Experience

Heretaunga College

• Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand

• Deputy Principal

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Responsibilities include: reporting and attendance processes, teacher inquiry, professional learning programmes for teachers, community interagency liaison, well-being coordination, teacher appraisal, student behavior management, pedagogical leadership of Alternative Education, curriculum strategic planning, school calendar co-ordination, leadership of school guidance team. Responsibilities include: reporting and attendance processes, teacher inquiry, professional learning programmes for teachers, community interagency liaison, well-being coordination, teacher appraisal, student behavior management, pedagogical leadership of Alternative Education, curriculum strategic planning, school calendar co-ordination, leadership of school guidance team.



ADEC Abu Dhabi Education Council

• Teacher

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2013

  Analysis of baseline data to appropriately meet the needs of ESOL students, implementing effective strategies for teaching local students, providing differentiated lessons and teaching approaches, providing PD for other teachers in differentiated instruction and data analysis. Analysis of baseline data to appropriately meet the needs of ESOL students, implementing effective strategies for teaching local students, providing differentiated lessons and teaching approaches, providing PD for other teachers in differentiated instruction and data analysis.



Hutt International Boys' School

• Assistant HOD English

  • 2006 - 2011



Victoria University of Wellington

• English and Literacy Adviser

  • 2002 - 2006

  Advisory position providing professional development for teachers and leadership teams in secondary schools across the Wellington region. Facilitating school-wide Literacy professional development and senior management support, mentoring school leadership in whole-school literacy development, facilitation of NCEA assessment practice, providing workshops for beginning teachers and school coordinators, modelling lessons in classrooms (both English and Literacy) and delivering workshops at conferences. Show less



Heretaunga College

• HOD English

  • 1998 - 2002

  Responsibility for managing a faculty, budgeting, assessment processes, internal and external moderation processes, teacher appraisal, writing curriculum documents. A curriculum and pastoral care leadership role. Responsibility for managing a faculty, budgeting, assessment processes, internal and external moderation processes, teacher appraisal, writing curriculum documents. A curriculum and pastoral care leadership role.