Lindsey Davis
High School Mathematics Teacher at Amity College- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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SMART Certified Trainer
SMART TechnologiesApr, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Google Certified Educator Level 2
GoogleDec, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Cert IV Training and Assessment
Safe CitySep, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Prowise Certified Trainer
Prowise BVSep, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Google Certified Educator Level 1
Google
Experience
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Amity College
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Australia
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Primary and Secondary Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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High School Mathematics Teacher
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Jan 2020 - Present
Roles and Responsibilities: • Teaching NSW Mathematics curriculum across Years 7-10, including Stage 5 5.1 and 5.2 Programs • Integrating technology seamlessly into my teaching and learning practice, including using interactive teaching displays and connecting with student iPads and Laptops for meaningful learning experiences • Differentiating effectively for all students including those with ILPs and English as an additional language • Designing effective formative and summative assessments and recording student data to inform teaching and learning cycles • Maintaining effective teaching practices and student feedback over remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown • Acting as a positive role model, creating safe and supportive learning environments and liaising with learning support and pastoral care teams when needed Key Achievements: • All students across my Y7-Y10 classes making accelerated progress in Mathematics • Championing remote learning and supporting teachers with effectively teaching using Zoom in addition to using remote screen sharing softwares such as SMART and Prowise to engage students over distance and provide accurate and effective feedback during virtual lessons. • Creating all instruction videos for Y8 Core Skills Mathematics and Y10 5.2 Mathematics programs with supporting activities for non-live video conference learning and championing activity delivery using Seesaw • Gaining 100% attendance with some of the most challenging students due to my creative and engaging approach to teaching Mathematics Show less
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INTEGRATE AV
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Australia
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Training and Professional Development Specialist
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Nov 2019 - Present
Integrate AV provide audio visual and communications technologies to the Corporate, Defence and Education spaces. Having recently achieved their endorsement to deliver NESA accredited PD courses, I was employed on a consultancy basis to develop high quality teacher professional development course materials and train their admin team to develop a systematic recording process of training to meet NESA’s endorsement standards. Roles and Responsibilities: • Keeping up to date with the latest education technology products and teaching theory and practice. • Liaising directly with core brands such as SMART Technologies and Me3D to create relevant and accurate content • Designing the highest quality professional development courses and materials to be delivered by Integrate AV’s trainers both face-to-face and via live video conference webinar • Developing all the back-end administration processes for recording training delivery accurately and efficiently and ensuring all communications with trainees is timely • Consulting with the marketing department to create a new website for the training offered and setting up social media communications Key Achievements: • Completing my SMART Certified Trainer award. • Developing a highly successful course to support teachers in using SMART Notebook and Learning Suite Online for remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown • Designing a user-friendly website for the Training side of the business which is now under construction via a third party Show less
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ELB Electroboard Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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National Training Manager and Education consultant
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Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
• Employing, on-boarding and managing a team of 14 staff across branches in each State, holding fortnightly meetings to evaluate our course delivery, consistency, quality and sharing tips to improve our knowledge and understanding of the user experience of each product. • Keeping up to date with education technology products and the latest in teaching theory and practice and Australian/State Curriculums, liaising with ELB Product Managers and Brand Ambassadors to receive all supplier information and training; designing and delivering internal ELB staff training, thus ensuring ELB is fully equipped to offer training on all products, and that all training solutions are relevant to today’s classroom teachers. • Creating and delivering high quality professional development training including courses delivered via video conference to remote schools or face-to-face either in schools or at the ELB training facility. This involved creating engaging and meaningful presentations, hands-on training activities and detailed facilitator guides for all products including Prowise panels, Apple devices, Google G Suite applications and Polycom and CISCO video conferencing equipment. • Meeting the requirements of being a NESA endorsed PD provider (including renewing our endorsement), and ensuring all training meets the required National Teaching Standards and quality to ensure teachers receive the best possible accredited and certified professional development. • All administration required for setting up training services on the ELB CRM, creating quotes and processing training orders, creating reports on training sold nationally and regionally, accrediting teachers via the NESA provider website, and creating all marketing materials and social media to support in the development of the academy. Show less
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Kimberlin Education
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Australia
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Education Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Secondary Education Manager
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Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
• Designing the Secondary content of education programs, workshops, outreach, teacher-led lessons, games, websites, apps, and ensuring they meet the National and State curriculum outcomes whilst delivering the key messaging and values of the customer organisation. • Supervising the design and development teams to ensure all products, including online interactive lessons, educational websites, educational phone apps and games, in addition to tangible resources such as costumes, books, info cards, boards, mats and banners are of exceptional quality. • Organising teacher focus groups to test user experience of existing websites and resources and use this research and data to inform the design and development of the new programs. • Training client facilitators in host schools to deliver their new programs including: arranging trial sessions with High School students and teachers to road test lessons, resources and digital materials and reflect on any improvements needed. Key Achievements: • Redesigning the High School outreach program for Sydney Trains. This included developing five workshops focusing on 5 key rail safety messages suitable for Stage 4 and 5 students. All materials and props fitted into a portable trolley small enough for a standard car boot and were exceptionally hard wearing, whilst remaining engaging and branded for Sydney Trains. Facilitators’ guides, lesson plans and additional documentation were supplied both graphically designed and word processed which may be required as evidence in court. • Delivering video conference virtual excursions on behalf of the Australian Egg Corporation and Meat and Livestock Australia, using interactive web-based resources, SMART Bridgit connection software, table display items and even a document camera over an incubator of live chicks! Each workshop was delivered weekly to ten schools with students aged between 6 and 12 from across Australia, including through DART Connections for DOE Schools. Show less
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Leeds City Council
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Creativity in the Curriculum and Mathematics Teacher
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Apr 2014 - Jan 2015
• Developing and delivering a new Creative Curriculum for Y7 pupils (11-12 year olds) to boost critical skills and Growth Mindset in an engaging, project-based program with the aim of accelerated progress in Y8 (12-13 year olds). This including allowing students more choice in the topics they studied and integrating a variety of subjects into each “lesson”. Monitoring progress through quality of work, lesson engagement, completed homework and subject attainment scores and student self-assessment.• Organising educational visits and guest speakers across subjects to broaden students’ learning experiences. (These included: places of worship, museums, rural residential, Banking and financial experts, Kungfu experts, Political visits to Leeds Town Hall.) Very familiar with the EVOLE online educational visits organising software.• Part of the school’s “Character for Learning” committee to promote key learning attitudes in students and support the development of their independence, motivation, resilience and collaboration skills. This included observing lessons and supporting teachers, filming my own lessons for trainings, developing slides and Notebooks for all subjects to utilise and creating cross-curricular rubrics for students to self-assess their soft skills development.• Supporting all subjects to include creative activities or tasks in their units of work by attending subject department meetings to provide ideas and inspiration, organising for staff to observe my lessons, sharing ideas in the staff newsletters and weekly whole faculty meetings and creating opportunities for teachers to share ideas and resources in a safe and constructive environment.• Delivering training on and implementing a high standard for learning environments and communal areas with engaging and relevant displays and high quality resources. I was also invited to our partner secondary school to improve their learning environments. Encouraging flexible learning spaces where appropriate. Show less
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Maths teacher
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Jun 2012 - Dec 2014
• Developing and writing new units of work to reflect the curriculum changes to Stage 4 as part of the North Leeds City Maths Teaching working group. This has been implemented across 8 secondary schools in North Leeds City.• All formative and summative assessment across Stage 4, matching this to learning outcomes and analysing teachers’ class data, implementing intervention where required. By Easter 2014, over 80% of Stage 4 students had made above expected progress in Maths.• Introducing the use of diagnostic tests to show student progress, and student tracking documents for students to see what they needed to learn and how to progress in each unit; encouraging independent learning.• Inviting in a structural engineering company to run functional maths lessons and broaden students’ aspirations for careers using Maths.• Supporting the school’s Numeracy across the Curriculum programme, by training staff in how to include numeracy in their lessons and to promote a positive attitude towards being numerate across staff and students.• Running staff training sessions on the use of Smart Notebook and interactive resources in lesson planning and delivery. (E.g. The use of iPad in the classroom, QR code treasure hunts, using iMovie for students and staff to make learning films, encouraging student independence through their use of ICT).• Running the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme as an Expedition Instructor and Assessor for students aged 14+ including expedition training, running practice walks and camps, weekly after school workshops and supporting students to achieve the skill, service and sport commitments. Show less
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York Archaeology
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United Kingdom
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Environmental Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Education Assistant
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Dec 2006 - Jun 2012
• Designing and implementing new school workshops to support the delivery of new findings from the archaeology department. These included: a ‘Tudor Medicine’ workshop, a ‘Tudor school’ workshop, ‘Being a Tudor Child’ day visit, ‘Viking Medicine’, ‘Viking Fashion’, ‘Song and Saga’ and ‘Viking and Tudor Battle Tactics’. These were implemented across the four museums and were also portable for our outreach program delivering workshops in rural schools. These were aimed at Upper Primary and Secondary-aged students. • Sourcing and making of all the resources to make the experience as authentic as possible. Re purposing the store room into a Tudor classroom where students could use feather quills and horn inkwells to write Latin on parchment, use wooden reckoning boards for mathematical calculations and grind oak apples to make their own ink. • Driving out to rural schools, community groups, country shows and exhibitions to deliver outreach versions of my workshops and educational historical displays. • Designing tours for Stage 5+ covering the architecture, social history and leisure and tourism course content and running tailored tours for VIP parties and University of the Third Age groups. • During school holidays, supporting in the running of the museum both front and back of house. I was involved in the public and private events teams which involved: running weddings and private parties, children’s birthday parties, promotional events for the Trust and large scale events such as the Jorvik Viking Festival. Show less
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Education
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2012 - 2013
Sheffield Hallam University
Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Teach First PGCE with QTS in Secondary Mathematics -
2016 - 2017
Safe City
Cert IV in Training and Assessment, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching -
2007 - 2009
University of York
Master of Arts (MA), History of Art -
2004 - 2007
University of York
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History of Art
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