind Kaur

• Compassionate, creative and effective Teacher with valuable experience in designing a holistic curriculum.
• Have a sound knowledge of assessment, documentation, and evaluation processes, including learning stories, programme planning and self -reviews.
• Committed to the ‘Treaty-Based Education’ and continuously working towards to understand and incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing and doing things.
• Have developed competent skills to design a school readiness programs including literacy/numeracy and have started to develop an understanding about NZ School Curriculum.
• An intentional teacher who can start an inquiry with children and learn alongside them through collaboration, communication and timely scaffolding leading to meet the appropriate learning outcomes for children.
• Continually working towards understanding children development theories and incorporating those in my teaching practice.
• Competent at performing independently or as member of teaching team.
• Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level [New Entrant] position. Ready to help team achieve our goals

It has been amazing to go from being an unqualified teacher to becoming a qualified and provisionally registered teacher. As a teacher, I am capable of planning lessons that cater to the individual needs and interests of students. I am also able to build on the cultural knowledge children bring into the classroom environment.

I am looking for a New Entrant position because I want to upskill myself in a similar, but a different career. For a child or his/her family, starting school may be an intimidating experience and may require extra emotional support. I believe that having trained as an ECE teacher has helped equip me with the compassionate pedagogy needed to help children and families transition to school. In my role as a preschool teacher, I am familiar with the NZ School Curriculum as well as documents such as the Tataiako and Tapaasa.

My knowledge may not be perfect, but I am confident in my ability to learn, take advice from my mentors, and grow.