Alana is a mathematics teacher and started her teaching career at Onehunga High School. In 2000 she was seconded to the Ministry of Education as the National Pasifika Literacy and Numeracy Co-ordinator. This year, she is working part-time for Team Solutions on the Student Achievement contract. She facilitates professional development workshops on topics ranging from effective professional learning communities, raising Pasifika student achievement, culturally responsive pedagogy, and cross-curricula literacy.
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Sue has three decades of experience in supporting both emerging and experienced teachers in literacy - through face-face, blended and fully online teaching. Her background includes teaching in primary, secondary and tertiary settings, and she is also an experienced teacher of the Deaf. An ‘expert juggler of roles’, she currently works part-time as a literacy facilitator supporting learning with digital technologies; as a literacy support teacher in a Christchurch primary school,; and as an additional teacher supporting a Deaf student enrolled in Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu - The Correspondence School. She loves books and enjoys working alongside colleagues to embrace new tools and create balanced ways of learning for our active learners.
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David is the Head of English at John McGlashan College in Dunedin. He has taught English in a diverse range of settings - ranging from Invercargill to Inner London. As a teacher and HoD, David is dedicated to the continual pursuit of excellence in practice - creating innovative and engaging programmes, and using diverse and effective strategies to deliver these.
Breda Matthews - Secondary ESOL facilitatorBreda has been a head of ESOL and has taught ESOL and English to students from a wide range of educational and language backgrounds. Breda worked as an ESOL facilitator, served on NCEA review panels and has written a number of resources including NCEA teaching and assessment materials. Breda has a B.Ed in History and Education (London), an MA in Historical Studies (Greenwich), a Dip TESSOL (ACE) and an MA in Applied Linguistics (Victoria University of Wellington).
Janet McQueen - Primary ESOL facilitatorJanet is an experienced primary and ESOL teacher, and ESOL PLD cluster leader. She worked as Senior Advisor Literacy/ESOL at the Ministry of Education. As part of this work she led the writing of ‘Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners’ to support implementation of National Standards, the online English Language Learning Progressions Professional Support Modules, contributed to the National Standards English Language Learners’ Guidelines, and managed the primary ESOL and Home-School Partnerships professional learning and development advisory service. She has a Graduate Diploma in Teaching ESOL in Schools (Auckland).
Catriona works as Project Lead on Literacy, ESOL and English Online as well as on NZC Online. She has a background in primary teaching and a particular interest in literacy, e-learning, the New Zealand Curriculum, online communities, student voice, and community engagement.
Julie is an online content editor. She is responsible for creating and maintaining online resources and content; quality assurance for web content; technical support for website operations; and improving accessibility and usability. Julie has experience editing content for New Zealand Curriculum Online.
Updated on: 05 Feb 2015
