Leading the Learning …

Meet VRGD’s Lead Teachers …

Gabriella Acuña Lopez

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Chinese proverb

What do you like best about being a teacher?

The interaction with the students both in and outside of the classroom

What areas of school development are you particularly interested in?

School culture and IKT learning tools

 

 

 

Markus Andersson

The road to success is always under construction …

What do you like best about being a teacher?

The best part of being a teacher is that I have the possibility to work together with young people and follow along as they develop their knowledge and their understanding in my subjects (Biology, Chemistry and Natural Science).

What areas of school development are you particularly interested in?

Assessment questions, collegial learning and following current research related to learning and school development                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 Alexandra Koumi

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney

What do you like best about being a teacher?

What I like best about being a teacher is the contact with the students.  It is inspiring to hear young people’s opinions and thoughts about the questions we discuss, to see them develop and grow as human beings.  It is so great to see their excitement when they succeed in achieving the goals they have set up for themselves.  

What areas of school development are you particularly interested in?

I am very interested in how we as teachers can develop our teaching to help every student find their inner motivation and creativity.  How can we develop learning situations that work for different individual learning styles?  How can school develop curious and creative students who are willing to trust their own abilities?

Sue Tennander

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

What do you like best about being a teacher?

The interaction with the students both in and outside of the classroom
The reward of seeing students develop and mature.
The challenge of finding meaningful learning situations both in and out of the classroom
Discussing, planning and working with stimulating colleagues
The fact that my workplace is full of life and energy every day and although it may at times be frustrating, it is never dull.

What areas of school development are you particularly interested in?

Developing ways of assessing work in our English-run courses so that we maintain an international profile whilst at the same time bench-marking the standard of the work students at VRG produce by having contacts with other schools both in Sweden and abroad.
Working with new teachers who are working in English in order to achieve the above.

 

Mona von Porat

Språket är tänkandets verktyg – ett socialt verktyg – och ett redskap för utveckling av lärande och fantasi.

 

What do you like best about being a teacher?

To plan lessons – the approach – and try different methods to help students understand and see when they develop and improve based on feedback and our continual dialogue… How students learn!!

What areas of school development are you particularly interested in?

Didactics and pedagogy