About me
Qualifications: B.Soc.Sci, Dip Teaching (ECE), Dip Early Intervention, Certificate in Advanced Psychotherapy.
Experience:
4 children of my own. (plus one who had an extra chromosome and lived for 4 weeks)
Many years involvement in Playcentre, supervising and tutoring. Life member of Canterbury Playcentre Association.
Tutor for Massey University, Early Childhood.
Lecturer at Christchurch College of Education for 1 year.
25 years experience as an Early Intervention Teacher (senior) at The Champion Centre in Christchurch, an early intervention service for young children with complex disabilities. On the management team. Many ORS applications completed.
2 years experience as an ORS teacher in a primary school in Upper Hutt (2015, 2016) working with children with complex learning needs. Successful ORS aplication for a child ( from High Needs to Very High Needs) During 2018 completed a successful ORS application for a child who had been excluded from school for 18 months.
Experience teaching English to International Primary School children. 2018 - current.
My style and my philosophy:
In order to learn, children need to be calm, happy and in a trusting relationship with their parent and teacher.
I respect a child as an individual and strive to understand what needs to take place so that the child can develop their potential and live confidently.
All children can learn. It is up to the teacher to find out how they can learn effectively and most easily.
Myself
I shifted from Christchurch to Mangaroa Valley, near Upper Hutt at the end of 2014. In July 2016, I moved to Paraparaumu Beach.
My interests include gardening, walking (especially in native bush), labyrinths, my practice The Inner Path.
I teach children at my home or at their home.
Experience:
4 children of my own. (plus one who had an extra chromosome and lived for 4 weeks)
Many years involvement in Playcentre, supervising and tutoring. Life member of Canterbury Playcentre Association.
Tutor for Massey University, Early Childhood.
Lecturer at Christchurch College of Education for 1 year.
25 years experience as an Early Intervention Teacher (senior) at The Champion Centre in Christchurch, an early intervention service for young children with complex disabilities. On the management team. Many ORS applications completed.
2 years experience as an ORS teacher in a primary school in Upper Hutt (2015, 2016) working with children with complex learning needs. Successful ORS aplication for a child ( from High Needs to Very High Needs) During 2018 completed a successful ORS application for a child who had been excluded from school for 18 months.
Experience teaching English to International Primary School children. 2018 - current.
My style and my philosophy:
In order to learn, children need to be calm, happy and in a trusting relationship with their parent and teacher.
I respect a child as an individual and strive to understand what needs to take place so that the child can develop their potential and live confidently.
All children can learn. It is up to the teacher to find out how they can learn effectively and most easily.
Myself
I shifted from Christchurch to Mangaroa Valley, near Upper Hutt at the end of 2014. In July 2016, I moved to Paraparaumu Beach.
My interests include gardening, walking (especially in native bush), labyrinths, my practice The Inner Path.
I teach children at my home or at their home.
