Louise Woon

My experience at Queen Margaret college has provided me with extensive knowledge and skills to develop my teaching strategies, resource building and understanding of both NCEA and IB diploma curriculums. This experience has exposed me teaching, assessing and moderating a range of assessments within both curriculums.

Key experiences include:

• Teaching academic content at both NCEA and IB levels. Collaborated on unit and text planning for both curriculums.
• Acted as Assistant Head of English as maternity cover for a year.
• Conducted and assessed IB Individual Orals for Ib Diploma.
• Taught and assessed NCEA internal and external content with a focus on NCEA Level Two.
• Supervised English Extended Essays and supported students through the research and writing process.
• Guided and oversaw MYP Community Projects, fostering student agency and project-based learning.
• Facilitated student initiated learning through tasks, such as Socratic Seminars, Literacy Circles and panel debates.

• Developed strong teaching strategies, skills, and opportunities that have significantly contributed to professional development as a teacher.
• Worked with a range of different classes with a variety of different learning processes.
• Developed robust differentiation teaching strategies to ensure content is accessible to all students in the classroom.
• Participated in senior NCEA marking for internal standards as well as benchmark exam marking.
• Attended marker's meetings and contributed to marking panels.
• Marked junior assessments including Assessment Standard 1.6 - Year 10 Speeches.
• Experience in moderation, collaborative marking, planning, and teaching.
• Experience teaching and adapting resources and content for neurodiverse classrooms.
• Experience teaching online through the lockdown period, making all content accessible and available online.
• Experience hybrid teaching - providing content on Google Classroom as well as in the classroom.

During Term Two 2021, I had the opportunity to work within the Learning Support Department at Sacred Heart College.

This role included:

• Working with students one on one to help develop their understanding of content and applying their knowledge.
• Teaching junior English classes: applying differentiation teaching strategies and methods to make content available to a range of different learners.