Teaching CV

• Twelve years’ experience as international teacher

• Committed to lifelong learning

• Skilled workshop leader in range of topics

• Passionate and dedicated extracurricular leader

• Community-minded, building networks within and outside school

Employment

Markham College (February 2023 - present)

• Art Teacher and Head of Art

• Theory of Knowledge Teacher

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (January 2024)

• Summer school lecturer

• Intensive ceramic summer school for undergraduates (1 week)

• Within the department of Art and Design

• Teaching in Spanish

Hong Kong Academy (August 2015 - January 2023)

• Visual Art Teacher (MYP and IBDP, 2015-present) and co-head of department

• hkaFLOW co-ordinator (2018-2021)

• IBDP Visual Art examiner

• Global Citizenship Diploma reviewer (read more about the GCD here)

• Theory of Knowledge teacher (2017-2020)

RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School (August-December 2018)

• Teaching ceramics to second-year undergraduates (part-time, temporary)

Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau (August 2012 - July 2015)

• Visual Art Teacher (IGCSE and KS3)

• Theory of Knowledge teacher (2013-2015)

• Head of Year

Sai Kung Central Li Siu Yam Primary School, Sai Kung (September 2010 - July 2011)

• Part-time project-based learning English teacher and course designer

PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd (March 2005 - March 2010)

• Deputy manager

• Management and communication skills trainer

• English coach and editor

Armstrong-Hilton, Hong Kong (March 2003 - February 2005)

• Business English teacher to professional adults

• Course designer

Previous to November 2002 I lived in France, Spain and the UK, teaching English as a Foreign Language and working as a field archaeologist.

Professional development

Coaching for Performance (March 2024)

Futures Thinking in Education: Nurturing Empowered Changemakers, online with Inspire Citizens (April-May 2024)

Sustainability and the Journey Beyond the SDGs, online with Inspire Citizens (September-November 2023)

Eco-photography, online with Inspire Citizens (2022)

Painting the head (self-portrait), live online course with Emily Ball (December 2021)

Cognitive coaching refresher (October 2021)

Art, Ethics and Social Change Online Short Course, UAL (June 2021)

Empathy to Impact - Online Learning for Educators by Inspired Citizens (October 2020) - read about the impact of this course on my teaching practice here: Visual Art meets Engaged Global Citizenship

Category 2 IBDP Arts Training, online (May 2020)

Pediatric First Aid, Hong Kong (28 September, 2019)

Advanced Cognitive Coaching, Hong Kong (19-25 September, 2019)

Interdisciplinary teaching and learning in the MYP (Cat.3), online (8 May - 5 June, 2019)

Arwae (Asia Region Workshop for Art Educators), Beijing (22 September-24 September 2017)

Foundation Adaptive Schools, Hong Kong (3-6 September, 2017)

Creating Cultures of Thinking, Hong Kong (31 March-1 April, 2017)

EARCOS (East Asia Region Council of Schools), Manila (31 March-1 April 2016)

Cognitive Coaching (Foundation), Hong Kong (6-9 April 2016)

Ararte (Asia Region Art Educators), Kuala Lumpur (24-26 September 2016)

Category 2 MYP Arts Training, Hong Kong (14-16 February 2016)

Category 1 MYP Arts Training, online (May 2015)

Asia Region Art Educators (Ararte) Conference, Bangkok (10-12 October, 2014)

Experimental Print Making, St Martin’s, London (4-8 August, 2014)

Diploma Programme, Visual Arts, Category 1 (1-3 March, 2014) 

Diploma Programme, TOK, Category 1 (18-20 October, 2013) 

Ararte Conference, Hong Kong (11-13 October, 2013) 

Art of Education 2013 Online Conference (25 June, 2013)

extracurricular

“As small as a world” community ceramic project (2022)

This semester-long project involved a group of primary students, secondary students, parents, faculty and staff investigating the marine life in and around Sai Kung. After exploring and researching through photos and drawings, we worked together to develop skills in ceramic construction and surface decoration. The resulting garden poles are permanently displayed at the entrance to the school.

The title is taken from a poem by e.e. cummings

maggie and milly and molly and may

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it's always ourselves we find in the sea

Community mural (2018-2021)

Initiated by me, then led by three DP students as a project, this mural was interrupted by first the protests, and then Covid. After many stops-and-starts (and a year after the original students graduated), a team of middle-school students finally finished it off. A tale of resilience and perseverance.

For further information, see this article: https://hkacademy.edu.hk/shared-love-of-food/

Graffiti wars (2019)

In 2019 Hong Kong Academy hosted Graffiti Wars, an inter-school live graffiti competition. Students from HKA were coached over 6 weeks to develop and prepare their final design aimed at celebrating the refugee community in Hong Kong.

STEAM mural after-school activity, (2016)

Sixteen students (G9-11) explored the role of observational drawing in science, dissecting hearts and learning about da Vinci's anatomical drawings. They also explored the role Renaissance perspectives, as developed by artists, played in the development of non-Euclidean mathematics. They worked together with outside artists to design and complete the mural.

Community mural (2015-2016)

Twenty students (G6-12) worked to design a mural representing the Hong Kong Academy community. They taught clay tile workshops to students and teachers, designed and glazed the mural.

Final mural consists of 116 tiles and is approx 1m x 2m.

community

In previous and current schools, I actively create community within school and externally, for example founding the ChineseTEA Facebook group for HK-based art teachers, hosting weekly yoga sessions for colleagues, or organising community life drawing sessions for students, staff and parents.

• NSEADCreate case study - April 2020 - Who are we? Why do we do what we do? Why do we do it this way?

• Art of Education - Everyday Art Room podcast published 3 April 2020

• Founder ChineseTEA Facebook group for Hong Kong art teachers