Milestones
Extensive Coaching - New Zealand
Coaching teachers and staff in many schools up and down NZ. From 2 weeks to the present 8 months at Twizel Area School. One-to-one in class coaching, before and after-school team and full staff workshops and careful support of pastoral and pedagogical systems. With calm considered tips and regular conversations and observations, teachers are empowered.
Coaching - Beijing
Over a 2 year period the Hailleybury College in Beijing was supported to put a new reading programme in place from scratch. This meant a huge team effort to assess all students, group them by ability, buy books and generate a system for levelling and coding them. It required training all teachers to assess reading as well as teach reading groups. Somehow we found extra hours to meet daily with the senior leadership to develop mentoring skills and generate systems to oversea the maintenance and development of the whole programme.
Coaching - Canberra
Using online training and then in-school follow up, with workshops and in-class coaching, St Judes School in Canberra adopted SharpReading as its Guided Reading approach.
Past Experience
- Review of High School English Department as an investigation into transition from the primary school into the secondary school across the road.This led to behaviour management PD in the high school and the Christian Schools group. - Calvin Christian School Tasmania
- Behaviour Management assessment and up-skill of teachers through teacher training and in class coaching - Nambour - Queensland
- Keynote Speaker - Southland Literacy Symposium.
- Tutor - New Zealand Graduate School of Education training beginning primary and secondary teachers.
- Primary School Teacher - Teaching in Primary Schools in Christchurch New Zealand
- Head Teacher - Teaching ESL in Japan at Clarke High School and Ohtani University