I would prefer to work in the younger grades using the International Baccalaureate, Primary Years Program.
Experience
- Grade One homeroom teacher
- Subjects taught included: Writing, Reading, Mathematics, Units of Inquiry, Qatar History
- Class size varied between 20 and 23
- Worked with an assistant
- Taught the International Baccalaureate, Primary Years Program
- Extra-Curricular Activities included: Engineering Club, Story and Art Club, Story Club
Worked with children between the ages of six months and five years old
- Personal Tutor at All Hallows School, Shepton Mallet
- Completed and passed Level 5 Certificate Course in Teaching Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties.
- Year Three class teacher.
- Subjects taught include, English, Maths, Geography, History, PSHE, ICT, Drama and Religious Education.
- Class size varied between 16 and 18.
- Worked independently and with an assistant.
- Used schools’ curriculum, which is linked to the national curriculum.
- Taught one term of Year 6 History and one year of Year 5 geography
- Extra-Curricular Activities: rounders, swimming and netball coaching, reading club and helping with a ‘Design and Make’ club.
Caring work, which involved living in with patient, and delivering 24-hour personal and nursing care.
- Grades taught- Reception, Primary One, Primary Two
- Class size varied between 11 and 22 students.
- Worked independently and with an assistant.
- Used Primary Years Program International Baccalaureate curriculum.
- Helped introduce Primary Years Program to colleagues.
- Researched and disseminated information on Inquiry based method of learning and teaching.
- Researched and developed an Assessment Tool to assess students emotional and social intelligence.
- Extra-Curricular Activities: tennis coaching, swimming, reading club, needlework club, book-making club.
- 5 four-year-old in preparation for formal schooling the following year.
- Remedial Mathematics tuition for twelve-year-old girl.
- GCE O’ and A’ level preparation for exams.
- Grade taught- Primary One
- Class size 20
- Followed Zimbabwe National curriculum
- Extra-Curricular Activities: First team tennis coach, Primary One swimming coach, Primary One after school activities, involved in production of school plays.
Volunteer Experience
- First Aid help for farm workforce (± 100 Families)
- Compilation of farm workers’ wages
- Teaching swimming to Zambian workers on school campus
- Teaching English as a second language to Zambian Assistant Teachers
Education
2007
Lusaka, Zambia
First Steps 2nd Edition Reading
2007
2005
Lusaka, Zambia
ESL in the Mainstream Course
2005
2004
Martingue, Switzerland
Primary Years Program Seminar
2004
2002
Frankfurt, Germany
Primary Years Program Seminar
2002
1996
Novalis Institute Harare, Zimbabwe
Putting The Heart Back into Teaching
1996
1972-1975
University of Rhodesia Teacher Training College Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Diploma in Education
- Major in Physical Education
- Subsidiary in Social Economics
GCE M’ Level
- English Literature
- Biology
- History
- Geography
GCE O’ Level
- English Literature
- English Language
- Mathematics
- Geography
- History
- Biology
- Needlework
1972-1975