Robert Blease

Background

About Robert Blease

PROFILE Robert Blease is a highly accomplished training and quality assurance expert with 30 years of professional experience in the education sector. He began his career with the British Council and gained his first teacher training experience in the low resource context of Pakistan, before designing and delivering professional development workshops for teachers in the Portuguese state sector. After completing his Masters‘ degree in Education he continued to develop, and lead in-service professional development for trainee teachers, and experienced educators in England, Vietnam, Slovenia and Kosovo. He has also used his teacher training experience to deliver online webinars, and develop self-paced, online teacher training modules. Robert has extensive experience establishing quality assurance mechanisms in schools and has successfully led evidence- based pedagogical change throughout his career. He has extensive experience evaluating the quality of teaching and learning at school level in leadership positions. He is also a skilled school evaluator and has inspected schools in Europe and Asia, with the Council of International Schools. Throughout his career, Mr Blease has established, and managed different school departments and educational programmes. He has managed and mentored different levels of staff and led teams that have successfully driven school improvement. He designed and introduced the Peer Led Quality Assurance Model in Kosovo and successfully introduced school based teacher professional development across the country.