This is my professional Web Site.
I'm Director of Curriculum, and the teacher-librarian at Mossgiel Park PS, Endeavour Hills, an outer suburb of south-eastern Melbourne. In 2004 Mossie Park won an award for excellence in the teaching of literacy; it's a school focused on innovation and excellence.
My current professional interests are
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making the library more kid-friendly by tagging books to indicate their genre;
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developing longer sequences of topics to foster deep learning in the library;
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integrating ICT into library lessons, beyond internet searching
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designing curriculum to include assessment for learning; assessment as learning and assessment of learning
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VELS & PoLT
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working with professional learning teams to enhance teaching and learning for the 21st century.
| I started teaching in 1979 at Bentleigh West PS, then
became a Coordinator at the Ardoch and Bayside Teachers' Centre
while on study leave at Melbourne University. After that it was
Cheltenham Heights PS, Beaumaris PS, Springvale West PS, Heatherton PS,
and then to Mossgiel Park, where I've been since 1994. I've been a classroom teacher, an ESL teacher, and while I was a LOTE teacher (Indonesian), I was also President of VILTA. |
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I'm also a professional writer and publisher. I have written
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articles for professional journals and magazines,
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short stories published in anthologies:
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Up the Creek,
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Victoria: Places to See, Places to Be
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A Rich Inheritance.
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I'm the author of
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Indonesia, a non-fiction text for students, published by Pascal Press.
and the author/publisher of
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the Word Puzzles for the Indonesian Classroom series of teacher resource books.
These titles are available from Nusantara.
Visit my companion website for lovers of Australian Literature, ANZ LitLovers, my travel blog about our recent trip to Europe, Travels with Tim and Lisa or Hill Family News.
You might also like to visit my husband's website for the Australian Cotton Club Orchestra, or my son's website for ABOC Cycle coaching.