User:Helenm5

=My Profile=

Professional Background

 * Rangeview Intermediate
 * Arahanga Intermediate
 * Blockhouse Bay Intermediate
 * NZ Police (Police Constable)
 * Ngatitoa School
 * Tairangi School
 * Titahi Bay School
 * Postgate School
 * Tawa Intermediate School

Education

 * Hillsborough Primary School
 * Mt Roskill Intermediate School
 * Mt Roskill Grammar School
 * Auckland Teachers College
 * Canterbury University (I have recently completed my BTchLn through distance and online learning.)

My Interests
My hobbies have been many and varied over the years and currently include singing (in a choir), stone carving, computer-related activities and guitar. The new dog could be considered of my interests too as he takes his share of my spare time and gets me out walking. Past pursuits include violin, piano, hockey, badminton, scuba diving, tennis and orienteering.

Professional
My passions: Using digital technologies and Web 2.0 resources to create resources and support learning programmes Engaging the disengaged - especially the boys whose needs are not being met by the education system Feeding and challenging gifted students Student-centred/Personalised learning - finding hooks and pursuing tangents Being a learner and trying new things

My professional heroes: Carolyn Stuart - my principal, who transformed our school and rekindled my passion for teaching, Sir Ken Robinson - I love his address on creativity! Derek Wenmoth on Derek's Blog Joan Dalton and David Anderson - inspirational!

Husband:
One

Children:
Two daughters, aged 23 and 21

Pets:
One dog - a bichon frise

Siblings:
Five brothers

Tastes
Red wine, freshly smoked salmon, avocado

Personality type
ISFP - (I think)

Quotes (from Albert Einstein)

 * 1) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
 * 2) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
 * 3) It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
 * 4) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
 * 5) If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
 * 6) Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
 * 7) Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
 * 8) The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Photos


Some of my stone carvings:

My Projects
Enterprise is my first attempt at a teaching resource on Wikispaces. It was to support the immersion stage of our unit.

We use Ultranet as our Learning Management System to support our teaching and learning programmes. I am currently using it to create pages that bring gifted students from across the school together.

My Sandbox
/My sandbox/

Feedback & Notes from my WikiNeighbours
Good stuff! --Phil Bartle 01:01, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

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