Our Lecturers

• Paul Angus

  BEd, Grad Dip Ed Admin VCE Coordinator & Accounting Teacher, Xavier College. Paul has been a Commerce teacher for over 25 years and currently teaches Year 11 & 12 Accounting and Economics at Xavier College. He is also currently the VCE Coordin...
  
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• Jim Baird

  BEd - Biology teacher, Padua College. Jim has been teaching for over 22 years and for twenty of these years has been involved with teaching Biology at Year 12 level. During his extensive career he has also taught Biology at Rosebud Secondary Co...
  
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• Di Barclay

  BSc, BEd, Dip Ed, Senior Biology Teacher and Head of Science, Wesley College, Glen Waverley. Di is a current teacher and Head of Science at Wesley College and has been teaching Biology for 25 years.  She has extensive experience as a Biology teacher, being involved in both the VCE an...
  
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• Kim Bradley

  BAppSci (Phys Ed), Grad Dip (Secondary Ed), MEd (School Leadership), VCE Coordinator, Physical Education and Health & Human Development teacher, Essendon Keilor College Kim currently teaches PE and HHD and is VCE Coordinator at Essendon Keilor Secondary College (senior c...
  
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• Hayley Bridgwood

  BSc(Hons), Dip Ed VCE and IB Chemistry Teacher, Wesley College. Hayley specialised in molecular biology and immunology at Melbourne University, with Honours in molecular microbiology. She then spent 5 years in research for a new vaccine to protect chickens from a virus that has similar effects as HIV/AIDS.  Hayley then moved into full time secondary teaching in the areas of VCE Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Science. Her roles wit...
  
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• Coral Classon

  BA, Dip Ed, Grad Dip, MEd - English Literature educator. Coral has had extensive experience in teaching English and LOTE in both city and country schools.  After re-training in ESL in mid-career, she has focussed mainly on ESL and on the transition of ESL students into secondary schools.  She currently teaches Year 12 students in revision classes, assesses trial examination papers, and reviews trial papers for a publishing firm. She has been involved...
  
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• Blair Cooper

  BEd, Grad Cert HRM, Cert IV Workplace Training and Assessment Commerce Teacher, Head of Year 12, The Peninsula School. Blair has taught Business Management for the past 7 years at The Peninsula School. Prior to teaching he spent 8 years in a variety of Retail Management and Human Resource Management roles with M...
  
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• Fiona Cunningham

  BSc, Dip Ed, Grad Dip Epi Biostats Senior Biology/Genetics Educator, Author, Melbourne University. Fiona has over 12 years experience teaching IB and VCE Biology.  She was a member of the VCAA Biology Review Committee in 1998 and also a member of the VCE Biology Examination Panel from  1999 to 2005. Fiona has extensive experience as a Biolog...
  
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• Michael Daniel

  BA(Hons), BTheol, Dip Ed, Grad Cert RE Teacher of ESL, Camberwell Grammar School. Michael has taught at Camberwell Grammar School for 12 years and has taught VCE ESL since 2003. He is also the Overseas Student Co-ordinator. He has ...
  
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• Dr Mike Davies

  EdD, MEd, Post Grad Cert Ed, Grad Dip (IT&Man), BEng (Hons)Physics Teacher & Head of McCarthy House, St Kevin’s College.Michael has taught Physics at St Kevin's for 13 years, has been a VCE assessor and has written and reviewed a number of physics texts and also written trial examinations for Units 3 & 4. Read more

• Andrew Douch

  BEd, Biology and Science teacher, Wanganui Park Secondary College and learning technologies consultant Andrew is a Biology teacher and leader in the use of emerging technologies in schools. He also runs a VCE Biology podcast with an audience of 3000 students.  Andrew has inspired and helped many teachers to use leading edge t...
  
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• Ross Down

  BA, Dip Ed, Grad Dip Ed Admin, Cert Student Welfare Coordinator VCE Psychology, Sandringham College - Senior Campus. Ross has taught VCE Psychology for 17 years. He has played an active role with the VCAA having been the State Reviewer for Psychology and an exam assessor for most of that time.  He has also been a participant on the re-accreditation panel when the subject has been due for review. Ross has co-authored three editions of th...
  
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• Chris Dwyer

  BEng (Chem), Dip Ed Chemistry educator & consultant. Christopher Dwyer is a highly respected chemistry educator with over thirty years’ experience in teaching VCE Chemistry at Vermont Secondary College where he formerly served as Year 12 Coordinator and Head of Senior School. He has been a VCE Chemistry Assessor since 1986 and c...
  
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• Jane Dwyer

  BBSc, Grad Dip Ed, MEd, Senior School Fitchett House Coordinator & Senior Commerce (VCE) and IB Psychology teacher, Methodist Ladies’ College Jane has taught Psychology, Legal Studies and Business Management throughout her extensive teaching career. She currently teaches Yr 12 IB Psychology, Yr 11 & 12 VCE Legal Studies, Yr 11 VCE Business Management at Methodist Ladi...
  
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• Peter Farrar

  BA (Hons), Dip Ed Senior Legal Studies Teacher, Star of the Sea College and author. Peter has taught VCE Legal Studies for over 20 years. He has also served in senior leadership roles at a variety of schools and has extensive experience in curriculum development. Peter has authored/co-authored over 20 books, mainly for Jacaranda Wiley and Cambridge. He is also an educational consultant and has worked on the production of materials for the T...
  
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• Geoff Ferris

  BBus (Acc), Grad Dip Ed Senior Accounting Teacher, Mill Park Secondary College. Geoff has taught VCE/HSC Accounting for over 20 years. He is currently a VCAA Accounting examination assessor and until recently was the State Reviewer of Acco...
  
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• Shem Fitzgerald

  BEd, Grad Dip Ed Admin, Head of Geography, Geelong Grammar School Shem has taught senior Geography for over 10 years and currently teaches two year 12 VCE and one IB class each year. He is Head of Geography at Geelong Grammar School, where there are over 70 students studying year 12 VCE and IB Geography and was also Head of Geography at St. Kevin’s College. Shem ha...
  
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• Karen Ford

  BEd, MA Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, VCE lecturer and author. Karen has been involved in Senior English Education for 26 years. She was the founding Editor of Teaching English, a website for English teachers and is a contributing writer and advisor for The Age VCE Text Talk series. She lectures to students and staff acro...
  
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• Jenny Furey

  BEd, Grad Dip Child & Adolescent Psych, MAPS School Psychologist & Psychology Teacher, Mount St Joseph Girls' College. Jenny is School Psychologist at Mount St Joseph Girls’ College in Altona and has been involved in th...
  
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• Kelly Gallivan

  BSc/BA, Dip Ed, Post Grad Cert IB Maths Methods & English Teacher, St Kevin’s College Kelly currently teaches both VCE Maths Methods and English at St Kevin’s College and was previously Head of Mathematics at Werribee Secondary...
  
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• Sonia Goodacre

  BAppSci, BEd Health Education educator. Sonia has been a teacher of Health and Human Development since 1999. Teaching in both secondary Schools and at TAFE she has taught a wide range of students from a variety of different backgrounds and abilities. She is an author of current VCE Health & Human Development textbooks: A Global Perspective on Health and Human Development Unit 3 & 4, Cambridge University Press; and An Australian Perspective on Health and Human Development Unit 1 &...
  
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• Greg Gould

  BEd (Business Studies),  BBus (Accounting) Head of Commerce, Methodist Ladies' College. Greg has been teaching Accounting in Secondary Schools since 1982. He was also a lecturer and tutor at RMIT and Victoria University in the 1990’s. Currently Greg is a ...
  
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• Karen Graham

  BA (Hons), Dip Ed, BEd Head of English, St Kevin’s College. Karen is currently the Head of English at St Kevin’s College, Toorak and has been a key English staff member at the College for over 23 years. She has extensive experience as an English examinatio...
  
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• Kylie Hand

  BBSc, Dip Ed Head of Psychology, VCE Coordinator, Bendigo Senior Secondary College. Kylie has taught Psychology at Bendigo Senior Secondary College for seven years and is also VCE Coordinator.  She has been a Psychology ex...
  
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• Glenis Heath

  Trained Secondary Teacher’s Certificate (Domestic Arts), Diploma of Domestic Arts (Rusden) Currently VCE Teacher of Food and Technology and Health and Human Development at Shelford Girls’ Grammar, Head of the Health and PE Learning area and Author of a number of school text books. Glenis has taught Food and Technology since its inception at both St Michael’s Grammar School and Shelford Girls’ Grammar. She is co-author of Food Solutions Units 1 & 2 and Food Solutions Units 3 & 4, as well as co-author of Checkpoin...
  
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• Joe Hewett

  BA, Dip Ed Head of English & Senior English Teacher, Trinity Grammar School. VCAA assessor 2006 - present. Joe has taught senior English at Trinity Grammar School for the past 8 years and has been Head of the E...
  
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• Bob Hillman

  BA, Dip Ed, MEd, Grad Dip Student Welfare, Head of Year 12 & Senior English Teacher, Trinity Grammar School. Bob Hillman is an experienced Year 12 English teacher of over 25 years.  He has been Head of English at a major independent school and has also been an assessor...
  
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• Pauline Holland

  Formerly Head of Mathematics, Korowa Anglican Girls' School, currently Publishing Editor, Mathematics, Jacaranda Wiley.Pauline Holland has been a teacher of Senior Mathematics in a number of secondary schools in Melbourne. She now works as a Publishing Editor, Mathematics with Jacaranda, the school division of John Wiley & Sons, Australia and prior to that she was Head of Mathematics at Korowa Anglican Gir...
  
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• Ken Holmes

  BSocSc, DipEd, DipProfCouns, MEd Teacher and Senior School Coordinator, Catholic College, Sale. Ken has been teaching VCE Physical Education since 1985 and VCE Psychology since 2000. He is active in attending in-services and staying up-to-date with the latest developments in all aspects of Physical Education and Psychology. In a...
  
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• Linda Howey

  BEd, Biology Double Major, Chemistry Minor Senior Biology Teacher, Toorak College. Linda has taught students of Biology for 19 years and is also currently Head of Year at Toorak College, Mount Eliza. She has also been Head of Science from 2000 to 2006, moving into the Head of Year 9 role in 2007. She has exte...
  
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• Elissa Huddart

  BSci, Grad Dip Ed, MEd (Curric. Studies) Chemistry Educator. Elissa has over 10 years experience as an educator having taught Chemistry, Biology and Junior Science in Victorian schools. She has extensive experience as a VCAA Chemistry examination assessor from 2003 to the present and was involved in the delivery of professional development workshops to Chemistry teachers on the c...
  
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• Ross Huggard

  BEc, Dip Ed, Grad Dip Ed Admin, MEd Policy & Admin, MACEL, MACE Senior English Teacher, Senior School Leader, Cranbourne Secondary College. Ross Huggard is currently teaching at Cranbourne Secondary College, but has also had teaching experience within the independent system at Trinity Grammar School in Kew and in other schools. He has had extensive experience in teaching VCE English from its inception, and has written a number of VCE English texts including Insight Exam Guide to VCE English; Insight Guide to The Longest Memory; Insight Guide to The Life of Galileo and film study, Schindler’s List. In addition, he has co-authored a range of VCE English texts, including the best selling Insight Outcomes English Year 12 2007. He is the consulting editor for Insight English for Year ...
  
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• Michelle Humphreys

  BCom, Dip Ed, MEd Studies Senior Legal Studies Teacher, Eltham College of Education and author. Michelle has taught students of Legal Studies at Eltham College of Education for 16 years and is currently also VCE Coordinator. She has extensive experience as a Legal Studies examination assessor from 1996 to the present and was a member of the VCAA Legal Studies Review Committee f...
  
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• Ben Jenkinson

  BAppSci (Hum Mvt), BEd (Sec) Senior Physical Education Teacher & Head of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, Mentone Girls' Grammar School. An experienced and passionate Physical Education teacher, Ben has achieved outstanding results for his students in VCE Physical Education. At the redevelopment and implementation of the new VCE PE Study Design (2006...
  
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• Keith King

  BEc, BEd Accounting Teacher, Diamond Valley College and author. Keith has been teaching Accounting for more than 35 years and for the past 17 years has taught Accounting students at Diamond Valley College where he is also the Sports Coordinator. He has had extensive experience as Chief assessor for Accounting from 1982 - 1986 and 1993 to 2003 and has been a...
  
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• Liz Lay

  BEd, Post Grad Dip (Student Welfare),Health & Human Development teacher, Centre for Adult Education (CAE)New to Access Education presenting, Liz is an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher with 16 years experience, the last 7 specialising in VCE delivery at Catholic Regional College Sydenham and the Centre for Adult Education. Currently on Maternity leave from Secondary education, Liz is maintaining her passion f...
  
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• Kate Lefel

  BA (Psychology/Criminology), BTeach (Hons) (Psychology/English) Senior Psychology Teacher, Wesley College. Kate has had extensive experience teaching both VCE Psychology and IB Psychology at Wesley College for over 10 years, and aims to assist her students in attaining their highest achievable results each year....
  
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• Angelos Mavridis

  BA, DipEd, MEd Studies, MEd Studies(TESOL) Senior Legal Studies, National Politics & English Teacher, Haileybury College. Angelos has been teaching for over 21 years and is currently Head of House at Haileybury College. He has ...
  
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• Jan May

  BA, Dip Ed, BEd Studies Senior English and Literature Teacher, St Leonards College. Jan has taught students at St Leonards College for 28 years, serving from 1995 until 2006 as Deputy Head of English and VCE English Co-ordinator. Jan is currently Team Leader of Year 12 VCE English. She has extensive experience as an English examination setter, auditor, review and text selector, as well as GAT asses...
  
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• Heather McKenzie

  HDipT - Home Eco, Grad Dip Bus Senior Food Technology Teacher, Strathmore Secondary College and author. Heather has taught VCE Food and Technology for 15 years at Strathmore Secondary College and is the Technology Key Learning Area leader in the schoo...
  
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• Kevin McMenamin

  BScEd, GCMME, PDMME Head of Maths, The Peninsula School. Kevin has taught in various schools for the past 20 years. His teaching experience with mathematics is across all levels of secondary school in all subjects of mathematics and into the first year of university. He is currently Head of the Mathematics Department at The Peninsula School, Mt Eliza, Victoria and the use of technology is prominent within his classroom. Over the last 15 years, Kevin has presented mathematics based lectures to senior students and teachers across Australia, with a m...
  
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• Debra McNaughton

  BA, Dip Ed Head of Humanities, Padua College. Debra is an experienced teacher of Business Management and Economics with a background in both the public and private sectors. She has extensive experience as a Business Management exam assessor from 1996 to 2007. Debra is the author of Business Notes, is co-author of A+ Business Management Pract...
  
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• Jennifer Merrett

  BA, Dip Ed Head of Mathematics, Yarra Valley Grammar. Jennifer is a secondary mathematics teacher with more than 20 years experience and has taught in both the state system and independent schools. She is currently Head of Mathematics at Yarra Valley Gra...
  
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• Bronwyn Miller

  BA (Soc Sc), Grad Dip Ed Teaching and Learning Manager, Bendigo Senior Secondary College. Bronnie has taught students Psychology at VCE level for 12 years and has a real passion for the subject and to see students achieve their maximum potential.  She has gained valuable experience working as a VCAA Psychology Exam assessor from 2003 to the present, participating as a member of t...
  
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• Michael O'Connor

  BSc, Dip Ed, MEd Mathematics Coordinator St Francis Xavier College, Beaconsfield. Michael has taught Further Mathematics for 12 years and has been Mathematics Coordinator in three schools over the last decade.  Michael has been involved in revision lectures ...
  
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• Angela O'Dwyer

  BA(Hons), Dip Ed Dean, Newman College, The University of Melbourne. Angela has been Senior Teacher and Head of Geography at a several of the Associated Public Schools. She has been an assessr of VCE Geography Examination papers since 2002, and has presented the Ac...
  
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• Agatha Panetta

  BEd, Health & Home Economics, Teacher of Health & Human Development and Food & Technology and Head of Health & Physical Education, Toorak College, Mount Eliza. Agatha has taught Health & Human Development at a senior level for over 20 years. She is also the Head of Health and Physical Education at Toorak College where she coordinates the teaching of Health across all year levels. During her career she has been a VCAA asse...
  
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• John Parlas

  BEd Head of ICT and Year 12 Physics Teacher, Yarra Valley Grammar John has taught senior Physics at Independent Girls and Co-educational Schools for 17 years and is currently also Head of ICT. He has wide experience in curriculum planning as well as d...
  
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• Sharyn Price

  BSc, Dip Ed, Further Maths teacher, Yarra Valley Grammar.    Read more

• Mary Purcell

  BA(Hons), Dip Ed, Dip RE, Literature and Philosophy teacher, MacRobertson Girls High School. Mary has had extensive experience in teaching English and Literature in both city and country schools, including many years as Head of English at a range of Catholic colleges. She has been an assessor of Literature for nearly 20 years and has w...
  
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• Graeme Richards

  BA (Double Maths major), Dip Ed Senior Mathematics Teacher, Vermont Secondary College. Graeme has taught students of Mathematics at Vermont Secondary College for 35 years. Whilst he has taught all levels of Mathematics he has a passion for and has concentrated on the senior Secondary levels. He has extensive experience teaching Units 3 and 4 Mathematics, ...
  
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• Raymond Rozen

  BSc (Hons), Dip Ed, Grad Dip Comp Sc, MEd (Melbourne University) Advanced Skills Teacher, RMIT Technical College. Raymond has taught Specialist Mathematics and Mathematical Methods at RMIT for 15 years. He has experience as a Mathematical Methods examination assessor in 2003 and was a member of ...
  
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• Diana Salvitti

  BSc, Grad Dip Ed (Sec), Grad Dip (Student Welfare), Mathematics Teacher, Trinity Grammar School, Kew. Diana has been a teacher of mathematics for over 15 years and for most of which she has taught Further Maths and Maths Methods at VCE level. She is currently teaching these subject...
  
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• Anthony Simmons

  BComm, Dip Ed Senior coordinator, Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. Anthony Simmons is Senior Coordinator and Senior Accounting teacher at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. Anthony was a member of the committee which developed the current VCE Accounting Study Design and with Richard Hardy, is the aut...
  
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• Peter Skinner

  BAppSc, Dip Ed IB & VCE Chemistry Teacher, Geelong Grammar. Peter started off his career in Chemistry in a combination of antiviral drug research and lecturing in Chemistry at the Victorian College of Pharmacy.  He then moved into the secondary education system where he has been teaching Year 12 Chemistry for the last 12 years.  For a number of year...
  
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• Matt Sparks

  BEd, Grad Dip Exercise and SportScience, MSci (Research), Senior Physical Education Teacher, Caulfield Grammar School. Matthew has taught VCE Physical Education at Caulfield Grammar School for 18 years and is currently Head o...
  
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• Tony Thompson

  BA (English), Dip Ed, MA (Literary Studies), Lecturer, Victoria University. Tony Thompson is a Melbourne based teacher and author. He has taught Literature and English in local high schools for the past 15 years. His articles and reviews have appeared in 'The Age' and 'The Australian' and he has been...
  
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• Steve Treadwell

  BEd Maths/Sci, Grad Dip Sports Science Head of Science Faculty, Beaconhills College, Berwick. Steve has been teaching VCE Physics since 1990 and was a member of the Physics Study Review Panel for the current Study Design. Steve is also an author, as a co-writer ...
  
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• Cindy Twyford

  BEd (Business Studies) Manager Teaching and Learning Programs - Brighton Secondary College. Cindy has been a teacher of Business Management for the past 14 years and currently oversees programs for students with a range of learning abilities within her school. S...
  
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• Sarah Weeks (nee Kimpton)

  BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, Senior Biology Teacher, Beaconhills Christian College Sarah is currently a Senior Biology teacher at Beaconhills Secondary College, having previously taught VCE Chemistry and Biology to ESL Students at St Catherine's School. Ha...
  
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• David White

  BEd English (double Major) Indiana University Education Consultant - VCE English and Assessment. David has taught Year 12 English and Literature for over 30 years and is currently a VCAA assessor - a position he has held for the past 23 years. David was Head of English for 14 years at Parkdale Secondary College where he was also a year level co-coordinator a...
  
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