Peter: New Zealand: Jan 01, 2019

Describe your skills by explaining what you learned, what results you achieved, the projects you worked on etc. This description enables you to show off your experience and helps employers get a better understanding of you.

I am a passionate teacher who makes sure that every student in the class, no matter their level, is always learning. I’m youthful and energetic, always trying to improve whatever I get involved in. In the fourteen years and one term at Kamo High School, I always taught the top Year 12 math class. According to my H o D, I was given this class because the results of the class were always excellent. These results were obtained by teaching to a high level and always expecting the students to reach these high standards.
Also, during my second year there I initiated Wednesday after school tuition to three or four students in the library. By the time I left this had grown to about twenty students each Wednesday up in one of the math department classrooms with two or three teachers involved.
Throughout my teaching I was often involved in professional development such as Restorative Practice training, Te Kotahitanga, a program developed to help improve Maori academic performance as well as Teacher Effectiveness Training.

During five years in Wellington and two years in Ottawa I was involved in voluntary telephone counselling, usually putting in about 14 hours work each four-week roster cycle. While living in Ottawa for four and a half years I completed the equivalent of an additional BA in psychology extramurally through the University of Waterloo.