Professional Development

About Me

I am currently an ICT facilitator for 2 ICTPD clusters and the Kopu Digi Ops cluster. Prior to that I was Deputy Principal of Opoutere School for 10 years and have been a primary teacher for over 20 years.

I was a Ministry of Education

e-fellow in 2006

I was voted Microsoft New Zealand Innovative Teacher of the year in 2007 after presenting at the Asia-Pacific Innovative Teachers Conference.

I hold a PGDip. in Education (Educational Leadership)

I have presented at numerous conferences including ULearn Learning@schools and TUANZ.

Inquiring Mind.Co

Contact me if you want to arrange professional development for your staff or cluster. Some of the workshops I can provide are listed below or

I can tailor a workshop to suit your needs.

To add your name to my mailing list to be kept informed of courses I will be offering email me.

Inquiry-based Learning

An Introduction to Inquiry - the basics for beginners

Inquiry in an ICT-rich Environment - my research and advice on which ICTs are useful for inquiry.

Lifelong Learning - authentic learning, student ownership and learning transfer.

Thinking Through Inquiry - Developing Thinking Skills Through Inquiry

Inquiry and the Key Competencies - Inquiry-based learning is a great way to develop the Key competencies.

Guided inquiry

Developing a School Inquiry Model - exploring the models out there, what do they have in common and how to develop your own school model.

Inquiry and the New Curriculum - where does it fit?

Other Workshops

Developing your school curriculum - The new curriculum asks you to develop your own school curriculum. What does this mean and where do you start?

Thinking Skills - teaching thinking skills strategies.

Getting the HOTs for Inquiry - how higher order thinking skills support and can be developed through inquiry-based learning

Thinking Competency - The Thinking skills key competency.

Participating & Contributing Competency - authentic learning.

Interactive Whiteboards for Reading and Language - lots of practical ideas for using IWBs for reading and language. Includes activating prior knowledge and engaging higher order thinking skills.

Great Web Resources for Classrooms - web1.0 and web 2.0 sites that will support learning

Webquests for Beginners

NB. My teaching experience, and hence the focus of my workshops, is on primary-aged students. Most of my experience with interactive whiteboards has been with Promethean ACTIVboards although many activities and ideas will work on any IWB.

Workshop charges can be viewed here.

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Future Events

I will be presenting at these events. Contact me for more information or to register interest .

ULearn

I will be presenting at the ULearn conference in Christchurch.