Samantha Kheirabi

• Planned and delivered engaging and educational activities for children and families to enhance early literacy skills, critical thinking, creativity, and reading for pleasure. Successful in retaining customers and implementing block-booking systems.
• Collaborated with local nurseries, schools and support services to promote initiatives from the Scottish Book Trust, including Bookbug and Reading Schools Accreditation.
• Supported the library team and Community Librarian in daily tasks including lending, sourcing and sorting texts and materials from SLLC circulation.
• Managed a book budget across two libraries for buying age appropriate contemporary literature based on research from lending data and current literary trends.
• Supported children, their families, carers and other agencies and educational establishments in engaging with reading for pleasure and wellbeing.

Pedagogy

• Designed and developed curriculum and instructional materials to align with NSW Educations standards based on individual student needs.
• Delivered effective and differentiated instruction using a variety of teaching methods and techniques to engage students and facilitate learning across different subjects or topics.
• Created a supportive, inclusive and culturally responsive classroom environment that fosters respect, empathy, and appreciation for diversity.
• Used play-based pedagogies to inform my teaching and learning practices and provided open-ended, modelled and purposefully framed play to teach skills and understanding of concepts throughout the curriculum.

Assessment

• Experienced in providing summative and formative assessment tasks for all curriculum areas using frameworks for success and rubrics aligned with Progressions.
• Analysed assessment data to track pupil progress and inform further learning and instructional decisions and use results to engage in reflective practice and self-evaluate my teaching and learning practices.
• Implemented early interventions in literacy and numeracy using research-led and evidence based programmes.
• Provided timely and constructive feedback/feedforward to students and parents/carers and learning goals were set in collaboration with the aim of children reaching their full potential and to be their best self.

Professional Practice

• Worked in collaboration with colleagues to share best practices and promote a positive, collaborative school culture. This included taking part in CPD relevant to the School Improvement Plan and delivering presentations to staff to share learning.
• Collaborated with a variety of professionals to ensure that the individual needs of the child were met and worked together to make achievable and attainable IEPs and goals in learning and personal wellbeing.
• Lead teacher in Science and Technology, sustainability, and overseeing the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in all teaching and learning.
• Contributed to playground duty overseeing the wellbeing and safety of students, updating student profiles, promoting positive behaviour around the school and overseeing conflict resolution using restorative practice.
• Undertook various roles at the school including EALD teacher, school librarian and PSSA teacher (community sport)

• Enhanced students' language proficiency by utilizing diverse teaching methods and materials.
• Developed and taught ESL curriculum to improve students' conversational abilities.
• Educated students in basics of English grammar and conversational speaking.
• Taught IELTS classes with students receiving a high pass rate.
• Increased student confidence through regular feedback and personalized instruction.
• Assessed prospective students and placed them in the appropriately leveled class.
• Communicated with global placing agencies and Australian Immigration Department
• Inducted new teachers, creating rotas and led professional development courses for ESL teachers across different colleges.