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MONA VALE, New South Wales, Australia
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I have been teaching Humanities and Social Sciences since 2006 across the UK, New Zealand and Australia, and currently serve as Head of Humanities at my College. My experience includes teaching in an autism-specific setting, which strengthened my commitment to inclusive, structured and accessible learning for all students.
I design classroom resources grounded in evidence-based pedagogy, including the Teaching and Learning Cycle, explicit Literacy in Subject Areas (LiSA) strategies, and clearly defined learning intentions and success criteria. There is a strong focus on developing students’ ability to respond to directive verbs and improve disciplinary writing through modelling, scaffolding and structured practice.
My resources are designed to be engaging, pedagogically robust, and immediately usable, regardless of a teacher’s level of subject expertise. They also incorporate opportunities to collect meaningful assessment data to support reporting, differentiation and informed planning.
Teaching is my passion, and I am committed to creating lessons that are both highly engaging and firmly grounded in best-practice teaching and learning.
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Liveability Emoji Game
Students race each other to decipher the passage where words have been swapped for emojis. The first student/s to read it out in full (no stalling, mistakes, or pauses) is the winner! Great to use as a starter or plenary activity, and for informal assessment of learning.
6th - 8th
Environment, Geography
Fully Resourced Landscapes & Landforms Research Task (with literacy focus)
Stage 4 Geography Assessment - Landscapes and Landforms Introduction & Rationale This assessment task for Stage 4 Geography is designed to align with the Australian Geography Curriculum, focusing on the Landscapes and Landforms topic. It incorporates the Teaching and Learning Cycle (TLC) and the AERO Teaching and Learning Model, emphasising a scaffolded approach to building field knowledge, literacy in subject-specific terminology, and the development of consequential explanations. This struc
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Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography
Earth's Natural Systems - complete overview (4 x 1 hour lessons)
This is a series of four one-hour lessons to cover a one-week (four hours) 'Overview' of Earth's Natural Systems. Students: · develop an understanding of the concepts of inspirational landscapes, biodiversity hotspots and great wildlife migrations · explore the changing connections between people and nature, including the concepts of intrinsic value and global commons, and discuss the roles and responsibilities humans have in protecting the environment. This series of 4 x 1 hour lessons focuses
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography
Geography: Why do we need to Protec and Manage Biodiversity?
Learning Objectives Describe the concepts of biodiversity hotspots.Construct a well-reasoned paragraph on the importance of managing and protecting biodiversity hotspots, incorporating relevant facts and data.Explain the changing connections between people and nature, the intrinsic value of the environment, and the role of humans as stewards of the Earth.A complete one-hour lesson with all resources and activities included. Variety of teaching and learning methods. Engaging and interactive. Part
9th - 11th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography
Earth's Natural Systems: The Nature & Extent of Earth's Land and Water Cover
Although designed primarily to fit in with the new Geography Year 11 Syllabus for 2024, this lesson would suit any senior geography and/or earth and environmental science lesson looking at natural and human processes that influence land use and land cover and patterns. Students also interpret and analyse a wide variety of geographical representations - pie charts/interactive GIS maps, tables, data - making this the ideal lesson to tick some of the boxes of geographical tools. This lesson aims t
10th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography
Improving writing ability (Geography) using the command verb 'describe'.
Literacy in Subject Areas (LiSA) Students must master 'describe' examination and assessment questions before they can effectively move beyond to tackling higher-order thinking questions such as explain, assess, evaluate, etc, and yet in many instances, students reach their senior years not understanding what is expected of them when they face this and other types of question. By working through this lesson, students will achieve the following learning objectives: Describe what it means to descr
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Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography
Earth's Natural Systems
This is a complete lesson to cover the first hour of the (suggested) 4-hour overview for the new Stage 6 Geography syllabus to be implemented in 2024. It forms the first part of the 4-hour overview I created, available on my product page. This lesson looks at the uniqueness of planet Earth. It prompts students to consider the changing connections between people and nature, the intrinsic value of the environment, and the role of humans as stewards of the Earth, as per the syllabus recommendation
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography
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About the store
Experience
I have been teaching Humanities and Social Sciences since 2006 across the UK, New Zealand and Australia, and currently serve as Head of Humanities at my College. My experience includes teaching in an autism-specific setting, which strengthened my commitment to inclusive, structured and accessible learning for all students.
I design classroom resources grounded in evidence-based pedagogy, including the Teaching and Learning Cycle, explicit Literacy in Subject Areas (LiSA) strategies, and clearly defined learning intentions and success criteria. There is a strong focus on developing students’ ability to respond to directive verbs and improve disciplinary writing through modelling, scaffolding and structured practice.
My resources are designed to be engaging, pedagogically robust, and immediately usable, regardless of a teacher’s level of subject expertise. They also incorporate opportunities to collect meaningful assessment data to support reporting, differentiation and informed planning.
Teaching is my passion, and I am committed to creating lessons that are both highly engaging and firmly grounded in best-practice teaching and learning.
Teaching style
Relaxed, positive, inclusive. I like to offer engaging lessons to make topics and subjects relevant and inspirational.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Bachelor of Arts Social Science and Humanities (University of Brighton, UK).
PGCE Social Science and Humanities (University of London, UK).
Bachelor of Psychological Science (University of New England, Australia).
Currently studying a Masters of Educational Design & Digital Technologies (University of Wollongong).
My own education history
High school - UK
University - UK and Australia
Additional biographical information
I am a single mum of three, we live in an apartment near the beach in Sydney, with our dog Harvey. We get outdoors to hike and camp often and we love picnics, friends and pool competitions.
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