Amy Perkins

Background

About Amy Perkins

Recently, someone asked me 'what do you stand for? what are you driven by?'. Here is my response-Moral purpose -Equity and Excellence -Spending time on things that matter -Transformative change. Specialities: Professional Learning, Appraisal, Coaching, Curriculum and Assessment Design, Māori / Pasifika education, Digital Technologies and e-Learning, Literacy (digital and other), Inquiry, Project-based Learning, Pastoral Care and Gifted and Talented Pedagogy. I have facilitated workshops on the following: Leadership, Engaging Diverse Learners, Differentiation, Student Voice, The What and Why of Learning, ICT Vision and the New Zealand Curriculum, Literacy in Physical Education and Science, Using the G.R.O.W. Model to Raise Student Achievement, Assessment for Learning, Questioning, Social Media in Education, Skills: unpacking questions, analysing sources, paragraph/essay writing, Social Inquiry, Teaching and Learning Concepts, Future Focus and Wicked Problems, Teaching a Second Language, Minor and Major Behaviours.