Vanessa Lisowski

• Supporting teachers by covering for their allocated Classroom Release Time. 2023: Y1 and Y6
• Building positive relationships with students.
• Incorporating technology into lesson planning to create engaging lessons and enhance students' learning activities.
• Providing continuity of learning for students based on discussions with their regular classroom teacher.
• Helping create learning environments students are proud of using my personal enthusiasm towards visual art activities.
• Keeping classroom clean, organized, and safe for students and visitors.
• Supported teachers during lockdown periods by creating learning activities and attending online classroom meetings.

• All levels from Y0 to Y6
• Leading classroom activities as planned by the absent teacher.
• Using technology where possible to enhance student engagement
• Delivering personally planned activities in the event of no planning left by the absent teacher.
• Developing positive relationships with students in frequently attended classes.

My position at Richmond Road School was a very unique, rewarding and exciting experience. I taught in French the contents of the NZ curriculum in a newly created Y0-2 class welcoming students of varying levels of fluency in their heritage language. I followed the wider school requirements in terms of planning, teaching, assessing and reporting by adapting existing resources across all curriculum subjects to the demands of the French language, regularly creating brand new materials to help support progress in any subject as well as develop the students' fluency in French. I guided students towards success in an attractive and stimulating environment, making them feel welcome, safe and part of a school whanau that valued cultural diversity. I explored and implemented innovative use of technology to create memorable learning activities. I routinely consulted with other teachers in the small French unit, but also collaborated teachers of other languages (English, Maori, Samoan) to help implement instructional strategies that promoted proficiency in the heritage language.