
I am an experienced and passionate teacher with a diverse range of skills and strengths. I have experience planning and delivering quality teaching using both the the New Zealand and New South Wales Curriculums and have a sound understanding of the English National Curriculum. I love to teach and learn alongside staff and students and am enjoying an exhilarating career as a primary school teacher.
I have experience leading teams in curriculum integration and design, writing intervention programmes and tracking grids that support and lift student achievement, engagement and agency.
As a teacher, it is my aim to encourage students to think critically and take risks in a supportive classroom environment. I believe children thrive in supportive learning environments that value and encourage their student voice. This ensures engagement and interest in the learning process.
I understand that students have different learning styles and as a teacher, I work to make all students feel valued, supported and challenged in their learning.
It is my teaching philosophy that greatness, growth and learning comes from a strong sense of connectedness between teacher and student. All growth comes from the foundation of relationship. I believe that people are a school's greatest asset and I pride myself on my ability to make staff, students and their families, feel valued and encouraged.
Highly skilled professional teacher
Professional appearance and work ethic
Proven leadership skills
Proven improvement of student achievement
Management unit experience
Expert lesson planning
Leader of professional development seminars
IMSLE-
Institute for Multisensory Language Education- Ongoing observations and support, plus professional development delivered within Te Uku School, focussed on lifting literacy achievement using the 8 step literacy teaching approach based on Scarborough's Reading Rope
Writing workshop-
Targeted learning practices in writing 10 week course Lifting writing achievement in the classroom, How to Design Rich PBLs with Debbie Williams 12 month course, How to build an effective PBL to maximise learning and achievement through inquiry based learning, Build a PBL Workshop completed 4, Staff collaboration sessions led by Debbie Williams, Assessment for growth professional learning 10 week course, Using targeted assessment and data to lift student achievement, Assessment practice focus group- Debbie Williams 20 week course, Fortnightly professional development seminars to improve assessment practice.
RULER- Emotional Intelligence - Yale Centre of Emotional Intelligence
Outserviced speaker and in-service sessions 10 week course, Encouraging the growth of students' resilience and emotional intelligence in the 21st century
Apple open morning Mount Sinai College-
Professional learning through ipads, Observations of ipads being implemented successfully in the classroom
Keynote speakers/attended seminars:
Greg Whitby- Leading Australian Educator 'Reinvention of schooling in the 21st century within the teaching and learning context.'
Ron Ritchhart- Harvard Graduate School of Education 'Making thinking visible.' Guest speaker and modelled lessons in the classroom.
LIEN/LIN Training with Jan Stone The use of a mathematics assessment tool to informteaching and practice
Interactive Literacy in the Classroom The use of interactive whiteboards in literacy programmes
C.S.I Literacy The implementation of a whole-class reading programme using investigation techniques, Fortnightly professional development on the implementation of effective literacy programmes School-wide focus
'Lighting the Literacy Fire' Gill Eggleton The implementation of effective reading and writing programmes in primary schools
Leader of Mathematics Curriculum Design and Assessment
I have planned long term scope and sequences, facilitated professional development and provided lessons to be observed, written assessments and tracked numeracy data in classrooms to analyse needs and improvements. I have used this data and findings within my team to support the 'where to next,' assisting with advice on how to use formative assessment in the classroom.
Leader of Learning Journal Implementation
As instructed by the Head of Junior School, I planned and delivered numerous professional development sessions focused on how to use learning journals to encourage student led learning and assessment.
Leader of Writing Matrices Implementation
Continuing with my leadership of student centred learning, I wrote and implemented the use of writing matrices for surface and deeper features. I demonstrated how these were to be used and modelled lessons for other teachers that showcased successful implementation and ownership.
LIEN (Learning in Early Literacy) Achievement tracking implementation and classroom practice
I created and implemented a tracking system to highlight student achievement levels in the domains of counting, place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. This initiative was adopted by further staff members as instructed by Head of Junior School. To support this initiative, I led other members of staff in this area and showcased lessons highlighting the teaching of knowledge 'hot spots.'
ICT Steering Committee and ICT Co-ordinator year 3
As a member of the ICT Steering Committee, it was my role to keep teachers up to date on new ICT initiatives and long term plans, providing professional development and support when required.
Science committee member and year 3 Co-ordinator
As a member of the Science Committee and as the year 3 co-ordinator, it was my role to keep teachers up to date on new Science initiatives and long term plans, providing professional development and support when required.
ICT- School Websites
I have planned and delivered on-going professional development sessions on how to implement and use the ultranet as a learning and teaching tool. These sessions introduced staff to the ultranet, taught teachers how to design and create their classroom pages and offered suggestions as to how their classroom pages could support learning programmes in the classroom and at home.
Sports Co-ordination
My sports co-ordination roles have required me to support staff in the areas of health and physical education.
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I pride myself on my professionalism, work ethic and the values that I bring to my classroom and staff body. I am a family orientated, community focussed individual who believes that people are important. I am fit and healthy, enjoy the outdoors and adventure.
I am passionate, dedicated and highly skilled; and would be a great asset to any team.