My CV

Born: 03 - 08 - 1958

Nationality: Australian

Educated: Perth Primary School, Kings Meadows High School, Launceston Matriculation College, Hobart Technical College, Tasmanian College Of Advanced Education & Launceston College.

Qualifications/Awards:

Trade Certificate in Painting & Decorating,

Bachelor of Education

Tasmanian Certificate of Education Art Craft & Design.

Advanced Skills Teacher 1 1995

Tasmanian Teacher's Certificate 1987

Current Teaching Position: Grade 3/4 Home Room teacher and Art specialist.

Teaching Experience: Started teaching in July of 1985.

2006 - 2008 Batu Hijau International School, Sumbawa, Indonesia: Art specialist teacher, Grade 3/4 Class Teacher.

2005 - Batu Hijau International School, Sumbawa, Indonesia: Art specialist teacher, Librarian, Computer specialist and Grade 5/6 Home Room Teacher.

2004 - Batu Hijau International School, Sumbawa, Indonesia: Art specialist teacher and Grade 6,7 & 8 Home Room teacher, teaching Social Science and English

2003 - Batu Hijau International School, Sumbawa, Indonesia: Art & Computer specialist teacher and Grade 6,7 & 8 Home Room teacher, teaching Science, Social Science, Mathematics and English

2000 - 2002 Batu Hijau International School, Sumbawa, Indonesia: Art & Computing specialist teacher

1998 -1999 - Summerdale Primary School: Grade 6 & Batu Hijau International School, Lombok, Indonesia: Grade 5/6

1995 - 1996- Summerdale Primary School (Advanced Skills Teacher 1): Grade 6. Tutor at The University of Tasmania in Computers in Education

1992 - 1994 - East Ravenswood Primary School: Grade 5/6

1991 - Campbell Town District High School: Senior Teacher responsible for 10 staff and library program

1989 - 1990 - Waverley Primary School: Grade 2/3/4 Composite class

1988 - St Helens District High: Prep - Grade 1 - 3, Grade 10 Personal Relationships course

1987 - St Helens District High: Prep - Grade 1- 3

1986 - Exeter District High School, St Helens District High: Grade 1 - 3

1985 - Longford Primary, Invermay Primary: Grade 6

Preferred teaching level position:

Grade 1 - 6 Classroom teacher, Art specialist, Computing specialist, Librarian

Other work experiences:

1977 - 1980 Apprentice painter and decorator. Hobart College of TAFE, Trade Certificate in Painting & Decorating.

1985 June - Feb Journalist, The Examiner Newspaper

1997 - 1998 Private tutor to three students in Mathematics

Travel experiences:

China , India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Brunei and The Maldives

1991: Germany, Italy, France, England, Scotland, Turkey, Greece, New York and San Francisco

1996: Thailand, Greece and Turkey

Leisure Interests:

Reading, Painting - Watercolour & Oils, Swimming, Weight training, Computing, Film, Playing the flute.

Personal Qualities:

I am an affable, calm, gentle and caring person who has a sense of humour, creative and open to the ideas of others. I work very well collaboratively or as an individual. I am very flexible and enjoy new challenges and changes that they bring. I am passionate about my beliefs and I set high goals in all areas of my life and enjoy the challenge of achieving them.

My colleagues and friends seek my opinions and advice in a range of matters. I enjoy harmonious relations with my peers.

Teaching Strengths:

1. Understanding of child development, learning styles and theories of learning

2. Fostering of positive self esteem in all students

3. Experience in visual arts education and understanding of children's art

4. Understanding of computing in education and related technologies to include the Internet and a wide range of software programs

5. Ability to teach at any level and in specialist areas or as a classroom teacher

6. Catering to individual needs of students

7. Rapport with peers, students and parents

8. Willingness to take on new challenges and provide the best possible teaching and learning program for students

9. Commitment to thorough planning, assessment and evaluation

10. Professionalism and desire to improve practice through professional development

Educational Philosophy:

In all my teaching endeavours I aim for excellence. This has been demonstrated by the high quality, theoretically based program that I have always offered to the children I work with.

My teaching practice is based on seven principles:

1. Individual programs;

2. A safe, supportive, positive and cooperative environment;

3. Education as a life long process to develop rational autonomy;

4. Schools as part of the real world;

5. That learning occurs in different ways and that children have different ways of learning;

6. Learning occurs when learners see a purpose and it is enjoyable; and finally,

7. Egalitarianism in all encounters with children is essential.

These principles underpin all my contacts with children.

More specifically during the time children are in my care I will endeavour to:

1. Develop in each child a desire to explore, experiment, question, write, read, compute, argue logically, enjoy, and be creative.

2. Ensure all children are literate and numerate in basic areas to include spelling, grammar, computation and reading.

3. Develop each child from the particular stage they are at to the next appropriate one and so on.

4. Plan according to individual needs interests and abilities.

5. Provide a wide range of stimulating, challenging and enjoyable experiences in order to develop skills, concepts and attitudes.

6. Create an aesthetically pleasing and motivating environment in which to teach and learn.

7. Foster a partnership in each child's education between the child, parents, teachers, professionals and myself.

8. Develop in each child the following attributes: confidence, resourcefulness, open-mindedness, friendliness, independence, co-operation, productiveness and a love of learning.

9. Keep and maintain accurate working records on each child's progress to enable me to: a) plan learning experiences, b) evaluate and c) report to parents.

10. Develop appropriate life skills in the area of interpersonal relationships and personal relationships.

11. To be egalitarian and equitable in all dealings with children and to promote these values in them, especially gender equity.

12. To develop in children the skills to enable them to use the vast array of computer based resources such as the WWW, email, digital images etc as tools in teaching and learning.

13. Develop high quality relationships with the children I work with and all other professional people who are part of the school community.

My classrooms are always lively, busy, stimulating and interesting places where there is planned and deliberate intervention to ensure children develop.

Professional Achievements & Professional Development:

Visits to my classrooms from colleagues and administrators to witness my exemplary teaching practice throughout my career
Evidence in print throughout educational libraries in the world of my teaching skills. Many of the strategies, and principles outlined in Becoming Responsible Learners by Joan Dalton and Mark Ellis were based on work in my classroom at Waverley Primary School. Photographs of me working with children and demonstrating some of the strategies appear regularly throughout the publication
Video for teachers to use in Sexuality Education was made featuring my classroom and the strategies I use when teaching this area to primary age children
Designed and taught a Grade 10 Personal Relationships course and one for a whole Primary school
Senior Teacher responsible for 10 staff
Planning and running parent workshops in the areas of literacy, computers and arts education
Led whole school Cooperative Learning workshops
Tasmania-wide course deliverer in Information Technology and part of state planning team for implementation of learning technologies in Tasmania
Parliamentary Teaching Fellowship in 1998. I was selected as one of 10 fellows from 100 applications Australia-wide. On the 29th of November 1998 I spent a week in Canberra to meet parliamentarians, see committees and parliament at work and gain knowledge of our system of government. This information was used to design a package for students to use. My project was in the format of an interactive website for primary age students to use
Member of The Men's Education Network, which had as its focus boys' issues in education. Led workshops with other teachers.
Led workshops in behaviour management strategies school wide.
Participated in a study to determine the level of civics and citizenship education taught in primary schools in Tasmania conducted by The University of Tasmania.
ICCE Computers In Education Conference - Seoul, South Korea
Chair person of two ECIS Accreditation Committees; Library & Media Services, Assessment of Student Performance
Sole author of two whole school curricula Visual Art & Computing
Philosophy For Children workshops
Assessment and Evaluation of student performance workshops
Workshops in the use of iMovie, Net Objects Fusion, Adobe Photshop, Corel Draw
Study of Indonesian language
Assembly coordinator
Whole school computer support person
Whole school visual art resource person
School wide workshops on student profiles/records of development
Behaviour management resource person
EARCOS Conferences Bangkok April 2003, April 2006 and April 2007
Community Film Festival of student made digital films
Coordinator of two student murals painted within the school at BHIS
After School Activities: Philosophy For Kids Club, Digital Video Filming & Editing, School Newspaper, Drama workshops
Initiated annual 50 Word Story Competition
BHIS professional development committee chairperson
BHIS curriculum coordinator
Responsible for production and design of school yearbook from 2002
Curator and host of three annual art exhibitions of student work which were framed professionally and displayed in the community hall
Design of and continual upgrading and maintenance of the school's website at www.batuhijauschool.org
Workshop leader to generate a new reporting tool for parents
Currently training to implement the IBO PYP program in my present school