Philomena

Native English Teacher with 22 years of experience, teaching children from age 4-to 8 years and academic coaching up to Grade 7.

I am creative and resourceful with a proven ability to enhance students' performance, focusing on the procedure, not the product and enjoying the journey instead of hurriedly arriving at the destination.

Baker & Bloom - Teacher & Academic Coach
Classes: K1- K3 (4 -6-year olds), Gr. 1/2 (7-8-year olds),
Private Academic Coaching K3 – Gr.7 (5 – 13-year olds)
Summer Programme: Private group classes, Teaching with Eric Carle and Caldecott books,
Kindergarten Interview Preparation, Creative Writing: Creating Storybooks (Gr.1/2), and other classes tailored to prepare the children to return to school in the new academic year.

Achievements:
* Expanded the Kindergarten section with holistic, hands-on teaching that included art, sharing my love of books, music, and varied activities.
* Shared my vision of integrating the expanded Kindergarten section into the feeder programme to continue a thorough train to Baker & Bloom Academy, implemented in August 2021.
* Conducted online learning via Google Meet and Zoom, using Aww whiteboard app, with children as young as four years old during the social unrest and the pandemic.
* Modified and expanded the existing curriculum to include differentiated learning from K1 – Gr.2, given that most of my students were ESL learners.
* Tailored coaching sessions according to the needs of individual children and the expected academic
performance, keeping in mind their age, emotional development, and varied background.
* Successfully prepared students entering DBS and St. Paul's Coed and a student who had been accepted by five top UK Primary schools, including the prestigious Tormead School.
* Built care, trust, and confidentiality relationships with the children and their parents/caregivers.
* Conducted hybrid learning with some children preferring onsite lessons whilst others continue with online classes.

Fairchild Kindergarten - Lead Educator
Classes taught:
• Playgroups from 12 - 24 months (Weekday afternoons)
• Transition: 2-3 years old.
• K1 Dual language: 3-4 years old (partnering with the Mandarin teacher)

As an Educator, I:

• Focused on the children's whole development in a play-based environment to cultivate their curiosity, creativity, and confidence.
• Taught and based learning on the British Columbia and Ontario, Canada, Early Learning Frameworks, and the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) from the UK.
• Used various methods based on the Reggio Emilia approach to facilitate learning; children are driven by their interests and investigations to understand and learn. They have 'Hundred Languages' to express their learning differently.
• Created an inviting classroom/learning environment accessible, provocative and inspired children; the 'third teacher'. Children are curious, competent, and capable of building knowledge.
• Guided learning alongside the children (not wholly teacher-directed), observed their interests and scaffolded the education by providing opportunities, resources, and materials to explore further and extend their interests.


Braemar Hill Nursery School- K2 Level English Coordinator
Responsible for the continuous improvement of our pupils' language development through coordinating with the K2 English team of 6 teachers.
Continued to teach a K2 and a K3 class of 12 students in each respective class.
Duties:
• Setting up regular meetings with management to provide progress updates on the school's success and academic progress.
• Motivating staff to be positive and adapt to the changing educational methods.
• Taking the lead in assessment data analysis and curriculum development to contribute to strategic planning and school improvement.
• Engaging parents to be more involved with their children's education.
• Facilitating the organisation of Year Level Responsibilities to ensure that programming and planning, well-being and preparation for holiday and Graduation performances
etc., are shared amongst the team.
• Enabling children to make excellent progress in literacy and maths, providing a solid foundation for all aspects of education.
• Writing weekly lesson plans (on a rotational basis) and preparing art and creativity lessons.
• Writing monthly portfolios and regular progress reports.
• Maintaining a regular system of monitoring, assessment, record-keeping and reporting of children's progress.
• Providing a variety of fun playtime activities geared toward learning, personal growth and education.
• Organising and managing groups or individual pupils, ensuring differentiation of learning needs, reflecting all abilities.

Sunshine House International Pre-schools (Tung Chung) - Supervisor

Jack and Jill Treehouse Learning Centre -
English Program Leader
• Full-time teacher heading the English language programme
• Responsibilities involved planning the curriculum as well as actual classroom teaching, tailoring the lessons according to the needs of the children
• Conferred and coordinated projects and events and developed materials with the other teachers.
. Permitted Teacher to teach English up to Secondary 3.