MICRO-BIO

• I have been a high school teacher for over 20 years, with a focus on the Humanities and a special interest in the Studies of Religion. I have taught in schools in Melbourne and Coffs Harbour as well as lecturing at Southern Cross University in the a...More

  I have been a high school teacher for over 20 years, with a focus on the Humanities and a special interest in the Studies of Religion. I have taught in schools in Melbourne and Coffs Harbour as well as lecturing at Southern Cross University in the area of pedagogy and practice. I have a passion for using Cultures of Thinking in the classroom as well as utlising it to support the student Human Rights Activists that meet each week at my current school. I took a year out of my teaching career to travel around Australia in a caravan with my husband and three sons and continue to have the travelling bug, spending time in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. It is my role mentoring refugee students that transformed how I see the power of student voice and its potential to challenge and interrupt conservative forces that restrict opportunities for student agency when they should be front and centre in determining their own learning journeys.

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EXPERIENCE

• Bishop Druitt College

  • Year Coordinator and Facilitator of the Human Rights Group
  • Humanities
  • Present

EDUCATION

• Monash University

  • Masters of Education
  • June 2002 to June 2004

• Monash University

  • Diploma of Education
  • February 1995 to December 1995

• Melbourne University

  • Bachelor of Arts
  • March 1990 to December 1992

Interests

• Beach Walking

• Australian Rules Football

• Podcasts

• Travel

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