I am an Inter­na­tional School edu­ca­tor based in Sin­ga­pore. I spe­cial­ize in teach­ing Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness and enjoy teach­ing the Inter­na­tional Bac­calau­re­ate cur­ricu­lum. I have taught the Diploma Eco­nom­ics and Busi­nesses courses to both Higher and Stan­dard Level stu­dents and I have recently begun teach­ing the The­ory of Knowl­edge course. Pre­vi­ously I have taught in Canada, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Eng­land and Bel­gium. This expo­sure to a wide range of cur­ric­ula, edu­ca­tion man­age­ment approaches and great teach­ers has taught me a lot about how to be effec­tive in the class­room. I have been teach­ing for about 10 years now and I enjoy it more and more each year. I am also a proud new par­ent, which makes me even more moti­vated to be a great role model to my son.

Edu­ca­tion

Infor­ma­tion Technologies

I use a lot of infor­ma­tion tech­nolo­gies to sup­port my teach­ing. One of my IB Eco­nom­ics resources has been viewed by over 21,000 stu­dents, around the world in the past year. In my Mas­ters I researched Inte­grated Tech­nol­ogy Man­age­ment in edu­ca­tion, try­ing to help schools engage effec­tively with tech­nolo­gies. I have enjoyed apply­ing the insights of my grad­u­ate research to my prac­tice as a teacher and as an Edu­ca­tion Tech­nol­ogy leader in sev­eral schools, includ­ing my cur­rent school.

I have also had the ben­e­fit of hav­ing been an active par­tic­i­pant in a vari­ety of inno­v­a­tive edu­ca­tion tech­nol­ogy net­works (includ­ing Class­room 2.0, the Miran­daNet Fel­low­ship, Cog­ni­tive Edge, and the Inter­na­tional Bac­calau­re­ate Web 2.0 in the Class­room OCC group).

Over the years I have con­tin­ued to work toward find­ing the cor­rect bal­ance for each of my classes, in terms of tech­nol­ogy use and I have  seen many of my stu­dents (and depart­ments) hugely-enriched by a nuanced tech­nol­ogy deployment.

Activ­i­ties and Assessment

I use a vari­ety of class­room activ­i­ties and a diverse range of assess­ment approaches, always with the aim of stretch­ing stu­dents’ under­stand­ing. I have recently been greatly influ­enced by the Vital Behav­iors in Edu­ca­tion insights from Dr Ethna Ried and oth­ers and I have been exper­i­ment­ing with dif­fer­ent ways of adjust­ing my prac­tice to match this and other cur­rent research edu­ca­tion the­ory. I have also been work­ing with the ESL depart­ment in the school to share good teach­ing prac­tices.

Expe­ri­ence

Since 2003 I have taught Busi­ness and Eco­nom­ics in inter­na­tional schools (in Bel­gium and Sin­ga­pore) and national schools (in Eng­land and Bahrain). My prac­tice as an edu­ca­tor also ben­e­fits from my expe­ri­ences work­ing in oper­a­tions and devel­op­ment in the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment and in the Cana­dian non-profit sec­tor. As I was study­ing to be a teacher (and in my first job after grad­u­a­tion) I was worked in a diverse range of roles, includ­ing pub­lic pol­icy analy­sis, char­ity lead­er­ship and busi­ness devel­op­ment. I believe my lessons are enriched by my abil­ity to relate real-life exam­ples to the Busi­ness and Eco­nom­ics con­cepts I teach.

Over­seas Fam­ily School, Sin­ga­pore (K-12 Inter­na­tional School, 3700 students)

Busi­ness, Eco­nom­ics and The­ory of Knowl­edge (ToK) teacher (IB, MYP, and IGCSE). Course leader for Higher Level IB Eco­nom­ics. Mak­ing a Dif­fer­ence (Lead­er­ship) Club leader. United Nations Bel­gium and France super­vi­sor. Teach­ing and Learn­ing ICT Devel­op­ment team (High School and Mid­dle School). IB Extended Essay Super­vi­sor for Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness. Year 10 and 11 Home­base advi­sor. CAS Advisor.

Inter­na­tional School of Brus­sels (K-12 Inter­na­tional School, 1200 students)

IB Eco­nom­ics (SL and HL) teacher, IB Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy in a Global Soci­ety (ITGS) teacher. Year­book Coor­di­na­tor. Health and Ath­let­ics team advisor.

Padding­ton Acad­emy, Lon­don (Inde­pen­dent Acad­emy, 1100 students)

Busi­ness and Eco­nom­ics Teacher (GCSE, AS) and Head of the Busi­ness and Eco­nom­ics Depart­ment. Years 10 and 11 Pas­toral team. School devel­op­ment for this new school. Chess Club.

Bishop Chal­loner Catholic Col­le­giate School, Lon­don (Catholic Boys and Girls School, 1400 students)

Teacher and Deputy Head of the Busi­ness, Eco­nom­ics and Enter­prise Depart­ment. Orga­nized a vari­ety of busi­ness enter­prise school events. Researched and imple­mented a new approach to enter­prise cur­ricu­lum deliv­ery as part of my MBA research.

Please click here to request a full CV, includ­ing my pre­vi­ous teach­ing expe­ri­ence, my work in the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment and Non-Profit sec­tor work and more:

Pro­fes­sional Development

• IB The­ory of Knowl­edge — Level 2 (22 hours) Shang­hai — 2011
• The­ory of Knowl­edge Teacher Train­ing with Dr Peter Vardy, Vice Prin­ci­pal of Heythrop Col­lege, Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don (5 hours) Sin­ga­pore — 2011
• Mid­dle Years Pro­gram Train­ing Pro­gram (16 hours) Sin­ga­pore — 2011
• South Aus­tralian Manda­tory Report­ing (Child Abuse Report­ing) (8 hours) Ade­laide — 2010
• Red Cross First Aid and Adult and Child CPR Cer­tifi­cates (10 hours) Brus­sels March — 2010
• IB Diploma Eco­nom­ics (Inter­nal Assess­ments) (50 hours) Brus­sels — 2010
• IB Diploma Eco­nom­ics — Level 1 (22 hours) Berlin — 2009
• Ontario Cer­ti­fied Teacher (Mem­ber of the Ontario Col­lege of Teach­ers) Toronto — 2009
• UK Qual­i­fied Teacher Sta­tus (QTS) Lon­don — 2009
• Cog­ni­tive Edge Qual­i­fied Prac­ti­tioner Lon­don — 2006
• Was awarded an Eliott Travel Fel­low­ship for my research into Edu­ca­tion for Social Jus­tice issues in a Costa Rican school — 2002

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