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Our Learning Support and EAL Tutors provide support to students throughout the school.
Head of Student Support Services
I am a passionate teacher with over 12 years of teaching experience in Special Education Needs (SEN). Originally from Belfast, in Northern Ireland, I completed a two-year PGCE, training in both Primary and Secondary Education and specializing in Key Stage 2 and 3. I went on to work in three private SEN schools, in the United Kingdom, working with a variety of learners with a range of individual needs.
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EAL Teacher
Before joining BISH, I worked as an English and Spanish tutor to primary and secondary pupils. I have been trained as a professional EAL teacher through the Cambridge English Language Teaching Certification program. I am also a Spanish Teacher certified by the Instituto Cervantes-Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. I am passionate about teaching languages and I speak four of them English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. I am currently enrolled at the University of Texas to obtain a degree as Master of Arts in Bilingual Education.
Visiting Specialist
LDT, CALT, BA Hons.
Certified Academic Language Therapist and Licensed Dyslexia Therapist
I have been working one on one with dyslexic students since 2010. Prior to becoming an independent dyslexia therapist, I was a member of staff at the British International School of Houston from 2002 to early 2011, working as a Learning Support Assistant with students in Foundation and Key Stage 1. For a number of years I was also a parent here. I am fortunate to be continuing my association with the school in the capacity of private therapist, helping students both within school and also in my home in Spring, northwest Houston.
Learning Support Teacher
Primary Learning Support Teacher
Growing up with a close family member who is profoundly deaf made me very aware of communication needs and led to me studying for a degree in Human Communication and Communication Disorders, alongside Linguistics. I volunteered for a year in Romania with children and young people with a wide range of learning needs. This confirmed my desire to train as a teacher and I completed a PGCE in Primary Education. I worked for several years in primary schools in Hampshire and Surrey before my husband’s work took us overseas. Living in different countries provided me with a great opportunity to experience different educational settings and I was fortunate to be able to volunteer in the schools my children have attended in various locations.
High School Learning Support Teacher
My passion for teaching came early on. I remember playing “school” with my sister as a young child in which my role was always the teacher. My first job in high school was teaching gymnastics and subsequently my other jobs throughout high school contained teaching components. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2010, I decided to continue my passion for teaching (and traveling), teaching English in Colombia and then later in the Republic of Georgia. Upon returning to the United States, I completed my Masters Degree in Education, with a focus on Alternative Education, at Concordia University in Wisconsin. I started teaching at North Broward, the Nord Anglia School in South Florida, in 2014 working with High School Students with learning differences. I loved the opportunities a Nord Anglia school can provide students and the growth opportunities it provides teachers, so I decided to transfer Nord Anglia schools in the summer of 2017 joining the team here at BISH as a High School Learning Support Teacher. I am an advocate for ensuring all students receive the accommodations they need and love every minute of working with students who learn differently. I am a promoter of Visual Thinking, Mind Maps, using games to teach, utilizing technology in the classroom, and an encourager of using accessibility features to help students learn. I consider myself lucky to be in a profession that allows me to be a lifelong learner.
I have been teaching students from Year 1 to Year 13 for ten years. My specialist subjects are Drama, French, Spanish, and EAL. I began my career working in Spain in Theatre in Education. This position allowed me to pursue my love of acting and speaking foreign languages, whilst helping EAL students to learn English through the medium of Drama. In the UK I taught for several years in state schools before moving to Qatar, where I was Head of Drama. After four years in Qatar, my family and I moved to the British International School of Houston in 2017 in order to develop our professional careers.
EAL Assistant
Before joining BISH, I have worked as an accountant in an insurance company in Sydney,Australia. I obtained my Bachelors in Business Administration degree while in India. Thereafter, went on to study in Australia and completed Masters in Professional Accounting. I joined BISH as a volunteer helping out in Year 6. Currently, I am working (at BISH) with the student support services department as an EAL Assistant. I have completed the EAL course offered online by Nord Anglia.