Meridith is the NSW Project Officer for Adelaide University. She works with NSW schools to provide training for teachers learning to implement digital technologies. She also continues her work as a teacher to maintain connections with the curriculum and needs of teachers. Meridith is accredited as an Apple Teacher and an Apple Teacher in Swift Playground.
Meridith has experience teaching students K-10 and she is an experienced facilitator of adult workshops, with experience working in both school and corporate environments.
Successful projects and skills include:
Meridith has experience teaching students K-10 and she is an experienced facilitator of adult workshops, with experience working in both school and corporate environments.
Successful projects and skills include:
- Consultant to NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)
- Education Consultant STEM, Digital Technologies, technical writer, GATS, Makerspaces, Curriculum
- Speaker at conferences on education, digital technologies, pedagogy.
- Technical writer and course developer for Educational platforms and providers
- Supervised the rollout of laptops and GSuite, including logistics, teacher training, implementation in classrooms and digital citizenship, 2019
- Development and rollout of a K-6 Digital Citizenship Program, 2019.
- Developed and facilitated a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) program for
Stage 2. - Developed a new elective for year 8 in computational thinking using a blended format, face to face and online.
- Developed courses, applied and gained approval for a school to be registered for professional development for All Standard Descriptors of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the level of Proficient Teacher.
- Facilitation of training for 800 students and 80 staff to sign into GSuite.
- Development and rollout of a K-12 Digital Citizenship Program, 2012.
- Teaching with superclasses, project based learning, STEM, collaboration tools.
- Establishment and facilitation of a beginners and advanced coding club for 8 years.
- Introduction of coding to teach maths concepts and literacy in Stage 2.
- Development of lessons to differentiate maths in yr 1 using iPads.
- Curating resources for teaching coding - kodeklubbers.weebly.com
- Curating resources for computational thinking - inspireslearning.weebly.com
- Blogger http://observelearndo.blogspot.com.au/
- Active on social media